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...conventional verse as for his U. S. background was Poet Lionel Wiggam notable. Twenty-year-old son of a welterweight champion and a farmer's daughter, he entered Northwestern University at 15, left to play in a stock company, hang wallpaper, work on a road-gang, as a janitor; went back to college on a scholarship when his poems began to be published. Meantime he was leading a literary double life as pseudonymous writer of lurid tales for the pulp magazines...
...Sergeant York abruptly asked the Board of Education to remove the Institute's principal, Henry Clay Brier. In Fentress County a bloodless feud instantly was declared. Yorkites darkly accused Principal Brier of misconduct. Brierites countercharged that the quarrel was over the principal's treatment of the school janitor, Sergeant York's brother. When the trouble came to a head fortnight ago, the Board met, accepted the resignations of both Founder York-who at the same time declined the Prohibition Party's Vice Presidential nomination-and Principal Brier...
Professor Whiteside may get your vote for the greatest mind in Harvard, but ours goes to the janitor of Memorial Hall. There's a man who knows what's going on, and has definite views on everything...
Certain members of the Music Department are beginning to suspect that the monthly bell bedlam of Lowell House will weaken and crack the tower. Their suspicions, however, have so far failed to crack the calm of the House Janitor...
...slender ladder. Many students, marvelling at the sight, have suspected that perhaps the mysterious House Party was more rambunctious than had been anticipated; have suspected that perhaps a search was going on for a watch or cigarette lighter which had been carelessly lost on the tower. The Lowell House janitor, however, assures the CRIMSON that nothing more serious than a broken weathervane is responsible...