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Compound Diction and Traditional Style in Beowulf and Genesis A
(1991-01)
One of the most striking features of Anglo-Saxon alliterative poetry is the extraordinary richness of the vocabulary. Many words appear only in poetry; almost every poem contains words, usually nominal or adjectival ...
Phemius' Last Stand: The Impact of Occasion on Tradition in the Odyssey
(1991-01)
When Odysseus and Telemachus finally take their stand against the suitors in Book XXII of the Odyssey, Phemius, the poet who has been entertaining the suitors in Ithaca during Odysseus' absence, makes a single attempt to ...
The Evolution of an Oral Tradition: Race-Calling in Canterbury, New Zealand
(1991-01)
The roots of the contemporary study of oral tradition lie in the German Romantic movement, for example in the work of great collectors of oral folklore such as the Grimms. But collecting folklore is one thing; understanding ...
It's no. 10 in a Devine decade
(University of Missouri. Alumni Association, 1967)
Summary: Article gives an overview of the MU football team for the 1967 fall season.
Learning on location
(University of Missouri. Alumni Association, 1968)
"More than 150 University students like Joe [Moag] were enrolled this summer for credit hours on the Columbia campus, but did their course work outside the regular academic buildings in locations ranging from Kingston, ...
Researchers gang up on heart disease
(University of Missouri. Alumni Association, 1968)
"At the University of Missouri, no one suggests that the Medical Center at Columbia is ready to try a human heart transplant of its own. But research and treatment of heart disease are going forward on many fronts."--Page 3
Benton : MU's adopted alumnus
(University of Missouri. Alumni Association, 1968)
"Sixty of a man's 79 years are a long time by anybody's reckoning. But that three-score spread is the span that Thomas Hart Benton, world-famous artist, native Missourian and since 1935 a resident of Kansas City, has given ...
Our engineers look at life
(University of Missouri. Alumni Association, 1968)
"Bioengineers, a 'new breed' in the engineering profession, are convinced that all these things are at least possible, at least worth researching. In fact a team of University scientists already is investigating the ...
How to get hung up on the old school tie...or the aristocracy of caring
(University of Missouri. Alumni Association, 1967)
"There is opportunity for every alumnus to play an active role in the future of his University."--Page 25
Big plan on the campus
(University of Missouri. Alumni Association, 1967)
"The Campus Planning Committee has been in existence for many years, but it's just been in the last two that the special thrust has been on the future."--Page 19
A clothing course for men?
(University of Missouri. Alumni Association, 1968)
"An accredited course for men in how to dress? Strange as it may seem, the School of Home Economics for the first time this semester offered 'course 83, clothing selection, section 5 -- for men only.'"--Page 32
Alumni leaders learn how
(University of Missouri. Alumni Association, 1968)
Summary: Article consists of highlights from the first alumni leadership forum, focusing on B.W. Robinson, Ardath Emmons, John Schwada, Cordell Tindall, Lloyd Turner, Bus Entsminger and Bob Atkin.