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...visitors come back and Congress assembles next fall, for then a commission appointed by the Hawaiian Legislature will come over to the mainland. What the racial problem of Hawaii amounts to is evident from the following table, which gives the various elements which make up the population of this polyglot archipelago: Japanese 125,368 Filipinos 39,608 Americans, British, Germans, Russians 34,272- Portuguese 26,791 Chinese 24,522 Hawaiians 21,271 Caucasian-Hawaiians 13,134 Asiatic-Hawaiians 7,816 Porto Ricans 6,347 Coreans 5,817 Spanish 1,939 Others 215 Total...
...illumination was done not with electricity but with thousands of tallow torches and candles, many of which were encased in saucer-shaped lanterns, giving the impression of a blazing building. It took 300 men a fortnight to prepare the pyro display. Many thousands of frantic people cheered in polyglot tongue: "Long live the Pope!" "Vivet la Sainte Thérèse!" "Viva la Chiesa Romana...
...Near East peoples now sense the value of education in training men who can build a prosperous and united Turkey," was Mr. Dodge's observation. "Consequently they are sending their children, of varied birth and training, to the universities. The ensuing polyglot of creeds and races means a real educational problem for us, but the results are marked and real...
...peace of spirit, and in truth he appears to have found little enough of either. The scenery of the islands seems to have left him cold. Instead, with a vivid and stern realism he paints a picture of sweltering heat, disease, fever, and death in the midst of a polyglot community of picturesque but unattractive traders (and scoundrels), ignorant and unpleasant savages, and an anomalous horde of half-castes, to say nothing of his pet aversions, the Presbyterian missionaries and the "Orstrylyun" bagmen. There is more of Somerset Maugham than...
...Mencken has broadcasted a myth to the effect that there is an "American Language", some wonderful, polyphonic, polyglot thing to dream over and to be proud of. But someone is always awakening people from their little dreams. The recently organized "Committee on Everyday English", which is associated with the University Extension, has flatly asserted that English is the true tongue of America; and worse still, it intends to "restore the archaic and correct to popular speech until the latter shall become a well of English, pure and undefiled...