Physics Professor Henry Boorse Acts as Acting Dean
Barnard College announces Professor Henry Boorse will serve as Dean of the Faculty during Professor Thomas P. Peardon’s spring semester leave. Boorse, executive officer of the physics department for nineteen years, is an expert in low temperature physics and has conferred with the Atomic Energy Commission and major contracts.
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Henry Boorse
Barnard
Thomas P. Peardon
Boorse
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Committee
Columbia University
City College
United States Atomic Energy Commission
Navy
National Science Foundation
Manhattan District
Empire State Foundation fund report shows four-year total
The Empire State Foundation reports $657,300 in contributions from 143 corporations over four years. President Millicent C. McIntosh notes gifts support member colleges to improve programs, salaries, scholarships, and equipment. For 1955-56 contributions totaled $298,000, up over $100,000 from 1954-55, with a 1956-57 goal of $500,000.
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Millicent C. McIntosh
Assembly Studies Proposed Change For Nominations
The Constitutional Revision Committee will present revisions to the Representative Assembly on February 13 and 20. Proposals include adding Honor Board Chairman and Athletic Association President to nominating offices, replacing speeches with qualification readings, and adjusting nomination counts. Town Meeting Chairman duties may move to Political Council chair. open slate election for Political Chairman is proposed.
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Constitutional Revision Committee
Representative Assembly
Honor Board
Athletic Association
Town Meeting
Political Council
Educator Discusses Teaching Values at Colloquium
Dr. Philip H. Phenix of Teachers College argues education centers on teaching values. He says teachers must choose a value scale before instruction and that indoctrination is unavoidable, with guidance shaping a student’s future freedom and judgments.
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Philip H. Phenix
Teachers’ College
Phenix
Dr. Phenix
Asia and the West Forum at Barnard Ninth annual event set for February
The ninth Barnard Forum themed Asia and the West will be held at the Waldorf Astoria on February 16 with speakers Santha Rama Rau Barbara Ward and Columbia's Grayson Kirk. A separate campus policy now allows Columbia College students access to Barnard HallLibrary after 6 pm with only a bursar receipt, as a plan for a new 2 million dollar library proceeds.
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Asia
the West
Waldorf-Astoria Hotel
Santha Rama Rau
Barbara Ward
United States
Grayson Kirk
Columbia University
Sue Warfur
Barnard
Columbia College
Barnard Hall
Columbia
Morningside Heights
Madison Avenue
Artist and City loan exhibit to open February 14
Dr. Julius S. Held presents The Artist and the City a loan exhibition in the James Room featuring 17 paintings and a sculpture from artists including John Marin Jack Levine Lyonel Feininger and Dorothy Dehner It runs February 14 to February 28 sponsored by Barnard Fine Arts Department highlighting Marin s Phantasy of Brooklyn Bridge and other urban works.
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John Marin
Jack Levine
Lyonel Feininger
James Room
Julius S. Held
The
Fine Arts
Barnard Fine Arts Department
James
Marin
Phantasy
Brooklyn Bridge
Nominations Assembly Seeks Undergraduate Officers
The Nominations Assembly for undergraduate officers will be held Tuesday February 19. Students wishing to run for President Vice-President Secretary Treasurer Honor Board Chairman and Athletic Association President should submit their names to Ann Lord as soon as possible.
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Athletic Association
Ann Lord
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Joseph Floch
Loren MacIver
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