Electronic Theses and Dissertations
eGrove provides long-term access and preservation services for the intellectual and creative output of the university’s academic, research, and administrative communities, including graduate theses and dissertations. If you are unable to find an electronic version of the thesis or dissertation you are seeking, a physical copy might be available in the UM Libraries' collections. Please check the library catalog.
While presented for scholarly and research purposes, the works in this collection may not be re-purposed or exploited for commercial gain without permission of the authors.
All requests to extend embargos and/or remove theses/dissertations from eGrove must be approved by the Graduate School (gschoolforms@olemiss.edu). We will remove the digital object upon their notification, but the metadata description will remain.
Undergraduate Theses from the Sally McDonnell Barksdale Honors College are listed separately.
Graduate Students trying to upload their work to eGrove: As of September 10, 2024, graduate students need only submit their work to ProQuest. Theses and dissertations will be harvested into eGrove on a schedule.
Photo by Thomas Graning/Ole Miss Communications
Theses/Dissertations from 1937
The changes in the fauna of a small creek from it's origin to the point where it merges into a large stream, Robert Kennon Moore
Establishment of centers of interest and allocation of problemsof life to grade levels : a suggested scope and sequence for a dynamic core curriculum, Lloyd Pace Musselwhite
The career, character, and speeches of Private John Allen, Charles Robert Nelson
The organic goal of social evolution / by Alma Billingsley Shaw, Alma Billingsley Shaw
Senatorial career of James Lusk Alcorn / by Jackson McWhirter Tubb, Jackson McWhirter Tubb
The design, construction, and calibration of a set of fixed inductance standards, George Price Wood Jr
Theses/Dissertations from 1936
The utilization of land in Mississippi, Owen Cooper
Figures of speech occurring in Cicero's writings, Mrs. Bernice (Lovejoy) Criss
A study of Euler's (phi)-function with particular attention to the solution of the equation, (phi)(x) = n, John Cecil Currie
The disfranchisement of the Negro in the South - the changing sentiment of the north from 1870 to 1910, Oscar Sebourne Dooley
Mathematics at early secondary school level, Sallie Belle Duncan
Concurrent lines and collinear points of a triangle, Ruth Finger
Labor legislation in Mississippi, Eugenia Corrine Flinn
A study of Horace's attitude toward the gods, Sarah Barry Gillespie
The financial system of the public schools of Texas, Ira Thompson Gilmer
The autobiography of William Winans, Ray Holder
Des po'emes 'a faire d'Alfred de Vigny, Harriet Jemima Jackson
The preparation and oxidation of 2, 6 diiodophenol, Charles Nevin Jones
A personnel study of the public school superintendents in Mississippi in 1927-28 and in 1935-36, Daniel Talmadge Keel
Studia Ciceroniana and a special study of the impersonals Oportet and Necesse Est in certain writinge of Cicero, in Caesar, Livy, and Sallust, Antoinette Lovejoy
The emulsification of minersal oil by edible emulsifiers, Walter Wilson Murphey
The preparation of 2,6-2',6'-tetrabenzoylamino-diphenoquinone, Mary Catherine Neill
An analytical study of the achievement of high school pupils, Arthur Benjamine Nicholson
Practical photographic methods in natural color / by John Dewitt Riggin, Jr, John Dewitt Riggin Jr
The status of the county superintendent of education in Mississippi in 1932 and 1933 / by Mary Lee Scott, Mary Lee Scott
Foraminifera of the Byram calcareous marl, Vicksburg, Mississippi / by Ellen Louise Shook, Ellen Louise Shook
A study of Vergil's treatment of fauna / by Pauline Estelle Smith, Pauline Estelle Smith
The ablative case in Vergil, including a comparison of the genitive and ablative of quality in Vergil, Horace, and Catullus / by James Collier Stewart, James Collier Stewart
Colorimetric determination of bromine and iodine each in the presence of the other : the preparation of chloroacetylpyrocatechol, Thomas Fant Wallace
Consumption of economic goods, Herman C. Waltman
The history of the location of towns of the old South, Sidney E. L. Weatherford
An experimental study of the movements of toads, T. T. Weaver
A study of the genitive case in the Bucolica, the Georgica, and the Aeneidos of Publius Vergilius Maro, Nellie Arvile Webb
Theses/Dissertations from 1935
Studia Vergiliana, Cecilia Aarons
Classical Elements in the Works of Thomas Gray, Mary Elizabeth Bedwell
History of Prentiss county, Rueben Leon Bolton
Influences of the Bible on Malory's Morte d'Arthur, Mrs. Edna (Bufkin) Bush
The effect of variation in alley length on human maze learning, Sarah Catherine Boone Chase
Origin of the white population of Lafayette county, James Durwood Cole
The preparation and decomposition of 4-Iodo-2, 6 dibenzoylaminophenol, Floyd Millard Davis
Relative efficiency of constant and varied stimulation for learning a brightness discrimination, Walter Frank Grether
Expressions of purpose as found in Caesaris operibus and the construction following similis and disimilis in Caesar, Cicero, andcertain earlier and later writers, Tom Spight Hines
A history of the Mississippi gulf coast from November 11, 1918 to November 11, 1928, Thomas Garner James
Mathematics in certain Mississippi high schools and in it's relation to physics, Euclid Ray Jobe
The significance of the solar myth as an origin and explanationof religion, James Richards Johnson
Southern life in the short story : some aspects of social history revealed in the Southern local color short story published between 1865 and 1890, Ben Gray Lumpkin
Phenanthraquinone, B-Naphthaquinone and the azine reaction, Joseph William Magee
Byron's critical opinions, Nina Elizabeth Markette
The economic principles of Alexander Hamilton, Margaret Teague Mattice
Mississippi manufactures in 1860, Royal Mattice Jr
Contemporary criticism of and by the romantic poets, Dorothy Maude Milden
Readings in American history, colonial period, 1731-1763 / by Milton T. Pardue, Milton Turner Pardue
The effect of certain iodophenols on metabolism, Leroy Sannoner Pearce
The development of religion among the rural white population of Choctaw County, Mississippi, present-day tendencies and suggested remedies / by Joseph Clody Sheedy, Joseph Clody Sheedy
An analysis of unemployment insurance plans in the United States/ by Samuel Jefferson Simmons, Jr, Samuel Jefferson Simmons Jr
Antecedents of Mississippi's constitutional convention of 1890, Marshall Duell Wall
Disease in Lafayette County, Mississippi, as shown by the records of the Emergency Relief Administration, Emily Brannon Whitehurst
Theses/Dissertations from 1934
Suffrage and Apportionment in Mississippi to 1861, Asa Thomas Briley
The stages in the development of Wordsworth's interest in man, James Albert Carpenter
Origins of the free colored population in the ante-bellum South, Clarence Hubbard Chase
The action of aluminium on hydrochloric acid at different concentrations, Gladys Ione Elmore
The Action on Aluminum on Hydrochloric Acid at Different Concentrations, Gladys Ione Elmore
Hyperbolic functions and the catenary, Frank Whatley Gamblin
An apparatus for measuring the metabolic rates of small animals, Ethel Keesler Garrard
A chemical and sanitary survey of the drinking waters of Lafayette county, Mississippi, Nonus Quay Gilmer
Identification of the rarer metals, Lillian May Hopper
Singular solutions and related loci of ordinary differential equations, Anne Clyde Lindsey
The social and economic aspects of sea food industry in Biloxi, Mississippi, Herbert Beckham Longest
Five years of homicides in Mississippi, Myrtle Wilson Mason
A study of the properties of the helix with some projections ofthe curve, Richard Albert Miller
Sectionalism in Mississippi, 1817-1832, Henry Herbert Moss
The history of Memphis, Tennessee, 1861-1865 / by Mabel Daugherty Roberson, Mabel Daugherty Roberson
The electrical properties of the atmosphere / by Edward Lee Sanderson, Edward Lee Sanderson
Winthrop Sargent, territorial governor of Mississippi / by Carolyn Virginia Simmons, Carolyn Virginia Simmons
To determine the reaction of common invertebrate animals to light stimuli of several kinds and under various conditions / by Herman Allen Thigpin, Herman Allen Thigpin
The attitude of Mississippi toward Jefferson Davis, 1861-1865 / by Mary Ricks Thornton, Mary Ricks Thornton
Readings in Mississippi history : Reconstruction / by Agnes Calhoun Trusty, Agnes Calhoun Trusty
Theses/Dissertations from 1933
The literary mind of Alfred Lord Tennyson, Elbye Neal Davidson
A history of Carroll county from 1871, Bingham Duncan
The origin and development of the number system, John Bunyan Edwards
A survey of infinite series, William Douglas Gardner
Indian missions in Mississippi, Normer Lee Gill
Organization and early history of Yalobusha County, Hiram Percy Hathorn
Organization and Early History of Yalobusha County, Hiram Percy Hathorn
The stories in Don Quijote, Mattie K. Howerton
Iodination with iodine chloride, the oxidation of diiodophenols/ by William Wiley Johnson, William Wiley Johnson
The women of Don Quijote, Elmira Kimmons
Health survey of the white schools of Lafayette County, Mississippi, John Michael King
Motivating the activities of high school English, Julia O. Sigrest Loper
The public career of John Sharp Williams, Herbert Lynn McCleskey
Studia Ausoniana, Spencer Leroy Murphy Jr
A vocabulary for El Poema de Mio Cid / by George Edward Schilling, George Edward Schilling
An economic and social history of Pearl River County / by Arthur Earle Scruggs, Arthur Earle Scruggs
A county-unit administrative organization of schools of Itawamba County, Mississippi / by Greene Edgar Sheffield, Greene Edgar Sheffield
LIfe habits and ecological distribution of the mockingbird and related species in northern Mississippi / by Ray S. Snider, Ray Solomon Snider
Part 1, Preparation of di-iodo-ortho and di-iodo-para-nitrophenols and tri-iodo-meta-nitrophenol part 2, a study of the methylation of 3-nitropyrocatechol / by Erle Woodward Young, Erle Woodward Young
Theses/Dissertations from 1932
An Ecological Study of the Mud-Bottom Ponds of Mississippi, Walter Dell Davis
The theory, construction, and the use of thermocouple method of finding specific heat of sugar solutions, Norma E. Dickey
Motivation devices in the teaching of plane geometry, Bertye Harrison