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This is a lame excuse. Because the University has spread beyond the original acre and a quarter of cowyard procured by Governor Winthrop in 1637 for "a schoale or colledge" is no reason for adopting a name totally alien to our way of life. The ex-swampland which is Eliot...
Wailed one of his French critics: "He compared the shepherds of primitive Latium to the shepherds of Texas; the ancient Romans to the Boers; the Roman electoral body to the cosmopolitan demagogy of the United States; Rome itself to London, Paris, New York, Berlin, Milan; and Lucullus to Napoleon. He...
Even before Julius Caesar's time, the Germans were pushing against their western boundaries, and although Caesar drove them across the Rhine, the Romans never felt secure against them. The Kaiser must have thought of Germany's first warlord, whom the Romans called Arminius and the Germans Hermann...
Italy's other conquest of the week fell even more quietly. As Germany without fuss took what she wanted of Slovenia, Rome announced with nourishes that it had "annexed" the Slovene border city of Ljubljana, set up an "autonomous province of Ljubljana." The Romans pulled out of there in...
> Italian armies were no good without the support of German troops as long ago as 272 A.D. Evidence: an inscription on a Persian monument, in which Shahpur I, a Persian king, related how the Romans, too weak to win themselves, assembled an army of Germans from many parts of the...