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Because his search for self is such a dominant and important theme of his work and because it grows out of a rich tradition in western thought, it is the purpose of this thesis to examine this search and to clarify Aiken's ideas concerning the self and the methods and form he used to communicate these ideas.

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Diss.--Literaturwissenschaft--Zürich, 1979. / Bibliogr. des œuvres de C. Aiken p. 214. Bibliogr. p. 215-218. Résumé en anglais.

The purpose of this thesis is threefold. First, to draw attention to the prose of Conrad Aiken, which has gone virtually unnoticed by critics. Second, to examine Aiken's extensive use of time in fiction (including the fictional autobiography, Ushant) and third, to consider Aiken's views on the subject against a broader background of opinion on time. / Arts, Faculty of / English, Department of / Graduate

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Aiken Lake map-area lies in the Cassiar District of north-central British Colombia between 56°00' and 57°00’ north and longitudes 125°00' and 126°00' west. It is a relatively rugged, glaciated area lying almost entirely within the Omineca-Cassiar Mountain System. The oldest rocks within the map-area are quartz-mica schists, garnetiferous schists and quartzites of probable Proterozoic age conformably overlain by Lower Cambrian chlorite schists, slates, quartzites, and limestones. A relatively large area of these Proterozoic and Cambrian rocks has been further metamorphosed to feldspathized quartzite and gneiss. A total of nearly 30,000 feet of interbedded volcanic pyroclastic and true sedimentary rocks ranging in age from Devonian or Mississippian to Upper Triassic outcrops in a broad belt across the central part of the map-area. These rocks are intruded by dykes, sills, stocks, and batholiths of Upper Jurassio or Lower Cretaceous age. The intrusive bodies range from granite to pyroxenite in composition, granodiorite being the dominant rock type. A body of conglomerate at least 5500 feet thick of probably Lower Cretaceous age, containing many pebbles of intrusive rocks, is faulted into Triassic or Upper Palaeozoic rocks. The Proterozoic and Lower Cambrian rocks have been folded, apparently during their period of metamorphism, into large anticlinoria. The planes of schistosity of the metamorphosed rocks lie approximately parallel to the limbs and to the crests of the anticlinoria. The grade of regional metamorphism of these rocks increases uniformly as lower stratigraphic horizons are reached. Known mineral deposits within the area are almost entirely confined to the Lower Cambrian and Proterozoic schists and limestones, or to the aureoles of the Jurassic-Cretaceous igneous bodies. Those in the Lower Cambrian and Proterozoic rocks are typically of the lead-zinc-silver type. Many of these mineral occurrences have no known association with igneous rocks. The deposits found within the aureoles of the Jurassic-Cretaceous igneous bodies have characteristic gold-quartz, gold-copper, or copper-lead mineralization. / Science, Faculty of / Earth, Ocean and Atmospheric Sciences, Department of / Graduate

Since every school in Comanche County operates some form of pupil transportation, the purpose of this study is to determine the efficiency of the system of pupil transportation in Comanche County and to find the means of operating school transportation more efficiently. School consolidation in Comanche County has made pupil transportation one of the most important problems that administrators of the county have to deal with. The tendency is toward larger school attendance areas. As the attendance area gets larger, more pupils will be transported. Increased demands are mounting; replacement of worn-out vehicles and equipment is imperative; a more efficient coverage of the attendance area seems necessary; and finance is lacking.

The fascinating relationship between Conrad Aiken (1889-1973) and Malcolm Lowry (1909-1957) has formed the subject of a number of critical studies and fictional treatments. The study of this relationship is of value both for its biographical interest and literary significance, particularly in terms of the literary influence of one writer upon the other. Through Aiken and Lowry's entertaining and extremely articulate correspondence, one has access to what is possibly the most intimate view of this relationship available to date. Although a number of these letters have been previously published, often in incomplete form, In Selected Letters of Conrad Aiken ed. Joseph Killorin, and Selected Letters of Malcolm Lowry eds. Harvey Breit and Margerie Bonner Lowry, three-quarters of the letters have remained unpublished. This volume provides the first complete collection of Aiken and Lowry's correspondence. It comprises eighty-nine letters from the two writers, including photographs, poems, and drawings which they enclosed in their letters, written between 1929, the year when Lowry wrote his first letter of introduction to Aiken, and 1954. This collection contains the complete texts of all letters together with editorial notes and commentary. In addition, it provides textual notes outlining the changes made by each writer at the time of composition. These letters not only reveal the mutual admiration of Lowry and Aiken, and at times their jealousy of each other, but are literary works in their own right. / Arts, Faculty of / English, Department of / Graduate

The problem of this study is to determine the soundness of the Gilmer-Aikin Law financially and administratively. No attempt will be made to apply the principles of the law to any particular area or school district, but the law will be considered as a whole as it will apply to the schools of Texas in general.