Word: books
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Mason apparently has two goals in his book, the first of which is to give the atmospheric background of the War, both in the United States, and in the field of military operations; and the second to give an interesting account of the actual operations and personalities of the War. The first six chapters give the reader a fairly compelling description of the temper of the period preceding the conflict, employing the well-worn system of correlating diverse events throughout the country to show the styles, manners, opinions, interests of the American people. But after Mr. Mason gets his reader...
...Freshman Committee of Phillips Brooks House are planning an old clothes and book drive for this week. Although in the last clothes drive, not as much apparel was collected as was expected, in the last book collection over a ton of magazines was amassed from willing donors...
...scholarship, yet easy to read and superbly illustrated,* German-born, Nazi-banned Dr. Margarete Bieber (now of Columbia University) has told in full the story of the Greek and Roman theatre-its drama, stagecraft, architecture, acting. Besides treating of obscure and controversial points chiefly interesting to archeologists, her book resurrects many a curious and picturesque fact...
...time of the Harvard-Yale football game in Cambridge a year ago, one of our graduates visited the quarters of some Harvard friends; and reported that there were sixteen men living together in one house, that the entire house contained but one desk; and that not a single book was in sight anywhere...
Simultaneously, broad plans for many new features in the Red Book, including special stories about Freshman participation in college activities and a greater number of candid and action photographs of Yardling athletics were revealed by Keith...