Five-country Study on Service and Volunteering in Southern Africa: Zambia Country Report

The study documents and analyses civic service and volunteering in Zambia and also identifies formal and informal civic service programmes in Zambia

Letter from the Guest Editor

This year\u27s Academy of Entrepreneurial Finance Conference at George Washington University last April was well attended and well worth attending. We were treated to a variety of good papers along numerous lines of enquiry, of which the following are examples. If there is a consistent theme to these selections (perhaps by accident?) it is in innovative explorations of new and interesting databases

Graduates of Character - Values and Character: Higher Education and Graduate Employment

Graduates of Character is the product of an empirical enquiry into the values, virtues, dispositions and attitudes of a sample of students and employees who volunteered to be involved. The research team sought host sites which would offer a diverse set of interviewees in gender, ethnicity, religion and aspiration. In this study we discuss what character is taken to mean by students and employees in their years of higher education and employment. We examine what their values are, what they gain from the university, what they believe employers look for when recruiting, what they hope to give to an employer, and what they expect from their employer. We then explore who or what influenced their values and moral development. We also examined the role of the personal tutor or mentor, and the persons or services to which they might go for personal and/or professional support

The development and evaluation of an outline of a course in physical science for eleventh and twelfth year students

During the years since 1929 it has been the privilege of the writer to serve as a teacher in the science department of the high school at Stockton, California. During those years he has been associated with students of all four years of the high school, with a slight majority of the time spent with students of the first two years of high school. Inevitably, certain observations occurred. With those observations, certain convictions, beliefs, and desires to assist, developed concerning the students who pass through our schools. It is only natural, therefore, that one in such a position should be imbued with the desire to do something about it . It is with the outgrowth of that desire that the following pages deal. Therefore, it is deemed of value to enumerate a few of the observations which led to the formulation of the outline with which the pages that follow are to be concerned. 1. Many students have need for a broad, more comprehensive, and generally non-mathematical background in science, as considered in a purely personal and cultural aspect. 2. Many of the students when in the ninth grade have the intelligence, but not the maturity, to grasp some of the ideas and facts presented in the ninth grade general science. 3. Many highly intelligent students, capable of genuine culture, do not reach college. However, they are in serious need of a general scientific background for later thought, reading, interest, and general use in everyday life. 4. Many students who do go to college will not major in the scientific field and, therefore, do not need merely one special science in high school, but one in whose study there is the possibility of broader application. 5. Many students in the upper classes in high school need a chance to do exploratory work in the field of science in an attempt to orient themselves in choosing a vocation. 6. Many students who will go to college are forced to take a particular science when both their needs and interest suggest a more general contact with science. It seems quite evident that the students mentioned above are to be found in all classes in the high school. However, the majority are in what may be called the middle fifty percent, that is, the two quartiles between the extremely bright on the one hand and those in the quartile of lowest ability. It is toward the better student of this middle group that attention is directed chiefly. Further, it is this group which has been neglected grossly in the past. In the early days when our public school system was in process of development, the schools were chiefly concerned with training men for the law, medicine, or for the ministry. This gave attention to a very select group and placed emphasis on the classics and specialized scientific field. To return to the type of student served by the schools, not until the early nineteen twenties did the poorer student come in for this share in attention and concern. The educational trend of that decade might be compared to a pendulum, which, having been started at the peak of its swing, rushes past the central point to become almost suspended for a time on the opposite side, and then to oscillate between these two extremes--attention to the very able student on the one hand and concern for the slow student and the problem child on the other hand. Therefore, is not action long overdue in caring for the needs, desires, and abilities of the great middle group, which, in the last analysis, go to make up the backbone our national life, thought, and culture? It is with the intention of serving this group and giving it some of the attention which it has been denied for so long, that this outline was developed

A survey of the opinion of interested persons about the high-school diploma

Thesis (M.A.)--Boston University, 1946. This item was digitized by the Internet Archive

Occurrence and significance of benign proteinuria in young men in civil life with special reference to its influence on physical efficiency

I.) That Benign Proteinuria occurs in about 9% of healthy young males between the ages of 15-25 years in ordinary civil conditions. II.) That its presence is intermittent and varies wit unknown factors. III.) That the condition is associated with no particular type of man or youth, nor with a so-called "nervous disposition", nor with oxaluria, nor with any abnormal functioning of the cardio-vascular system. IV.) That the urinary protein is chiefly albumin, but that in a considerable proportion of cases in the younger age-periods, the acetic-acid bodies (globulin, mucin and nucleo-protein) are also present. V.) That the condition is not influenced by ordinary muscular activity. VI.) That it does not predispose to nephritis either as a sequela or as a complication of intercurrent diseases. VIII.) That the condition tends to disappear but that in many cases it may persist as a benign condition to a later period in life than usually thought. VIII.) That it has no influence on physical efficiency or morbidity rate and that there is no proclivity to any special group of diseases associated with it

Case of congenital heart disease

Six cases: written for the Wightman Prize in Clinical Medicine, 1921 • I. A case of penile hypospadias; II. A case of diabetes insipidus; III. A case of carcinoma pylori; IV & V. 2 cases of diabetes mellitus; VI. A case of tabo-paralysi

Pauline Eucharistic Theology in 1 Corinthians, with special reference to Chapters 10 and 11

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Abraham Nichols: The Savannah Years

Abraham Nichols (c. 1771-1829) was a New Englander who came to Savannah at the turn of the 19th century. He was a mariner who began sailing from this port. He eventually settled in Savannah and became a leading citizen.· He was at various times Harbor Master, Port Warden, and Commissioner of Pilotage for the port of Savannah. He was a merchant in the city dealing in ship supplies, and eventually married a woman from the local area. He was involved in the defense of Savannah during the War of 1812. Nichols became a valuable part of the community, well respected by many of the cities\u27 top citizens. He was a civic minded individual who added much to the cities\u27 history.https://digitalcommons.georgiasouthern.edu/sav-bios-lane/1172/thumbnail.jp