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Newspaper
Barnard Bulletin
Location
New York, New York, United States of America
Date
Dec 20, 1932
Page
4
Notices announce openings for Mortarboard staff including Circulation and Publicity. Applications are welcome daily from 12 to 1 at Barnard Hall with Catherine Strateman coordinating.
Campaign in the dorms raises about 150 to date with daily receipts averaging just over seven dollars since November 21. Half the funds go to the Unemployment Relief Fund Committee and the remainder to the Charity Organization Society. Clarice Stein chairs the drive with Agnes Creagh directing dormitory efforts. other Committee of 25 members listed from classes of 1934 and 1935 with 1936 members to be chosen next semester.
Selen Stevenson, Junior Prom Chairman, sets the event at the St Regis Hotel on a Tuesday evening in February. Art Lown and his orchestra provide the music. Bids are dollars per couple with a poster to be posted in Barnard Hall after Christmas. Kathleen McGlinchy heads the Junior class and serves on the prom committee.
Jenorah Chile announces a luncheon honoring Mrs Alfred Meyer after Christmas holidays. The event, on Thursday in Barnard Hall, Room 8, invites day students and dorm residents to sign up on a bulletin board poster.
Professor Baldwin discussed Greek lyric poetry at the Greek Games meeting. He urged studying Greek sculpture and vase painting to capture Greekness and noted lyrics’ timeless subject matter. He split lyrics into hymns and court ballads while advising students to read aloud and revise for clarity. Gerarda Greer led the meeting with Jean Rugg as freshman chairman. Marjorie White, class of ’35, won last year’s G. G. lyrics.
A student letter from Margaret Gristede argues shifting funds from Quarterly to Mortarboard. She suggests halving Quarterly by publishing twice yearly with English department cooperation and reallocating the $0.30 saved to Mortarboard to avoid deficits and possibly lower book prices. She invites student discussion.
The Columbia University candlelight service at St Pauls Chapel featured an organ prelude and a musical program. The choir performed anthems by Bach Lubbold Hassler Midt Saboly and a new arrangement by Douglas Moore of God Rest Ye Merry Gentlemen. Congregants joined in familiar carols including Oh Little Town of Bethlehem Hark the Herald Angels Sing Silent Night and The First Nowell.
Fifty children aged two to nine attended a Union Neighborhood Center party at Barnard gymnasium on Saturday. Sylvia Fabricant and a committee of fifteen girls led games before candy and cakes at four. The group then took the children to Manhattan Day Nursery for a Christmas tree and gifts. Committee included Jane Rine, chair, Jean Waterman, Sue Foglesong, Lucy Appleton, Barbara Smoot, and Sally Anthony.
Mrs. Abel donates her late husband Dr. Samuel Abel’s library to Columbia University in memory of him. Director Charles Williamson notes the 3,500 volume collection is among the finest private Russian literature holdings and covers theatre art philosophy politics and literature with rare out of print items and pre revolution pamphlets.
Columbia freshmen heard Professor John J. Coss speak on New York City as a universal center of culture. He cited Chinatown Mulberry Street Italian quarter and Little Syria as examples of the city’s cosmopolitan appeal and variety of cultural advantages.
Miss Rockwell informs students that Barnard Library will close Tuesday December 20 at 2:30 PM and reopen Wednesday morning January 4, 1933, for the Christmas vacation period.
Mr Herbert E Evans urged Christians to address social inequality in a chapel talk. He warned of widespread poverty from underpaid workers and called for acts of mercy beyond Sunday worship, urging Christians to aid the hungry rather than send gifts in empty charity.
The dormitory hosted a Christmas tea on Sunday afternoon with Miss Abbott greeting guests assisted by Dorothy Sheridan the social chairman and Nancy Winselman. Barnard and Columbus Glee Clubs sang carols under Professor Beveridge. Helen Dykema accompanied. Faculty hosts included Miss Hirst LeDuc Holzwasser and Miss Doty. Monday night the seniors led a candle procession through each floor with Ruth Jenks in charge of singing and Iva Ellis and Mildred Wells as general managers.
The Rev Mr Wendell Phillips spoke in chapel on Tuesday about Christmas as the birth of one who achieved what humanity strives for. He described two worlds governed by God’s laws and said the distinction is breaking down. Jesus is presented as the greatest genius and the embodiment of God’s purpose for humanity.
Seventeen candidate silhouettes were judged by a panel at the college Friday to select finalists for the balloting. Josephine Wahlsing led the list with number 1, followed by GertRed Rubsamen and Hazel Levine in second and third. Names and numbers were published. ladder competition will let candidates challenge the one above them until a champion is found. Wahlsing will retain the title as last year’s champion is not in college.
Professor Robert M. Maciver Lieb er Professor of Political Philosophy and Sociology will give the second alumnae lecture January 16 in Brinkerhoff. His subject will be A Vision of a College for Women as announced in the Alumnae Monthly. Further information will appear in future Bulletin issues.
The February quarter program lists badminton as a continuing popular option for beginners to advanced. It includes Tenikou, baseball, volleyball, and class sections for all levels. Dancing options cover tapping, clogging, folk, and natural dancing, with an advanced class led by Miss Strong.
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