Word: mongolians
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...find the deep choice of liberal studies that is ordinarily available at a strictly liberal arts institution. A search through the modern catalog of courses reveals offerings from Greek Practice to Refrigeration, but the strength lies in the latter type of course. There is no course in Mongolian, nor is there a Seminar in Finnegan's Wake. But there is economics of the Household, and Tool Engineering...
...Formosa became a part of the Chinese Empire. Chinese settlers wrested control of the best land from the aborigines. This land steal aroused in the aborigines a hatred so implacable that even after World War I a traveler reported of the headhunters: "Mongolian [Chinese] heads are preferred, though those of other tribesmen, of domesticated natives or of Japanese are esteemed...
...both of the two basic Oriental languages, but some of the country's finest courses in Far Eastern culture and history serve as a kicker in this field. If this is your idea of a good time, you have your choice of either the old or the modern written Mongolian as well...
...schoolteacher, 49-year-old Owen Lattimore grew up in China. He roamed the high, bitter steppes and the burning deserts of Asia's hinterlands, became the familiar of Uzbek traders and Mongolian camel herders, and his honeymoon was a trek by camel, sled and shaggy pony through Chinese Turkestan...
...said Marini, by the equestrian statue of Marcus Aurelius in Rome's Pi azza del Campidoglio. But there was noth ing conventionally heroic about Marini's riders ; they were scared, not proud. They looked, indeed, very much like lonely, out size babies mounted bareback on broad, unbridled Mongolian ponies - going no where. Marini had carved them with mingled delicacy and deliberate awkward ness, sacrificing handsomeness to pathos...