Alumnae Day features So You Think You Know Barnard quiz
Alumnae Day events include a 2 PM quiz in Barnard Hall testing post college IQ by recognizing people from features. Other activities cover by laws, club status, board makeup, and alumnae fund planning with a noon luncheon, Thrift Shop gifts, and a 4 PM Dean's tea.
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Tomorowy
Barnard
I.Q
David S. Muzzey
Hewitt Hall
Dean Gildersleeve
Thrift Shop
Third Avenue
First Running Repairs Unit Christened In Axle Grease
Thursday evening twelve students entered the Kroger-Jonas Garage for the Motor Transport Unit initiation in Running Repairs. An instructor outlined the Ford firing order as 1, 5, 4, 8, 3, 6, 2, 7, predicting it would appear on the final.
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First Avenue
95Th Street
Kroger-Jonas Garage
Seniors Tea For Language and Arts Faculty
The Senior Class hosts a second tea in the College Parlor next Friday from four to five thirty p m in Valentine motif. A gypsy fortune teller will circulate among guests. All seniors are invited and asked to avoid sports clothes.
Decide Dates For 42 Show
With the Junior Show set for April 18 and 19 the project moves into rehearsal next Monday Casting began last Thursday and continues until Friday when the final cast will be chosen All class members are urged to try out for the show regardless of talent The revue titled Grandma Called It College will be a three act production Continued on Page 3 Column 4
Betty Price Becomes First Barnard Student in CAA Pilot Program
Betty Price class of ’41 is the first of two women in a group of twenty University students chosen for pilot training by the Civil Aeronautics Administration. Her selection followed scrutiny of physical vigor and academic record as she shifts from government and economics to aviation. The program covers ground and flight work including civil air regulations meteorology and navigation with plans for Betty to become a private pilot.
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Betty Price
Civil Aeronautics Administration
Betty
CAA
Defense Forum set on War Impact on European Masterpieces
The next Defense Forum, in cooperation with the Finerts department, will address war effects on European museum works. Miss Agnes Mongan of the Fogg Museum Harvard will discuss War and the Fate of Works of Art. She witnessed Louvre treasures being packed during the Munich crisis.
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Next Defense
Fense
Finerts
Agnes Mongan
Benefit Opera Manon Raises 1700 For Charity
A benefit performance of Manon at the Metropolitan Opera House raised 1700 dollars. Of this, 825 went to the British War Relief Society and 875 to Barnard Scholarship Fund, plus a 50 dollar anonymous gift to Barnard College. Attendees included Dean Virginia C. Gildersleeve and guests such as Lady Fletcher and Cole Porter. Box holders held luncheon parties at Sherry's before the show.
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Robert P. Rhoads
British War Relief Society
Barnard
Barnard College
Manon
Metropolitan Opera House
Richard Crooks
Jarmila Novotna
Ezio Pinza
Wilfred Pelletier
Virginia C. Gildersleeve
Lady Fletcher
Godfrey Haggard
Dean Gildersleeve Addresses National Crisis For College
Dean Gildersleeve will address the entire college today at one o clock in the gymnasium on Barnard and the National Crisis. President Butler is absent. students should bring Blue Books and join in singing after the address. Seniors to wear caps and gowns.
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Dean
National Crisis
Dean Gildersleeve
Barnard
Nicholas Murray Butler
Theme of 1941 Greek Games Dedicated to Aphrodite
Sophomores and freshmen stage the 1941 Greek Games with an Aphrodite theme on April 4. Entrance shows Atalanta won by Hippomenes using Aphrodite’s golden apples. Lyrics for the main piece due February 19. 43 and 44 class lyric chairs named. Seven points awarded to the writer’s class. pageant to enact Hippomenes triumph.
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Aphrodite
Atalanta
Hippomenes
Grace Sherman
Diana Hansen
Organize Courses In First Aid Auto Repairs Mapmaking
One hundred eighty seven Barnard students have enrolled in the new national service program announced by Dean Gilder sleeve on February 3. Registration for noncredit courses in first aid motor transport office work diet and canteen ends yesterday. The Red Cross leads first aid training totaling 24 hours with an exam for a certificate. Office work training covers filing indexing telephones and basic commercial law. The running repairs unit studies car parts engines tires and simple servicing. Additional groups meet today and Thursday at 7:30 p m under Miss Georgiana C Remner with Professors Henry A Boorse and John J Swan directing the drafting and technical drawing components.
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Barnard
Gildersleeve
American Red Cross
Red Cross
Motor Transport Service
Georgiana C. Remner
Department of English
Four Month Mortarboard Drive Ends With Record Subscriptions
Mortarboard drive ends with 420 subscriptions, a seven year high and one hundred more than last year. Sandwich men campaigned through Barnard last Wednesday asserting the yearbook will debut between April 21 and May 1. Editors remind that 75 percent of payments must be received by March 1.
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Mortarboard Sandwich
Barnard
Jake
Milbank
Mortarboard
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Barnard Hall
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Han
Mittees
Dorothy Blondel
Richard L. Blum
Clifton Fadiman
Mary Henderson
Sidney Jewinson
Bettina Peterson
Amy Schaeffer
Dorothy Smith
David S. Muzny
John S. Karling
Zenia Sachs and
Sue Whitsett
Elizabeth Price
By Clytia A. Capraro
Mr. X
Henry A. Boorse
John J. Swan
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