Word: bushmen
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...pepper-corn" haired bushmen of remote Africa will receive a visit this year from members of an expedition sponsored jointly by the Peabody Museum and the Smithsonian Institute...
...world's pygmies. In 1934 Father Gusinde took up residence in the jungles of Central Africa in a community of Bambute pygmies about whom almost nothing was known. "From that time," says he, "I was in love with my pygmies." He decided that the Hottentots and Bushmen of South Africa are not true pygmies (they are too tall). He lived with the Aetas, pygmies of the Philippines, and the beetle-munching pygmies of North-East New Guinea's Schrader Mountains. Though for obvious reasons his courses have not been jammed with students ("It is not a job that...
...years since World War II, half a dozen new universities have sprung into being to provide training in arts and sciences to the sons of illiterate bushmen. In one of the largest of them, at Ibadan, an all-black Nigerian city of 459,000, eager young Africans full of ideas on how to remake the world adopt the manners and academic costumes of their distant white cousins at Oxford and Cambridge. The white man's faith has also come with him to temper with Christian mercy the harsh superstitions of native paganism: Catholicism in the Congo, Anglicanism in British...
...enough time to express impressions and opinions of Harvard. The next typical student was John Marshall '57, who showed films which he took while he was in Africa on an anthropologial expedition. The pictures were fascinating, if not Harvardian, and they were also useful because, as Marshall explained, "The bushmen are dying...
...doubt the bushman film was shown to entertain the public. Also in the category were the pretty but useless minutes spent watching Tenley Albright swish around the Watson rink. University life, however, does not revolve around bushmen and ice-skates. Omnibus came closer to the truth when it showed rehearsals of the Hasty Pudding Show and of the Eliot House Players. For a few minutes it seemed as though Master Finley of Eliot House would be able to give a real insight into the house system. In the time at his disposal he did a remarkable job. Professor Beer...