Barnard Undergraduate Meeting Chooses Ring Change and Lockers
An undergraduate meeting at Barnard on Tuesday November 28 featured Isabel Greenbaum receiving the tennis championship cup amid cheers. Adelaide Bunker reported missing funds from the exchange. The council proposed replacing the class ring with a college ring and creating class locker lock committees, a plan voted almost unanimously to adopt. Millie Griffiths Gladys Palmer and Beatrice Lowndes previewed a forthcoming conference report to appear later in the Bulletin.
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Isabel Greenbaum
Adelaide Bunker
Barnard
Millie Griffiths
Gladys Palmer
Beatrice Lowndes
Bulletin
Voluntary Study Group Meets December Dates at 620 West 122nd Street
A voluntary study group convenes Thursday evening December 7 at 7 30 in Miss Patchin s apartment 620 West 122nd Street Helen Stevens 18 will speak on The Solidarity of the Human Family The next meeting is Wednesday December 12 with Beatrice Lowndes leading Save these dates and come
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Miss Patchin
West 122Nd Street
Helen Stevens
Beatrice Lowndes
Barnard Alumni Weigh Plan for a Barnard Farm
A Brinckerhoff meeting discussed creating a Barnard Farm for alumni and undergraduates to camp and bond year round. Beatrice Lowndes presided, with Miss Gildersleeve describing a campus retreat concept not strictly agricultural. The project aims to offer affordable weekend housing, scholarships, and long stays, with Weeburne Farm cited as a prior model and costs to be reduced.
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Brinckerhoff
Barnard
Beatrice Lowndes
Dean Gildersleeve
Miss Gildersleeve
Katherine Gay
Weeburne Farm
Weeburne
Chapel Speakers Teach Thoroughness In Education And Religion
Chapel at Union Theological Seminary featured Prof Foakes Jackson on November 27 who urged thoroughness in study and warned against knowledge excess causing dissipation. He stressed drudgery as path to higher knowledge and duty to present something to the world. Upcoming talks by Dean Gildersleeve on December 4 and Chaplain Knox on December 11 were announced.
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Foakes Jackson
Union Theological Seminary
Dean Gildersleeve
Academic Chapel
Chaplain Knox
Student Council Debates Ring Substitution and Vocational Committee
At a regular meeting on November 22 the Student Council moved to report to the Undergraduate Association on November 28 that Barnard College rings should replace the usual class rings. It also proposed consulting the Dean about forming a Vocational Committee. Beatrice Lowndes reported on the Woman's Intercollegiate Conference for Student Government at Mount Holyoke College, Cornelia Geer, 17.
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Barnard College
Beatrice Lowndes
Mount Holyoke College
Cornelia Geer
Doll Days at Theatre on December 13
The Doll-Days event takes place in the theatre on December 13 at 4 oclock with admission set at five cents. Bring friends to enjoy the day.
Students Consider Farm Purchase for Club Fund
A 1911 fund starting with $15 aims to buy a farm. A meeting ended in general discussion and a motion urged the Student Council to appoint a committee to explore farm purchase prospects.
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