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William Cameron Forbes '92, Governor-General of the Philippine Islands, has given the Peabody Museum and the Museum of Comparative Zoology some important collections of objects which illustrate life on those islands. The collections include specimens of handiwork representative of the arts and industries of the various native tribes...
Major J. P. Finley, U. S. A., will speak in the Living Room this evening at 8.15 o'clock on "Moro Problems in the Southern Philippines, and the American Method of Solution." Major Finley, during a term as governor of Zamboanga, a city in Mindanao, one of the islands of the Philippine group, has succeeded in conducting a social transformation among ignorant, superstitions, and warlike Moros by the application of practical business ideas. By means of public gatherings at which the rudimentary principles of government and economics were explained to the natives, and by the establishment of a Moro exchange...
...evening Major John P. Finley, U. S. A., will speak in the Living Room on "Moro Problems in the Southern Philippines, and the American Method of Solution." During a term of several years as governor of one of the Moro provinces, Major Finley made a comprehensive study of the aborigines and the problems involved in their government. All interested in the problems of our territorial possessions should attend...
Besides his army service Major-General Wood has had experience in the insular service as military governor of Cuba until the transfer of that government to the Cuban Republic in 1892, as governor of the Moro Province, and as commander of the Philippine division...
Since 1899 he has held at different times the positions of military governor of Cuba, governor of the More Provision, and commander of the Philippines Division, and commander of the Department of the East...