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 1967
The Joyce menagerie : animal imagery in the first three novels, David A. DeWitt
Sayler's Creek : a battlefield, a park, Peter Warren Eldredge
Alexander Moseley, editor of the Richmond Whig, Harrison Moseley Ethridge
Under God? : a study of freedom of religion, the founding fathers, the Supreme Court, and the schools, Alice Sofis Evangelides
Respiratory activity of vibratory, tail epaxial and midbody expaxial muscle in Crotalus horridus, Aqkistrodon contortrix, and Thamophis sirtalis., James E. Forbes
The comparative osteology of the trunk skeletons of three species of Paralichthys, family Bothidae, from North Carolina, William Marion Hall
Herbert's household imagery, Christina Hillquist Halsted
Archetypal patterns of death and rebirth in the mature poetry of Gerard Manley Hopkins, Frank Thomas Hanenkrat
William Roane Aylett, 1833-1900, Joseph P. Harahan
Equal access to justice : the challenge and the opportunity, Richard Lyins Korink
Background similarity-dissimilarity, interpersonal attraction and change in confidence, Lewis J. Levine
A regional study of first year teachers as a means of interpreting certain elements of job preparation leading to continuation in the teaching profession, Mills Arnold March
Electrical response of frog skin epidermis to sodium ions, James H. Martin
The effects of coelomic fluid and isotonic homogenates of the freshwater Bryozoan Lophopodella carteri on fish tissue, Roger H. Meacham
Partial reinforcement with a small number of acquisition trials : the effects of thwarting on extinction performance, W. Schuyler Miller
A survey of Kenneth B. Keating's legislative image relative to the domestic issues during the years 1947-1958, Carl C. Moore Jr
Characterization of Stephen Dedalus in James Joyce's Stephen hero and A portrait of the artist as a young man, Reuben L. Musgrave
The history and development of port facilities of the Chesapeake and Ohio Railway Company, Newport News, Virginia, Ronald Winborne Odom
The ultrastructure of the vibratory muscle of Crotalus Horridus, Louis Pastore
Sherwood Anderson, dramatist, Brenda H. Renalds
A qualitative study of the "Bohlmann Band", John Alfred Richman Jr.
Classically conditioned licking and acquired orienting as a function of qualitatively different UCS values : acquisition, shifting and extinction, Jerry Weeks Rudy
The effects of a nerve growth-promoting protein on the integument of PET mice, Craig Bauman Satterlee
The individual and the problem of self-definition in Faulkner : isolation and gesture in Light in August, The sound and the fury, Absalom, Absalom!, and As I lay dying, Betty Jean Seymour
A comparative study of the sulfhydryl groups in the gastrocnemius of the normal and X-irradiated PET mouse, Robert Edward Shervette
A study of youth employment in Richmond, 1960-1966, Frederick Brandt Smith
Interference of ultraviolet inactivated Parainfluenza 3 and Echo 21 viruses with the active viruses in tissue culture, William Ernest Steinmetz
A comparative study of students using the I/T/A and the Ginn materials, Berry Hughes Swilling Jr.
The effects of readership selectivity on the reading of controversial material dealing with the reader's personal prejudices : a test of the theory of cognitive dissonance, John Marshall Tucker
A metabolic study of the isolated perfused snake liver, James E. Turner
A study of the dropout problem with emphasis on educational programs and services for potential dropouts in the Richmond Public Schools, Michael Lewis Waring
Southern Baptist missions in China 1945-1951, Garnett Lee White
An Investigation of Personality Differences Between Smokers and Nonsmokers and the Reduction of Dissonance, John B. Wolf III
A Study of the Proposed Richmond Coliseum, Coleman Bennett Yeatts Jr.
Theses from 1966
The comparative osteology of the skulls of three species of Paralichthys, family Bothidae, Anne Caperton Beirne
A comparative study of The state of innocence and Paradise lost, David Everette Blythe
The theatre of the absurd, Edith Beirne Brooks
A comparison of selected factors relating to college success, Mary Ann Inwood Cisne
A survey of the use of educational and occupational information in intermediate and junior high schools in Virginia, Norma Palmer Cogbill
A survey of teacher attitudes concerning guidance in the elementary school, Patricia Bakos Coukos
Dyadic communication as a function of communicative method and interpersonal mutuality, Harry Wallace Craver Jr.
An evaluation of the autobiographical interpretation of Samson Agonistes, Edward P. Crockett
An analysis of "The Third House" in the General Assembly of Virginia, John Rowland Davis
The redevelopment of Russell County, Virginia : a survey of the causes of poverty in an Appalachian county and efforts to correct them, Daniel Alvin Dye
Potential neoplasm inhibitors II, Ronald Lee Floyd
A history of the Department of Legal Medicine at Medical College of Virginia, Mary A. Giunta
An experimental study of three programed methods, David Robinson Grove
An investigation of the status, functions, and practices of high school homerooms in Virginia, Anne Hill Hayes
The effect of verbal and visual mnemonic devices on the paired associate learning of an aged population, Franklin Peter Knill
A revision of the Morgan Test of Logical Reasoning, Fred K. McCoy
A method for the determination of trace metals in carbon by atomic absorption spectroscopy, Leo Francis Meyer
Correlation studies of seventeen variables assumed to be predictive of success in foreign language study, Marion Collier Miller
Character and theme in Romeo and Juliet and Troilus and Cressida : a comparative critical study, Charlotte H. Oberg
The relationship of the detection of unpredictable visual binary sequences and selected personality measures, Currell L. Pattie
Rhetorical patterns in the poetry of Andrew Marvell, Elizabeth Hughes Pole
Economic effects of an industrial plant locating in a rural county, Willie Calvin Rigsby
The weighted application blank as a predicter of academic success in a junior college, Richard J. Ritchie
An inquiry into the Kuder preference record vocational verification scale and the Guilford Zimmerman temperament survey falsification scale, Ann Denton Ryder
The valuation of closely held stocks for federal estate taxes, Carroll Lee Saine
Personality characteristics related to volunteering, pseudovolunteering and non-volunteering for different kinds of psychological experiments, Donald S. Sale
An investigation of the novelty effect in programed instruction, Frederick Sale Jr.
The problem of Satan in Milton's Paradise lost, Jeanne Saunders
The effects of single-dose X-irradiation on melanocytes in the leg musculature and skin of the PET mouse, Barry Eckert Schaeffer
A study of the relationship between WISC and school success of emotionally disturbed children, Paul Daniel Shearer
The Voting Rights Act of 1965 : a summary of its legislative history, James Bryan Spell Jr.
Dryden's Adaptations of Shakespeare, Massie C. Stinson Jr.
Thomas Staples Martin : his senatorial career, Ernest Scott Strother
An analysis of the public intermediate school, Richard Thomas Talbert
Current practices in selection, instruction, and supervision of school bus drivers in Virginia, William Gibbs Thomas
A study of the Cuban community in Richmond, Mary E. Tyler
Creativity and deviant set responding in third grade children, Elizabeth S. Waller
A method for the determination of solanesol in tobacco, Ludwig Weissbecker
The effect of aging on ratings of self, physical self and related body concepts as measured by a semantic differential, Gary V. Whalen
The Virginia Executive Budget, Charles William Wyatt III
Theses from 1965
Potential neoplasm inhibitors, Andrew G. Bachmann
An analysis of the activities under Public Law 480 : the Food for Peace program, Charles Frederick Bateman
An evaluation of materials handling equipment in general merchandise warehouses Richmond, Va., Donald Henderson Bowles
The Movement for Home Rule in Prince Georges County, Maryland 1961-1964, Paul A. Clark Jr.
Some morphological and histological effects of the poison of Lophopodella Carteri (Hyatt) on young Ambystoma Opacum (Gravenhorst) and Carassius Auratus (Linnaeus), Eric Justin Collins
A history and analysis of negro newspapers in Virginia, Ronald E. Cutler
Richmond's reaction to Abraham Lincoln : from November 1860 - March 1881, James Alexander DeAngelis
The military occupation of Richmond, 1865-1870, Richard M. Duggan
A study of the boron - curcumin system, John Bowlin Forehand
A Survey of the Administration of Noninstructional Personnel in the Richmond Public Schools and Other School Divisions with Comparable Enrollments, Harold David Gibson
Emergent leadership as a function of the leaders social distance and the task situation, George Stephen Goldstein
A comparative study of the ability and achievement of pupils in the graded and nongraded plans of organization in the same school, Alice Gates Goodman
The method in Beckett's madness : a critical study of Samuel Beckett's drama, Robert Grattan
An analysis of extreme response set as related to personality, David L. Hamilton
Sir Gawain and the Green Knight and the chivalric ideal of the fourteenth century, Nancy Lenz Harvey
Patterns of response as a function of intelligence, motivation, and personality, David T. Hess
Percina notogramma montuosa Hogarth, a new subspecies of a percid fish from the upper James River, William Thomas Hogarth
A study of the occupational pattern of the Presbyterian ministry of the Synod of North Carolina, James F. Hubbard
Presentation factors as critical variables in learning by program, guide, and self study, CHarles Holman Jennings
The Educational Program for the Mentally Retarded in Henrico County (Virginia) Public Schools, Betty Parrish Knott
Real estate syndication for the local realtor, Harold Joseph Lawlor
Henrik Ibsen and Thomas Hardy : a sociological comparison, Garland Karr Linkous Jr.
An experiment in group counseling at John Marshall High School, Richmond, Virginia, Daniel S. Marshall
The impact of the telephone industry on the economy of Virginia, Homer W. Marshall Jr