Word: life
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...happiest people in the world, in my belief, are the natives of the Congo," asserted P. T. L. Putnam '25, who has just returned home to Boston after a year spent in the wilds of equatorial Africa, where he has been studying the life and customs of the negroes. "And so I'm not at all sure that the entrance of civilization into the jungle will benefit them...
...Marriage conditions are among the most unusual features of the tribal life. All a man has to do to obtain a wife is to present her parents with enough goats. The number of his wives is limited only by his wealth; most of the negroes have three or four, while the richest may have as many as 500. On the other hand, divorce is just as easy as marriage; if the woman is dissatisfied, she simply leaves her husband and returns home without ceremony, if she gives her former mate the sum paid...
...duties will be chiefly in the fall in connection with the incoming Freshman Class. He will choose his own associates to form the complete committee, which assigns every new undergraduate to an upper classman who will be ready to give him advice on all matters pertaining to college life. In addition, during the first two weeks of the term, members of this committee have hours at the Freshman Halls where they are on hand to help any first year...
This evening at the Phillips Brooks House, a group of Australian boys, now touring the United States and Canada, will be entertained at dinner at 7.30 o'clock. Speakers for the evening include Winslow Carlton '29, A. E. French '29, and R. A. Stout '29, who will outline undergraduate life at Harvard for the benefit of the guests...
Among the tangible results of the Schwab expedition are eighteen cases of ethnological specimens, about 500 negatives depicting various phases of native life, and 440 complete anthropometric records pertaining to the natives of ten different tribes. The monograph, which will be published after analysis of the field work, will, of course, be the most valuable contribution of the expedition to science...