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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Hawaiian alphabet, soon printed a speller, began teaching eager natives, turned out countless yards of cambric Mother Hubbards, shirts and suits (the King ordered a dozen fancy shirts and a broadcloth jacket), promoted monogamy, introduced the spare, hardy architecture of New England whaling ports. A few years later Kamehameha III signed the "Hawaiian Magna Charta," thus paved the way for parliamentary government...
Svengali & Scandals. Yet, as Hawaii's economy grew, her political structure shook. The French and British poised time and again to annex the islands. (The British actually did, abortively, for five months in 1863, which accounts for the Union Jack influence in the island flag.) Desperately, Kamehameha III appealed to the U.S. for annexation as a state, but failed...
Just to see that all was fair and square, jowly Playboy John Jacob Astor III notified a New York court that he would exercise his right to inspect the will of his half-brother Vincent Astor (TIME, Feb. 16), who left $2,000,000 to his widow, bequests of $827,500 to friends and relatives, the bulk of a great estate (at least $100 million) to charity. To nightclubbing John, whose easy-go ways have barely dented an easy-come $70 million or so, Philanthropist Vincent left not one cent...
...Fifty forty-niners felt that Princeton's greatest gifts were social polish, prestige or contacts, but 251 soberly testified that from their college years they got an "education and ability to think." Naturally, education did not solve all problems; 20 believe that World War III is inevitable and 172 think it likely; 374 tax-ridden Princetonians are convinced that the U.S. will become more socialistic. Gloomiest statistics: 80 happy men find living within income "a snap," but 328 say it is a struggle, and for 40 desperate graduates it is "impossible...
...applicants constantly growing, Harvard could easily fill its classes in a few years from the members of any relatively homogeneous group, whether such a group consist of those who come from New England, or can pay the complete costs of their education, or can make Groups I, II, or III. But the elimination of varied backgrounds--considered from the aspects of wealth, geographical background, or interests aside from scholarship--would make Harvard education into glorified professional training...