Word: wolfs
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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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 few, nevertheless, are the cases, authenticated to the satisfaction of science, of moppets growing up in forest or jungle without human contacts, whether with or without animal foster parents. One authentic woodland waif was the "Wild Boy of Aveyron," found in a French forest in 1799. Others were Amala...
...giving Ingersoll's "Plumed Knight"; Allan B. Ecker '41, Roosevelt's "Road to Peace"; Jonas N. Muller '40, Steinbeck's "Grapes of Wrath"; Howard Nemerov '41, Yeats' selected poems; Elliot L. Richardson '41, excerpts from "Ecclesiastes"; John W. Sever '40, Whitman's "Song of Myself"; and Richard B. Wolf '41, Emerson's "American Scholar...
Those speaking tonight, in order of their appearance, are: James J. Patiee, Jr. '41, Allan B. Ecker '41, Howard S. Nemeroy '41, John W. Sever '40, John B. Fisher '41, Robert A. Brooks '40, Elliot L. Richardson '41, Stanley O. Beven '41, Jonas N. Muller '40, and Richard B. Wolf...
...corner and central "waist" bogged down of their own weight and complexity on narrow roads. Under the circumstances, the superior mobility of the ten-man Finnish ski patrols actually gave them superiority in effective numbers over the hordes of stalled Russians, a superiority not unlike that of a small wolf pack over a herd of caribou...
...fianalists are, in the order of speaking: James J. Pattee, Jr. '41, Allan B. Ecker '41, Howard Nemerov '41, John W. Sever '40, John B. Fisher '41, Robert A. Brooks '40, Elliot L. Richardson '41, Stanley O. Beren '41, Jonas N. Muller '40, and Richard B. Wolf...