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Newspaper
Barnard Bulletin
Location
New York, New York, United States of America
Date
Apr 14, 1931
Page
3
Hetty Armstrong and Margaret Martin were elected Editor-in-Chief and Business Manager of the 1933 Mortarboard. The publication will transition from a strictly junior yearbook to a college yearbook with cross class support and open elections.
Dormitory spring formal held in Brooks Hall Friday evening from nine to twelve with spring flowers and buffet supper. Chairperson Rincess O’Donnell led a committee including Isabel Roberts, Virginia Badgely, Ruth Salle, Mildred Worthman, Polly Dabbardy, Jeans Cunningham, and Atticia Wilson to greet guests helped by Miss McBride and Dean Helen Foote.
The Columbia University Press will issue an eighteen volume complete edition of John Milton on April 15. Edited by Professor Frank Allen Patterson with help from Columbia and Barnard faculty including William Haller and Milton scholars nationwide. The set will add translations on facing pages and be released in two volumes next april and every six months, finishing by 1935.
Dr Helen Parkhurst receives a Guggenheim Fellowship for creative work abroad. She is among seventy seven artists and scholars honored by the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation to support research and the arts. Parkhurst, Barnard Bard philosophy assistant professor, author of Beauty, will study architecture Gothic to Byzantine and plan further works on aesthetics of prose and poetry. She will sail in July and stay abroad until September next year before returning to Barnard.
A MacMillan Theatre audience debated the Nobel Prize for Sinclair Lewis, with Smith and Columbia teams arguing the award as a critique of contemporary realism and patriotic value. The Smith speaker urged support, while Columbia contended the prize misses an idealist aim and mocks society.
The Geneva Scholarship valued at 500 dollars funds an eight week study course at the Geneva School of International Studies. Miss Madeleine Gilmore, junior class president and history honor student, is the recipient with Miss Ada Ida Heffelfinger as alternate.
The last day to pay Student Fellowship dues is April 17. Students who have paid by that date will be sent to the Registrar. Dues are collected daily at noon in Barnard Hall.
The Columbia Ensemble Group performs a 1:10 program in the Gymnasium titled Hour of Music. The entire college is invited to attend this campus entertainment.
A nostalgic meditation on changing tastes as Cokes and Luckies supplant the cherry tipped sundaes of old Eden. The piece recalls a bygone era with references to Banana Splits tomato cocktails lime syrup and nostalgic brands as youth grows up and eras pass.
A new annual prize funded by Ella Fitzgerald Bryson’s will will donate the income from 3000 dollars to a Barnard College Senior who has shown marked unselfishness during her college career. The trustees initially hesitated but later approved accepting the gift and asked the education committee to propose a suitable disposition.
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