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...Listen patiently when veterans of the first World War tell you how much tougher things were in their day. Remember they had to listen to the Spanish-American War veterans, who in turn had to listen to the Civil War veterans...
Norte y Sur. Through the intricate details of Persons and Places, and by way of them, the vitality of the Spanish-American heritage glows through the supple prose. The 262 pages of the book (another volume is to appear, and war conditions interfered with this one) are packed with accounts of life in Harvard, written with mellow good humor, of the philosophy department, written rather perfunctorily, of the Lampoon, Boston Latin School, and, ceaselessly in each new scene, the effective contrasts of the old world and the new, and the pain that was suffered by the people of sensitivity...
...convention week. This summer in Denver, Army flyers slept in their bombers because the Colorado Dentists, the Colorado Mail Carriers, the Optimist Club, and various other organizations held conventions in all the hotels simultaneously. Naval officers had to postpone business in a California city for several days because the Spanish-American War Veterans, the California Federation of Women's Clubs, the Order of the Amaranths, and several other groups filled the hotels to capacity for a week. . . . And nobody does anything about...
...employe to play with well-paying guests, and he soon became the favorite of billiard-playing Actors Joseph Jefferson, Richard Mansfield, Willian Collier, Kate Emmett. He watched the distinguished and dazzling performances of billiard greats Jake Schaefer Sr. and Frank Ives. While still uniformed after his return from the Spanish-American War, Peterson took a beating from beknickered Willie Hoppe, but got his revenge later in an exhibition match (1906) when he was not so rusty...
...Walter Reed's work on yellow fever is well known. He also headed a board which investigated the cause of typhoid fever's spread among Spanish-American war troops. In that war 86.24% of the deaths were from typhoid; if the same disease rate had prevailed in World War I, half a million men would have had typhoid. Camp pollution, more than drinking water, was to blame. Camp sanitation was reformed and, more important, the Army tried out a vaccine developed in Britain (see cut, p. 75) and made vaccination compulsory. Only 1,572 World War I soldiers...