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Newspaper
Barnard Bulletin
Location
New York, New York, United States of America
Date
Feb 09, 1932
Page
4
Ontario students form covert stenography group posing as pupils to capture professor lectures. They will print and sell typed copies to fellow students at about fifty cents per week, enabling widespread access to lecture content.
A questionnaire circulated by a professor at an eastern university shows Big Bill Thompson labeled as a Chicago racketeer by a student and Joseph Stalin identified as President Hoover's secretary. The average correct responses were 46.5 percent.
James G. Unstatdt, assistant professor of education, reports more than half of Minnesota students earn all or part of their college expenses. The study notes working students maintain good grades and participate in athletics and campus activities.
Case Techs reports that students who take light bulbs break doors or commit other acts contrary to college conventions will undergo psychoanalytic examination. The aim is to understand why students in college act differently than at home.
Hanover New Hampshire requires Dartmouth students to vote to enable a poll tax. In response students attend a town meeting and pass two bills proposing an eight mile high wall around the town and a mile high city hall one foot wide. The affair moves to Washington for resolution as locals react to the bill.
A Chicago man told a judge he stole 118 bathtubs to cover his son's education at Harvard. The remark reflects a drastic measure framed as a bid to finance schooling, illustrating extreme actions in pursuit of higher education.
Marjorie Nicolson of Smith College urged undergraduates at chapel that college slang lags behind times. She said slang once natural and pungent is being imitated, and old words persist nationwide. The dean advised replacing casual terms like okay and KO with yes until new phrases improve.
Dr. Peterson analyzes Isben and Euripides in a Columbia lecture on current art. He links cycles of modernity to metempsychosis, compares exile and critical neglect, and suggests Euripides is seen as too tragic by Aristotle, citing the Bacchae and When We Dead Awaken. Lectures run Wednesdays in Philosophy Hall 301 with other topics planned.
The article notes how United States vice consuls in probationary service study at the National School of Oriental Languages in Paris for three years to prepare for postings in Near Eastern and Slavic languages. They live economically at Cite Universitaire with meals for 8 francs and rooms from about 250 francs monthly as prices fall.
An illustrated talk by Miss Lucille Douglass on Angkor: A Royal Passion tops an Institute of Arts and Sciences program at 8 15 PM. Other lectures include H V Kaltenborn We Look at the World, Howard W Haggard Devils Drugs and Doctors, and Professor Montague on The Alternative to Communism. Next week features Seabury Griggs Kaltenborn Peterson Kenworthy Counts.
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