Barnard College Students Publish Weekly Publication
Published weekly throughout the college year, except the last two weeks in January, by the students of Barnard College.
14 Dec 1914
Page 1
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Newspaper
Barnard Bulletin
Location
New York, New York, United States of America
Date
Dec 14, 1914
Page
1
Published weekly throughout the college year, except the last two weeks in January, by the students of Barnard College.
A detailed roster of the Editors and staff positions listing names with roles such as Editor in Chief Editor in Chief Dorette Ferandié and Business Manager Lucy Morgenthau for 1915 1916 and various divisional assistants including Agnes Conklin Alma Herzfeld Isabel Totten Beulah Amidon Cora Senner Carol Weiss Edith Grossman Elinore Morehouse Lucy Porter and Elinore Sachs with departmental assignments in Dramatic and Literary Activities Religious Activities Social Movements Athletics and Class News.
The item indicates a publication entered as second class matter on October 21, 1908, at the New York Post Office under the 1897 act. The line confirms postal classification and registration timing for official mailing status.
A satirical piece traces a girl who rejects Santa and fairy tales then adopts a critic stance on literature and philosophy. It suggests she hoots on every subject, masking lack of real opinion, and predicts a later discovery that opinion should be selective. It ends by urging college leadership to consider maturity.
The discussion proposes raising the hoot limit from fifteen to fifty nine to reduce external hooting while allowing insiders to continue their chatter. It also urges those who hoot to confine remarks to their own group, leaving others to their beliefs about Swalesvare and Plato. A family scene questions a child’s Santa Claus remarks before a believing baby brother.
Barnard Bulletin urges strong unions during a harsh winter for trade unionism. It notes a formed department store workers union facing hostile employers and wartime economic stringency, and asks interested readers to help enroll retail clerks without delay.
Carol R Lorenz invites help for a Y W C A Christmas party for 100 settlement children. The event Friday afternoon features a decorated tree Santa Claus games ice cream cake and presents for each child. Helpers are asked to contribute money and one hundred inexpensive toys and woollen caps or mittens.
The Deutscher Kreis held its monthly meeting Monday at 4, with a reading of Mark Twain's amusing comedy Miesterschaft by a fellow errata. Names in the program include Ruth Benjamin 17 Annie Stephenson uth Kannofsky 17 Stella Block 16 Mrs. Stephenson George Franklin William Jackson Harriet Sinsheimer 18 Helen Rosenstein 16 Mrs. Blumenthal Margaret Rothchild 18 Gretchen Florence Peper. The performance was well received with evident laughter.
On Wednesday afternoon from 4 to 6 the undergraduate study and theatre host a Doll Day show with dolls in silk and lace. Entrance costs 5 cents to view and vote for the prettiest doll. A dance in the theatre runs at 5 cents admission, a bargain compared with typical social dances. Jessie Wilson was last year’s fairest doll winner.
Dorothy Cheeseman 1913 tours with a Richmond theatrical stock company in The College Widow. Rhodas Freudenthal 1913 wed Edwin Berliner on November 18. Naomi Harris 1913 married George M Wolfson on November 24. Lucile Mordecai Lieber 1912 has daughter Constance born October 20. Mary Nammack 1910 announces engagement to John Boyle. Dorothy Kirchwey 1910 investigates women’s industrial conditions. Doris Long 1907 serves as Dean of Women and English professor at Lebanon College.
Prof Erskine has long given a pre Christmas address at the chapel and the college looks forward to hearing him this year with pleasure.
The semi annual Y W C A business meeting will be held Wednesday December 16 at 12 o clock in room 139. Members are urged to attend due to important forthcoming business.
Contributions for the January Bear are due December 18 in Locker 182, Senior Study. The notice specifies submission location and deadline for participants and organizers.
English Club will meet Monday evening December 14 with speaker Freda Kirchwey at 800 Riverside Drive.
December 15 21 schedule lists events from Philosophy Club at 12 noon to a Christmas holiday break ending January 2. Activities include Columbia Dramatic Association plays Doll shows and youth parties plus dances and an Odd Even basketball game.
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