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RECIPIENTS OF DEGREES, DEPARTMENT OF GRADUATE STUDIES,
AUGUST 31, 1928

Masters of Science

                   

Aull, George Hubert, B.S., Clemson College (Economics)	Clemson College, S. C.
Thesis: A Study of Marriage and Divorce in Country and City.
Crawley, Alice, B.S., University of Virginia (Education)	Prospect, Va.
Thesis: Organization of the Material of Instruction in American History in Secondary Schools.
Griffin, Lloyd Harold, B.S., Virginia Polytechnic Institute (Education)	Portsmouth, Va.
Thesis: The Scientific Teaching of Reading in Rural Elementary Schools.
Honaker, Ethel, B.S., University of Virginia (Education)	Wytheville, Va.
Thesis: A Testing Program for High Schools.
Nichols, Mary, B.S., State Teachers' College of Farmville (Education)	Roanoke, Va.
Thesis: An English Syllabus for the Junior High School Teachers' Use.

Masters of Arts

                                                   

Alvey, Edward, Jr., B.A., University of Virginia (Education)	Richmond, Va.
Thesis: Do Educational Gains, as Measured by Standardized Tests, Testify Ability Grouping in English?
Barton, Mary Aurelia, B.A., Mary Baldwin College (English)	Raphine, Va.
Thesis: The Growth of Realism in the Southern Novel Since the Civil War to 1928.
Boitnott, John Wesley, B.A., Bridgewater College (Education)	Bridgewater, Va.
Thesis: The Turnover of Principals in the Rural Accredited High Schools of Virginia.
DeShazo, Benjamin Willard, B.A., Wake Forest College (Education)	Danville, Va.
Thesis: The History and the Present Status of the Platoon System of Schools in the United States.
Farlowe, Vivian, B.A., Western Maryland College (Biology)	New Church, Va.
Thesis: Algae of Ponds as Determined by an Examination of the Intestinal Contents of Tadpoles.
Gwin, Howell Holmes, B.A., University of Virginia (English)	Atlanta, Ga.
Thesis: The Influence on Keats of Spencer, Milton and Shakespeare.
Holt, John Gordon, B.A., Furman University (Education)	Tipton, Ga.
Thesis: A Comparative Study of the Fourth Grade in the Schools of Tift County, Georgia.
Leake, Jessie Palfrey, B.A., University of Alabama (English)	Staunton, Va.
Thesis: A Critic Among Critics: Macaulay and His Contemporaries.
Phippins, Calvin Hall, B.A., University of Richmond (Education)	Fork Union, Va.
Thesis: A Comparative Survey of the Public and Private Secondary Schools of the State of Virginia.
Sizer, Miriam McKnight, B.A., College of William and Mary (English)	Rhodesville, Va.
Thesis: Winston Churchill as a Novelist of Reform.
Wailes, Bertha Pfister, B.A., Sweet Briar College (Sociology)	Sweet Briar, Va.
Thesis: Backward Virginians: A Further Study of the Win Tribe.
Wildman, James Rowland, B.A., University of North Carolina (Education)	Wytheville, Va.
Thesis: A School Survey of Wytheville and Wytheville District.
Wolfe, John Bascom, B.A., Emory and Henry College (Education)	Dryden, Va.
Thesis: Intramural Athletics in the High School.

SUMMARY OF GRADUATE DEGREES—1928

         

	June	August
Masters of Science	18	5
Masters of Art	24	13
Doctors of Philosophy	10
	52	18