Mead Recites Samoa Field Work And Adolescent Study
Margaret Mead, Barnard ’23, pursues field work in American Samoa as a National Research Council fellow. She plans a study of adolescent girls in native surroundings to separate civilization and heredity from environment. Excerpts from her letters describe rituals in Pago Pago, with officials, dancers, and crowds in 1925.
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Margaret Mead
Barnard
Samoa
National Research Council of America
Miss Mead
Honolulu Star-Bulletin
Bulletin
Phi Beta Kappa
Columbia
American Samoa
Honolulu
Pago Pago
Tutuila
Luma
Ta’u
Tufeli
Manu’a
Mauga
Apia
Sierra
Malietoa
Upolu
Brig
Education by Presence Lectures from Poet Robert Frost
Robert Frost, staying on the University of Michigan campus, describes education by presence as an informal pedagogy. He rejects formal lectures, noting his limited patience for classroom routines and his self admitted indifference as a teacher in regular settings.
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Robert Frost
University of Michigan
Frost
Christian Science Monitor
Undergraduates Invited to Alumnae Day Activities
Undergraduates are invited to Alumnae Day on Friday February 12. The Alumnae Dramatic Group performs a Booth Tarkington comedy satire and a Kenyon Nicholson Grand Guignol Burlesque at 3 pm in Brinckerhoff Theatre. Barnard College Gleem Club sings. tea in College Parlor 4 to 6 pm. A basketball game at six features Undergraduate vs Alumnae.
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Booth Tarkington
Kenyon Nicholson
Brinckerhoff
Mary Benjamin
Isabel Cooper
Denver Frankel
Edith Halfpenny
Dorothy Lazar
Jeannette Mirsky
Hortense
Norma Loewenstein Wins Earle Memorial Prize
Norma Loewenstein of Barnard College, class of 1926, wins the Earle Memorial Prize in Classics in a year with no previous candidate meeting the high standard. Her achievement follows her 1924 Tatlock Latin Prize and highlights Barnard's strong classical program and student success.
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Norma Loewenstein
Barnard
Barnard Classical Club
Columbia
Earle
Student Fellowship Drive Seeks Remaining Funds
The Student Fellowship Drive quota lacks $170 of the $2000 target. Students who have not given are urged to contribute. Outstanding pledges may be paid any day before February 12 from 12 to 1 in Students' Hall.
Scott Nearing to Speak on Social Conditions in England and Russia
Scott Nearing returns from Russia to address the Social Problems Club on Wednesday February 10 at 4 30 in room 309 Havemeyer. He will discuss Social Conditions in England and Russia and the College is invited.
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Scott Nearing
Russia
Social Problems Club
Havemeyer
England
Joseph Auslander to Address English Majors
Harvard graduate Joseph Auslander, on Harvard faculty for six years, will speak to juniors and seniors majoring in English this afternoon in the College Parlor. He will read from his verse, introduce a Harper paperback, and a reading with a serving of ten.
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Joseph Auslander
Auslander
Harvard
Harpers
Curricular Committee Explains Its Report Version
The Curricular Committee states it published an open Forum letter to spark student discussion on course access at Columbia. It explains students believed in tacit understanding of advance courses, not a catalogue promise, and notes junior seniors faced late refusals leading to unwanted pickups. It says some students seek graduate courses not available at Barnard.
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Bulletin
Columbia
Barnard
Corftrary
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