Word: fijis
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Until men eschew relations with women, men, and the animal kingdom, Social Relations is pertinent of the livelihood and enjoyment of every student. It is a valuable major, be one's future buried in a monastery, in business or the professions, or in the Fiji Islands. It even has something to offer the confirmed hermit, for it provides much enlightenment on conversation with the self...
When Joseph E. Brown took the memorable part of Polo Joe, an allergic equestrian, in a 1936 pursuit cinema, he probably set polo back 10 years. The late conflict finished the job, and for five years the erstwhile diversion of Tibetan bandits has been as extinct as the Fiji dodo bird...
...doubt whether there is any spot on the face of the earth where the advent of Western business, with its invariable accompaniments of liquor, gambling, prostitution and movies, has had graver consequences in debauching and demoralizing a people than among the inhabitants of the Fiji Islands, who had been lifted from cannibal savagery to simple but admirable Christian living in less than a century by the influence of Christian missions...
...world's most thoroughly Christianized spot, believe it or not, is probably the Fiji Islands. Said Union Theological Seminary's President Henry Pitney Van Dusen last week: "Ninetynine percent of the Fijis' ex-cannibals have become Christians-and they are free from the influence of movies, radio, liquor and prostitution. I don't believe any other country today could show the same proportion of professing Christians...
...Hugh C. Cutler and Donovan S. Correll '39, both research fellows. Cutler will study the origin of the maize plant in South America, and Correll will investigate an American botanical species. Albert C. Smith, Curator of the Herbarium of the Arnold Arboretum, will engage in Botanical exploration of the Fiji Islands...