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Theses/Dissertations from 1974
The Spirit of the Times : a Pontotoc, Mississippi, newspaper, 1841-1842, James Rudell Willis Jr.
A.B.C., C.B.S., and N.B.C. live television interviews conductedduring the 1972 Democratic National Convention : an audio content analysis, David L. Womack
Theses/Dissertations from 1973
Eric Hoffer's conceptual approach to the development of Americandemocratic leadership, Henry Nash Carrier III
Occupational and Educational Aspirations of Black and White Male High School Students in a North Mississippi County, Melissa Hall Clark
Long-Term Retention of Tritium in Man, Chin-Jen Ou
An analysis and comparison of select teaching methods for the clarinet, James K. Simpson
The influence of prior help and race on helping behavior, Michael Edwin Wallace
Interracial attitudes of public school students in four Mississippi towns, Samuel Lloyd Walters
Stage lighting design: Hedda Gabler, The Beaux' Stratagem, and The Crucible, Hoyt Wayne Webster
The relationship of the self-portrait and abstract forms with the immediate environment, Vernon Vance Wesson
The American role at Algeciras, James L. Whitten Jr
Changes in art judgements resulting from a course in art appreciation at East Mississippi Junior College as determined by mean gains, Jon H. Whittington
A study of selected classification systems available for use in music libraries with recommendations for the University of Mississippi Music Library, Jauwiece Mims Wilkenson
A comparative study of freshman and sophomore music education requirements in the Mississippi public junior colleges with Mississippi senior colleges and universities, Jerry Ellis Wilkinson
Theses/Dissertations from 1972
Arrangements for Care of Preschool Children Whose Parents Live in the Married Student Housing Area at the University of Mississippi, Nancy Schomberg Abney
Rearrangement of Alkanesulfenanilides, Parviz Ainpour
Thermodynamic Investigations of Alcohol-Hydrocarbon Systems by Frontal Analysis, Mary Patricia Alewine
The Development of a Role Model for Campus Ombudsmen at Institutions of Higher Learning in the United States, Ray Bass Jr.
Theory of the resolution principle, David Lawrence Landskov
Vibrational relaxation processes in carbon dioxide and nitrogenmixtures, Claudie Cayce Warf
A study of major contributions made by early melodrama to the development of early films, Sherra Smith Weeks
The evolution of jazz performance and study in high schools andcolleges, Thomas Glenn Williams
Theses/Dissertations from 1971
A Survey of Theatre Production Facilities in the State Junior Colleges of Mississippi, Samuel David Christ Sr.
A comparative study of the beginning drawing courses in the junior and senior colleges in Mississippi, Louis R. Walsh
An analytical study of residential cluster development, Jimmy Lawrence Ware
Mark Twain's views on God, religion, and death, Janice Marie Weber
Time perception as a function of expectation of receiving an aversive stimulus, Richard Milton Weiss
Fedayeen : men of sacrifice, Ken Melvin Welshimer
Factors associated with attitudes of black students toward integration at the University of Mississippi, Robert Earl Williams
A comparison of self-concept of five-yearolds from a lower socioeconomic group and from a higher socioeconomic group, Rosanne Johnson Williams
St. Andrew Presbytery of North Mississippi : a study of ideal and real values in church participation, John Maxwell Wilson
Theses/Dissertations from 1970
A Suggested Guide for Teaching Stage Movement, Elynor Elizabeth Butler Hamilton
Graduate Record Examination Aptitude Test Scores of Selected Students at the University of Mississippi, Peter Carson
The Ku Klux Klan in the United States: Its History, Organization, and Recruitment Practices, Chester Leland Quarles
Art Education and the Blind Child, Susan Sprinkel
Demonstration of a magnesium-activated, sodium-potassium sensitive adenosine triphosphatase in the nuclear fraction of loblollypine (Pinus taeda L.) root tip homogenate, William Kenneth Ward
Fungal succession on living foliage and litter of loblolly pineand upland depleted hardwood stands in North Mississippi, Edna Sue Watson
Temperature and concentration dependence of the N,N'-diphenylformamidine and N,N'-diphenylacetamidine and related compounds as shown by infrared spectroscopy, Edward McSherry Williams
A comparative analysis of The Little Foxes and Regina, Jimmie Lee Williams III
Nutritional adequacy and acceptance by students of the meals served in nine sorority houses at the University of Mississippi, Quintilla Smith Williams
The role of the engineer in urban planning, Harry Maury Wilson
Theses/Dissertations from 1969
Syntheses and antimicrobial activities of some 4-aza-sitostane derivatives, Hassan Y. Aboul-Enein
Greek Religious Festivals and Art, with Illustrations from the University Of Mississippi Museum, Willene Carpenter Hull
Distribution and Incidence of Frog Lung Flukes in Lafayette, Pontotoc and Panola Counties, Mississippi, with the Proposal of a New Species and a Revision of the Genus Haematoloechus, Robert Thural Clark
A Comparison of the Five-Year-Old Child’s Perception of the Father Role and the Father’s Self-Role Perception, Carole W. Mandly
Elementary estimates for second smallest quadratic non-residuesfor primes of form 24n + 23 and 24n +- 13, Robert H. Waller
On a method of alternating corrections for the numerical solution of two-point boundary value problems, Bruce Paul Watson
Growth characteristics and glycolysis of HeLa cells, Harrell David Whitten
An analysis of student teaching factors that contribute to effective teaching, Nell Land Williams
Female characters in the theater of Marivaux, Rudy De'Wayne Williams
The relevant market in antitrust cases : a legal and economic analysis, John Lloyd Wilson
Creep on cracking of soil-cement base, Frank Cherng Yao
A study to prepare a Mississippi planning law digest, Joseph Watt Yates
Theses/Dissertations from 1968
The Role of the Fine Arts in the Total Education of the Terminal Student in the Public Junior Colleges of Mississippi, Joseph Robert Abrams
The Oil and Gas Industry in Mississippi, 1939-1966, Robert M. Campbell Jr.
False cap rock overlying Gulf Coast salt domes : analysis and origin, Charles William Walker
Three-phase microwave network, Nan Nan Wang
The use of farnesol in the study of metamorphosis and polytene chromosomes in Aedes aegypti (linn.), Gerald Bruce Whitfield
The two faces of Antigone, Mari-Jane Ciravolo Wilbanks
A study of J. D. Salinger's Nine Stories, Polly Franklin Williams
Theora Hamblett: phenomenon of cosmic art and creative intuition, Sandra Gai Williams
The ten Blake songs by Ralph Vaughan Williams, Jane Hungerpiller Wright
Theses/Dissertations from 1967
The Passion of Love as a Destructive Force in the Novels of Zola, Deanna Lorraine Aaron
Studies on Populations of Anchoa Kitchilli Cuvier & Valenciennes in Mississippi Sound, with Special Reference to the Life Cycle and Seasonal Variations in Abundance, Edna Janice Edwards
Primitivism in the fiction of William Faulkner, George William Sutton
The effect of inter-trial variation in the amount of reward foryoung children, William Robert Walker
Ford circles, Freddy Layne Washington
Differentiability of an increasing function, Harry A. Watson Jr
The rehearsal, both individually and collectively in preparationfor a musical performance, with special emphasis on stage-fright, James E. Westbrook
A study of the Calvinist and new Humanist philosophies as the basis of Faulkner's Light in August, Kay Williams
The gametophyte of woodwardia areolata (L.) Moore : development in sterile culture, effects of exogenous sucrose, and an attempt to induce apogamy, Fred Tinsley Yeats Jr.
A comparison of accounting cost and economic cost in modern industry, Donnie Frank Young
Theses/Dissertations from 1966
Ambiguity in the heroines of Hawthorne's romances, Margaret Yarbrough Wallace
Laminar inlet flow in a pipe, Raymond C. T. Wang
A study of optimum alternate patterns of land use development for Memphis and Shelby County, Tennessee, James Clay Watkins
Facing a hostile public : a Mississippi editor's dilemma, Joseph Luther White
A sociological analysis of an action group : Wednesday in Mississippi, Kate Wilkinson
Four original plays, Merrell Williams
Theses/Dissertations from 1965
Dr. Arbuthnot in the Scriblerus Club, Martha Latimer Adams
Internal Short Distance Migration and College Enrollment in Mississippi, Philip R. Adams
Certain concepts of father and of mother held by four- and five- year-old children, Christeen Hankins Wallace
Hazlitt's acquaintance with English Romantic poets, Donald W. Warfield
Family relations of bright high-achieving and bright under-achieving girls, Myrtle Davis Webb
Analysis of the treatment afforded the investment tax credit onaccounting records, David Noel White
Sound in Emily Dickinson's poetry, Janice Lou White
The educational philosophy of John Wesley, John Willie Yeates
Theses/Dissertations from 1964
A Study of Small Informal Group Dynamics as Related to Attitudes Toward Management, Murray Cecil Adams Jr.
A Study of Amino Derivatives of Thiophene Isosters of Indanone and Tetralone, Gul Ghanshamdas Advant
William Alexander Percy: Knight to His People, Ishmael to Himself, and Poet to the World, Carol Malone
Hawthorne’s Abortive Use of Tragedy, Yvonne Landen Neel
Cracking behavior of the Jones County, Mississippi, continuouslyreinforced concrete pavement, Ching-Ru Wang
An experimental study of air and concrete temperature relation in a highway pavement, Earl Watson Wardlaw Jr
Experimental stress analysis of a continuous rail section, Joe David Warrington
A series of color prints interpreting poems from The Blind Man At the Window by Stark Young, Charles Gerald Wells
Effect of interaural noise correlation on the detectability of monaural tonal signals, John K. Whitmore
An experimental approach to computer prediction of demographic change: Mississippi population, 1920-1960, Max Warren Williams
Theses/Dissertations from 1963
Sewage Disposal Conditions of Rural Homes in Leflore County, Mississippi, Ethel Mullens Bowman
An analysis of one hundred conflicts among preschool children, Julia Wehner Wallace
The interaction of aqueous electrolytes with silica gel and alumina, Kenneth Charles Williams