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Some 250 top-notch colleges of all types agreed to do so. A special P. E. A. commission, headed by painstaking Wilford Aikin, then headmaster of progressive John Burroughs School in Clayton, Mo., set up an elaborate experiment. Colleges were to admit without examination the graduates of 30 selected progressive...
Rudyard Kipling acknowledged Seton's influence on his Jungle Books. Seton's Wild Animals I Have Known became a lucrative best-seller in 1898, the model for scores of animal stories. Seton claimed that his stories, unlike such tales as Reynard the Fox, gave "in fiction form the...
Said Roosevelt: "Burroughs and the people at large don't know how many facts you have back of your stories. You must publish your facts." Result: Seton's Life Histories of Northern Animals and Lives of Game Animals (six volumes). He now murmurs: "Every scientific library in America...
Last week U. S. criminal statutes tangled the feet of one of the nimblest and boldest industrial quarterbacks who ever lived. Indicted on 19 counts for fraud and conspiracy was fat, ill Howard Hopson, who for 18 years called the plays for flashy Associated Gas & Electric System (now in the...
From Romulus and Remus, mythical wolf-suckled founders of Rome, to modern times, the world's folklore is full of tales of human children reared in the wilds by animals, and such tales have flowered in fiction from Kipling's Mowgli to Edgar Rice Burroughs' Tarzan. Very...