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SAIL Ho! (288 pp.)-Sir James Bisset, written in collaboration with P. R. Stephensen-Criterion...
...bark County of Pembroke was running her easting down in the roaring forties off the Cape of Good Hope when she shipped a monstrous sea over the lee rail. Tailing onto the heavy rope of the main brace was a runty, down-cheeked lad of 16 named Jimmy Bisset. His feet swept from under him by the surge of boiling green water, he was washed overboard. His shouts were drowned in the roar of wind and sea. But he held onto the rope's end. And the next sea washed him back aboard. As Jimmy clutched the fife rail...
Engaged. Lyle E. Womack, divorced husband of Flyer Ruth Elder (now Mrs. Walter Camp Jr.); to Ella Bisset, Minneapolis socialite. Said he: "It's a darn sight easier to tame foxes than to tame a woman...
Professor James Bisset Pratt '99. Mark Hopkins Professor of Intellectual and Moral Philosophy at Williams College, will deliver the third of the Sunday afternoon talks on religion at 4 o'clock tomorrow afternoon in the Phillips Brooks House. The subject of his lecture will be "Religion. Its Psychology" and will deal with such questions as the effect of religion on the mind. Whether or not the mind is naturally religious, and whether or not prayer is purely psychological...