This thesis sets in their literary context polemical books and tracts arising from tho, debate on church order within the Church as established by law in the reign of Queen Elizabeth I. The first two chapters set out the terms of the discussion and describe the historical context of the works considered. Chapter one looks at models of discourse appropriate for a study of polemic, concluding that the perspective of traditional rhetoric enables one to pose the right stylistic and ethical questions of works whose goal was effective persuasion. Chapter Two looks at the conditions under which these works were produced, analysing the extent and effectiveness of censorship. The principal argument begins in Chapter Three, with an analysis of the main linguistic model for this literature - the formal disputation as practised in the universities demonstrating its inability to cope with the fundamental nature of the disagreements between opponents and its tendency under pressure to become a trial in print. Chapter Four complements this analysis with a chronological survey of events from the Admonition controversy of 1572-3 bo the mid-1580s. John Whitgift's appointment as Archbishop of Canterbury and his subsequent campaign against non-subscribers are identified as pivotal events which focused attention on the political and legal mechanisms for the enforcement of order in the church, and the literary responses of reformers to this shift of focus from the theological to the historic are analysed. The first part of Chapter Five looks in more technical detail at the increasingly arbitrary use of literary language by reformers, examining the crucial influence of the dialectician Ramus on the tendency to treat as formal proof a rhetorically effective arrangement of propositions; the latter part of the chapter looks at the witty reductio ad absurdum of this tendency in the Marprelate tracts. Chapter Six considers the last ten to fifteen years of Elizabeth's reign, concentrating in particular on the polanic arising from or influenced by the Star Chamber cases against reformers in 1590-1.The Conclusion summarises briefly the linguistic shortcuts used by the majority of polemicists to strengthen their case, and contrasts these with Hooker's arphasls on the need to respect the processes of language in the journey of theological discovery. Finally, I examine the implications of the obviovis-bankruptcy of traditional forms of exchange in a new situation, and the-consequent decline of dialogue, for the English Church after 1603.

The subject of the dissertation was chosen as a result of observing a need to provide the college saxophone major in the first or second year of study with a reference text focusing primarily on problem solving. Sources exist describing accepted fundamentals of saxophone performance; however, these noticeably omit solutions to a vast number of problems which inevitably arise for some students during their course of study. It was the aim of the dissertation to fill this void by offering practical solutions to a breadth of performance problems encountered during private studio and class saxophone teaching experience at Ball State University.Solutions to performance problems were formulated through the development of original and learned techniques and procedures, and by synthesizing applicable pedagogical information by other saxophonists and instrumentalists whenever possible. The resultant compilation of knowledge gleaned through personal experience, experimentation, and research of other disseminated information has produced a unique and comprehensive problem-solving reference for saxophone.The format of the dissertation is designed for easy reference. Causes of performance problems are systematically arranged under the following categories: mouthpiece, reed, ligature, instrument, and player. A solution follows each performance problem cited, which generally consists of a corrective physical or mechanical adjustment, a rehearsal technique, or some other course of action required to correct the problem. Subjects addressed include: (1) mouthpiece--designs, defects, selection; (2) reed--designs, conditioning, positioning, deficiency and defect adjustments; (3) ligature--designs, placement, tension; (4) instrument--mechanical adjustments, altissimo vent key adjustment, defective neck, dents; (5) player-tone production, technical problems, air control, tonguing, vibrato.The final chapter functions as a checklist when the cause of a problem is uncertain. Under four categories of performance-problem. symptoms (poor tone quality, intonation problems, response problems, squeaking), the reader may isolate the specific problem by symptom, then refer to the main body of the dissertation for the solution to the fundamental problem. Conclusions follow each topic.The text should contribute to the library of the saxophone instructor and the graduate assistant as a problem-solving reference manual for students. Woodwind instructors required to teach saxophone without extensive performance experience on the instrument should find the text to be a helpful teaching aid as well.

The problem which prompted this study was that of determining the causes for the drop-out of students in Spanish from first to second year at Thomas Carr Howe High School, Indianapolis, Indiana. For comparative purposes it seemed profitable to include also in the study those students who were continuing in order to ascertain any existing differences in composition.Behind this basic problem lay the fact, supported by figures compiled in the language department at Howe High School over a period of years, that approximately half the students which initiated foreign language study did not continue to a second year of that study. This evidently was not a local problem for in New England, where schools have long emphasized foreign language study, second-year enrollments have not far exceeded half the number of first-year enrollments. Although a consensus of opinion of teachers of modern foreign languages would reveal that real satisfaction of working with a language does not come to the student until the third and fourth years, and that the first two years are directed largely toward assimilating material which assists the student toward that goal, studies have shown that only about 12 per cent continue to their third year, and that approximately 60 per cent discontinue their study at the end of one year.1 Naturally these facts pose a problem for which many educators would like a solution.The information which results from this study should have value for all those who have contact with the teaching of languages at Howe High School but it is hoped that the information might also provide the impetus for studies of a similar nature at other schools and finally result in greater numbers of students continuing their modern language studies to the point that they might more completely enjoy the returns of their earlier labors.

Bimolecular rate constants for the quenching of up to 15 excited triplet aromatic hydrocarbons by eight S-diketonate complexes of Cr(III) and four of Co(III) have been obtained using nanosecond laser flash photolysis. The bimolecular rate constants have been plotted against donor energy and for those quenchers whose rate constants follow the available spectroscopic energy levels in the quencher, electronic energy transfer is established to be the mechanism of quenching. As the electrochemical reduction potential of the quencher is reduced by the introduction of trifluoromethyl groups into the S-diketonate complexes, an increase in quenching efficiency is observed which may be explained by modifying the mechanism of quenching to include electron transfer. Theoretical models have been developed in order to predict quenching constants for the different mechanistic pathways. For the quenching of excited triplet states by y-substituted chromium (III) complexes, rate constants greater than those predicted by the Debye Equation, once spin statistics have been introduced, were obtained. Diffusion theories were examined and a Spernol-Wirtz type treatment was employed,since this takes into account microfiction between solute and solvent molecules of differing molecular radii. Using this diffusion theory allowed all of the results presented to be interpreted within the framework of the theoretical models. The effect of geometrical isomerism on the quenching efficency of a chromium(III) complex was investigated and it was found that the aisisomers is a more efficient electronic energy transfer quencher than the trans form, especially when energy is being accepted by the quartet state. The general nature of the approach developed in the thesis was examined by measuring the quenching rate constants for four Co(III) a-diketonate complexes.

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