The collection contains early theses manuscripts from Butler University dating from 1887 until 1911 on subjects including Literature, Religion, Science, Greek and Latin. Until 1897 Butler required all students, including undergraduates, to write a theses statement in order to receive a degree. One year after Butler University joined the University of Indianapolis and became Butler College the theses requirement for undergraduate students was dropped. Postgraduate theses are available in this collection ending in 1911. While the majority of these manuscripts are handwritten, as early as 1908 graduate students were required to type a theses.
For specific questions pertaining to the Manuscript Thesis Collection, please contact University Archives.
Theses/Dissertations from 1911
Ethical and religious values in Lotze's philosophy, John Wesley Burkhardt
Theses/Dissertations from 1910
A survey of the Roman Catholic Church within the United States, Carl Burkhart
A survey of the Roman Catholic Church within the United States, Carl Burkhart
Theses/Dissertations from 1906
Embryology and Evolution, Malo M. Amunson
Theses/Dissertations from 1904
A Thesis on the Fragment of the Gospel of St. Peter, Verle Wilson Blair
Theses/Dissertations from 1900
Slavery, Willis M. Blount
The Growth and Development of English Law, Willis M. Blount
A study of Aphrodite in Green sculpture, Jessie Christian Brown
Theses/Dissertations from 1899
A Proposed Non-Support Law, Charles Herbert Bass
Theses/Dissertations from 1897
Purpose clauses in the gospel of Luke, Clarence Abram Brady
Significance of figures in Hawthorne, Lulu Brevoort
The political history of Cuba, Frank T. Brown
Plutarch's use of ancient literature, Jessie Christian Brown
The development of the protective tariff legislation in the United States, Robert Alexander Bull
The purpose of this thesis is to show that the Turkish Treatment of the Armenians would justify foreign nations in intervening, James R. Burkhardt
Examination of Water Supply of Indianapolis, Alonzo S. Roberts
The Ideal Woman as She Is Represented by the Best English Writers from Chaucer's Time to the Present, Emma Stradling
Theses/Dissertations from 1896
The Alleged Incapacity of the Romans for Speculative Thought, Retta Valeria Barnhill
Thesis: ... to prove the assertion that jurisprudence was the only form of intellectual activity that Rome... worked out in a thoroughly national manner, John Scott Butler
Theses/Dissertations from 1895
The Miracles of Jesus, John W. Barnett
French and German translations of Shakespeare, May Brayton
Topographical Surveying, Nelson Brayton
The history of the historian, Harriet Nell Brevoort
Development of the femur of the cat, Edward Augustus Brown
The Hebrew and Greek words expressing forgiveness critically examined, George Green Bruer
Theses/Dissertations from 1894
The Alcohols, Charles Baker
The Particles in Luke, John W. Barnett
The Jewish Sacrifices, E. W. Brickert
Purpose expressions in Acts, George Green Bruer
Theses/Dissertations from 1893
Purpose and result clauses in Hebrews and John's Epistles, Jesse Lincoln
Theses/Dissertations from 1887
In the Name of, Mary E. Arnold
Mood and Tense in Genesis, Mary E. Arnold
A Grammatical, Lexical, Exgetical, and General Treatise on the First Epistle General of John, John W. Barnett