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Upon returning from a rather lengthy sojourn abroad in the South Seas, I find one of the brightest little papers it has been my pleasure to read, and I hasten to congratulate you and your colleagues upon the production of TIME...
...Since the extinction of the Australian natives, Dutch New Guinea very probably is able to boast, the most primitive peoples still in existence", declared P. T. L. Putnam '25, who has recently returned from a sojourn in the Malay Archipelago where he was doing anthropological research under the auspices of the Peabody Museum. "New Guinea," Putnam went on to say, "In its interior is a country even less known than the interior of Africa and in its mystery rivaled only by the wilds of Brazil...
Albert E. Sartain, onetime warden of the Federal Penitentiary at Atlanta, was registered at the institution last week for a sojourn of 18 months as a guest of the Government. He had been found guilty of violating a house rule when he had been there as manager in 1924, accepting tips from the guests-$10,500 worth-in exchange for soft berths. His present manager-host, Warden John W. Snook, saw to it that he was outfitted with a costume which will be inconspicuous so long as he remains within, and despatched him to the entresol where he was given...
Professor Hornbeck has just recently returned after a two years' sojourn in the East, of which he spent 13 months in China. While in the East Professor Hornbeck attended the Conference on Pacific Relations held at Honolulu. Professor Hornbeck went to China on a special investigation for the Bureau of International Research, and stayed when the work was done to conduct more research at the special request of the United States government. He also did work for the Conference on Chinese Customs Tariff...
...United States at present our rigid immigration laws, while intended to affect permanent immigrants, make it extremely difficult, in some cases, for foreign students to come to this country for a three or four year period to study, though they may have no intention whatsoever of a permanent sojourn. The law requires a foreign student desiring to enter the United States outside the quota of his country first to furnish proof that he has been admitted to an American educational institution, and second, what is more difficult, to establish proof to the American consul that he intends to return...