Word: hawaiians
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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This afternoon's debate will be the last of the many held this term, most of which were broadcast. Activities of the spring will be strenuous, with tryouts for the Hawaiian and the Harvard-Yale-Princeton triangular debates being held on he first evening after the Easter vacation. Postponement of these tryouts became necessary when Edward M. Rowe '25, director of debating was suddenly called out of town on urgent business...
...football team can boast the long-distance record, to the swimming team must go the laurels for consistency in recruiting its members from the far-flung corners of the earth. It is a matter of record that there have been several swimmers from the Hawaiian Islands, and it is also a matter of record that two men, the Jorgensen brothers, made their home in Japan before coming to Harvard...
...Coach Hal Ulen, with the aid of Wood, was able to put over a sport that had been neglected by the fathers of the University for so many years. Wood, like Arioli, was better in the distances than in the sprints, he having held the championship of the Hawaiian Islands in the mile and half-mile before he came to Harvard. Peter never swam in races before he took up his abode in Cambridge, and thus cannot yet be compared with his great predecessor...
...cultures of pre-Columbian America are still agnostic about the origins of the Inca, Aztec and Maya Indian civilizations. And if one looks at a map of the world, one is struck by the vast distances between outposts of Polynesia and America, between Easter Island and Chile, between the Hawaiian Islands and Mexico. Could Polynesians or Chinese, in their small boats or canoes, have traversed such forbidding stretches of water to bring a god of Egyptian origin to Yucatan and Mexico...
...When an airmail letter from him was held up, the President had a copy sent by wirephoto to reach Amelia Earhart at a banquet given in Oakland, Calif., in honor of her Hawaiian flight. The flight, according to the San Francisco News, was a Hawaiian publicity stunt for which Miss Earhart was paid $10,000. Said the President's twice-sent letter: "You have scored again...