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...privacy and simplicity of the last rites in honor of Theodore Roosevelt will not prevent the American people from standing as one great mourning family at the dead chieftain's bier today. The tributes that have been paid to him by the great and little of the nation--of all nations--are of perfect sincerity, and sometimes of a degree of emotion that almost chokes their utterance, but all are inadequate, all seem commonplace in the light of his own greatness, which has not died with him, which cannot fade from the earth, and which will, with time, inspire...
...Hustrus Base (At a Young Wife's Bier...
...pappy Hicnichers will then pass around the bier three times all ready to depart for the long, long whorf where docks King Philip...
...Idols," Phillips, W. H. Nelson '04, Section from "Speech on the Philippines," Jhoar; F. h. Osgood '04, "The Charge against Verres," Cicero; T. Perry '03, "Characteristics of Washington," Mckinley; E. M. Rabenold '04, "The New South," H. W. Grady; T. D. Roberts '03, "Coeur de Lion at the Bier of his Father;" C. C. Scheffy '03, "Inaugural Address," Arthur; L. E. Swarts '03, "The Republic Never Retreats," A. J. Beveridge; S. Thurman '03, "Defense of Dreyfus," Zola; V. A. Tsanoff '04, "Ireland's Part in English Achievement," R. Shell; S. A. Welldon 'o4, "Henry Esmond and the Pretender," Thackeray...
Such is the German bier kommers at its best, astonishing to strangers, morally revolting to those reared under the influence of Puritanism and yet withal far less harmful than one could at first sight believe. Germans view it with indulgence and make no such serious matter of it as Americans assuredly would. I have no wish to defend it; but it is a permanent institution of the fatherland, and laughable or solemn, defensible or indefensible, it is worthy of inspection...