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...steamship "Resolute", which the students re-join at Naples. Classes meet daily at sea in special rooms and on deck. During this semester students visit Greece, Palestine, Egypt, French Somaliland in East Africa, India, Ceylon, Prince of Wales Island, Malaya, Siam, the Straits Settlements, Java, Bali, Sulu, the Philippines, Formosa, China, Korea, Japan, the Hawaiian Islands, California, Panama, and Cuba...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: UNIVERSITY AFLOAT TO START ITS SIXTH ANNUAL CRUISE ON OCTOBER 5 | 6/2/1931 | See Source »

...island of Bali, just east of Java, due south of Borneo, is owned by Holland but enjoys a rare domestic independence. The Dutch policy is Bali for the Balinese. With an extremely fertile soil, Bali raises and exports pigs, cattle, copra, coffee. Says Author Powell: the Balinese are furthermore the most artistic race in the world...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Aristocracy | 6/16/1930 | See Source »

...There is in the language of Bali no word for art. There is no word for artist. A man is a stone carver, a wood carver, a painter, a goldsmith; that his work will be a striving for the beautiful is taken for granted. But charming though it be, Bali is no saccharine Utopia, monotonous with felicity. As in other tropic countries, milk and honey come in cans. There women grow old and shrink to hideous phantoms of themselves...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Aristocracy | 6/16/1930 | See Source »

...book is illustrated with photographs by Andre Roosevelt, whom Mr. Powell, newspapermen, chummed with on Bali, drawings by Alexander King...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Aristocracy | 6/16/1930 | See Source »

...island of Bali is a day's journey east of Java. Danseuse Page is the first white woman to study and reproduce the dances there...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Indianapolis Dancer | 11/25/1929 | See Source »

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