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...become complete when its teaching force was diminished with the outbreak of the War. Aiming first as a preparatory school for sons of American families within the Philippines, the school had grown to include boys from other parts of the Far East, Hong Kong, Canton, and even the Malay Archipelago. But in 1917 the school lost its headmaster and gradually all the masters; now for two years it has been closed although substantial professional and business men of the islands have offered their backing and personal influence to keep it open...
Seeking a scene among the warm winds of the tropics, as was the case in "Al Fareedah" last year's notable production, the playwright has chosen Georgia and Tambelo, an island in the Malay Archipelago, for the setting of his plot. Mysterious events connected with pirates and tropical girls, which offer an excellent opportunity for the use of the chorus, form the central theme of the comedy...
...recently presented to Professor F. W. Putnam '62, Curator of the Peabody Museum, has been given by him to the Museum. The collection illustrates the life of the primitive tribes of the islands as well as the so-called Filipinos, who are really a mixed foreign stock, probably of Malay and Chinese origin. The better part of the collection illustrates the former, the Negrito, Igorot and Bagoboo tribes, each being represented by a few specimens, while from the Moros there is a fairly large collection. The articles are utensils of daily life, such as wicker baskets, spears, agricultural implements...
...population of the Phillippines consists mostly of strangely diversified Malay races. The Phillippine language has twelve main dialects, with only one hundred words in common. There is absolutely no literature, and ninety per cent of the people neither read nor write. The people have no national consciousness, although racial consciousness is strong. Americans are desirous of giving justice and liberty to the Phillippines, but they must not think that a tropical people, inclined to be indolent, and whose only conception of rule is oriental tyranny, can immediately appreciate modern democracy...
...curator of the Princeton Ornithological Museum has recently received from the British museum a gift of 2000 birds, collected from the Malay Islands, India, and various parts of Europe...