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Awarded to the Freshman who passes the highest examination in elementary German at the mid-year examination, but who, not needing financial aid, is ineligible to compete for the Elizabeth Wilder Prize. The prize is a book suitably inscribed...
Elizabeth Wilder Prize...
Such fingers has McGill University's handsome Dr. Wilder Graves Penfield who told the International Neurological Congress how he opened the skulls of 75 epileptics, removed the scars and abscesses he found on their brains. A large number of the 75 were improved, remarked Dr. Penfield, and a few were cured...
...plump and gentle little body of 58, Mrs. Mahnkey's journalism is only a sideline. What she is really interested in is her poetry, which Missouri literary folk like Rose Wilder Lane would like to see properly published. A contributor of verse, letters and farm gossip to Country Home for years, Mrs. Mahnkey was partly responsible for the magazine's contest, having suggested such an event last spring. Editor Wheeler McMillen, once director of an Ohio country paper, and Editor Russell Lord, who takes more pride in his Maryland farm than in the fact that he edited...
...Life on the Frontier is its spectacular version of an old Western childhood. When Miguel Antonio Otero was a boy his father was a commission merchant, following the Kansas-Pacific Railroad as it was being built into Denver. He moved his business and family from wild Ellsworth, Kans., to wilder Hays City, where little Miguel saw Wild Bill Hickok kill one man, heard stories of his killing three more. He moved them from wicked Sheridan to the hunters' paradise of Kit Carson, at a time when Indians harried construction crews, burned bridges, sometimes attacked trains and towns. Merchant Otero...