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Bowdoin College remembers Donald MacMillan as the member of '98 who shinnied up the lightning rod on King's Chapel spire to tear clown a flag that had been hoisted in derision of his class. Adventurous, athletic, he loved the sea where his Scotch grandfathers had sailed, where his father was lost when Donald was 9. He would talk of going some day to the North Pole and made a collection of books on the Arctic during the years when he was successively principal of a Maine preparatory school, a classics instructor near Philadelphia and a physical director...
...Scotland, that Death came to Mary Elizabeth Haldane, nee Sanderson. She had celebrated her 100th birthday but recently (TIME, May 4, EDUCATION). She remembered the first steam engine and the first balloon. She remembered the days when children honied from school blackened and blued by the schoolmaster's rod. She had seen George V throned and Edward VII laid away. She had seen the great Victoria, Queen and Empress, go to her last rest and, 64 years earlier, had seen the girl Victoria take the crown. She had seen the entire reign of William...
British Foreign Secretary Austen Chamberlain pulled a string, the string released a weight, the weight hit a plank, the plank moved a rod, the rod tipped a latchet, the latchet released a spring, the spring opened a door and a ball began to roll...
...Rod. The rod was held by France, whose attitude to the German proposals was hostile. Premier Herriot asseverated that there was no pact which in any way invalidated any provision of the Treaty of Versailles. The French Nationalists were of two views. On one hand, they had negotiated a series of alliances on the Continent which were designed to insure French ascendancy. They were told that the main advantage of the proposed five-power pact was that Britain would consider as a casus belli any violation of that pact. This, they argued, was accepting British protection and surrendering French continental...
Latchet. The rod hit the latchet, which was in the shape of a smart German rejoinder that the demilitarized Rhine zone would be kept demilitarized, but that any question of the Polish boundary was out of place in a proposed treaty dealing with the Rhine frontier...