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Newspaper
Barnard Bulletin
Location
New York, New York, United States of America
Date
Apr 06, 1915
Page
1
Published weekly throughout the college year excluding the last two weeks in January by the Students of Barnard College. The notice indicates continued student-led publication with breaks mid academic year.
A fragmented list shows editors and associate editors with varying years like 1915 1917 1916 715 and 716. Names include Lucy Morcentuau Marcaret Mosrs Sara Butter Cora Senner Joanne Jacosy Britrau Aminon EnitH Grossman Lucy Porter Doris Mannow Evstr Daxtry EvizA Margurss Basrte Devtscu.
Entry shows second class matter designation dated October 21 1908 at New York Post Office under March 3 1897 act, indicating mail classification and filing context for the period.
The piece compares selecting next year’s courses to buying a suit from a catalogue, noting students rely on catalog details and friends’ tips rather than firsthand course experience. It laments decisions made without knowing course reality, urging experiential insight beyond descriptions.
The writer suggests adding Astronomy 1-2 as a science option and stresses sampling readings before decisions. They propose visiting lectures in anthropology and skimming Adams and Summers Labor Problems to aid choice. A classroom scene shows a stressed professor amid a full class, but the author doubts many will follow the advice.
In a letter to the editor the author debates the meaning of college spirit at Bar nard. They praise the new Bureau of Occupations and cooperation between Instruction and Student Council as signs of spirit, while urging better participation in Undergraduate Association meetings and thoughtful engagement with college business.
Mrs. Moskowitz notes vast chances for college women to lead in industry related social service beyond traditional settlement work. She argues for data driven advocacy on wages and conditions, urging insiders’ access to factory life to inform legislation and improve welfare for young female workers in the garment trades.
By invitation of the Department of Hygiene an Association of Heads of Departments from eastern colleges met at the College on February 25 26 and 27. Attending were Jackson Goucher Oberlin Smith Wells Randolph Macon Vassar Radcliffe Wheaton Syracuse Cornell Brown Vermont Pratt Drexel and Margaret Morrison Carnegie Institutes. Wellesley is stirred by a fraternity question with a long editorial noting differences from Barnard and Mt Holyoke.
The calendar lists events from Tuesday April 6 through Friday April 9 including a 1915 Class Meeting in Room 139 at noon, a Religious and Philanthropic Organizations concert in Horace Mann Auditorium, 1915 to 1918 party in the theatre, 1916 Mortarboard party to 1917, a Deutscher Kreis meeting, and a Craigie Club dance in the theatre at 8:30 p.m.
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