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Vanatta moves to new duties
(University of Missouri. Alumni Association, 1967)
"Basketball coach leaves field after 25-year career; reports on baseball and track."--Table of contents for issue.
A report on three days in November
(University of Missouri. Alumni Association, 1966)
"Members of the American Astronautical Society meet here to discuss the management of aerospace systems."--Table of contents for issue.
Commencement '66
(University of Missouri. Alumni Association, 1966)
"Nearly 2,000 receive degrees at Memorial Stadium exercises as Dr. Elmer Ellis officiates at spring ceremonies for last time as the University's president."--Page 11
Year of the tiger hunt
(University of Missouri. Alumni Association, 1967)
"Alumni Association launches its most ambitious membership drive."--Table of contents for issue.
Utilizing engineers and scientists
(University of Missouri. Alumni Association, 1958)
"Dr. Robert M. Eastman professor of mechanical engineering, and secretary of the Missouri Conference, sums up results of two-day meeting on utilizing engineers and scientists."--Page 2
Journalism's week-long program
(University of Missouri. Alumni Association, 1958)
Summary: Article highlights the speakers, panelists and events of each day during the 49th Journalism week.
Three proposed buildings
(University of Missouri. Alumni Association, 1958)
Summary: Article showcases the three proposed buildings for the University campus, the fine arts building, agricultural laboratories and electrical engineering laboratory.
Orality and Textuality in Medieval Castilian Prose
(1987-01)
This study evaluates several medieval Castilian prose works in light of recent investigations dealing with orality and textuality. As a homage to Father Walter Ong and his monumental scholarly contributions to communication ...
Speech Is the Body of the Spirit: The Oral Hermeneutic in the Writings of Eugen Rosenstock--Huessy (1888--1973)
(1987-01)
The Christian social philosopher, Eugen Friedrich Moritz Rosenstock-Huessy, lived most of his life under the "spell of language," more specifically under the influence of the Incarnate Word as it manifests itself in and ...
The Complexity of Oral Tradition
(1987-01)
"In challenging a remark I had once made while presenting a paper at a professional meeting, a member of the audience said that he could demonstrate that there was no oral tradition in sixteenth-century Spain. To me this ...
Man, Muse, and Story: Psychohistorical Patterns in Oral Epic Poetry
(1987-01)
Early studies of oral epic literature, that is, of epic literature composed without the aid of writing within a continuous tradition of some antiquity, focused quite logically and understandably on the somewhat mysterious ...
Migratory Shepherds and Ballad Diffusion
(1987-05)
Peter Ramus, Walter Ong, and the Tradition of Humanistic Learning
(1987-01)
In the 1950's Walter Ong focused his attention on the sixteenth century Parisian philosopher and educationalist Peter Ramus, and published the results of his research in two major works, Ramus, Method and the Decay of ...
A Remark on Silence and Listening
(1987-01)
Why "remark"? Because I am still developing the theory, and also because this is a short presentation. Why "a" remark rather than "some" remarks? Because this is not a series of different lines of thought constellated ...
Orality and Literacy in Matter and Form: Ben Franklin's Way to Wealth
(1987-01)
The reader finishes Benjamin Franklin's Way to Wealth, first published as the preface to the silver-anniversary Poor Richard's Almanach of 1758, with the sense that an infinity of proverbs have followed one another in an ...
Two Functions of Social Discourse: From Lope de Vega to Miguel de Cervantes
(1987-01)
At the inevitable risk of oversimplification, I propose to approach as directly as possible a broad and complex question: how are we to view in an orderly way the many different social functions of language, both oral and ...
Wept Thoughts: The Voicing of Kaluli Memories
(1990-05)
The study of lament forms, including ritual wailing, sung-texted weeping, keen, mourning songs, dirge, and elegy, is complexly located in discourses of the humanities and social sciences. Because lament varieties are ...
Sex and Slander in Tikopia Song: Public Antagonism and Private Intrigue
(1990-05)
Tikopia, a small Polynesian island community in the Solomon Islands, has had a great tradition of orally communicated song. This song tradition has had several marked features. It was very largely a choral tradition. ...