December Quarterly to Be Issued In Early December
The December issue of Quarterly will come off the press in early December and be left on the Jake table, not distributed from the Columbia Bookstore. It includes stories by Beverly Vernon Marion LaFountain Jane Brunstetter Anne Yoerg Edith F Johnston Mary Jane Daly and more with poems by Roberta Trilling Geraldine Wetmore Elizabeth Creighton Murray and others. National Service and the National War Fund pages are included and Sue Weaver designed the cover.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Jake
Columbia
The
Institute of Public Affairs
Beverly Vernon
Marion LaFountain
Jane van Haelwyn
Elizabeth Creighton Murray
April
Snow
Helen Trevor
Roberta Trilling
Betty Warburton
Margaret L. Dahn
Diana Hansen
Jeane Kolburne
National Service
National War Fund
Sue Weaver
Carman Advocates Two Semester Year And Longer Day
The dean suggests a two semester year and a six hour workday to better use time and allow education beyond a six hour schedule. He opposes the three semester accelerative program and offers summer sessions for accelerants. Navy presence teaches discipline and responsibility, a lesson to endure beyond the war. Students prefer easy courses and high grades, the dean notes.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Dean Carman
Navy
Sophomores Lead in One Mile Swimming Marathon
Sophomores take the lead for the first time in the swimming marathon with about thirteen miles completed. They run roughly a half mile ahead of the freshmen, with juniors five miles behind the freshmen and seniors two miles behind the juniors.
Dance to Benefit National War Fund Drive at NWF Cafeteria
A Sunday benefit dance from 3 to 5 p m in the cafeteria supports the National War Fund drive. Bar nard Hall Social Committee sponsors for day students only with tickets at seventy five cents. Midshipmen from the U S S Prairie State will be invited. A January 9 dance plans for apprentice seamen entering the Midshipman School.
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National War Fund
Barnard Hall
U.S. S. Prairie State
Midshipman School
Morse Code Course Trains Students for Future Work
The article describes a Morse Code course taught by Miss Deborah Burstein at Barnard 48 on Tuesdays and Thursdays from 4 to 6. It covers key word stress patterns, notes sending and receiving are different skills, and urges interested students to join for practical war work.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Tom Gaylord Andrews
Deborah Burstein
Barnard
Andrews
Miss Burstein
Institute to Hear Alec Templeton Saturday Evening
Alec Templeton, pianist, composer, and improviser, will be featured Saturday evening December 18 at McMillin Theatre by the Institute of Arts and Sciences. The third part of his program will include a group of his own compositions.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Alec Templeton
McMillin
Institute of Arts and Sciences
Mr. Templeton
Phillips Bradly
Queen’s College
Washington
Reinhold Neibuhr
Neibuhr
Union Theological Seminary
Institute
Ives Tinayre
George Fielding Eliot
N. Y. Herald-Tribune
CBS
Eliot
Blanche Williams Recounts Biographical Research Work
Biographer Blanche Williams discusses research for three lives, Clara Barton George Eliot and John Keats. She describes field work in England visiting Eliot relatives and uncovering letters, reading thirty seven diaries, and tracing Keats through a first edition tied to Fanny Brawne.
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Joan Zeiger
Blanche Williams
John Lyon
Dorothy Brewster
Miss Williams
Clara Barton
George Eliot
John Keats
Miss Eliot
England
Romola
Keats
Society To Show Film On Pasteur In Brinckerhoff Hall
The French club screens Louis Pasteur starring Sacha Guitry on Tuesday December 14 in Brinckerhoff Hall theater from 4 to 6. Admission is twenty five cents for members and thirty five cents for non members. Proceeds benefit the National War Fund. Nanette Newell, club president, notes Guitry’s take differs from Paul Muni’s American portrayal. Earlier in November the society hosted a tea with French flyers Lt Garabosse and Lt Ligeron.
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Louis Pasteur
Sacha Guitry
Brinckerhoff Hall
Brandson Film Co
Nanette Newell
Guitry
Paul Muni
The
National War Fund
Garabosse
Ligeron
Bureau Seeks Volunteers as Big Sisters for Delinquent Girls
The bureau invites volunteers to mentor Protestant Catholic or Jewish girls released by Juvenile Courts. Social workers oversee the program with two to three hours weekly of informal interaction. Dawn Shaw 45 is the contact through Student Mail.
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Dawn Shaw
Snyder Explains Spirit of Luther at Thursday Luncheon
Pastor Frank Snyder, Lutheran Counselor to Barnard and Columbia, discusses Martin Luther’s life theme free forgiveness of sins as key to the Protestant Reformation. He cites Luther’s translation of the Bible, open Bible movement, clergy marriage, hymns, catechism, and professorship at Wittenberg.
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Martin Luther
Frank Snyder
Snyder
Barnard
Columbia
Synder
Luther
University of Wittenburg
Sale Of Ball Bids For Winter Formal At College
Bids for the Winter Ball, a college formal replacing the Seph-Fresh Dance, will be held next Monday at a gym booth from 9 to 1. The event, with a blue snowy design, features decorations by Marie Colletti and others, a central committee announced by Katherine Keith and Mickey Martin, and invites include deans, professors, advisors, and student leaders.
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Jake
Marie Colletta
Katherine Keith
Mickey Martin
Marie Colletti
Patricia Benedict
Demi Daniel
Lucia Hathway
Margaret Mary Fearey
Eve Wellman
Maryjorie Lerner
Josephine Osbo
Sue Demarest
Nancy Walters
Mary Graham
Alice Schultz
Doris Hering
Dean Vireginia C. Gildersleeve
Virginia D. Harrington
Thomas P. Peardon
Louise H. Gregory
Lorna F. McGuire
Martha Maack
Joan Carey
Mary Louise Stewart
Yvonus Hauser
Marilyn Martin
First Senior Tea Features Choir
The first of four Senior Teas will be held Thursday from 4 to 5 30 in the College Parlor. The Corpus Christi Chantel choir will entertain and one third of the faculty from all departments will attend. Seniors graduating in February are urged to come for the early tea.
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Corpus Christi Chantel Choir
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Carman
NWF
Pasteur
Bureau
Eclair
la Couple
Sussex
Tris Davis
B.N.W.F.D. Chairman
Aunizian Institute of Launder
Naame Theatre of
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