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...Once the Champagne was a wine-growing land. Red and white wines grew there, wines of charming tint. . . . But when in 1670 the sinister cellarer of the Abbey of Hautvilliers, Dom Perignon, as baneful a man as the monk Schwartz, inventor of gunpowder, created explosive wine and fiendishly invented the skullduggery by which the honest wines of Champagne became the favorite drink of debauchees, at one blow he ruined the honor of his country and made it prosperous...
...Foreign Legion contains no more romantic figure than General Freydenberg, swagger, redhaired, theatrically handsome. For 20 years he was a cloistered monk. Wearying of the religious life he broke his vows and joined the army. It is often said that none but a Frenchman can hope to rise above the rank of Captain in the Foreign Legion. But it is also true that one need not explain all one's antecedents to the Legion. Anything but French in appearance, red-thatched Freydenberg nevertheless had such Gallic dash that he became Major, Colonel, and after the Moroccan campaign...
...Monk Freydenberg wired the French War Ministry last week: WITHIN THREE DAYS I WILL KILL CAPTURE OR DISPERSE EVERY ONE OF THE BESIEGERS...
From now on Harvard is likely to figure in the police news every few hours. As the strain of examinations lifts more and more men annually ape the antics of the monk of Siberia whose prospects grew drearier until he burst from his cell with a loud scream. Already reports are drifting in from the expeditions of the more original freedmen. A pair of enterprising Martin Johnsons have gone on a pigeon hunt along the streets of Boston and Cambridge, popping at their feathered friends in the eaves of prominent buildings of the town with small damage to the birds...
...Daly. Statistics already quoted indicate the vagueness of the great majority of Seniors in touch with that office as to what they can do and want to do after college. Guidance will be further necessitated by the forthcoming enlargement of the alumni appointment office, now under Miss Ruth B. Monk, which has offered to handle the placing of Seniors as well as alumni. Since the alumni have offered this placement service, it is felt that the college should help Seniors to choose a vocation, in order to facilitate their placement by the alumni...