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In the Hawaiian Islands, "sampan" does not mean what Noah Webster says it does. In Hawaii, it means a boat owned by an Oriental. Residents of Honolulu, now queasy over the Japanese crisis in the far Pacific, regard the islands' chief sampan nest at the fisherman's wharf...
The second half of the program is devoted to some waltzes from Johann Strauss's oriental opera, La Reine Indigo, Constant Lambert's jazzy, flashy, but not too consequential Rio Grande, and the opening chorus from Verdi's Othello.
The Philippine Islands, in the opinion of both men, are highly strategic, but at the same time would be very hard to hold against Japan because of the relative naval power. Roosevelt pointed out in particular that the island of Mindanao, part of our Philippines and key point in the...
After obtaining his A.B. degree from Yale in 1871, where he made Phi Beta Kappa, Professor Lanman studied Sanskrit in Germany and became professor at Harvard in 1880. Professor Lanman edited the Harvard Oriental Series, which consisted of 36 volumes. He wrote many books and articles on East Indian subjects...
Whether or not the battle which was in progress last week would be remembered in history above the great battles of Lord Nelson-the Nile (1798), which broke Napoleon's Oriental ambitions, and Trafalgar'(1805), which limited his ambitions in Europe-remained to be seen. Those affairs exposed...