British novelist Snow on art, criticism, and politics
Sir Charles Percy Snow delivered the Alfred Harcourt Donald C. Brace Memorial Lecture on The Novelist Looks at Science and Politics. He praised War and Peace as the greatest novel, critiqued modern criticism, and warned that stream of consciousness limited range. He urged writers to explore themes beyond mainstream thought and to consider history as decisive.
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Charles Percy Snow
Alfred Harcourt Donald C. Brace
Tolstoy
Sir Charles
Dostoevsky
Dickens
Balzac
Proust
United States
Barnard Students Plan Undergraduate Journal Publication
Barnard students and faculty announce plans for an Undergraduate Journal compiling outstanding non fiction papers from courses. A three student two faculty board will supervise with a student as chairman. The project will seek outside funding and aims for one edition this academic year.
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Barnard
Ruth Schwartz
Miriam Stern
Ellie Yudin
Ruth Klein
Martha Kostyra
Phi Beta Kappa Talks Define Scholar's Quest
Professor Ingrith J. Deyrup and LeRoy Breunig spoke at the Phi Beta Kappa assembly detailing the science humanities divide. Deyrup described exacting methods in physiology and energy exchanges in substances while Breunig defined elusive research in the humanities and the challenge of defining the undefinable.
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Phi Beta Kappa
Connie Brown
Ingrith J. Deyrup
LeRoy Breunig
Deyrup
Breunig
Degrup
Prof
PHI Beta
Wriston Elected to Barnard College Board of Trustees
Dr. Henry M. Wriston elected to Barnard College Board of Trustees for seven years. He currently presides over The American Assembly at Columbia University and will succeed Leonard W. Cronkheite. Wriston, born in Laramie Wyoming, holds degrees from Wesleyan University and Harvard University and has taught at Wesleyan Brown Universities and led Lawrence College from 1925 to 1937.
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Henry M. Wriston
Barnard College
Wriston
American Assembly
Columbia University
Leonard W. Cronkheite
Dr. Wriston
Laramie
Wyoming
Wesleyan University
Harvard University
Wesleyan
Brown Universities
Lawrence College
Upstate
Batavia
New York
Morse
Vassar College
Yale University
Barnard
Morse Ponders Shakespeare and Alweis Scrutinizes Pedagogy
Education Colloquium features Frank Alweis from James Madison High School in the Bronx discussing creativity in teaching amid conformity. Joann Morse of Barnard plans a lecture on religious poetry and New Criticism with an explication of Shakespearean text.
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Morse
Shakespeare
Alweis
Marcelle Appel
Frank Alweis
James Madison High School
Bronx
New York City
William Shakespeare
Joann Morse
Barnard English
Drama critic Rosamund Gilder speaks at English Conference
American drama critic Rosamund Gilder speaks at the English Conference in Minor Lathan Play house at 3 30 PM. She is known for Theatre Arts editorials and for The Theatre Library and John Gielgud's Hamlet. Gilder chaired US delegations to world theatre congresses and served with the Red Cross in World War I.
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Rosamund Gilder
Miss Gilder
Theatre Arts
New York
Drama Critics’ Circle
John Gielgud
United States
Bombay
India
American Red Cross
France
Fullbright
Financial Aid Applications Due for 1961 62 Academic Year
Students must submit financial aid applications for 1961 62 before Monday February 6 1961. Forms available by self addressed stamped envelopes to Student Mail non resident students or to Brooks Hall for resident students. Pickup at Office of the Dean of Studies Room 117 Milbank Hall.
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Brooks Hall
Dean of Studies
Milbank Hall
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By Roselle Kurland
Sir C. P. Snow
Professor Breunig
Henry Wriston
Ed Colloquium
Professor Morse
Gilder
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