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...Patagonia was found a human skull, half a million years older than the famous Java head, aged...
Perhaps some critic of the next century investigating the dusty worn volumes of today will discover a master piece which has escaped unsuspected. "Tales of the Jazz Age" may turn out to be a second "Decameron" or "Conles Droliques"; "Java Head" another "Moby Dick...
...such a gradual nature that even Dr. Getsinger's twelve thousand years from submersion to emergence is pretty fast work. Nature never hurries. But if we add yet another 30,000 years (a second cycle of the pole star) we should find that Pithecanthropus Erectus was posing in Java as the "father of us all" at about the time that "obviously and indubitably the ancients must have been infinitely more spiritual than ourselves and their power lay in their greater understanding of the universe and its laws"--to quote Dr. Getsinger. Oh well! When Anthropology conflicts with Geology and Archaeology...
...went to Germany as an American military observer of the German maneuvers. On his return he applied for the difficult and dangerous task of bringing order to the Moros in the Philippines, and on his way to this post visited Egypt, India and Java to observe the methods of dealing with native populations presenting a mixture of races and beliefs, in many ways a more delicate and difficult undertaking than the problem in Cuba. He was here conspicuously successful. From 'a slave-holding, polygamous, head-hunting land' he developed a community largely self governing. In 1905 he was commander...
...more mature judgments of certain members of our English Department and confess to a decided feeling of disappointment on perusing the pages of the new periodical? With the exception of Miss Barbey's sketch, a charming "bit", creating the mood of a dead past much as Hergesheimer does in "Java Head", I failed to find anything in the publication to stir either the intellect or the emotions. There was considerable attempt at originality both in the stories and the poems, which left only the desire to refer the authors to Professor Babbitt's essay on that phase of literary endeavor...