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"A short time after their arrival they attended a luau, an unusual and interesting experience. One Brother wrote...'All of us showed a good appetite, until poi and a certain kind of live shrimp were served. Poi looks much like thick pap or thin dough...The shrimp resemble somewhat large crickets and are three or four centimeters long...Represent to yourself a person taking a handful of crickets to his mouth, and you will have an idea of what it is to eat live shrimp." -New Wars, p. 20-21

"Five years later Brother Newell was partially relieved of his classroom chores the better to help the community as a scientist. In 1923, after years of faithful and rewarding service, he resigned as head of the Hilo nursery as well as inspector of fruits and plants on incoming steamers. His monthly salary had been fifty dollars for the former and sixty dollars for the latter position. A sea bird, Newell's shearwater (puffinus newellii), was named after him." -New Wars, p. 54

"In recalling how he happened to become dramatic coach, Mr. Luis relates...Brother John came to his office one day with the script of a play in his hand. The lead man would ever do. Would Herman help him out by taking the lead. Would he?...ten days wasn't much of a notice, but Herman took the assignment and made good. The play was the Marquis of Mantua, the same play in which Neal Blaisdell (now mayor of Honolulu), the villain, almost lost his eye in a duel." -New Wars, p. 55