Barnard Forum Plans Take Final Form
Plans for this year’s Barnard Forum mark the thirty fifth anniversary of women’s suffrage with the theme Women in Politics Their Achievements and Their Opportunities. Guests include Mrs. Mary Tenison-Woods UN Commission on the Status of Women and leaders from the League of Women Voters and University Women.
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BC Forum
Barnard Forum
Waldorf-Astoria Hotel
Mary Tenison-Woods
United Nations Commission On the Status of Women
League of Women Voters
American Association of University Women
Blanche Olshak
Barnard Student Council
Millicent C. McIntosh
Thomas P. Peardon
Charles McKenzie
Mary Baldwin College
Lewis Froman
Russell Sage
Collage
Eleanor O’byrne
Manhattanville College of the Sacred Heart
Catherine Francis
College of St. Rose
Catherine Marie
College of Mount Saint Vincent
Société Francaise stages early medieval play and modern satire
La Société Francaise of Barnard and Columbia College presents Le Jeu d Adam and La Première Famille in the Minor Latham Drama Workshop on consecutive evenings at 8:30. Eve roles are played by Lisa Doty and Lisa Herzfeld. Cast includes William Schaffer, Jacques Chwat, Eugenia Noik, Nancy Sendler, Gizella Melman, Rebecca Young, Nancy Meth, Abigail Rothenthal, Monike Vanden Knesebeck. Faculty advisers are Prof. Andre Mesnard and Prof. Richard Arndt. Tickets sold at Jake and the box office.
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Barnard
Columbia
College Société Francaise
Adam
Jules Supervielle
Latham
Eve
Lisa Doty
Lisa’ Herzfeld
William Schaffer
Jacques Chwat
Columbia Société
the Adams
Eugenia Noik
Nancy Sendler
Gizella Melman
Rebecca Young
Ancy Meth
Abigail Rosenthal
Monike van Dem Knesebeck
André Mesnard
Richard Arndt
Columbia College
Jake
Mrs. Janeway Announces Seventh Annual Writing Prize
Barnard undergraduate writers compete for the $500 Janeway Prize for prose fiction or non-fiction. Judges include Mary Louise Atwell Albert Erskine and Hortense Calisher. Submissions due March 15 in three copies to the English department office.
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Elizabeth Janeway
Mary Louise Atwell
Reader’s Digest
Albert Erskine
Random House
Hortense Calisher
English Department
Auden to Lecture on Poetry and Personal Becoming
W H Auden will deliver the first of three Religion 26 lectures at 9 tomorrow in room 385 Milbank. The Oxford chair of poetry, elected last week, discusses poetry as the affirmation of personal being and becoming.
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W. H. Auden
Milbank
Achilles
Ursula Niebuhr
John Stewart
Government Department
Barry Ulanov
Medical exams requested for all freshmen and sophomores
All freshmen and sophomores must sign up for medical examinations in the Medical Office room 202 Barnard Hall. The examinations are required for all students.
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Barnard Hall
Amended Elections Rule Passes in Student Assembly
The Representative Assembly approved changing class election voting from majority to plurality except for president. The change becomes part of class constitutions after prior approval by sophomore junior and senior classes.
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Representative Assembly
Toni Coffee
Barnard
Barbara Schwartz
Dartmouth
Hanover
New Hampshire
Eisenhower
Jake
Brooklyn Poly Technical Institute
St. George Hotel
American College
Alumnae Appeal Sets 110000 Dollar Goal
The Bar nard Fund alumnae appeal aims for 110000 dollars, a ten percent rise from last year's 100000 goal. So far 30000 in advance gifts have been received toward the 1956 target, with over 6000 net from a January 3 Pipe Dream benefit.
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Rodgers and Hammerstein
Joy
Barnard President outlines dorm and library growth plans
President Millicent C. McIntosh spoke in a State of the College address about expanding Barnard College to handle rising enrollment by 1970. She noted a new dorm and a larger library are planned, with site near Brooks Hall, Hewitt, while preserving the current dorm ratio and exploring independent study credits.
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Barnard
Millicent C. McIntosh
Brooks Hall
Hewitt
Killin and O’connor
Princeton University
Frosh and Sophs Plan Entrance for Greek Games
Plans for this year’s Greek Games allow all freshmen and sophomores to compete. Four points go to the class with the larger percentage entering. ties share points. Attendance at one entrance rehearsal, dress rehearsal, and the Games is required. A poster on Jake lists interested participants. The entrance story centers on Prometheus stealing fire to bring order and meaning to human life.
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Jake
Prometheus
Mount Olympus
Earth
Barnard Allege Scholarship Deadlines Set For 1956 57
Miss Jean T. Palmer announces deadlines for Barnard Allege Scholarship and loan applications for 1956 57. Forms available in Room 117 Milbank and due by March 1. Parents of Class of 757 must file waiver letters for the $100 tuition increase at the President's Office by March 1.
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Barnard Allege
Jean T. Palmer
Milbank
Psych Club Lectures Explore Recent Experimental Findings
The Psychology Club at Barnard initiates weekly Tuesday noon lectures featuring Barnard professors and Columbia graduate students. Robert Thompson leads on February 21 with a talk on brain damaged animals and a new theory of schizophrenia, followed by Donald Cook on February 28 discussing experimental verification of psychoanalytic theory.
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Barnard
Columbia Graduate
Robert Thompson
Donald Cook
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