Mason to Preview Busch Quartet Concert at College Parlor
Mac Dowell Professor Daniel Gregory Mason will give a preview lecture recital Friday December 13 at 4 00 in the College Parlor. The Busch Quartet concert follows December 16 at 8 15 in McMillan Theatre featuring Brahms Quintet in G major Mozart Quintet in G minor and Beethoven Quintet in C major. Mason will play a piano arrangement of Brahms G major Quintet and discuss the works while highlighting his career as composer author and pianist with twelve symphonies chamber works and the Lincoln Symphony portraying the emancipator effect.
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Daniel Gregory Mason
MacDowell
Columbia University
Busch Quartet
College
McMillan Theatre
Brahm
Mozart
Beethoven
Mason
Glee Clubs To Stage Joint Concert Saturday
Barnard and Columbia Glee Clubs present a joint concert featuring Douglas Moore’s The Devil and Daniel Webster with soloists George Rosely Richard Hale and two Juilliard singers Catherine Spinall and Hugh Thompson. Bach cantata Sleepers Wake will also be performed. Tickets available at the Barnard music office.
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the Devil
Daniel Webster
Douglas Moore
Barnard
Columbia
George Rosely
Metropolitan
Richard Hale
Gers
Juillard
Catherine Spinall
Hugh Thompson
Lcepers
J. S. Bachel
Ung
Stephen Vincent
Ben
Barnard Glee Club
Stevens
Sketches For BWR Presented Today At Brinckerhoff Theatre
Members of the playwriting class present four original dramatic sketches for the British War Relief fund at Brinckerhoff Theatre. Admission is 15 cents. The program features Puzzle Trouble, Movie Maniacs, Order From the Coroner, a Kentucky drama, and a wartime Christmas tragedy.
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Brinckerhoff Theatre
Kentucky
Students Meet at Noon for Next Semester Programs
All students including seniors juniors and transfers gather at noon to discuss filing programs for next term. Departments list rooms for meetings with majors, transfers meet Professor Lowther in Room 303, sophomores with Professor Gregory in the theatre, freshmen with Dr. McGuire in Barnard 304, other unclassified students with Professor Gregory, and non matriculated specials advised via registrar bulletin.
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Barnard Hall
Lowther
Gregory
Dr. McGuire
Barnard
Reception for Madame Palencia at Brooks House
Madame Isabel de Palencia Spanish ex minister to Sweden and Finland will visit the Spanish department this evening. Barnard students are invited to meet her in Brooks drawing room at eight. A noted lecturer she has just published an autobiography I Want Liberty.
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Isabel de Palencia
Sweden
Finland
Barnard
Madame Palencia
Brooks
Games Committee Holds Art Meeting
The Greek Games Central Committee calls all freshmen and sophomores who want to contribute sketches for the 1941 program to a meeting tomorrow at noon in room 204 Barnard Hall. All artwork must be finished by Christmas recess.
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Barnard Hall
Treasurer Presents Budget For 1940 41 At Barnard Meeting
Doris Bayer undergraduate treasurer presented the budget at a Monday noon assembly in room 304 Barnard. The report outlines expenditures for 1939 1940 and allotments for 1940 41 with a current balance of 1248.79 and assumed debts of 880.08.
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Doris Bayer
Representative Assembly
Barnard
Speakers Urge Aid To China At Bowl Of Rice Luncheon
A Bowl of Rice luncheon hosted by the A S A drew sixty four attendees in John Jay mezzanine. Three speakers urged more aid to China noting student resilience amid wartime disruptions. They described Chinese students as future liberators and leaders guiding modernization despite Western oppression.
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China
A.S.A
John Jay
Bill Cowles
Student Christian Association
Cowles
Japan
Dr. Peake
Columbia
Faculty Baseballers To Oppose Students In Charity Game
Faculty members will oppose students in a faculty student baseball game in the gym this Friday December 6 starting at 4 30. Spectators are welcome and students can sign up to play or officiate on Jake.
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Jake
Blaise Allan Lectures on L'esprit de la Suisse
Swiss writer Blaise Allan spoke at Barnard College in Milbank Hall on November 28 at 1 oclock, discussing rugged Swiss individuality, the nation’s three-federation unity, and parallels to American democracy. He noted the patrician class ego and weak idealism while highlighting his Swiss travels and literary works.
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M. Blaise Allan
L’esprit de la Suisse
Blaise Allan
Barnard College
Milbank Hall
Switzerlands
Rededication of Earl Hall at Columbia University
About 400 officers faculty and students attended the Earl Hall rededication on Thursday November 28 at four o clock. The 1902 building was redecorated and a plaque and portrait of Earl Dodge were unveiled in the Dodge Memorial Room. Speakers included Nicholas Murray Butler and Walter T. Diack with Dean Herbert Hawkes presiding. St Pauls Chapel Choir sang and tea followed.
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Earl Hall
Lester Egbert
William Earl Dodge
Dodge
Columbia University
Herbert Hawkes
Columbia College
Nicholas Murray Butler
Knox
St. Paul’s Cathedral
Walter T. Diack
Y.M.C.A
St. Paul’s Chapel
Alumnae To Present Manon At Met Opera Benefit
Massenet’s Manon at the Metropolitan Opera House on Friday afternoon January 10 features Madame Jarmilla Novotna in the title role with Richard Crooks and John Brownlee. Wilfred Pelletier conducts the orchestra as proceeds support scholarships and British war relief. Tickets are sold in Riverside Building with student prices from 1 to 7.50 dollars, and an anonymous donor offers a 25 dollar prize for the top ticket seller.
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Massenet
Metropolitan Opera House
Madame Jarmilla Novotna
Manon
Richard Crooks
John Brownlee
Wilfred Pelletier
Alumnae Association
Riverside
Jean Macalister
Emigre To Sell Hand Knit Sweaters In Sale
Mrs Hugo Heller, a Vienna emigre, will take orders for hand knit sweaters on Wednesday from 12 30 to 4 in the Conference Room. Prices range from 8 to 14 dollars. Samples will be on display. Sale sponsored by the Social Service Committee to aid refugees.
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Hugo Heller
Vienna
Prize Winners To Address Club At College Tea
Holders of the Fine Arts Department Traveling Scholarships gather this afternoon in the college parlor for a tea in their honor. Miss Viola Peterson and Miss Mary A Alexander will speak, while Miss Margaretta Grevatt is ill and unable to attend. Scholars earned stipends for trips to U S art sites, shifted from overseas due to wartime. Peterson discusses travels in Yucatan and Maya studies. Alexander speaks on colonial Virginia architecture.
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Fine Arts
Viola Peterson
Mary A Alexander
Margaretta Grevatt
United States
Peterson
Yucatan
Alexander
Virginia
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