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 1965
The Political Manifestations of Ethnocentrism: The French-Canadians in Waterville, Maine, Stuart H. Rakoff
Senior Scholars Papers from 1964
Methodological and theoretical problems in "new look" perception, Kenneth Federman
Work, the Working Man, and his Union, Daniel George
Role of Technique in Picture Making, Arthur Green Miller
Memory in Mice, Rats, and Men - An Exmination of Consolidation Theory, Lawrence Ellis Symington
Senior Scholars Papers from 1963
The Insatiable Seeker: A Study of the Concept of Individual Freedom in the Works of Andre Gide, Paulette French
Attempt to determine the pattern of chromosomal inheritance in the intermediate iris, Theodore Kellogg
Voltaire and Rousseau: a Comparison of their Philosophies of Religion, Laura Newman
Musilian Concept of Modern Man, Cynthia J. Peters
The Ambivalence in Tacitus' Attitude Toward Tiberius: Odi Et Amo, Sally Ann Proctor
Le rôle de l'individu dans le roman fran̨cais du vingtième siècle, Anne Marguerite Quirion
Study of Proteinuria: Isolation of Proteins from the Nephrotic Syndrome, Merrill C. Raikes
Senior Scholars Papers from 1962
Sociology of primitive thought, James Acheson
Small group stimulus of urban renewal and social control, Sharon Gear
Psychological and biochemical mechanisms of schizoprenia, Bruce MacPherson
Thanks, Wayne: a Novel, Alan L. Neigher
Senior Scholars Papers from 1961
Regional Variation in the Production of Enzymes in the Digestive Tract of Strongylocentrotus Droehbachiensis (O.F. Mueller), William Joseph Bainbridge
Physiographic and Ecological Study of Mountain Geography as Exemplified in the Himalaya, Nathan Scott Brackett
Comparative treatment of light of the major post-impressionist painters at the turn of the century, Edwin Gow
Arnold J. Toynbee, A study of history: an analysis of his interpretation of modern western European history, Ellen McCue
Senior Scholars Papers from 1960
Evolution of the judicial system in 19th century Imperial Russia, Richard Casson
Unamuno y su Mundo, June M. Chacran
Philosophies of physics, Ann Dudley
Role of the chorus in the Oedipus tyrannus: the tragic conflict, Donald D. Mordecai
Carlyle and the tradition of Burke, Louis Rader
Saladin: a study in the military and diplomatic tactics of a twelfth-century Arab ruler, Louise Conwell Robb
Senior Scholars Papers from 1959
Verse Epistle from 1590 to 1750: a Study in the Shift of Poetic Sensibility, Elizabeth Latham
The Changed Position of Scientists in the Atomic Age, Mary Ranlett
Similarities of Swift's Gulliver's Travels and Voltaire's Candide, Philip W. Tirabassi
Attempted Synthesis of 2,4 Dichlorophenyl Analogue to Auxin-b, Robert Paul Younes
Senior Scholars Papers from 1958
Aeschylus and O'Neill: a study in tragedy, Philippa Blume
Philosophy of Albert Schweitzer, Margaret H. Fox
Political voting patterns in the southern Appalachian mountains, George Ott
Senior Scholars Papers from 1957
Political behavior in a time of crisis, 1865-1905, John Cameron
Saint-John Perse and the mission of the poet, Jocelyn Lary
Cézanne, the formal approach, Annette B. Picher
Senior Scholars Papers from 1956
Study in the development of English satire in the sixteenth century, Vashti Boddie
Eternal vision: a philosophical study of William Blake, Nancy Carroll
Paper Chromatography and Paper Electrophoresis as Methods of Determining Relationships among Crayfishes, Forrest Goodall
Oxford movement: its themes and their significance, Arthur B. Goyette
The knot of fire: the development of T.S. Eliot's attitude towards contemporary man and his society, Yvonne Noble
Covenanters of the Dead Sea scrolls: their way of life and relations to the religious world of their time, Barbara Preston
A Critical Commentary on the Philosophical Development of William Faulkner, Kathleen M. Vogt
Senior Scholars Papers from 1955
Major Elements of Serious American drama, 1944-1954, Horace Bullock
Reduction of prejudice in intergroup relations, Katharine Hartwell
Rights of Petition and Assembly and their Interpretation by the United States Judiciary, Arthur Marchand
Tolstoy and his Place in Nineteenth Century Russian Literature, Barbara Miller
Senior Scholars Papers from 1954
Juvenile delinquency: approaches and treatment, Nancy Fischer
European economic integration, Trudy Jefferson
Commentary on the development of W.B. Yeats as a poet: early to middle years, John Perey
A Study in the Theology of Christian Social Action, Charles Freeman Sleeper