Word: asia
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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...
...development of different phases of decorative art is of great interest. Primitive people are instinctively artistic, and poor taste in the combination of lines and colors is rarely found. This is noticeably true of the American Indians, the Polynesians, certain African tribes, and the people of southern Asia. The Peabody Museum is a great store-house of primitive art, and its collections should be better known to students of the University in general as well as to the public...
...world. Most leaders have their own department, their own field in which they are deeply interested; but to judge from Mr. Eddy's experience he has been interested in everyone and has studied from a wide angle most of the problems which are at present laid before America. In Asia, on the front with the Allies throughout the war, and recently in Europe and the Near East, he has been in the center of whatever was going on and has been able to draw his own conclusions about the troubles of the world today. It will be most interesting...
...class of 1891. In 1896 he went to India to work among the students of the empire. From that time until 1915 he remained at work in the Orient. During the last nine years of this period, he was secretary of the Y. M. C. A. for Asia. From 1912 to 1913 he was with Dr. John R. Mott, conducting student meetings throughout Asia. During the Great War he was with the troops on the British, French, and American fronts...
...Eddy has published a number of works, among which are: "The Supreme Decision", "The Awakening of Asia", "With Our Soldiers in France", "Every-body's World", and several others on subjects of world-wide interest...