Faculty Students Discuss Curriculum At Barnard Parlor
Faculty and students met in the College Parlor at 4:00 p m Thursday to debate liberal education. Professor Peardon outlined three aims for a liberal education while Professors Downes and Haller urged a broad field of exploration and self awareness. Student speakers emphasized intellectual curiosity and organizing material, and a poll on the current curriculum was distributed for written complaints.
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Thomas P. Peardon
Peardon
Helen R. Downes
William Haller
Haller
Janet Mora
Isabel Lincoln
Florence Pearlman
Barnard
Barnard Faculty Open Homes for Christmas Dorm Students
Arrangements allow most students who planned to stay in dorms during Christmas vacation to live at Barnard homes. Dean Millicent C. McIntosh offers her house for nine students December 26 to January 2, with room charges paid by the college at the Parnassus Club first, and other faculty homes contributing space.
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Barnard
Mary E. MacDonald
Millicent C. McIntosh
Parnassus Club
Ursula Niebuhr
Barnardites Publish In National Anthologies This Year
Barnard College writers gain recognition as poetry and prose from Barnard students appears in national anthologies. Ferrel Perry’s Eisenhower and the Small Boy is featured in American Pen Magazine December issue. Four Barnard students have poetry accepted for the Annual Anthology of College Poetry including Moonlin Barbara Bond Sonnet 3 Joyce Haber Barbara Liggett and Too Late Patricia Weenelsen.
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Barnard
Ferrel Perry
Eisenhower
American Pen Magazine
Moonlin
Barbara Bond
Joyce Haber
Barbara Liggett
Patricia Weenelsen
Boorse to Leave for Naval Research Office at Columbia Lab
Professor Henry A. Boorse of physics will take a one term leave to conduct low temperature superconductivity research at Columbia Pupin Laboratories under an Office of Naval Research contract. He will oversee studies on free electron behavior and helium liquefaction to illuminate atomic forces while continuing his long association with Columbia and the war era Manhattan Project legacy.
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Henry A. Boorse
Columbia Pupin Laboratories
Dr. Boorse
Columbia
Office of Naval Research
Boorse
Barnard
Barnard Faculty Shift Ties To Columbia Cyclotron
Physicist Boorse may attend substitute classes at Columbia while teaching optics and modern physics at Barnard. Introductory Physics is taught this year by Assistant Professor William W Havens, recently pictured in Life for work on the Columbia cyclotron. Havens joined Barnard after service with Columbia.
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Boorse
Columbia
Barnard
William W. Havens
Havens
Deficiency Examinations Details Announced by Registrar
The Committee on Instruction rejects a February deficiency exam period but allows seniors to request makeup exams to graduate. Students must file by December 17 before 4 p.m., including a letter to the committee, an application blank with a three dollar fee per exam, and a tan schedule card with spring program and preferred exam days.
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Committee On Instruction
Margaret Giddings
Christmas Ball Open to Grads at Barnard Gym
Alumnae may buy tickets for Barnard College annual Christmas dance set for December 18 from 9 to 1. Tickets cost three dollars and are available at Jake. Ted Fisher's Orchestra will perform in the Barnard gym with red and gold decorations matching the Fireglow and Mistletoe theme. Jake and the Conference Room become lounges.
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Barnard
Jake
Ted Fisher
Barnard Gymnasium
Columbia Exams Run In Gym Amid Spectator Prods
The Spectator notes Columbia University exams are held in University Hall Gym with 700 to 1000 students. Proctors issue seat numbers and last minute instructions via mic while music selections may play to aid memory. Barnard students confront the Honor Board debate on the term honor.
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Spectator
Columbia
University Hall
Gabriel Favoino
Barnard
Max Frankel
Frankel
Faust
Barnard Hosts South American Conference on Age of Nations
Barnard's Political Council sponsored the South America Comes of Age conference at the College Parlor with Senor German Arciniegas delivering the keynote. Delegates from Bard, Brooklyn, Manhattanville, Mount Holyoke, Rutgers, St. John's, Sarah Lawrence, Skidmore, Stevens, Temple, Yale, Union Junior College, LSU, and NYU explored United Nations links, Pan American policy, and economic development in a sober, multi-session program.
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German Arciniegas
Colombia
South America
Barnard’s
Political Council
Eleanor de Antonio
Bard
Brooklyn
Manhattanville
Mount Holyoke
Rutgers
St. John’s
Sarah Lawrence
Skidmore
Stevens Institute of Technology
Temple
Yale
Union Junior College
L.S.U
N.Y.U
Millicent C. McIntosh
Senor Arciniegas
Oliver Homes
Foreign Policy Association
United Nations
Pan America
Rio de Janeiro
Henry Wallich
Federal Reserve Bank of New York
S. A
Frank Tannenbaum
Columbia University
Brooks Hall
Thomas Peardon
Barnard
Dorm Fee Data Presented To Bernard Trustees
The Board of Trustees of Barnard College reviewed data on a possible dormitory fee increase, same figures shown at a student meeting last Thursday in the Deanery. Dean Millicent C. McIntosh said no recommendations would be made until student discussions and questionnaires are completed. Attending trustees included Fackenthal, Mrs. Meyer, Reid, Dunn, Hess, Fosdick, King, Mrs. Meyer, McCollester, Plimpton, Read, Fletcher, Aldrich, Sulzberger, Parker, Mrs. Muzzey, Mrs. Backus, plus administration representatives and Mr. Bushnell.
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Barnard College
Millicent C. McIntosh
Frank D. Fackenthal
Alfred Meyer
Ogden Reid
Gano Dunn
Alfred F. Hess
Harry Emerson Fosdick
Frederic Rhinelander King
Eugene Meyer
Parker McCollester
William L. Duffy
Francis T. P. Plimpton
Duncan H. Read
Walter D. Fletcher
Donald B. Aldrich
Arthur Hays Sulzberger
John C. Parker
David S. Muzzey
Dana C. Backus
McIntosh
Richard Whitney
Robert Bushnell
Republicans Elect Officers at Barnard Club Meeting
Members of the newly organized Student Republican Club elect Marilyn Schulof 450 president Claudine Tillier 50 vice president and Rosemary Beeching 50 secretary treasurer at a meeting last Thursday. The club plans to invite speakers to discuss current problems in the future and the revamped Political Council and charter were explained and read.
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Student Republican Club
Marilyn Schulof
Claudine Tilliér
Rosemary Beeching
Barnard
White Dresses Reminder For Dormitory Students
Dormitory students returning home for Christmas are reminded to bring back white dresses for the traditional step singing exercises during Senior Week.
Concert Aids Student Fund at Columbia University
The Columbia University Chamber Orchestra led by Professor Herbert Dittler will give a fundraising concert on Saturday December 18 at 8:30 P.M. in McMillin Theatre to establish a revolving loan fund for foreign students unable to work enough or send funds home. The program includes Beethoven Prometheus, Le Tombeau de Couperin, Bartok Roumanian Folk-Dances, and Haydn Symphony No. 104. Tickets cost one dollar and are sold at the Social Affairs Office on Wednesday through Friday.
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Columbia University Chamber Orchestra
Herbert Dittler
McMillin Theatre
Columbia
Bartok
Haydn
Social Affairs Office
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