Word: books
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Containing pictures of all but two of the 912 Freshmen, the 1943 Register has already gone to press and will appear next Thursday, according to a statement made yesterday by Charles M. Bliss '43, chairman of the Red Book. Circulation will exceed last year's, he predicted, as a hand-picked list of 150 debutantes has received invitations to subscribe...
...features of this year's edition will be an account of Yardling activities up to the date of publication and the inclusion of telephone numbers, Bliss stated. He described the book as "financially a success...
Anthropologist Embree does not speculate on the future of Suye Mura or the Empire in general. But his book offers good evidence that it will take many a long year to Westernize the Japanese peasant...
...many solid accounts of Japanese daily living. Suye Mura is such an account: some 300 pages of factual statement. With his wife, who speaks Japanese fluently, John Embree, a University of Hawaii anthropologist, lived a year in Suye Mura, a Japanese rice-farming village, population 1,663. His book tells more about modern Japanese farmers than any volume...
...Harvard Law School, ships aboard the Gloucester halibut-trawler Susan Dillon for the winter voyage, greenest of a crew of unanimous goldenhearts. Of sailing, the weathers of the winter sea, the fishing itself, physical action and hardship, he gives a rimy, brilliant account. In the best pages of the book Sebastian, lost at sea, rows his dead dory-mate 100 miles to land, his hands frozen to the oars. He and his rescuer, a young woman, are marooned on (and rescued from) a somewhat Melvilleian iceberg which mystically wanders in & out of the tale...