Court Upholds Will Name Mabel Parsons to Executive Post
The Kimball Fellowship fund of about $32,000 created by Lillian Kimball is established to reward a Spanish language scholar from Spain or the Spanish Americas. Trustees plan a yearly award via a women’s Faculty committee with a year abroad at Barnard or a similar program. Mabel Parsons appointed to succeed J. R. Sheffield on the Barnard executive committee.
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Kimball
Lillian Emma Kimball
Spain
Gildersleeve
Barnard
Columbia University
Miss Kimball
America
George A. Slater
Westchester County
Lucius H. Beers
Ogden Reid
Duncan H. Read
Alfred Hess
Gana Dunn Z
Mabel Parsons
James R. Sheffield
Vocational Meeting Held This Evening
An alumnae hosted an Information Please style vocational discussion to aid students. At 7:45 p.m. in the cage parlor faculty and prominent alumnae from journalism radio writing politics advertising merchandising education and personnel work will answer questions. The program mirrors a radio format with expert rounds and aims to guide leadership in fields.
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Radio Atycheek
Laski to Address Social Science Majors Today
Professor Harold T. Laski will speak to history government and economics majors on The Prospect of Democracy in America at 1 10 pm in Brigkerhoff Theatre. He formerly taught at the London School of Economics and now teaches at Columbia University. The meeting is required for social science majors.
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Harold T. Laski
America
Brigikerhoff
Laski
London School of Economics
Columbia University
Christmas Carols In Residence Halls Mark Holiday Week
Choirs will sing outside residence halls on December 15 and 19 as dorm activities lead into a Christmas tea on December 18. Judith Johnson heads the committee for the December 16 formal with dozens of student helpers. faculty and alumnae are invited to the events at Hewitt and Brooks living rooms.
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Dean Hawkes
Barnard
Brooks
Judith Johnson
Virginia Wooltke
Betty Woodruff
Lynn Bach
Nancy Wagner
Mary Leahy
Lowell Beveridge
Hewitt
A Abbott
Ruth Stibbs
Miss Stibbs
Renin
Helen P. Abbott
Moody urges brotherhood in talk to Newman Club
Dr. Joseph N. Moody of Cathedral College spoke to the Newman Club in the Conference room on the Catholic principle of brotherhood. He traced Jewish persecution from ancient political motives to medieval economic causes and modern economic and nationalist factors, arguing there is no Jewish race and stressing religion as the differentiating factor. Moody, a religions and history professor, was honored by B'nai Brith in 1937 for defending human rights.
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Joseph N. Moody
Cathedral College
Newman Club
Moody
Dr. Moody
Manhattan
B’nai Brith
Anti Semitism Discussed By Maurice Samuel At Barnard
Maurice Samuel, British writer, spoke to Barnard Menorah and Jewish Students Societies about anti semitism. He argued the threat harms democracy, not Jews, and assimilation is abdication of human rights. He urged viewing Palestine and homeland issues from world development, not Jewish development.
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Maurice Samuel
Barnard Menorah
Jewish Students’ Societies
Mr. Samuel
Palestine
Heywood Broun
America
George Bernard Shaw
England
Princeton Tops Barnard Poll Among College Men Friends
Barnard students rate Princeton as the top men's college in a Bulletin Query. The survey notes Princeton appeal due to looks money and fun while nearby Columbia earns praise for faithfulness and looks. Harvard Yale and others trail behind with mixed votes and urban charm noted.
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Barnard
Princeton
New Jersey University
Bulletin
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Anapolis
Harvard
Yale
Boston
Barnard Dean Heads Four World Fair Committees
Dean Virginia C Gildersleeve, a leading American woman and Barnard College head, is named to four New York World’s Fair committees and forms a Barnard College committee led by Professor Wilhelm Braun to plan Barnard’s cooperation. The group may organize guides and arrange summer conferences including the Pan Pacific Women’s Conference in August.
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America
Virginia C. Gildersleeve
Barnard College
Wilhelm Braun
Barnard
Miss Gildersleeve
New York City
Braun
Wayman
Waller
Muret
Seals
Miss Weeks
Miss Abbott
Miss Erskine
Dean Gildersleeve
Ogden Reid
Arthur Sultzberger
Mabel Houk Elected Chairman of New Refugee Scholarship Group
Mabel Houk 39 was elected chairman of a committee to raise funds for a German refugee scholarship at Representative Assembly yesterday. The group will plan funding for board and lodging and seek administration support. Barnard Harvard Swarthmore and Bryn Mawr are pursuing refugee aid. Margaret Boyle 40 announced budget allocations for Athletics and Quarterly with Athletics receiving 400 and Quarterly 500, prompting potential cuts to paper quality and magazine size.
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Mabel Houk
Representative Assembly
Germany
Barnard
Harvard College
Swarthmore
Bryn Mawr
Margaret Boyle
Athletic Association
Seniors Announce Tea For Faculty
The first senior tea for faculty will be held Friday December 9 from 4:00 to 5:30 in the College Parlor. It honors the English philosophy fine arts and music departments and administration officers. Only seniors may attend, escorted by a senior majoring in the relevant department. Elizabeth Jackson and Dorothy Smith will receive guests.
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Hzabeth Jackson
Dorothy Smith
Miss Smith
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By Jane Goldstein
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