Phi Beta Awards Go To 29 in Senior Class
Barnard Electoral Board names 29 Barnard seniors receiving Phi Beta keys and Phi Beta Kappa honors. Several grads earn Fulbright Fellowships for study abroad, including Jane Collier and Janet A Schonwald. Five seniors receive Ford Foundation stipends for Harvard Graduate School of Education. Bryn Mawr College notes continued coverage.
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Collier
Schonwald
Fulbright
Harvard
Barnard
Columbia
Joan Afferica
Joan Belenken
Rebekah Berman
Harriet Brundage
Jean Chan
Elizabeth Constantinidis
Janice Donetz
Alexandra de Ghize
Naomi Gold
Marilyn Goldfeder
Ursula Hess
Jane Collier
Janet A. Schonwald
Miss Collier
Yale
New Zealand
Miss Schonwald
Oklahoma
University of Lille
France
United States
Harvard Graduate School of Education
Ruth Canter
Ruth Ann Curtis
Elizabeth O’leary
Doris Rohte
Gabrielle Wolfsohn
Ford Foundation
Barnard Plans First Humanities Course In Two Semesters
The English Department led by S Palmer Bovie will offer Barnard’s inaugural Humanities course tracing a path from Homer to Orwell with twenty books across two terms. Readings include the Iliad Greek drama and Lucretius along with medieval to modern works by Augustine Dante Cervantes Goethe and Orwell.
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S. Palmer Bovie
Athens
London
Homer
Orwell
Barnard
Columbia College
Aeschylus
Sophocles
Euripides
Aristophanes
Thucydides
Plato
Aristotle
Lucretius
Virgil
Matthew
Augustine
Dante
Cervantes
Goethe
Pascal
Rousseau
Dostoievsky
Montaigne
French Poetry. the Government Department
U.S.S.R
Soviet Union
Far East
Columbia Advances BC To Political Society
Barnard students may join the new Political Assembly of Columbia College after a constitutional amendment approved by the Student Board last Thursday and passed unanimously by the Assembly. The final meeting is set for 4 10 P M April 22 in Harkness Theater. Norman Thomas will lecture on the resolution criticizing administration socialistic tendencies. A noon meeting in Hamilton Hall will form a new third party to replace the Popular Party.
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Barnard
New Political Assembly
Columbia College
Harkness Theater
Norman Thomas
Popular Party
Hamilton Hall
School Opens Late Exams Postponed At Bernr College
Faculty decided to postpone full registration from September 17 to 24 and move class start from September 24 to 28. Registrar will arrange deficiency exams and tests mid September. Honors committee also ruled summer session work from 1953 onward will be transfer work for honors averages.
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Committee On
Barnard
Junior Prom Opens Senior Week at Hotel Plaza Terrace Room
The junior class hosts prom on Friday April 24 in the Terrace Room of the Hotel Plaza with Lester Lanin and his band and a guest star. Tickets are six dollars, sale daily 12 noon to 2 pm. Senior Week begins with the Senior Prom on May 29 followed by Baccalaureate on May 31 and the Senior Class Banquet on June 1.
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Hotel Plaza
Lester Lanin
Virginia Hollander
St. Paul’s Chapel
Barnard
Brooks
North Lawn
Poems Reveal Author View Of Philosophy
Dr. Mark Van Doren spoke at Thursday's Noon Meeting on his poems as expressions of philosophy and morality. He read sonnets and pieces titled Humanity, Limited Too Many Fears and The Word, discussing God's love, human study, democracy, and shared faith.
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Mark van Doren
Columbia English
Professor van Doren
Haskell Freshmen Triumph in Golden Greek Games Display
In the 50th Greek Games at Haskell the freshmen won 53 47 led by chariot ensembles and top finishers. Barbara Brown Catharine Comes and Nancy Brilliant led events like Hoop Rolling Torch Race and chariot racing while Gail Haskell and Julie Huck earned special wreaths for design and leadership. Sophomores claimed dance and costume honors with winners including Dawn Lille Gisella von Scheven Elaine Musgrove and Mary Hetzel.
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Sandra Comini
Barbara Garfinkle
Barbara Brown
Catharine Comes
Nancy Brilliant
Nancy Aub
Debbie Ackerman
Alyce Deegan
Ellen Sitton
Ann Stofer
Miss Brilliant
Gail Haskell
Julie Huck
Dawn Lille
Gisella von Scheven
Elaine Musgrove
Barbara Lee Berman
Irene Epp
Sandre Propp
Mary Hetzel
Lorna Kaye
Margaret Rossiter
Siena Ernst
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Anne Jaffe
Judith Kramer
Serena Lipton
Barbara Meister
Marjorie Mintz
Cherida Robev
Joan Sacknitz
Marie Salwen
Marilyn Silver
Shulamith Simon
Pearl Sobel
Rosalind Steinhardt
Beulah Sternberg
Lida Traum
Joan Weinstein
Constance Weiller
Helga Williamson
Bryn Mawr College
Humanities
Henry A. Boorse
Millicent Carey McIntosh
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