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Theses/Dissertations from 1975
The Paraguayan War and the Platine Balance of Power, Robert H. Schaefer
Recent role changes made by women and the effect these changes have had on marital adjustment, Nancy L. Scolar
Hegel and the Concept of Religion in Greek Tragedy, Barbara Scot
A Descriptive Study of Five Child Day Treatment Centers, Virginia Spurkland and Joyce Edwards
The Relative Social Acceptability of Three Types of Alaryngeal Speech, Kathleen Dawn Stewart
An Analysis of the Effects of Individual Counseling and Group Process Techniques Upon the Behavior of Children in a Juvenile Detention Facility, Robert Arthur Struble
Moving toward integration: a study of theory and practice in feminist therapy, Susan Amelia Thomas
Social Workers in the Community Mental Health Field A Delphi Forecast of Training Priorities, William Boyce Thomas and Mark L. Clay
Verbal models provided for mentally retarded children by parents, Lance Tsugawa
Britain's Colonial Administrations and Developments, 1861-1960: An Analysis of Britain's Colonial Administrations and Developments in Nigeria, Efiong Isaac Utuk
Parliament and the London Corresponding Society, Reed Joseph Vandehey
A Study of the Relationship Between Self-Concept, Public Image, and Consensus Rorschach Performance, Dale Sherman Walhood
The American President as Legislative Leader: Historical Development of the Role, Patricia Mathews Walhood
The Development of Attitudes Toward Work Through "Career Education", Lonnie Fred McDonough Wheeler
"Kubla Khan" and its Critics, Allen Dale Widerburg
The United States Military in the Cuban Missile Crisis, Frank Joseph Wikenheiser
The Effects of an Innovative Curriculum on the Attitudes of "Educationally Disadvantaged" Freshman College Students, Julius William Wilkerson
Analysis of the Port of Portland Facility Hinterlands, Timothy D. Wilson
The Ethnohistory of Baker Cabin, a Clackamas County Pioneer Site, V. Claire Woodward
Close Supervision Program: an Analysis of a Human Services Program, Thomas Wright Jr. and V. Henderson Trotman
Theses/Dissertations from 1974
Attitudinal Survey of Children's Services Division Workers Regarding the Louise Home, John Adsit, Wendy Bays Heinz, and George Nagel
Eutamias minimus and E. amoenus: Morphological Cluster Analysis, Sandra Elaine Anderson
Heat Transfer Across Carbon - Liquid Helium I Interface, Constantine Antonopoulos
Sharing information about the child with adoptive parents, Barbara Ashmun, Beverly McKinney Erickson, and Bente Roberts Parker