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...legends, are fairly well-known to us now, in the examples that have been found among primitive or barbaric races. What we fall to do is to realize that the experiences of these people are in a very real way similar to our own. Loyalty to a tribe of Samoan Indians exacts much the same sacrifice from the individual and returns to him much the same reward, only in different terms and units, as loyalty to an American college...
...offering an opportunity for showing standard pictures in the home without great cost or serious risk of fire-two difficulties that have so far blocked all attempts toward "Every Home Its Own Hollywood" Robert J. Flaherty, producer of Nanook of the North, sailed for the South Seas to film Samoan life and customs before the natives start charging a couvert-charge for their own variety of hula-hula. "Cinderella of Hollywood" is the nickname of Eleanor Boardman, who plays the leading role in Rupert Hughes' new cinema play, Souls for Sale. A year ago, according to all accounts...
Professor R. A. Daly '93, Sturgis Hooper Professor of Geology, returned to the University last Sunday from a successful field trip to the Samoan Islands, Several important discoveries were made, including the finding of positive proof than within geologically recent time the surface of the ocean has sunk approximately twenty feet. This has long been suspected by geologists but definite confirmation of the theory has been lacking until this discovery...
...speaker of the evening will be the Honorable Edwin Vernon Morgan '90, A.M., who is now ambassador to Brazil. Mr. Morgan was an instructor in history at the University from 1892-1894. Since he left the University he has served as secretary to the United States Commissioner to the Samoan Islands, as secretary of the Embassy at Petrograd, as minister to Korea, to Cuba, to Paraguay and Uruguay, and to Portugal. He has been ambassador to Brazil since...
From Dr. Woodworth, the Museum receives three sets of wooden spears and spear throwers, used by the Australians; a colored dance sash for use over a skirt, from the Samoan Islands, and four throwing spears from New Guinea...