Word: archipelagoes
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Coming down to later times, nearly all of the more important groups of primitive people are represented, including the Eskimo, the American Indian, and the people of Polynesia, Melanesia, Micronesia, Malay Archipelago, Asia, and Africa...
...Philippine problem has undoubtedly presented the case to hundreds of Harvard men who are continually misled by the prejudiced articles in other papers. Certainly it must have interested the many who have been more than surprised to learn that there are Universities in Manila, and that the archipelago is not entirely "made up of forests and jungles" as a Junior once frankly put his conception of those islands...
...clock. A few tickets are still available, and will be on sale at the door. The play is based on a selection from a book by Professor W. I. Drinkwater, "Ethnologic Phenomena", in which he mentions the inhabitants of the island of Tambelo, in the Malay Archipelago. These people are the descendants of a pirate colony founded there to prey on the East India trade...
...become complete when its teaching force was diminished with the outbreak of the War. Aiming first as a preparatory school for sons of American families within the Philippines, the school had grown to include boys from other parts of the Far East, Hong Kong, Canton, and even the Malay Archipelago. But in 1917 the school lost its headmaster and gradually all the masters; now for two years it has been closed although substantial professional and business men of the islands have offered their backing and personal influence to keep it open...
Seeking a scene among the warm winds of the tropics, as was the case in "Al Fareedah" last year's notable production, the playwright has chosen Georgia and Tambelo, an island in the Malay Archipelago, for the setting of his plot. Mysterious events connected with pirates and tropical girls, which offer an excellent opportunity for the use of the chorus, form the central theme of the comedy...