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Theses/Dissertations from 1967
A scale of verbal accessibility in marriage, Barbara F. Kresse, Judith M. DeCourcy, Dolores M. McLennan, Naomi S. Mansfield, and David A. Wickwire
Using Eriksonian concepts in observing developmental levels in two groups of preschool children, Roland J. Lindstrom, Ross A. Lurgio, Joyce H. MacFarlane, Leonard H. Seyfarth, Kay J. Stenberg, and H. G. Wadsworth
The image of the Habsburg Empire in Joseph Roth's Radetzkymarsch and Die Kapuzinergruft, Deborah O'Dell
Thermal and Electrical Resistance of Metal Contacts, Roland E. Ott
Das satirische Element in den Werken Nestroys, Walter Pauler
Social exchange in private family day care arrangements, Gerald Wesley Perry, Elizabeth Margaret Bergman, Marian Alayne Demas, William Everett Lowther, Eleanor Elizabeth Milne, and Sarah Milligan Rankin
Theses/Dissertations from 1966
Constructing a Tool for Measuring Common Social Work Activities, Patricia M. Armstrong, James A. Brown, Robert L. Roy, Edward R. Walker, and Donald G. Welch
A series of paintings, drawings, and compositions, oriented toward a fine arts direction in the use of synthetic and mixed media., Judith Frykman
The Doctrine of the Naqshabandi Order: A Study of Mysticism in Islam, Madelain Farah Habib
ROBERT WALSER: EIN BEITRAG ZUM THEMA DER IDENTITÄT (Interpretation von “Helbling’s Geschichte“), Magdalena M. Hamor
Unmet social work needs in an inmate population of a county correctional institution, Jerry M. Harkins, Melbourne W. Henry, Virginia J. Hodges, Mary Patrick O'Meara, Elisabeth N. Siegel, and Donna B. Wilkins
Aspects of the city, Doris Louise Laird
"An approach to creative design" relation of composition to expression with a particular emphasis on color relationships., Kay J. Moultrie
Marital interaction theory: some implications for research, Lucille S. Pugh, John C. Douglas, Eleanor M. Gadway, Jeanna C. Greenlee, Margaret D. McGill, Beverly S. Mackenzie, Marjorie H. Smith, and Violet S. Smith
De Gaulle and Franco-German relations, 1945-1965, Mary Ann Shumway
Mephistopheles - Merck; ein Vergleich, Richard M. Slawson
Franz Michael Felder: Bregenzerwälder Dorfgeschichten und Schriften; eine Erziehungsstudie, Richard Deal Stones
Theses/Dissertations from 1965
Development of a Tool to Measure Applicability of the General Systems Theory to Generic Social Work, Richard L. DeCristoforo, Justus H.G. Freimund, Lewis G. Hahn, Herbert J. Hansen, Arne O. Henifin, June Hohensee Kalogeratos, Hyung Bok Kim, Richard S. Peterson, Louise Smith, and Lewis L. Winchester Sr.
A study of the arguments for and against the Factory Act of 1833 used by members of Parliament in the House of Commons, Peter D. Grundfossen
The nationalization of education in England : Fabian influences on the Education Bill of 1902, Marguerite McBurney Marks
Extracurricular Activities in Secondary Schools of Washington County, Oregon, Alan R. Martin
Christie School: The Evolution of a Social Institution, Bertha A. Roth, George Brock, Theodore Drahn, J. Bruce Hult, Janice Norbeck, Phyllis Donohue, Wayne Hinrichs, Ruth Nisly, Charles M. Smiley, and Dorothy Wittmeyer
Theses/Dissertations from 1964
Use of the depth interview in examining attitudes of delinquent boys: an exploratory study, Alice Allen, Jean Altorfer, Jerry Brickey, Lee Cumpston, Suse Katz, Bertha Mitchell, Bernadette Plummer, Alden Powell, and Carolyn Selling
Some factors influencing case classification in a public welfare agency, Miriam Berry, Hattie Gaskin, Glen Gilden, Robert Guerrero, Leo Henry, Joanna Metzger, Delois Nelson, Dick Newstrum, and Maxine Olson