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Theses/Dissertations from 1975
Humor and the Arousal Jag as a Function of Social and Cognitive Factors, Leonard Felder
The Victim, Leonard Felder
Abigail Adams, A Woman of Eighteenth Century America, Elizabeth Friedberg
Reproductive Physiology of the Captive Female Kangaroo Rat, (Dipodomys Ordi), Kenneth Stan Friedman
Weimar and the Imperial Legacy, Bruce Guter
Aspects of Sophocles' Philoctetes and Trachiniae, Michael Ros Halleran
Corneille: The Ethics of Gloire, Mary Hatherly
"Give Me Chastity and Continence, Only Not Yet." (St. Augustine, Confessions, VIII,vii) or Weakness of Will and Moral Judgements, Caroline Herzfeld
The Effects of Depth of Processing on Integration of Semantically Related Sentences, Constance A. Howes
The Religious Thought of Martin Buber, Barbara A. Kahn
Food Chain Transfer of 109Cd in a Terrestrial Microcosm, Howard M. Leaman
Self-Control as Learning Set, David E. Lopatto
The Emotional Pattern of Italian Nationalism Before the War, Thomas Lucas
Failures in the Eighteenth Century's Idea of Progress, Elizabeth K. Parker
Side Views of Pressed Flesh, Angus Paul
The Effects of 20-Methylcholanthrene on the Regenerating Epidermis of Amphibian Forelimbs, David Mark Perliman
The Effects of H1 and H2 Histamine Antagonists on Limb Regeneration in Triturus Viridescens, Curtis Taylor Poor
Reproductive Physiology of the Male Kangaroo Rat, (Dipodomys), Miles Robert Poor
John Dos Passos: The Man, the Myths, and the Writer, Patrick D. Reagan
The Political Philosophy of Franklin D. Roosevelt and the Nature of his Rule, Marc Speiser
John Rawls and his Theory of Justice, Brent Allan Stubbins
Rhetoric and Character in Four Episodes of Ulysses, Jonathan J. Towle
A Psychohistorical Investigation of the Personality of Thomas Woodrow Wilson, Thomas W. Wilson
Theses/Dissertations from 1974
The Comic Vision of Virginia Woolf's Mrs. Dalloway, John A. Adams
Moral Objectivity, V. Antonio Aninao
The Effects of a Few Selected Antihistamines Upon Tail Regeneration in Xenopus Laevis Larvae, Stuart H. Anness
Gabriel García Márquez: Magic Realism in Cien Años de Soledad, Lucy Bixby
Temperature Dependence on the Diffusion Coefficient of Cadmium Ion in a CaCl2 - H2O System, David H. Brown
Petronius the Satirist, Michael G. Danchak
Sensational Errors & Phenomenal Mistakes, Robert S. Daniel
The Hypostasis of Wisdom in Hellenistic Biblical Literature, Mary P. Dean
Meanings and Statements of Meaning, John A. Harper
Colorado Mining Wars: 1894-1914, Mark A. Jicha
The Influence of Partial Control and Previous Experience on Stress and the Acquisition of Learned Helplessness, Daniel L. Kleinman
Determination of Plasma Estrogen: Persistent Anovulatory Conditions in the Captive Female Kangaroo Rat Dipodomys, Richard J. Kroeger
The Concentration of C-14 Tagged Dieldrin in Mice as Dependent Upon a High Carbohydrate and a High Protein Diet, Allan D. Lauer
Constructing a Defense for Our Adoption of Deductive Principles, Claudia Murphy
The Politics of Mark Twain: Nature vs. Convention, Janet Noakes
Origins of the Oxford Scientific Tradition, Frank O'Donnell
The Role of the Various Sensory Modalities in the Formation of Aggregations in Brachydanio rerio, Mario A. Orlandi
Randall Jarrell as Critic, Ross Posnock
Preliminary Considerations for a Theory of Functionally Determined Ability Hierarchies, Sheila Jacober Pour
The Effect of Temperature on the Rate of Methylmercury Uptake in Goldfish (Carassius auratus), Frank John Rahel
Modern Norway: Fascism Without Followers, Esther Safford
The Psychology of Moral Development, Jane Elizabeth Shatten
Transformation of RNA Uptake Studies in Cells of Higher Plants, Richard B. Smith
Metal Ion Catalysis of Ester Hydrolysis, Frederick A. Specht
The Mossbauer Effect, Stephen C. Thompson
RNA Uptake of Tobacco Leaf Protoplasts, David J. Utlak
Prudence in The Way of the World, Dean Vanek
Segmentation in Sentence Perception, Gregory P. Widin
Theses/Dissertations from 1973
Toward an Intructional Program in Communication, Thomas E. Allen
Two Promoting Mechanisms as Possible Factors in Variable Strain Sentitivity to Radiation-Induced Carcinogenisis, Wallace Leon MacLeod Alward
A Comparison of French and American Syndicalism, Mary Anderson
Two Platonic Motifs and their Influence on Early Patristics: A Study of Plato's Account of the Soul and Theory of Ideas and Their Impact, Paul William Bechtel
Keats's Relationship with Beauty and Truth: Onward from Negative Capability, Lynda Jean Bernays
Mann in Weimar, Cathy Carter
Malraux and Myth, Mark Center
An Approach to the Religious Growth of Samuel Taylor Coleridge, Thomas Andrew Daniel
Modern Politics and Political Leadership: A Study in Walter Lippmann and Edmund Burke, Paul Joseph Dellasega
Imagery and its Relation to External Stimulation, Howard Scott Gantman
"To Laugh Mankind of its Favorite Follies and Vices" -- Hogarth and Fielding: The Rise of the Novel and the Modern Moral Series, Darlene Ann Gaughan
Elbert Hubbard and Roycroft: The Morrisian Adoption, Pegi Goodman
The Failure of Love in The Great Gatsby, Patrick Sean Guilfoyle
The Effect of Fertilizer on Soil Bacteria, Thomas Bickford Keen Hewitt Jr.
The Persona in Hemingway, Miller and Mailer: The Rhetoric of the "I" in the Last Fifty Years, David Jeffrey Highsmith
Tradition and Invisible Man, Barbara Lee Johnson
Freedom, Responsibility, and Causality: A Discussion of Free Will, Steven Charles Jones
A Study of the Interactions of Ouabain with the Metals Copper (II), Manganese (II) and Magnesium (II), Lloyd William Klein
Democracy, the Poet and the Heroic Individual: A Comparison of the Political Thought of Whitman and Wordsworth, Bonnie M. Klomp
A History of the Cherokee Nation: From Earliest Times to 1838, Betty Kathryn Koeninger
Astrophil and Stella: A Commentary, Denise Largent
The Distribution and Elimination of 14C-Chlordane in the Domestic Hen, Dean A. Madar
The Preparation of Oxindoles and Model Dissymmetric Compounds via Intramolecular Cyclization of N-Aryl-Alpha.B-Unsaturated Amides, James Mark Maisel
The Effects of a Growth Hormone (Indole-3-Acetic Acid) on the Biosynthesis of Zea Mays Histones, Dennis M. Parker
The Concept of Cavod in the Old Testament, Winston Hamilton Pickett Jr.
The Bradycardia Response as a Measure of Stress in Learned Helplessness in Rats, Michael R. Pour
E.E. Cummings: A Disappearing Poet of Always, Michael Pullem
Catherine de Medici and the French Wars of Religion, Jacqueline Robbins
The Effect of Nitrate Upon the Oxygen Consumption of Goldfish, Mark S. Rosenberg
Wyoming Valley: A Social History of an Immigrant Community, W. Roger Scott
Statesmanship and the Genius of the American People, Jeffrey Leigh Sedgwick
Lawrence Ferlinghetti's Renaissance of Wonder, Robert L. Silloway
Portraits of American Ladies: Innocence, Experience, and Gentility, Thomas P. Stamp
On the True Foundation of Political Duties in the Writings of John Locke, Dennis Gordon Stevens
Wittgenstein on Our Concept of Necessity, Shelley Liane Stillwell
British Foreign Policy and the Balkan Crisis of 1875-1878, Robert Charles Stoddart
The Soviet Strategic Arms Challenge 1962-1972, Scott Michael Univer
Theses/Dissertations from 1972
Wordsworth's Prelude and the Epic Tradition, David B. Arnett
John Donne's Anniversaries: A Critical Reading, William David Bailey
Peasant Society in Anglo-Saxon England, Richard C. Balaban
Continuitues of Thought in Auden's Poetry: A Comparative Study of the Thirty Lyrics of Poems (1933) and "Thanksgiving for a Habitat", David L. Bergman
Physiological of the Biosynthesis of Betanin in Beta Vulragis Leaf Discs, Seth Martin Black
Marx and Human Alienation, Gerald Chalphin
Frege: The Analysis of Propositions and Predication, Philip Chimento
Kenkesey: Two Novels, One Notion, William Spencer Cline
Searle's Concept of Rules, Lawrence P. Enright
The Alpha-Chymotrypsin Catalyzed Reactions of N-Actyl-L-Phenylalanine-(+ or -)-2-Butyl Ester in the Presence of (+ or -)-2-Butanol, Jeffrey N. Feldman
Ortega y Gasset: Culture and Circumstance, Robert Philip Fine