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Newspaper
Barnard Bulletin
Location
New York, New York, United States of America
Date
Dec 13, 1954
Page
3
Reverend John Krumm, chaplain of Columbia University, spoke at a noon meeting on Advent's realism. He said Christmas begins December 24, not after Thanksgiving, and Advent focuses on the Four Last Things death, judgment, heaven, and hell, shaping a somber, urgent spiritual outlook.
Bar nard hosts two afternoon performances featuring synchronized swimming. Highlights include Les Poissons inspired by Debussy, Sea Interlude solo by Terry Gamba, Bells with Poe reading, and Sparkling Christmas Tree candlelight formation. Intermediate and advanced groups performed. Elizabeth Heavey 56 chaired the committee and Fern Yates advised.
Reverend Richard Morford of the Council for American-Soviet Friendship and Professor Boris Stanfield debated US Soviet peace efforts at the Students Political Association gathering in the Harkness Academic Theatre. Morford urged cooperative ideas on atomic energy and aid to impoverished nations while Stanfield argued peaceful coexistence is impossible due to Marxist calls for overthrow of capitalism.
Columbia University Young Republican Club passes a resolution urging continued national debate on college campuses. It opposes recognizing Red China but backs discussing whether the United States should extend diplomatic recognition to its government. The move aligns with Columbia Debate Council and Barnard NSA delegates. Henry Steele Commager will speak on the Republican Party’s return to traditional politics at noon in 515 Kent Hall.
Mr. Will Herberg spoke to two religion classes on December 9 at the invitation of Mrs. Ursula Niehbur. He traced three views of humanness from heathen nature dissolving to Graeco-Oriental and Biblical-Hebraic conceptions, noting contrasts in their relation to nature and divinity.
Student subscriptions purchased from the Office of College Activities may be redeemed for Metropolitan Opera Guild Tickets covering all productions on Wednesday and Thursday nights through January 6, 1955. The office will close December 22, 1954 and reopen January 4, 1955, so redeem soon.
Benjamin Britten's A Ceremony of Carols will highlight this year's Christmas Program to be held tomorrow at 1 10 p m in Barnard gymnasium. Professor Searle Wright will conduct the Columbia University Chorus in this performance following Barnard tradition.
Lawyers and registered Democrats Roy Cohn and O John Rogge will debate the federal security system at 8 p m in Hark ness Theater sponsored by Columbia University Political Assembly. A cross examination follows with eighteen assembly members.
Foreign students staying in New York for Christmas receive accommodations and tours under the Holiday Center run by Greater New York Council for Foreign Students affiliated with Columbia University. The program runs December 21 to January 1 with free and low-cost tickets to plays concerts and opera. Barnard College students serve as guides for tours to Ford Motor Assembly Plant United Nations museums Rockefeller Center Cloisters and The New York Times building. New Year’s Eve and Hanukkah socials are planned. The World Student Federation Fellowship Christmas Party is set for December 20 before opening. Students may sign the poster on Jake.
A 11 a.m. Friday December 17 reading in room 215 Milbank features a scene from Ford Madox Ford’s Parade’s End. In Barnard’s Philosophy 43, Adolphus Sweet reads Christopher Tietjens in No More Parades, with General Campion.
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