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...Washington President Coolidge told newspaper men he wished something could be done: Visitors to the tomb of the Unknown Soldier had been seen sitting on the edge of the tomb, and had left paper and refuse from picnic lunches around the tomb...
...Manhattan a man wrote a letter to the Times about Grant's tomb. He asked: "Why are boys and young men permitted to play handball against the walls of that monument? . . . Why should the young people of this generation so lack in taste and decency as to play their games on the very tomb of one of our generals...
...strikingly similar to the great vestibule in the Grand Opera House in Paris, For here are the great marble pillars, the elegant promenoirs, the imposing balconies, and only the huge double staircase is lacking. The hush that pervades this, sacred place, is something between that of Napoleon's Tomb and Westminster Abbey. Patrons tiptoe incessantly up and down the heavy rugs in the corridors, looking strangely lost. Usually they are. It requires no end of time to find the theatre itself. Easy enough to run into smoking rooms and parlors, dress closets and telephone amphitheatres; there are hundreds of them...
...year. Serious personal injury would probably have been his lot in other institutions where students are more impulsive than at Columbia. Perhaps, even among Columbia's countless apathetic thousands, only a football player could attempt what this young man did without being cast from the top of Grant's tomb...
Historians have long wrangled about the site of the tomb of Christ. Tradition for some 1,500 years has indicated the Church of the Holy Sepulchre in Jerusalem, and although certain unnecessarily logical scholars of the past century pointed out that the disposition of the walls of that city make it impossible that this could have been the place, popular sentiment has, quite justly, overruled them. It is, at all events, difficult to be sure, because one of the only positive things that is known about the tomb that is thought to be Christ's, is that it was, during...