The Senior Scholars Program is a college-wide program that provides the opportunity to devote significant time to a major project resulting is an intense independent research project which is completed during a student's senior year. The Independent Study Committee sets the requirements for the project and its final format. Each student, upon completion of the Senior Scholars Paper, is asked to archive his or her project in Digital Commons so that it may be made available to the Colby community and to the world at large.
All Senior Scholars Papers in this collection are available for review and research purposes at no cost. This open access policy in no way diminishes the copyright responsibility of those viewing or downloading the documents. The authors of these documents retain the copyright to the intellectual property these works represent in their current form.
Senior Scholars Papers from 1977
Formalism and Post-Formalism in American Art Since 1960, John E. Sawyer
Maine and the Hartford Convention: The Impact of the War of 1812 on the Politics of Maine and Massachusetts, Alan S. Taylor
Off Soundings, William H. Welte
Do Tell, Jane C. Williams
The Journey Out, Peter Wise
Senior Scholars Papers from 1976
Light Scattering, Diane Gurniak
New voluntary political organizations in Maine: creation, behavior, and significance, Roy Meyers
Public Art: A Human Experience, Shelby Moravec
Grotesque in Dickens, O. James Morgan
The Relationship between Claude Debussy and the Impressionist Movement, Jeffrey V. Smith
Contemporary Avant-Garde Literature: A Study of Four American Authors, Nathan B. Winstanley III
Senior Scholars Papers from 1975
Development of Sex Role Perceptions in Children, Carol Houde
Choral and Orchestral Conducting Techniques, Thomas Iacono
Historical Analysis of the Development of Black Theology in American Religion, Curtis Johnson
Commitment of the Mentally Ill in Maine: a History of Public Policy, William Sewell Muller
Condensed econometric model of the U. S. product market, Richard C. Perkins
Siamo contenti..?, Terence Reilly
Population Dynamics and Behavior of Snowshoe Hares (Lepus Americanus Erxleben) in Central Maine, Deborah Seel
The Clock Tower and other poems, Russell A. Sehnert
Astronomy in Twelfth and Thirteenth Century Western Christendom, Scott Shagin
Sculpture, Nanon Adair Weidmann
Painting, Laurie Annbridget White
Senior Scholars Papers from 1974
Catalog of Paintings Exhibited in the Colby College Art Museum May 8 -22- 1974, Lawrence Cappiello
Environmental problem: an economic viewpoint and humanistic solution, Michael Robert Currie
Verdi's Settings of Shakespeare : from Play to Liberetto to Opera, Ann S. Earon
Aspects of the Immunological Response to Ehrlich Carcinoma in Mice, Toinette Fontrier
Nitrogen Fixation: a Problem in Inorganic Synthesis, Theodore Logan
Beatrice and other writings, Susan Diana Stork
Senior Scholars Papers from 1973
Eyes on the branches: poems, and an essay on contemporary poetry, Richard Cass
Narrative Structure of Lord Byron's Don Juan, Richard Dubin
Effects of Ethyl Alcohol on the Livers, Kidneys, Adrenal Glands, and Brains of C57BL/6J and BALB/cJ Mice, Francesca Gates
Growth of transcendental meditation: a sociological study, Jonathan Lewis Miller
Painting, Richard Page
Wrlting and Illustrating Childrens' Literature, Mark Richard Serdjenian
The development of a Defense System against Coxsackievirus B5 Infection in Suckling Mice, Neal Shadoff
Mural Painting, Martha C.T. Wetmore
The Education of a Computer: Development of Computer-Assisted Instruction of German Grammar, Karen Wintringham
Senior Scholars Papers from 1972
Studies in the Craft and Writing of Poetry : a Collection, Patrick Dennis Duddy
Psychological mechanisms in learning mathematical concepts, Louis Fallon
The Old Road, Dennis C. Gilbert
Investigation of barbel regeneration in the catfish Ameiurus nebulosus, Ruth-Marie E. Griswold
Applied Study in the Relationship between Sculpture and Furniture Design, Paul Hecht
Chinese literature and revolutionary consciousness, Richard Kaynor
Development of a Spectophotometric Assay for Thiamine, Mark Pecevich
Critique of the philosophical ideas of Sarvepali Radhakrishnan, Gail Reilly
Follow Your Leader: "A Study in Race Relations", Vicky Slagle
The Development of the Role of the Narrator in the Six Major Works of Geoffrey Chaucer, Walter Stursberg
Senior Scholars Papers from 1971
Effects of three training techniques on the swimming abilities of trainable and educable mentally retarded children, Richard Abramson
Phospholipid inhibitor inactivation as a mechanism for the activation of renin by cadmium ions, Thomas Emanuel Gallant
On property Pm,n and some applications to graph theory, Nancy Gaston
Mercury content of tobacco products, Karen S. Mrozek
Senior Scholars Papers from 1970
Osome and Hisamatsu : their amorous history, read all about it : a translation of the Kabuki play Osome Hisamatsu ukina no yomiuri by Tsuruya Nanboku IV (1813), Caryl A. Callahan and Tsuruya Nanboku
Relationship between Impressionist Painting and Impressionist Fiction, Kathryn Hayes
Stimmen Der Romantik, Russell Y. Savage
The Architecture of Portland, Maine, 1830 to 1870, Earle G. Shettleworth Jr.
A Dialyzable Phospholipid Renin Inhibitor, Donna L. Webber
Senior Scholars Papers from 1969
Relative electronegativities of the propyl groups, Barry Arkin
Relative donor properties of various propyl ketones in iodine solution using spectroscopic methods, Christine Franchi
An Investigation of Unusual Forms of Thiamine, Stuart M. Rosenfeld
A Lecture Series on an Analytic Interpretation of Husserl's Phenomenolgy, Ellen S. Saslaw
Some Aspects of the Critical Theory and Practice of Six Twentieth Century Critics of Art, Alden Chandler Wilson
The Earth in our Bones, Karen Andersen Woodard
Senior Scholars Papers from 1968
Cubism: its Origins, its Aesthetic, and its Works, Lisa Bryner
Exploring Sculptural Media, Donn Byrne
Approach to culture through value orientations, Walter W. Greist
Creative exploration of color and design through serigraphy, Anne Louise Jones
Unamuno: Dios, hombre, y existencia, Barbara Jean Kuczun
Relative acidity of tripropylboranes, R. Libby
Critical Theory and Practice of T.S. Eliot, Dorothy Mayville
A Chemical Assay for Renin, Bruce B. McDonald
Renin Granularity in the Mouse Kidney, R. Williams Soller
The Effect of Heavy Metals on the Activity of Bovine Renin, William George Tsiaras
Senior Scholars Papers from 1967
Spectrophotometric Analytical Technique for Tryptophan and Tyrosine, Lawrence H. Bernstein
Blake and Yeats: a comparative study, Martin J. Gliserman
Synthesis of Hydroxy Tetronic Acid, Phyllis Elaine Hoar
Ritual and myth in the contemporary novel, Laurie Hunt
Primitive art as it relates to contemporary design, Sandra Miller
Changing attitudes of French Catholicism in the twentieth century, Elizabeth Nelson
Art of Goya as a significant reflection of his time, William Post
We Can Find No Scar, Harold W. Vestermark, Jr.
Economic Development and Political Behaviour in Post War France, John C. Wood
Senior Scholars Papers from 1966
Concept of unity among Indian tribes of Maine, New Hampshire and New Brunswick, Andrea Jeanne Bear
Synthesis of 2,2-dimethyl-4-hexanone via Grignard Additions to Tert.-butylacetyl-chloride and Tert.-butylacetonitrile, Jean Kathryn Hoffman Clipsham
Study of Theatrical Stage Lighting, Michael S. Clivner
Oxidation of tetronic acids, Peter Densen
Studies toward the Synthesis of 1,3-propane-10,10-bis Phenothiazine, Barry Kligerman
An Investigation of Alkaloidal Substances in Amyris Elemifera, William Koster
Letters genre: a study of the autobiographical writings of selected British men of letters (1750-1800), Harry Cope Nyce
Bertolt Brecht's epic theater: theory and practice, Gretchen O'Connor
Twenty, Robert Savage
Senior Scholars Papers from 1965
Maya: Five Hundred Years Later, Thomas A. Donahue
Appearance/reality: the Problem of Knowledge in Renaissance Philosophy and its Reflections in English Literature, Edward Dukes
The Image of the Modern German Man, as projected in the works of Heinrich Bohl, Elizabeth Ann Frazer
Ethics in a capitalistic society, Stanley I. Garnett
Investigation of the form and content of the German Hörspiel, Adèle M. Hodgkins
A NOVEL (untitled), Harvey Joe Hyler
Tradition of Figure Drawing in Northern-European Art, Anita Loomis