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...legs in the chamber carried Deputy Maurice Sibille to read the official eulogy. Would it pass, or not? The Chamber is notoriously fickle. It refused to cheer Clemenceau on his first appearance after a would-be assassin had wounded him at the time of the peace conference.† But "Tiger" Clémenceau was the antithesis of "Papa" Joffre. The Marshal was in France unquestionably the best beloved hero of the entire War. Last week would even a single deputy refuse to join in laying a harmless wreath of words upon the tomb of JOFFRE? The eulogy ended with this...
...Said the "Tiger" afterward to his secretary: "The papers said there was cheering. There was not-and yet, great God, there I stood with the bullet still in my body!" **The salary of the Prime Minister is only 75,000 francs...
...breach between the Crimson and the Tiger is still wide open as far as football is concerned with both sides still holding on to their principles. Princeton wants a November date on the Harvard schedule, forming a rotating schedule with Harvard and Yale, in fact, a revival of the Bit Three. Harvard, on the other hand, does not want to make any long term contracts with any other college except Yale, feeling that the Blue is the one natural rival of the Crimson...
...Tiger! Tiger! lacking fight, You can't celebrate tonight...
...point is here. When I composed the above, I really meant it. I really believed that nothing good could ever come of Princeton football, and that a dead tiger was a good tiger. Naturally, that view has passed, just as the dynasty of college students in whom rivalry surpassed reason has passed. I now find my little verse nearly as amusing and as pointless as the well-known break between the colleges. And that, you must admit, is very amusing and very, very pointless. Sincerely...