Geographers Tour Fairless Steel Mills Morristown Stop
About thirty Geography 2 and 4 students led by Professor Zobler visited the Fairless Steel Works in Morristown New Jersey. Guided by US Steel's R T Jones the group saw coke processing a blast furnace rolling and cooling and learned the plant's role in making metal for bottle caps and tins. The furnaces are named after Benjamin Fairless wife and granddaughters Hazel Nancy and Patricia.
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Professor Zobler
West 120Th Street
New Jersey
Trenton
Fairless Steel Mills
Morristown
Pennsylvania
R. T. Jones
US Steel Company
Fairless Works
Fairless
Benjamin Fairless
Hazel
Nancy
Patricia
Liberal arts debate at Barnard prompts reform talk
Faculty critics including Professor Edgar Lorch and Professor Aubrey Gorbman argue Barnard should foster a faculty of scholars and reduce rigid course requirements. They propose a historical science course and emphasize a broader liberal education beyond non science curriculums.
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Edgar R. Lorch
Aubrey Gorbman
Barnard
Faculty of
Lorch
Gorbman
Barnard College
Leonard Zobler
Zobler
Dorm Tutoring Plan Sought by Brooks Hewitt Dorms
Brooks and Hewitt dormitories sponsor a poll among dorm residents to gauge demand for spring tutoring sessions. The plan funds student tutors to teach groups of up to ten girls at five dollars for a 1 hour 15 minute session, with each student paying about fifty cents.
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Brooks and Hewitt
Anita Reitz
C U Math Adds Two New Statistics Courses
The graduate department of Mathematical Statistics announces two courses for Barnard undergraduates next September. Probability and Introduction to Mathematical Statistics will be offered spring term as three-point classes, held Tuesdays and Thursdays 11 to 12 15. The courses cover probability theory, random variables, distributions, laws such as binomial and Poisson, moments, limit theorems, and related topics.
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Department of
Mathematical Statistics
Barnard
Robbins
Barnard Library Project Details and Courses Listed
Descriptions cover a topping-off ceremony and building openings from 1958 to 1960. Special areas include a language laboratory with 29 booths and a fine arts print room with over 100 display panels. Also noted are Rhys Caparn sculptures and Barnard’s bear emblem. Courses include Mathematical Statistics R108 taught by Professor Robbins with prerequisites in R105.
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Fine Arts
Jobby
Rhys Caparn
Barnard’s College
Frederick A. P. Barnard
Columbia University
Women's College
Contempt Case Reinstates Illini Student Amid Debate
Edward Yellin an engineering graduate student at the University of Illinois was reinstated after a Graduate Committee ruling following his suspension for contempt of Congress. He was convicted for refusing to testify before the House Un American Activities Committee in 1958 and faces a possible prison term and fine on appeal. The student council condemned the suspension as academic freedom violation while campus sentiment praised his academic record.
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UPS
Edward Yellin
University of Illinois
Congress
Graduate Committee
Yellin
U.S. District Court
House UN- American Activities Committers
Gary
Indiana
Joseph LaFleur
FBI
Student Council of
The
University
Twini
Illinois
Sharlene Pearlman
Oon
Political Assembly slate approved by PC group
The article notes plans for a fall Political Assembly and a spring conference, with expanded sponsorships of forums. It mentions leveraging contacts and students for a calendar of collegiate political activities and lists PC officers: Miss Fessenden as Chairman, Jean Shaffer Vice-Chairman, Carla Carlotti Secretary-Treasurer, Siby Halperin Publicity Chairman, and Sandra Benmeit Historian.
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Sentative
Coupers
Miss Fessenden
Representative Assembly
P. C
Jean Shaffer
Carla Carlotti
Treasier
Siby Halperin
Sandra Benmeit
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Fairless Steel Works
US Steel Corporation
United States
C.U. Math
Lbrarian
Barnard Alumnae
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