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Theses from 1970
La obra de Gabriel Garcia Marquez : mito y critica, Maria Aranzabal Garcia
Harrison and Winchester, conflict in command in the Raisin River campaign of 1812-1813, David Hall Garrett
The effectiveness of teacher attention as a reinforcer in the conditioning and extinction of classroom behaviors of delinquent girls, Mary Fulcher Geis
Reverend William Graham, Presbyterian minister and rector of Liberty Hall Academy, Robert Goggin Gillespie
A resolution of the political activities of Philo with the politico-messianic ideas expressed in his works, Leonard Jay Greenspoon
The thematic relationship of Laurence Sterne to David Herbert Lawrence, Frederick Thornett Hardy
James Branch Cabell : laughing existentialist, George R. Hazelton
The barren soul : a study of Ellen Glasgow's religious revolt, Reva May Jenkins
The role of the Virginia elementary school assistant principal, Joseph Carlton Jones
Cher Antoine : Jean Anouilh's reflection on his own works, Joseph Towler Knox
The role of the peripheral narrator in Moby-Dick, Heart of darkness and The Great Gatsby, Erana Leiken
Attitudes and beliefs of Chesterfield County students concerning all police officials, Benjamin Franklin Lewis
Comparative age and growth of two darters, Percina peltata (Stauffer) and Percina notogramma (Raney and Hubbs), in Virginia, Garnett William Link
An appraisal of the physical education facilities and equipment in the public elementary schools of Virginia, Craig Paul Organ
The effects upon short-term memory of acoustic interference and the cognitive separation of a reduntant element, Robert A. Smallwood
Colores in Cicero's Philippics I and II, and in Pliny's Panegyricus, Marilyn Jacke Smart
The status of career development in the elementary school as viewed by elementary school counselors of Virginia, Regina N. Smith
The role of interference and trace decay in the retention of a simple psychomotor task, Stephen David Southall
Sequential processing deficits in reading retardation, Sara Gambrell Tarver
Alejo Carpentier : civilización y barbarie, María Luisa P. Valdés
Proudhonism and the French Working Class, Joan Batten Wood
Case Relations of the Two Part Verb in English, Lester Gould Woody
Characteristics of Successful Teaches of the Disadvantaged (As Identified by School Principals), Lubomyr Zapar
Theses from 1969
L'animal dans la poesie du XIX siecle, Carolyn Frances Baker
Thematic development in four Becket plays, Richard Arnold Bell
The masque, a courtly entertainment, Kenneth Bailey Blanks
A study of negro riots in the United States 1963-1968, Leona Ann Chase
A critical study of the seven major Victorian pessimistic poets, Frank W. Childrey
The artistic deformation of reality : an ideological portrait of tyranny in Tirano Banderas and El Señ̃or Presidente, Roebrta Wynne Cohen
Significant personality variables involved in noetic problems, Richard A. Depue
An attempt to measure the diffusion of aluminum into natural aluminum oxide, Charles Edward Galaspie
The significance of Nicholas Jenkins in Anthony Powell's A dance to the music of time, Michael George Gaspeny
Chronic illness and the Richmond Nursing Home, Robert L. Gordon
Moral basis in Fielding's irony, Roger Paulson Hailes
The relationship of liberalism-conservatism to anxiety and ego strength, Orpha Sherman Harris
A comparative study of the uses of por and para, Peggy D. Hart
An edition of Amelie Rives Troubetzkoy's The young Elizabeth, Robert Walker Hungerford
Peracid oxidation of 3-phenylindene, Christopher Peter Johnson
The effect of estradiol on protein and nucleic acids of the liver of Natrix fasciata, Alex Jordan
A comparison of the vibratory muscle, tail epaxial muscle, and body epaxial muscle respiratory activities in Sistrurus miliarius, Coluber constrictor, and Natrix fasciata, Craig Todd Kerins
Agriculture in the Fredericksburg area, Harold J. Muddiman
The mail of anguish: the humor of emily dickinson, Marian Hoffman Myers
Data retrieval in mass spectrometry by an optical coincidence system, Cynthia Helmintoller O'Donohue
Violence in Elizabethan and Jacobean drama, Linwood Clay Powers III
Birth order and social personality characteristics in college upperclassmen, James Stevens Robertson
El tema de la muerte en al novela "la muerte de Artemio Cruz" de Carlos Fuentes, Felina Noris Roine
The use of the Slingerland screening tests to delineate reading problems among retarded children, James Over Rust
French and German Influences on the Horror Novels of Lewis, Maturin, Le Fanu, and Stoker, Robert Wesley Sanderson
Blood-knowledge and The plumed serpent, Steven Mark Schwartz
Evan Harrington : George Meredith's use of comedy as a corrective to sentimentality, Joyce Stanley Scott
A thermogravimetric study of Polyvinylidene chloride in polymers, Charles Edward Singleton
The effect of photoperiod on the diurnal fluctuations in photosynthetic rate of two species of marine phytoplankton, Richard Allmon Smith
Effect of Self-Concept Upon Performance Following Failure Stress, Daniel Stern
Ernest Hemingway's impressionistic style., Larry Cole Thompson
An ultrastructural investigation on the origin of murine Langerhans cells, Stanley Powell Tompkins
Les trois iles de Marivaux, Suzanne Prillaman Wiltshire
The Diplomatic Mission of Yancey, Rost and Mann: The Inadequacies of Confederate Foreign Policy, 1861, Paul Zingg
Theses from 1968
Colonial independence of feeding among Zooids of the Ectoproct Lophodella carteri (Hyatt), Leonard M. Bahr
The effects of estradiol benzoate on protein synthesis by the isolated perfused snake liver, William Ralph Boone
Chaucer's ecclesiastics in the Canterbury tales, Helen Lee Coleman
Chaucer's ecclesiastics in the Canterbury tales, Helen Lee Coleman
Refractoriness of PET mouse integument to the nerve growth factor, Walter Hollified Dorman
A spectrophotometric study of the system: cobalt--2,2,8,8-tetrakis (hydroxymethyl)-3,7-diaza-1,5,9-nonanetriol, Pauline Frances Fones
An Edition of Great Day: The Autobiography of Emma Speed Sampson, John Letcher Fugate
Great day. An edition of Great day : the autobiography of Emma Speed Sampson, John Letcher Fugate
Great day. An edition of Great day : the autobiography of Emma Speed Sampson, John Letcher Fugate
Religious practices in the public senior high schools of Virginia, Kenneth Michael Geiger
Timidity, emotionality, and activity in rats deprived of grooming, Josiah B. Henneberger
Effect of maze arm alternation on maze traversal latency : analysis of the aftereffects hypothesis, Ronald Seymour Johnson
The image of the Jew in James Joyce's Ulysses, Phyllis Joyce Cohen Levy
The York River Railroad : 1851-1881, Stuart B. Medlin
L'Evolution du père dans le drame bourgeois réaliste : Diderot, Sedaine, Augier, Cecile Etiennette Noble
The relation between measured intelligence and the ability to learn, Robert Stephen Peddicord
Teacher supplementary employment at the junior and senior high school level in Chesterfield County, Virginia June, 1967-May, 1968, Francis Wayne Poates
Black cloud over Danville: The negro movement in Danville, Virginia in 1963, Gordon Brooks Powell Jr.
Elizabethan foreign policy : 1567-1585, Jo Anne Reynolds
Milton and Cambridge : a new look at an old attitude, Roy S. Riner
Britain's conciliatory proposal of 1776, A study in futility, John Taylor Savage Jr.
The theory and development of a dyeing machine employing the rotary pendulum, Ashley Paul Smith
The Danville riot of 1883 : its effect on politics in Virginia, William Carrington Tate
Partial reinforcement with a small number of acquisition trials : the effects of reward technique, Samuel Joseph Thios
Monopolies during the reign of James I., William Charles Thompson
Reconstructing Shabazz : images of the black man in four black plays, William Charles Thompson
In the mind's eye : a study of Shakespeare's imaginative use of stage properties in six representative plays, Margaret Hart Glenn Tinsley
The effect of poor discipline on achieving a grade point total consistent with ability at Tuckahoe Junior High School, John Wayne Traylor
An evaluation of the effectiveness of moderator variables developed by three techniques, James Porter Tucker Jr.
Effects of category-relevance, retention measure, and category-affiliation upon retention of the aging, Gary M. Tyson
Theses from 1967
The use of facts and verbal, affect, and content clues in clinical judgements from interviews, Nicholas Charles Anthony
Continents of light : a novel, Robert P. Arthur
The stability of the teaching profession in Hanover County during the years 1960-1965, Don Sewell Ayers
The new British drama 1956-1966 : a critical study of four dramatists: John Osborne, Brendan Behan, Arnold Wesker, and John Arden, Jeanne Fenrick Bedell
Jane Austen's use of the epistolary method, Barbara Tavss Bender
Shelley's Prometheus unbound : a critical analysis and interpretation, Emily Carol Braxton
Marlowe's cosmology, William H. Caldwell
A comparative study of the parasite of certain salientia from Pocahontas State Park, Virginia, Ronald Arthur Campbell
The retention of tactile stimulation with young and elderly adults, Sally Baker Canestrari
History of Richmond Baptists, 1780-1860, Roland Stuart Carlton
A survey of the general characteristics of local Virginia School Board members, Frank Alton Cosby
Iron vs. gold : a study of the three Anglo-Dutch wars, 1652-1674, William Terry Curtler
Chaucer's Pandarus : a character study, Phillip Valentine Daffron