The University Archives at Butler University houses all physical copies of the University’s student theses, including both graduate and undergraduate works.
This digital 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 more information on how to search this digital collection, check out this guide: A Quick Guide To Accessing + Searching Butler University Thesis Collections.
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
Theses/Dissertations from 1907
Evidences of the Divinity of Jesus: As Recorded in the Gospel of John, Shelley D. Watts
Theses/Dissertations from 1906
Embryology and Evolution, Malo Marius Amunson
The History of the Pharises, George Watson Hemry
Theses/Dissertations from 1904
A Thesis on the Fragment of the Gospel of Peter, Verle Wilson Blair
American Protestantism and Toleration, Raymond Abner Smith
Theses/Dissertations from 1900
Slavery, Willis M. Blount
The Growth and Development of English Law, Willis M. Blount
A study of Aphrodite in Greek sculpture, Jessie Christian Brown
Apostolos, Edgar Fay Daugherty
Paul's Theology in the Galatian Letter, Elvet Eugene Moorman
Theses/Dissertations from 1899
A Proposed Non-Support Law, Charles Herbert Bass
Locke's Relation to Deism, Charles Jeff Groarty
The Drama in Relation to the Spirit of the Age, Emily M. Helming
Creative Criticism, Edith Keay
Modern Development of the German Drama, Mary De Forest Marsee
Die Heimat, Bertha M. Mason
Comparison of Greek and Latin Christianity, Elvet Eugene Moorman
Thesis on Demonology, James H. Stevens
Theses/Dissertations from 1898
La Poudre aux Yeux, Virgil Dalrymple
Changes of the Bed of White River in Marion County, Indiana, E. M. Graham
Paul's Use of Dikaiosyne, Albert Luther Ward
The Social Effects of the Norman Conquest Upon England, Anson Harvey Washburn
Theses/Dissertations from 1897
A Grammatical, Lexical, Exgetical, and General Treatise on the First Epistle General of John, John Wilbert Barnett
Purpose clauses in the gospel of Luke, C. A. 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 Calvin Burkhardt
The Spectroscope in Celestial Physics, S. A. Harker
James Lane Allen: His Art, His Humanity, George W. Knepper
Examination of Certain Commericial Antiseptics and Disinfectnants, John Thomas Lister
Examination of the Irvington Water Supply, Samuel Virgil McGaughey
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 C. Stradling
The Territorial Extension of the United States, Nettie Irwin Sweeney
The English and American Short-Story, Bona Thompson
A Comparative Study of Wordsworth and Goethe, Mabel H. Tibbott
Theses/Dissertations from 1896
The Alleged Incapacity of the Romans for Speculative Thought, Retta Valeria Barnhill
Greek Syntax, Illustrated with Examples from the Gospel According to Luke, H. F. Frigge
Syntax, F. D. Hobson
Greek Syntax Illustrated by Examples from Acts of Apostles, William Elmer Payne
Greek Syntax, Illustrated with Examples from the Gospel of Luke, William Eugarde Phillips
Greek and English Tragedy As Exempified [sic] in Sophocles and Shakespere [sic], Author Unknown
Theses/Dissertations from 1895
The Miracles of Jesus, John Wilbert Barnett
French and German translations of Shakespeare, May Brayton
Topographical Surveying, Nelson D. Brayton
The history of the historian, Nell Brevoort
Development of the femur of the cat, E. A. Brown
The Hebrew and Greek words expressing forgiveness critically examined, George Green Bruer
Classification of the Similes and Metaphors in Homer, Edgar T. Forsyth
The Venetian Republic in its External Relations, Geogia Noble Galvin
Hannibal and Napoleon, Dora C. Hadley
Matthew 5:3:16 Philologically and Theologically Considered, George E. Hicks
Peripheral Nerve-Endings in the Cat, Laura Mace
Latin Laguage in History, Rose MacNeal
Shakespere [sic] & His Child Characters, G. May Reeves
Theses/Dissertations from 1894
The Alcohols, Charles E. Baker
The Particles in Luke, John Wilbert Barnett
The Jewish Sacrifices, E. W. Brickert
Purpose expressions in Acts, G. G. Bruer
The Atonement, Benjamin F. Dailey
Purpose Expression in Luke's Gospel, George E. Hicks
The Poet, Spenser, Frances M. Perry
Theses/Dissertations from 1893
Purpose and Result Clauses in Hebrews and John's Epistles, J. L. Brady
Theses/Dissertations from 1887
In the Name of, Mary Edna Arnold
Mood and Tense in Genesis, Mary Edna Arnold
Lowell's Poems: Analysis, E. P. Wise
The Religion of Robert Browning, E. P. Wise