These are theses that have been submitted to the University of Richmond in partial fulfillment of the requirements for a master’s degree. The nature of each thesis depends upon the norms of the particular academic discipline and/or department. Most are open access; some have been embargoed or are restricted indefinitely per the request of the author. If you are an author and would like to change the availability of your thesis, please contact
Theses from 1957
An empirical study of personality variables related to efficiency of problem solving, Sylvia G. Dickerson
The principal's part in planning the program for the gifted child, Jack Edwards Dickson
A History of Brooks in transportation and warehousing, Preston W. Doyle
A reconstruction of the Utopia of William Morris from his later prose romances, Edagr Fitz Randolph Erdman
Ratio analysis of financial statements, Donald Eugene Furr
Performance budgeting : report and evaluation of its use in municipal administration, William Robert Harton
The situation test as a method of problem solving in science teaching on the sixth grade level, Hilda Scott Harwood
A survey of supervisory practices in Virginia elementary schools, John William Jordan
The history and significance of the Student Cooperative Association in Virginia, Mercer Weldon Kay
A study of policies and practices in the recruitment of college students by business organizations, Thomas Coxe Leggett
Operations auditing, a study of the newest phase of internal auditin, Russell William Miller
A history of education in Suffolk and Nansemond County, Virginia, Robert Bell Moore
A critical study of the chromosomes in two species of myxophyceae, John Thomas Mullins
An analysis of sovereignty and its application to segregation in public schools, Patricia Minor Murphy
Adsorption studies of organic compounds on the hydrogen electrode using a microcoulometric technique, Philip Lamar Oglesby
A study of the administration of the government in Sussex County, Virginia, Alton Field Owen
A comparison of the blood oxygen capacity in painted turtles (Chrysemys picta Schneider) and box turtles (Terrapene carolina Linne), Harold J. Payne
John Milton : religious independent, Allen Herbert Scott
Educational standards for professional practice as certified public accountants, Mervyn Waller Wingfield
Theses from 1956
A study of the junior high school intramural sports program in the Richmond public schools, Sattler Burns Anderson
A study of the Holley School for Negroes, Lottsburg, Virginia : "Our three acres", Jean Norris Booth
A historical survey of methods of solving cubic equations, Minna Burgess Connor
The dipole moments of a series of N, N-Diphenylbenzamides, James William Cooke
Life of John Taylor, a frontiersman, missionary, Baptist minister, and historian, Carlysle Conway Crank
An investigation of the Minnesota Multiphasic Personality Inventory as a predictor of adjustment to college life, John Thomas Drury
An appraisal of the utility of current measures in estimating the population subregions of Virginia, Mary Boehling Duley
Observations on the morphology, physiology, and life history of Allescheria Boydii Shear, Robert Denton Flory
The history of interposition, John Harrison Geiser
An analysis of the civil defense program in the public schools in critical target areas and target areas in Virginia, Osborne Lawes
The development of a standardized interview for measuring non-intellective factors associated with success and failure among college students, William Hensley Leftwich
Valuation of closely held and untraded stocks held as collateral by banks in support of loans, Richard Mortensen Linder
Some views of slavery from the writings of Virginia authors, 1824-1865, Josephine Mary Logan
The comparative morphology of the central nervous system of the larva, pupa, and adult of Epilachnia corrupta, Raymond F. Moore
Chelation of the transition metal ions with a series of polyhodrozyamine compounds, William Percy Moore
The comparative osteology of the trunk skeleton of five year classes of the Golden shiner, Notemigonus crysoleucas (Mitchell), Aaron Hathaway O'Bier
Tetrazolium salts, Andrew Garnett Richardson
Theses from 1955
The early history of Buckingham County, James Meade Anderson
A study of the moral tone of Restoration comedy, Herbert Robinson Blackwell
Religion in the life and works of Longfellow, Morris Edward Cather
Hugh Blair Grigsby : a delegate to the Virginia Constitutional Convention of 1829-30, William Allen Lesueur Deane
Amoral characters beyond good and evil in the nineteenth century French novel, Basil McVoy Duncan
A study of the chelation of 1,3-bis-(tris-(hydroxymethyl)-methylamino)-2-propanol dihydrochloride with copper (II), nickel (II), cobalt (II), Velta Erdmanis
Charles Lynch, originator of the term Lynch law, Gordon Godfrey Fralin
A study of the chelation of 1,3-BIS (tris (hydroxymethyl) Methylamino) 2-propanol with iron (III), Jane Bell Grinnan Gladding
Theatrical criticism of Addison and Steele, Virginia Marion Lewis
Virginia and the Mexican War, Judith Fauquier Napps
A study of factors that discriminate between different degrees of religiousness in people, Stuart W. Omohundro
A study of the relationship between certain factors of teacher load and teacher turnover in 220 schools in Virginia, Arthur Allan Pickett
Predictive measurements of college success : a study of the relationship between the freshman testing program and college success at the University of Richmond, Walter Nelson Taylor
The rise of Hitler as interpreted by selected American newspapers, 1930-1936, Edward Walton Trice
A study of the effect of the assessment ratio on state aid for public schools in Northampton County, Virginia, Paul Gray Watson Jr.
Standards for certification of elementary principals in the state of Virginia, a comparative study, Warren Judson Winstead
The Imaging of Spatial Relations, Myron Morgan Yagel
The Imaging of Spatial Relations Among Children as Influenced by Maturity Level and Travel Experience Factors, Myron Morgan Yagel
Theses from 1954
A study of Chaucer's influence on English literature through Dryden, Elder Blair Apperson
Discrimination of manics and depressives by the projective technique, handwriting analysis, Roscoe Sease Aull
A history of the Chesapeake Bay ferries to Virginia's Eastern shore prior to the Civil War, Clarence Lee Beebe
A study of leadership as a function of the situation, Kathryne Creighton Bentley
Moses Myers of Norfolk, Moses Jacob Burak
The distribution and ecology of the terrestrial shell-bearing mollusca of Hanover, Henrico, and Chesterfield counties, Virginia, John Bayard Burch
A history of Virginia in the Spanish-American War, Virginia Rowe Christian
A polarographic study of respiration in a blue-green alga, Samuel Leonard Cooke Jr.
A history of Hat Creek Presbyterian Church, 1742-1953, Sydnor Franklin Foster
A study of the mysticism of Plotinus and Augustine, R. Baine Harris
A study of the effect of shift classes on reading age, Joseph Lawson Hendrick
A study in the development and use of the Place-A-Person test, Ola Frances Hill
The treatment of animals in poetry from Pope to Wordsworth, David Kingsley Johnston
Accounting for the finances of co-curricular activities in Suffolk High School, Arthur Edward Jones
Case study of the financing of the operations of a government agency under the industrial fund, Cecil Franklin Jones
A study of Tennyson's historical trilogy, Robert Caudius Markham
Rorschach determinants of creativity, Marie Crandall Smith
Perseverative phenomena and shift ability, Edward Ernest Ware
F. Scott Fitzgerald : his materials and his methods, Clifton Lanier Warren
Theses from 1953
A study of the logical method as compared with the rote method of learning spelling, George McCauley Barrett
The election of 1928 in Virginia, Hal James Bonney
Influences of mobility on the academic progress of pupils in the fourth and sixth grades of Quantico Post Elementary School, Gladys Taylor Dollins
A follow-up study of the 1942 graduates and the 1947 graduates of Jefferson High School, William Lorenzo Green
Tennessee Williams and the tragic tradition, Edgar E. MacDonald
A colorimetric coulometer, Clayton C. Roth
The significance of religious training in relation to personality development, Walter Michael Schoedel
A microcoulometric study of adsorption on the hydrogen electrode, Ray Douglas Sothern
The bacterial flora of the alimentary canal of passalus cornutus fabricius, George Taylor Tunstall
The role of the high school and church in preparing young people for marriage, Joseph Franklin White
Theses from 1952
A comparison between the use of projection planes and the non use of projection planes in the teaching of mechanical drawing in the high schools, Arthur Wendell Allison
A survey of guidance activities in group III high schools in Virginia, Edward Michael Branich
Art and religion in Milton's critical theory, Otto Leonhart Brenner
History of Richmond as a port city, Myrtle Elizabeth Callahan
Ernest Hemingway, a writer of episodes, Robert Alexander Chermside Jr.
Student mortality at Richmond College, 1946-1952, Thomas E. Coleman Jr.
Some reductions of substituted benzalacetophenones by aluminum isopropoxide and lithium aluminum hydride, Calvin Lyndall Fisher
A survey of the critical opinion concerning the effect of Edgar Allan Poe's life upon his literary work, Alice Mary Griffith
Virginia, the pioneer in historical markers, Julian Murry Howell
An ecological study of the bacterial flora of Westhampton Lake, Thomas Constantine Mandes
A treatment of plant life in eighteenth-century poetry, William Melvin Maxey
A study of the four public bridges across the james river, Demitrios Basiliou Pantele
A study of recipients of old age assistance in Norfolk, Portsmouth and Newport News, Virginia, Elbridge King Reid
A Comparison of the Uses of Astrology in the Works of John Gower and Geoffrey Chaucer, George Rufus Wyatt Jr.
Theses from 1951
An introduction to the poetry of T.S. Eliot : a selective handbook, Jean Katherine Collins
The relative stimulus value of voices and faces as measured by the method of recognition, William Hill Doub
A consolidation program for the white high schools of Dinwiddie, Prince George, and Sussex counties, Bernard Theophilus Doyle