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Flanders, the cockpit of Europe; the Balkans, the checkerboard of European politics; in a word, this has been Continental history for over a century. We may go far in our explanations of the causes of this war, but we must inevitably turn to the land of many races and mongrel nations if we are ever clearly to understand them. The events of July, 1914, were in great part the result of the previous thirty years intrigue in the Balkans. The events of March, 1918, are surely the same. Pan-Germanism, for three years at a stand-still, once more takes...
...sense of the fantastic, the unusual, the surprising, behind it. The little yellow chicks are amusing to see; so is the hen putting her head out of the basket to utter wise saws; while the retriever snuffing over the wall and the mongrel dog pawing and growling in his straw are sure to please as quickly and generally as they did last evening. So, too, with the rabbits in the woods, the parade of cocks at the guinea hen's reception, the conference of the toads and the conspiracy of the owls. All these figures of birds and animals were...
...opportunity of taking the lead among the colleges in introducing this innovation. Some even go so far as to take exceptions to the implication that the catalogue of men who have received degrees from Harvard is printed in Latin, and assert that the language used is a sort of mongrel composed of English and Latin. If we cannot have pure Latin we can at least have pure English. In English there would also be a uniformity which is at present sadly lacking in the language used in the catalogue. A correspondent of the Transcript thus sums up the inconsistency...
AFTER the mongrel day which '77 endured last year, and in view of recent sinister criticism of the "new regime," it behooves the present Senior class practically to demonstrate next June that its class spirit has not been destroyed by the elective system, and that it is willing to unite all its forces in getting up a joyous Class...
...last it is settled that the Seniors are to have a Class Day. The Corporation, taking the matter out of the hands of the Faculty as well as the Class itself, have put an end to petty disputes, and a programme (of a somewhat mongrel nature, to be sure) has been arranged. The morning is to be occupied with a single event, interesting only to those immediately concerned, - the breakfast given by Mr. Lowell to the graduating class. The outside world will not be expected to make themselves visible until three in the afternoon. At that hour the favored fair...