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...last 55 years past", he went on, "men gather to do honor to those who have given their lives for their country". Professor Perry related a recent incident in which a Civil War veteran had told him that the Civil War seemed as far away as the Battle of Marathon. To this he answered. "No, you mean it seems just as immortal...
Professor Albert Moeil of Berlin, who says that marathon dancing is a form of " mass hysteria," anim-adverts thus: "Such mass hysteria occurs periodically. The present dance marathon is comparable to the dance mania in the middle ages which was followed by flagellantism- monks and others whipping themselves as penitents...
...called marathon dancing was handed another bouquet when the French Dancing Federation announced that hard-boiled shirts and evening dress would be de rigeur from 8 P. M. to 6 A. M. during the six-day contest now taking place in Paris. In the daytime soft shirts and soft white collars are prescribed...
Cornell athletes have dropped dancing. Alarmed lest marathon jazz would become an intercollegiate sport, the athletic authorities at Ithaca solemnly decreed that no undergraduate trying for a team could put his foot on the ball room floor. Among the co-eds is expected a sharp decline in athletic interest...
Without insisting as much as the older writers did on the moral value of History, it may still be said that Marathon and Thermopylae, Pym and Hampden, the Declaration of Independence and the Declaration of the Rights of Man will never leave us cold; and that everyone, as Frederic Harrison pointed out, is likely to be the better for knowing something of that science which "teaches us of the advance of human progress, tells us of some of those mighty spirits who have left their mark on all time, shows us the nations of the earth woven together...