. The Burton Holmes lectures;. iV, ■<sr ^ ATHENIANS sound, for they are Curtis, Lane, and Burke!Not a bad start for us, indeed. Our little group of spectators from across the sea hugsitself in joy ; there are distant echoes of college yells, risinghere and there from little groups, and B. A. A., and Rah, rah, rah ! and for the moment the word Awcri-kis is on the lips of all. And thus it is in nearly all the subsequent events. Ninetimes in ten it is the Stars and Stripes that is run up to indi-cate the winners nationality. Our countrys flag and honorare upheld by four men from Princeton, and
. The Burton Holmes lectures;. iV, ■<sr ^ ATHENIANS sound, for they are Curtis, Lane, and Burke!Not a bad start for us, indeed. Our little group of spectators from across the sea hugsitself in joy ; there are distant echoes of college yells, risinghere and there from little groups, and B. A. A., and Rah, rah, rah ! and for the moment the word Awcri-kis is on the lips of all. And thus it is in nearly all the subsequent events. Ninetimes in ten it is the Stars and Stripes that is run up to indi-cate the winners nationality. Our countrys flag and honorare upheld by four men from Princeton, and by a team ofathletes who come to Athens of the Old World from theAthens of the New, for they wear the colors of the BostonAthletic Association. There were, of course, contestantsfrom other nations, and many ambitious Greeks made braveattempts to prove themselves deserving sons of an immortalrace. But fortune did not favor them. x\thletic sports hadnot been practiced here on classic soil for many generations,and the modern G
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