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...student in answering a question asking for the definition of "Drang nach Osten," declared that it was the cry of the German barbarians to push on to Osten, while another simply explained it as being the mouth of the western-world Nile, so called because of its fertility. Other men answered that "Drang nach Osten" was a title of Charlemagne, the religion of the Huns, and a name applied to the Merovingian Kings because they couldn't even ride a horse, and were worthless...
...high price of college rooms which has finally driven the Vagabond from his old lodgings and forced him (with quiet resolution) to take part in the drang nach Charles...
...final completion is taking shape in stone and steel with the work on the second unit in the projected House Plan already under way. The Yard will always be the center of historical Harvard but the day when the "Drang nach Charles" finally reaches its consummation and becomes the active center of the University is not far in the future...
Anyone who has taken History 1 knows Peter the Great of Russia, and has labeled him a fine old fellow who went West, pushing against the tide of the Drang Nach Ostne, and came back to make his subjects shave their beards, build a navy, and become generally enlightened...