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Theses/Dissertations from 1948
The Geochemistry of the Banded Sands in the Vicinity of the University of Mississippi, Helen Darwin
Some phases of the law and public education in Mississippi, Herbert David Farrell
The Confederate press and the administration of Jefferson Davis, John Albert Galloway
Plot elements of the Southern proletarian novel of the 1930's, Homer Green
Some classroom activities for motivating instruction in typewriting, Frank M. Herndon
Washburn's mission to Paraguay, Nollie Wade Hickman
The literary and critical opinions on Sir Francis Bacon, to which is appended Contributions to a definitive bibliography of Sir Francis Bacon, Patrick Galvin Hogan
The classical and modern approach to the Galois theory, Calvin Virgil Holmes
Investigation of Some Possible Effects of Two Axenic Strains of the Ciliated Protozoan Tetrahymena Geleii When Injected Into Mature White Mice, Melvin Marvin Kraus
A study of electric utility operation in Oxford and Pontotoc, Mississippi, James Hutton Lemly
A study of balance sheet presentations of net worth items in a sample of industrial corporations, Leonard Van Lockley Jr
Standard cost procedure with respect to overhead, Charles David McCool
The development of the synthetic rubber industry in the United States, John Arthur McCrossan Jr
Sinclair Lewis's idealists / by Elizabeth Sadler, Fable Moon
James Boswell's concept of national character, Helen Harrold Naugle
Standard cost accounting procedures for materials and labor, Fred W. Norwood
Salient changes in Mississippi land tenure, 1860-1900 / by Arthur Hopkins Rice, Arthur Hopkins Rice
The reception and appeal of Tennyson's 1842 poems / by Opal Royal, Opal Royal
The analysis of sodium acetate with the aid of an ion exchange resin / by Ann Lee Rutherford, Ann Lee Rutherford
Some neglected managerial aspects of Mississippi school lunchrooms / by Lucile Smith Ryan, Lucile Smith Ryan
The effect of 3-indoleacetic acid on escherichia coli, bacillusmegatherium and micrococcus pyogenea var. aureus / by William Sadler, William Sadler
Nitrocatechol : a survey of its possibilities / by William Alpheus Saums, William Alpheus Saums
The effect of some bacteria-free organisms on the growth of amoeba / by Mary Ella Harvey Smith, Mary Ella Harvey Smith
The churches and public opinion in the Confederacy / by David Franklin Snipes, David Franklin Snipes
Henry W. Longfellow's theory of poetry / by Joyce Taylor, Joyce Taylor
Analysis of the causes and controls of cyclical fluctuations, Ernest Winfield Walker
John A. Quitman : Governor of Mississippi, 1850-1851, Troy B. Watkins
The solution of equations in a field, Cecil Quin Williams
Sources of funds for financing corporate expansion 1946 through 1948, M. J. Williams Jr.
Theses/Dissertations from 1947
Paradise Lost as a Drama, Harry Bane Abernathy
A classification of planar projective transformations, Noel Arthur Childress
The effect of unrewarded drive on maze learning in the white rat, Jay David Cohen
The effect of morphine sulphate and diaminon hydrochloride on the incidence of audiogenic seizures among Albino rats, Martin Cohen
Milton's Christ and Satan in the temptations of Paradise Regained, Katherine McInnis Coward
A study of corporate reserves with special attention to postwarreserves, Milburn Gardner Jr
The guaranteed annual wage, Paul Victor Grambsch
The legislative program of 1940-1944 : A legislative opinion, Charles Granville Hamilton
Feminine types in Mark Twain's fiction, Jewell Ball Hardin
Presbyterian missions among the Choctaw and Chickasaw Indians, 1845-1862, William Louis Hiemstra
The relationship of Oxford and the University of Mississippi, 1848-1947, Frances Rossman Huff
History of the expansion of the University of Mississippi, 1848-, Dewitt Talmage Measells Jr
Theodore Dreiser and the question of moral responsibility, Robert Henry O'Bannon
The role of the press in the fall of New Orleans, 1860-1862, William Thomas Powell
The design, construction, and use of a colorimeter of improved characteristics / by John David Ross, John David Ross
A critique of Addison's theories of wit and imagination / by Alexander Lamarr Stephens, Jr, Alexander Lamarr Stephens Jr
The determination of columbium by reduction, Charles William West
Theses/Dissertations from 1946
Line and surface integration, Oscar Richard Ainsworth
Lafcadio Hearn: His Life and His Literary Thought, Ray Bass
Recognition of husband-wife partnerships for income tax purposes, Jacob M. Fried Jr
Elizabeth Barrett Browning's reputation in nineteenth-century America, Elma Lois McKinstry
Stages in Wordsworth's development as a poet as revealed in The Prelude, Alonzo DeWitt Welch
Theses/Dissertations from 1945
Freedom of expression : a case study, Dorothy Jane Bennett
The influence of the American West on the thought of Whittier, Emerson, and Lowell, Gertrude Pepper
John Donne and death, Carolyn Pugh
The philosophy of Pedro Prado as expressed in his writings, E. Reade Washington
Theses/Dissertations from 1944
The preparation and oxidation of 2-bromo-6-chlorophenol, Marie Easterwood
The economic history of Jackson county in the twentieth century, Virgil Clifton Gill
Celtic reincarnations : The use of ancient Gaelic myths in modern Anglo-Irish literature, Honoria Kearney Ingram
The literary views of Jonathan Swift, Eugene Clifford Nunnally
The legislative leadership of Governors Bilbo and Conner : an analysis and comparison, Stella Anne O'Neal
Theses/Dissertations from 1943
The preparation and oxidation of 2, 6 dichlorophenol, William Lewis Crouch
Melville's religion / by Estelle Sexton, Estelle Sexton
Propaganda During the Civil War as Seen in the Mississippi Newspapers, Louise Wootton Bush
Theses/Dissertations from 1942
The revelation of Aeneas' mission in the first six books of the Aeneid, Salina Kellogg Acree
Land speculation in Tate county : 1836-1861, Edwin M. Chapman
Some apparatus for use with an ultra-sensitive alternating current bridge, Abbey Boyd Cullen Jr
A determination of the acceleration due to gravity by the methodof free fall, Jack Johnson Easom
The evolution of the comic spirit of Henry Fielding, Margaret Rutledge Ellsworth
The TVA in Memphis, Tennessee, Ross Henry Harton
Suffrage, apportionment, and elections in the Mississippi constitutional convention of 1890, Guy B. Hathorn
Hemopoiesis in the bone marrow of the tail of the opossum following implantation of the distal six centimeters into the abdominal cavity, James Mark Hill
E. A. Robinson : thought and theory, Robert Belton Holland
Administering state school funds in Mississippi with special consideration of the budget-deficit plan of disbursement, Erman Pressley Littlejohn
The contemporary Venezuelan novel : a study of the novels of Romulo Gallegos, Margarita Weyerstall Mills
The relationship of Satan and his angels in Paradise Lost / by Mamie Johnston Shepherd, Mamie Johnston Shepherd
Theory of linear dependence / by Meredith M. Temple, Meredith M. Temple
Theses/Dissertations from 1941
Ellen Glasgow and the new South, Barbara Butts
Studies on the ecology of toads : II. rhythmic activity of Bufo Fowleri, Alonzo McWilliams Donnell Jr
Eliminants, resultants, and discriminants, Zetha Delores Fuller
A health survey of the white schools of sunflower county, Mississippi, Joe Spight Green
Some topics in frequency distributions and the Pearson system, Frank Leon Harmon
Furfural heads, Clarence Charles Harvey Jr
Disloyalty in Indiana during the Civil War, Giles Graham Hoffer
An experimental study of the two centimeter sphere gap, Thomas McNeeley Marion
The assessment of the property tax in Sunflower County, Mississippi, George Taylor McClenahan
Wordsworth's religion as revealed in The Excursion in comparisonwith his earlier religion, Ruth Harms Pankratz
A comparison of academic and personality factors in college girls with and without living fathers / by Mary Elizabeth Purser, Mary Elizabeth Purser
Social and economic conditions in Mexico preceding, during, andfollowing the revolution of 1910 as portrayed in the novels of Mariano Azuela / by Martha Anice Sanderson, Martha Anice Sanderson
Humanitarianism in the minor novels of the eighteenth century / by Avis Sneed, Avis Sneed
A discussion of the cavalier as revealed in the work of some ofthe best-known cavalier poets / by Rachel Anne Tillman, Rachel Anne Tillman
The office of Commissioner of immigration and agriculture in Mississippi from 1873 to 1890 / by Emmie Ellen Wade, Emmie Ellen Wade
A rhetorical analysis of the language of Paradise Lost, Herbert Lee Williams
Theses/Dissertations from 1940
Distribution of Property Tax Burden in Covington County, Mississippi, Homer J. Craft
Quantitative determination of creatine, Martha Kennedy Gordon
An experimental attempt to determine the socio-economic rank andapproximate socio-economic regionalization of Mississippi counties : 1930 data, Harold Gotthelf
Studies upon the behaviour and interrelationships of the Pine Swift, Sceleporus undulatus Latreille, Hubert Benjamin Hyde
The growth of nationalistic ideas in southern literature in thelast quarter of the nineteenth century, Richard Edwin Keye Jr
Tests for convergence of series with applications, Frederick Ira Magee
The didacticism of Maria Edgeworth in The Moral Tales and in The Popular Tales compared and contrasted with the didacticism in Castle Rackrent, The Absentee, and Helen, Mary Betsy Maltby