Each student who writes an honors thesis at Kenyon College deposits a copy in our archives. This collection contains electronic copies of those papers, beginning with the those submitted in Spring, 2009.
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Theses/Dissertations from 1968
The Meaning of Emergence, Raymond Smith Pfeiffer
Toward a Specific Heat Cryostat, Gary Robert Reich
The Function of the Eye Stalks in the Regulation of Metabolism of the Crayfish, Cambarus, Paul Henry Rigali Jr.
Cyclic Secretory Activity in the Androgenic Gland, Pierce Edward Scranton
Robert F. Wagner and the Progressive Era in New York State, Carl Frederick Seastrum
Uses of Interest Group Theory, Richard Lee Shapiro
Features of Deductive-Nomological Explanations: A Study of Explanations in Science, John Douglas Sinks
A Study of the Electrical Properties of Binary Mixtures of Anthracene, Pyrene and Chrysene, Mitchel Blacher Sosis
Foreign Policy and Morality, Mark Eugene Sullivan
The Reactions of Dibromoiodide and Platinum(II) Coordination Compounds, Frank Svec Jr.
Other Minds and a Suggestion Concerning Criteria, Carl Thayler
The Significance of Eschatology in the Writings of Three Contemporary Theologians, Timothy Joal Wildman
Jacob Burckhardt: Beyond Good and Evil, Steven Lewis Willner
The Alexandria Quartet: Lawrence Durrell's Harim, William Tenney Wright Jr.
Theses/Dissertations from 1967
Experimental Developments in the Last Plays of William Shakespeare, James Hubert Baxter III
The Metaphysics of Metaphor: Hart Crane's The Bridge, Michael Kenneth Berryhill
The Reversible Coordination of O2, SO2, NH3, N2, and CO, with N, N-Disalicyaldehyde-1,3-Propanediiminemanganese(II), Wayne Douglas Beveridge
Police Interrogation and the Right to Counsel, Theodore David Carlson
The Formation of Blood Elements in a Fluid Culture Medium, Stephen Webb Carmichael
Religion and Education Under the Establishment Clause, James Wilbur Ceaser
The French Presidency: The Role of the Chief Executive in the Fifth Republic, Philip George Cerny
On Two Indictments of Ordinary Language Philosophy, William Michael Clark
Religious Feeling in The Sound and the Fury and Absalom, Absalom!, Paul Robert Cole
Stalin and Germany Between the Wars, Lawrence Donald Gall
German Participation in Politics, 1848-1871, Robert Joseph Gibbons
Thomas Mann's Joseph und Seine Brüder, Edward Robert Hallowell
William Blake and the Revolutionary Man, Ronald Frederick Javorcky
Tom L. Johnson and Progressive Reform in Cleveland, 1901-1909, Allan S. Kohrman
Man's Search for Self-Fulfillment in the Works of Antoine de Saint-Exupéry, William Ross Konrad
Inductive Effects of Ligands in Coordination Compounds, Thomas Edward Lad
Bernard Malamud: The Search for the Self, Howard Alan Levy
The Pre-Raphaelite Epic: William Morris' Sigurd the Volsung, Floyd Sanford Linton
The Evolution of the 'Cyclic Bromonium Ion' and the Infrared Characterization of Selected Bromine Derivatives of 4-Vinylcyclohexene-1, Douglas Ross Morton Jr.
Karl Barth's Interpretation of Human Freedom, Willard Jerome Pugh III
Ossian: A Product of the Eighteenth Century, Roger Lee Reynolds
Conrad's Isolated Skeptics, James Arthur Robinson
The Mechanism of the Basic Hydrolysis of Quarternary Phosphonium Halides, Stephen Edward Rudolph
Walt Whitman: The Epic Vision of Song of Myself, Mark David Savin
Fetal Erythropoiesis in the Rat, Bill Stuart Schnall
The Kinetic Study of the Addition of Grignard Reagents to 1,2,3,4 - Tetraphenylfulvene, Clifford Harold Spohr
Attitudes in England and the American Seaboard Colonies Toward the Constitution of the Empire in the Seventeenth Century, Charles Johnson Taggart
Immunization of C57 Mice Against Zimmerman Glioma, Lee Paul Van Voris
The Yorkist Experiment: Triumph and Failure, Karl Edward Wagner
Michels, The Iron Law of Oligarchy: A Case Study of its Applicability to American Industrial Relations, Roger Glenn Wallace
Theses/Dissertations from 1966
From Suez to Westminster: An Analysis of the Suez Canal Crisis of 1956, Michael H. Abramson
A New Birth of Freedom: The Emergence of Lincoln's Attitude Toward Slavery and the Negro, Barry M. Bergh
Investigations of Bromanilic Acid in the Determination of Anions and Investigations of Several Complexes for the Spectrophotometric Determination of Silver, Brian Arthur Bidlingmeyer
Investigations of Bromanilic Acid in the Determination of Anions and Investigations of Several Complexes for the Spectrophotometric Determination of Silver, William E. Campbell
The Influence of the Pastoral Elegiac Tradition on Five Modern Elegies, Thomas E. Carr
James Agee: The Adaptive Eye, John C. Cocks Jr.
The Effect of Trypsin and Pancreatin on the Growth Pattern of E. Coli ML 35, Robert Morrison DeWitt Jr.
Vestibular Compensation and the Eighth Cranial Nerve, Frank Burton Dibble Jr.
The Symbolic World of Robinson Jeffers: A Study of the Lyrics, 1924-62, Dennis J. Eberl
The Parlement of Paris, 1715-1789, William Freer Heinlen
Story Patterns in Herodotus, Alan Douglas Hornstein
The Anachronism of the Pubic Schools in Modern Britain, John Curtis Jenkins
The Effect of Actinomycine D on Stentor Coruleus, William Whiting Judson
Adverse Publicty and the Rights of a Criminal Defendant to a Fair Trial, James Martin Kaplan
Effect of Chlorpromazine Hydrochloride on Rate of Heartbeat in Rana Pipiens, Daniel Elliot Koblentz
A Stereospecific Study of Chlorine Additions to Cyclohexene, Martin Lewis Madorsky
Wittgenstein's Private Language Argument, Carl S. Mankowitz
On the Glyconeogenetic Action of Fed DL/Serine in the Rat, Louis Henry Martone
Navalism and Diplomacy Under Theodore Roosevelt, Thomas Alexander Mason
From Secession to Annexation: An Analysis of the Czech-German Racial Struggle in the Historic Privinces -- 1918-1938, James G. Mauro Jr.
The Oxidative Cleavage of Cis-trans Isomers with Osmium Tetroxide and Hydrogen Peroxide, Peter Jay Mondron
Nuclear Degenaration Induced by 2-(2-Aminoethylamino)Ethanol in Tradescantia, John Watson Morrison Jr.
The Problem of the Negro in Maryland, 1790-1865, Charles Francis Peace IV
An Essay on 'Good' and 'Moral', Richard W. Reese Jr.
Hinduism in Modern India, Gerald E. Reynolds
Christ and the Atonement in the Teaching of the Apostle Paul, Richard Hanna Schmidt
Private and Public Interests: A Study of the Legislative and Political Activities of the American Medical Association, John Davis Shullenberger
The Logic of Experience: An History of the Doctrine of Separate but Equal, Victor H. Sparrow III
The Incorrigibility of Pain Avowals, William R. Ulrich
Portrait of the Soul: A Study in Autobiography, Peter A. White
Some Experimental Aspects on the Etiology of Alcoholism: A Survey of the Literature. The Effect of Different Alcohol Concentrations on Alcohol Preference in Rats of a Certain Agegroup, Zvetan Nikolov Zakov
Adsorption Studies of NDV and Endotoxin Induced Interferon and Studies of T2 Bacteriophage Plaque Size as Influenced by Ultraviolet Radiation, Stephan Blake Zinn
Theses/Dissertations from 1965
A Study of Semicircular Canal Function Using Kangaroo Rats, James Tapley Arnold
The Psychotherapy of Schizophrenia: A Discussion of the Problems and Techniques, Martin Arnold Ceaser
Coleridge and the New Critics, Edward J. Edahl
Anatomy of the Kangaroo Rat Hindbrain, Craig John Foley
A Nineteenth Century Patrician Becomes a Twentieth Century President: An Interpretation of the Career of Theodore Roosevelt, 1880-1909, John Allen Gable
Innate Activity Level as an Index of a Second Determinant of D, Robin Fisher Goldsmith
German-Polish Relations During the Weimar Republic, John Stearns Holt
The Japanese-American Relocation Cases: The War Power and the Constitution, Mark Henry Houser
Senator Barry M. Goldwater: The GOP and Conservative Positions for the 1960's, Harry M. Humphreys
The Concept of a Person, Burton J. Hurwitz
Food Discrimination in the Kangaroo Rat (Dipodomys), Timothy Frederick Isaacs
The Structure of Irony in Gulliver's Travels, Warren M. Iwasa
Effects of Conceptual Disorder on Human Learning, William Drane Love
Army Intervention in English and Welsh Local Government During the Protectorate of Oliver Cromwell, Richard Roper Maggs
Joseph Conrad's Political Novels, Fred J. McGavran
The United States Supreme Court: The Views of Abraham Lincoln and Stephen A. Douglas, Edward W. Pettigrew
Being and Non-Being in Parmenides, Plato, and Demokritos, Robert G. Pratt
Our Knowledge of the External World, Frederick C. Rogge III
1964 Conventions, John E. Schofield
The Human Dilemma of the Infinite in Political Theory, James Douglass Schrim Jr.
The New "Liberty"- Equality, Morton James Spitzer Jr.
The Election of 1935: A Study in Canadian Politics, David C. Thomas
In Brotherhood We Stand, Jeffrey Tullman
Time and Faulkner, Alan R. Vogeler Jr.