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Newspaper
Barnard Bulletin
Location
New York, New York, United States of America
Date
Feb 11, 1936
Page
5
A student letter from Jane Craighead '37 argues for a fairer system linking scholarship to a nuanced point scale. She suggests redefining A through C marks with fractional values to reflect true performance, and notes current pluses and minuses distort ranking. A second letter asks faculty to consider student examinations and the impact on intracurricular study.
Maurice Hindus argues that Soviet programs, including education and collective farming, show progress as peasant property rights are restored and animal fats shortages ease. He says US neutrality would fail if England is involved and notes emotional ties between English speaking nations. Hindus, born in Russia, is a noted lecturer and author.
A replica ballot at Jake and in Student Mail Office invites Barnard students to vote on constitutional amendment power shifts, Supreme Court voting thresholds, Republican candidate preferences, and government theory. Voting ends Thursday afternoon February 13. results planned for Bulletin and Herald Tribune publication.
Forum continues with a request for a feature article that would share examples of sensible exams. The writer mentions prepared exams open book exams and papers substituted for exams as possibilities and signs off with Ruth Kleiner from 1937.
The Barnard Alumnae Fund reached a record gift of 15655 dollars in its third year with 1015 contributors. Dean Gildersleeve remarks on the fund’s moral value. The February issue includes fund breakdowns, class-by-class gifts, and a dinner tribute to Dean Gildersleeve on February 18 broadcast by WJZ. It also reprints Dr Gulielma Alsop on emotional counters and features Vera Allen in Projection noting her Broadway success.
The committee expressed general approval of an ultimate effect of club integration and praised the Social Science Union formed from several small groups. They opposed paying student officers as a rule, noting the Advertising Manager of Bulletin as a special case, suggesting paid work via the Occupational Bureau under amendments to the Undergraduate Association constitution.
A Dean's Dinner program lists speakers for trustees and Columbia President Nicholas Murray Butler. Barnard professor Miss Gildersleeve, a Barnard alumna and former English dean, represents faculty and alumnae relations and holds multiple academic posts and honors.
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