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Professor John Madigan of St. Thomas' College (St. Paul, Minn.) is tired of marking stupid examination papers for his class in physics. Last week's batch was particularly exasperating. Some of the papers reminded him of dead fish and rotten eggs. When he handed the papers back to their authors, he did so in a new way. None of the papers was marked, but flunkers found theirs in a jar from which came the rotten-egg stench of hydrogen sulphide. The papers of even more hopeless dummies Professor Madigan had permeated with butyric acid, for a smell worse...
...slowly declined, was on its last legs when the War emptied its classrooms. In 1920 the University of California overwhelmed its puny football team 127-to-0. Smarting, little St. Mary's next year hired a young Notre Dame graduate, Edward Patrick ("Slip") Madian, as football coach. Slip Madigan began to turn out teams which, since 1924, have won 86 and tied seven of their 114 games against some of the best football brains & brawn in the U. S. In 1928 the Brothers felt so good they sold the College's old Oakland site for $750,000, borrowed...
...Eastern tour, the Galloping Gaels took in $140,680 in gate receipts last season. The gross income from football amounted to 37% of all the money the college received during the fiscal year. Athletic expenses, however, including a $7,000 salary plus 10% of the gate for Coach Slip Madigan, somehow mounted to $139,862. Skeptical, the bondholders' committee demanded the right to examine all the college accounts, installed a Roman Catholic accountant named James Everett Butler as comptroller. In February the college treasurer, Brother Josephus, informed Comptroller Butler that supervision of athletic accounts was not included...
...Manhattan, after the Fordham game, this news was conveyed to Coach Madigan. Snorted Slip Madigan: "I'll never work for a banker...
...week announced that it had just received as a gift an arrant forgery to add to its notable collection of autographs. The document, purporting to be a brief letter in the handwriting of Benjamin Franklin, was gladly accepted by the library, for, according to Manhattan Autograph Expert Thomas F. Madigan, it was a fine specimen of the handiwork of Robert Spring, one of the most notorious autograph forgers in U. S. history. While hundreds of unwitting collectors have cabinets filled with Robert Spring autographs, wiseacres are willing to pay large sums for the few letters to which that rascal signed...