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.
The archives is currently scanning and digitizing printed theses prior to 2009. This is an ongoing project that will eventually make all honors theses in the archive collection available on Digital Kenyon.
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Theses/Dissertations from 1965
The Images of America in the Poems and Plays of Bertolt Brecht, Stephan Philip Weitzman
The Family Schistosomatidae, Henry Bernard Wessel
A Study of the Oxygen Uptake of Human Oral Leukocytes, James Edward Williams
The Modern International Law: A New Perspective, Maurice Leslie Wuescher III
The Regeneration of Bone Following Specific Subtotal Labyrinthectomy of Kangaroo Rats, James Scott Young Jr.
Reaction to the Civil War in Weschester County, New York and Hamilton County, Ohio; 1861-1865, Paul Burt Zuydhoek
Theses/Dissertations from 1964
The Image of Mastery: A Study in the Development of the Poetry of Gerard Manley Hopkins, James J. Branagan
Some Problems of Religious Philosophy, Stephen K. Brown
Intentionality and the Philosophy of Mind, William Verner Coombs
Cytological Alteration of the Rat Pituitary Following Administration of 6 alpha-methyl 17 alpha-hydroxyprogesterone and Low Doses of Estradiol, Kenneth William Gregg
Separation of Optical Isomers by Gas Chromatography, David Smith Gullion
The Modern African Novel: The Search for Human Being, William Abram Hylton
The Oxidation of Thiols by 2, 6-Dichlorophenolindophenol, Robert Mace Kass
Sir Thomas Wyatt and English Medieval Tradition, Boyd Peterson King
The Time of Their Lives: A Compassionate Review of the Careers of Edmund Wilson and John Dos Passos, Paul Frederick Kluge
Goethe and Hölderlin: A Study in Contrasts, Kenneth Charles Korfmann
Look Away: A Novel of the Fort Pillow Incident and the War Between the States, Perry Carlton Lentz
The Concept of the Hero in Seven Plays by Friedrich Schiller, Alexander McNamara
Building the Artifice of Eternity: A Study of the Poetry and Aesthetics of W.B. Yeats, Edward Lee Piepho
The Making of Modern Industry, Henry Spruance Pool
Ohio Preceding the War of 1812: A Case History, Richard Joy Scheidenhelm
Thomas Jefferson: The Ministry in France 1783-1789 (A Study in Franco-American Commercial Relations), David Emerson Schon
Austria: The Search for National Identity, Failure and Rebirth, John Christopher Matthai Scott
Aza Uracil, Chloromycetin, and Phenyllactic Acid: Their Affect on the Inhibition of Regeneration in Stentor coeruleus Fragments, Ronald Elliott Wasserman
Determinism and Choice, John Waterston
The Anti-Slavery Movement, 1800-1840: A Comparative Study of Ohio and Massachusetts, Jeffrey Wick Way
Survey of Literature Concerned with Ultraviolet Radiation Induced Division Delay, Robert Gerald Workman
Nuclear Magnetic Resonance, John H. Zouck
Theses/Dissertations from 1963
Learning and Learning-Transfer in Planarians, John McGee Ackermann
Studies on the Effect of Cortisone on Macrophage Response to Fungus Infections, Bennett Chotiner
Proust and Lawrence: The Defective Will, John Gerlach
The Native Military in Southeast Asia, Mifflin Hayes
The Tidelands Oil Controversy: A Case Study, Göran Hemberg
The Alienated Hero in Modern Fiction, William Hollenbeck
The Nature and Origins of the Theocracy of Massachusetts Bay, Frederick Lord Houghton
The Problems Posed to the Parties in the Palestine Controversy by the MacDonald White Paper of 1939, Eugene Kraus Jr.
The Role of the Extremist in Contemporary American Politics, Eugene Kraus Jr.
Woodrow Wilson, Edward M. House, and Robert Lansing: A Study of Their Relationship as it Effected the League of Nations Covenant and the Paris Peace Conference, Neal Michael Mayer
Political Resiliency: An Enquiry into Self-Perpetuative Aspects of the American Polity, Patrick A. McGraw
Juan de Valdés and Italy, Charles Perrin Radley
Areas of Dual Representation within the Rat's Cerebral Cortex, Harvey Joel Sachs
"The In Vivo and In Vitro Effects of Vitamin A and Citral on Epithelial Structures", James Lerot Scherer
A Content Analysis of Ohio Press Coverage During the 1962 General Election: A Case Study in Public Opinion Formation, Robert H. Scott Jr.
The Correspondence of Catherine II, Frederick Lewis Snider
The Theater of Central Ohio: 1810-1860, Theodore L. Walch
The Socialism of Napoleon III: The Social and Economic Ideas and Policies of Louis Napoleon Bonaparte as Pretender and as Emperor, William Kent Woods
Theses/Dissertations from 1962
The Dialogue of the Mind with Itself- Arnold's "Empedocles on Etna", James Gray Carr
A Study on the Genetic Basis of Variation in Response to Light of Varying Wavelength and Intensity, Stanley Lawrence Cohan
Constitutionalism, Gerald J. Fields
American Approaches to Foreign Policy: Illusion and Reality, Timothy Fuller
Freedom in Thomas Hardy, Jerome Goldberg
The United Nations and the Congolese Crisis, John Edward Hall
The Changing Face of Innocence: A Discussion of the Natural in American Literature, Douglas B. Hill Jr.
Quantitative Determination of the Effect of DL-Thyroxine on Rat Plasma Magnesium by Flame Spectrophotometry, David Juan
The Structure of Aspidofractine, Harvey Franklin Lodish
The Problem of "Responsibility" in the Political Parties of the United States, Patrick Allan McGraw
French Foreign Policy During the Fourth Republic, Thomas Leroy Parker III
The Mythical Sensory Content of Experience, Samuel Alec Richmond
The Effect of Two Antimetabolites on Regenerating Forelimbs of Larval Amblystoma Talpoideum: A Preliminary Study, Morris Henry Roberts Jr.
The Development of Communist Ideology in China, Paul David Sharp
George F. Kennan: An Appraisal, Richard David Spero
Eccentric Blastema Formation in Aneurogenic Limbs of Ambystoma Larvae Following Epidermal Cap Deviation, Trygve Paul Steen
Detection and Study of Extracallosal Responses to Cortical Stimulation in the Brain of the White Rat under Chloralose, Dean Francis Young
Detection and Study of Extracallosal Responses to Cortical Stimulation in the Brain of the White Rat under Chloralose, Dean Francis Young
Theses/Dissertations from 1961
The Development of Blake's Poetic Form, Norman R. Hane
John Adams as a Rationalist, William Richard Patterson Hartman
Totalitarianism and Ideology, N. David Milder
Theses/Dissertations from 1960
William Faulkner: The Universal Achievement, George J. Grella
Breadth and Bureaucracy: Oligarchicic Tendencies in Mass Democratic Political Movements, Robert Stephen Henes
Henry James' Artists and their Art, Jonathan Kleinbard
Arab Nationalism: A Movement Divided, Richard Morey Lampoet Jr.
The Assimilation of the American Negro (1877-1900), Gilbert Lincoln Sperry
Alexis de Tocqueville: At the Cross-roads of Liberalism, John Langley Stanley
"Guided Democracy": An Analysis of the Historical and Political Development of Pakistan and Ghana, Russell Earl Van Hooser
Theses/Dissertations from 1959
A Study of Hobbes' Political Philosophy, Frank McGill Coleman
The 'Subject' of a Donne Poem: A Study of the Poetry of John Donne in Terms of the Elizabethan and Metaphysical Poetic, William Harley Henry
The Raptures and Roses of Vice: A Study in the Unity of Swinburne, Warren A. Schaller Jr.
Theses/Dissertations from 1958
The Marian Exiles: A Brief Report of their Political Thought, Walter L. Edelman
Civil-Military Relations in the United States, Dale Allen Neuman
The Concepts of Realism, Ideologism, and Moralism in Contemporary American Foreign Policy, Robert Stanley Price
The History and Present Crisis of the Jury Trial System, Lawrence Robert Schneider
Some Thoughts on the Great Holmes Mystery, William Wayne Shannon
Governmental Restraints on Extremist Publications (A Study of Federal Governmental Censorship through the Postal and Customs Departments), David Russell Wilson
Theses/Dissertations from 1957
Pareto, Richard Berger Friedman
Theses/Dissertations from 1956
The Massachusetts Bay Company (1629-1686): A Study In Conflict, Armand Aimé LaVallée
Theses/Dissertations from 1954
American-Japanese Relations from 1853 to 1924, Morgan William Guenther
Theses/Dissertations from 1953
The Language of William Faulkner, Nicholas L. M. Crome
Theses/Dissertations from 1952
Milton and the Christian Idea of Love: An Essay on Paradise Lost, Constantine A. Patrides
The Survival of the Beloved: An Essay on the Relation of Nature and Man in Some Works of Thomas Hardy, James Arlington Wright
Theses/Dissertations from 1950
The Universal Declaration of Human Rights, Paul George Russell
Theses/Dissertations from 1949
International Adjudication: Its History and Future, James Robert Busenburg