Word: rulers
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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High moments for the Elks were: 1) their decision to convene next year in Miami, Fla.; 2) their election of John Frank Malley, Boston lawyer, as Grand Exalted Ruler; 3) Grand Exalted Ruler Malley's speech of acceptance...
Grand Exalted Ruler Malley, Yale graduate (1902), onetime Massachusetts state senator, an Elk since 1904, said...
...They are occasions, not common occurances. Paid coaches, likewise, are rather the exception than the rule. Even a paid coach works largely through the team captain. The captain, being an undergraduate and to other things, only a peer of his subordinates on the team is a much less despotic ruler than the average coach. Where coaches are not paid, those of college teams and sometimes those of university teams also they are men closely associated with the students, either dons or recent "blues", men booked to rather for friendly advice than imperative command...
...always think of this gruesome tale whenever I read the returns of a battle between Progress and Superstition, whether it be one of the old historic duels of Feudalism and Enlightened Democracy or one of the more recent tilts between Biology and Fundamentalism. What a tyrannical ruler is custom! When it comes to changing a folkway, Timbuktu, and New York react in exactly the same manner...
While the people of Tokio, the capital of the Japanese Empire, were bowed in grief and thronging to the funeral of Yoshihito, the one hundred and twenty-third Emperor, 100 Japanese students of Greater Boston were gathered at a service in remembrance of the late ruler...