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William Stephens is campus correspondent for the Oklahoma City Times and Daily Oklahoman. He had written that University fraternity "pledges" were in rebellion against the "mop-handle bondage" of menial tasks put upon them during initiation. The floggers who punished him for his criticism had assumed the garb of a secret,banned society Rover-boyishly entitled the "Deep Dark Mystery Club...
...They work only in the autumn and mostly in the afternoon. If they are successful, they are rewarded by fame, authority and opportunities to act in cinema. When Howard Jones began his career, such was not the case. Coaches were likely to be underpaid alumni. Their duties were menial. They had few assistants. None of them received adulation for possessing masterminds. First and greatest mastermind of football was, of course, the late Knute Rockne. Any player on a Rockne team was considered a miniature master mind; to have played on a Notre Dame team was qualification to be either...
While 3000 children in Beverly, Revere, and Lynn, attend school under typical New England conditions, a group of University psychological experts, headed by Dr. Walter Dearborn, professor of Education, has been studying their menial and physical growth, tabulating statistics, and rechecking findings with meticulous care according to J. B. Knight, administrator of the psycho-educational survey...
...overdose of strychnine. The only member of the brood who defends her is a blacksheep named Ronnie (Richard Cromwell) who is killed while flying to the trial in which the old nurse is acquitted. She gives her traducers the money she has inherited and is last seen as a menial again, in service with another family, the smallest member of which has just misbehaved himself...
...hymns, a very short prelude and a totally useless postlude? I think not. Of course the organist is still a necessary evil in most churches where this new type of choirmaster is in control. ... At best the position of the organist in these churches is a most menial one. He is suffered to use the instrument only as indicated. What can be said of the shortcomings of the new disciples of choral perfection? My many informants in the profession reveal that a general lack of musicianship prevails in nearly every case. Technical details that any trained organist understands are conspicuously...