Professor Wing's office was a museum and something of a shrine to the great practitioners of humanistic thought. From within its apparent chaos, Professor Wing could produce articles out of yellowing issues of Partisan Review or Saturday Review, reminiscences of a time when little magazines, rather than academic journals, were the vehicle of expression for the nation's literary intellectual. During his twenty-nine years on The University of Texas faculty, Professor Wing directed to completion six doctoral dissertations and upwards of sixteen master's reports and theses. He frequently gave away to his students ideas for research projects that he had been turning over in his own mind for a long time. Of the doctoral dissertations that students wrote under his supervision, several later became books or were the source of articles.
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