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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...believe to be very unwise unless he intends to become a coach, or enter professionally into the athletic field. My principal objection to varsity athletics is that they are no longer amateurish, but are fast becoming professional not so much in the popular sense that athletes are being paid, but in the sense that the varsity athlete makes his sport his vocation, his profession by virtue of devoting more time and thought to it than to any other phase of his college life...
...cost $782,408,753 to carry last year's mails, of which about $560,000,000 went as pay to approximately 274,000 postal employes. For this service the public paid $696,947,577 to the Post Office Department, made up an $85,000,000 deficit indirectly through taxation. "Free mail" carried would have netted, if paid...
Forgetful of the details of that North Russia campaign of the A. E. F., New York City paid the corpses brief homage. Fort Jay guns banged out a salute of 17 guns. Flags were half-staffed. In a pier baggage room in Hoboken was held a funeral service. Many a wreath was stacked around the coffins. Drums rolled. Rifles discharged thrice. Buglers blew "taps." There were no crowds, no major-generals, no Congressional committees...
...Paris, soldiers, statesmen and war veterans paid tribute to the memory of France's great fighter with a final magnificent gesture. The dying Clémenceau had expressly enjoined that he be given no state funeral. Scrupulously were his wishes observed. But six days after the sod was tamped down on his simple pine coffin, some 12,000 War veterans marched slowly up the Champs Élysees, paused for an instant to pile flowers on the Unknown Soldier's grave in tribute. Leading the parade were President Doumergue. Prime Minister André Tardieu. Foreign Minister Briand, Marshal...
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