Columbia Alumni Reunion Honors Butler Speech and Talks
The Columbia Alumni Reunion Banquet at John Jay Hall featured President Nicholas Murray Butler in a nationwide broadcast. Speakers included John Erskine, Gano Dunn, McGregor, Lou Little, and Frederick P. Keppel sharing insights on education, science, and football future for Columbia.
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Columbia
Alumni Federation
John Jay
Nicholas Murray Butler
Butler
Columbia University
John Erskine
Gano Dunn
Miss P D Q Finds Cure In Mortarboard Ad
A humorous letter traces a student’s strange illness called Freshmanitis and its cure after subscribing to Mortarboard. The writer recalls initial shyness and social isolation before becoming popular with the Mortarboard staff and peers, thanking the publication for the life changing opportunity.
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Bhard
P. D
Villard to Speak on Russia at College Assembly
Oswald Garrison Villard, editor of the Nation, will lecture today at the college Assembly on Russia. He is known for the series Russia from A Car Window, which drew favorable notices. The Social Science Department and Forum invited him to speak.
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Oswald Garrison Villard
Nation
Assembly
Russia
Villard
Social Science Department
Social Science Forum
Dean Gildersleeve Departs for Sabbatical Leave
Miss Virginia Crocheron Gildersleeve leaves Barnard College on the eve of her fifteenth anniversary as dean aboard the S S Saturnia for a sabbatical. She sails to Naples visiting Alexandria Cairo Constantinople and Athens before a Nile trip and a donkey ride in the Valley of the Kings. She plans to be in England by May and return early September.
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Barnard College
Virginia Crocheron Gildersleeve
S. S. Saturnia
Miss Gildersleeve
Naples
Italy
Europe
West Asia
Alexandria
Cairo
Constantinople
Athens
Nile
Valley of the Kings
Egypt
England
South Downs
League Assembly Plans for New Haven Conference
The League of Nations Model Assembly will meet in New Haven April 25 26 with Barnard sending delegates. Yale President Angell chairs the advisory council and will welcome attendees. Debates will focus on compulsory peaceful settlement of disputes and sanctions against aggressors.
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League of Nations Model Assembly
Barnard
New Haven
Angell
Yale
Advisory Council For the Assembly
League Assembly
Sophomore Valentines Dance At The Gym
The Sophomore Class held its St Valentine Hop on February 14 in the gym with Dorothy Smith heading the Dance Committee and Elaine Hargrove as class president. Bert Kaplan’s Orchestra provided music as many sophomores and friends from juniors and seniors danced. invited guests included Acting Dean Mullen and Mrs Mullen.
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Dorothy Smith
Katherine Ames
Margaret Calory
Verginia Weil
Beatrice Serge
Elaine Hargrove
Helen Moody
Dean Mullen
Mullen
Miss Weeks
Margaret Holland
Kruger
Virginia Cook
Kay
Lavelle
Theodore Jackson
Bert Kaplan
Adler Says Crime Is an Escape in Psych Analysis
Dr. Alfred Adler, Viennese psychologist, spoke at McMillin Theatre on crime as escape from life’s problems. He linked criminality to lack of social interest and cooperation, noting the criminal seeks superiority and is insensitive to punishment.
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Alfred Adler
McMillin Theatre
Dr. Adler
Adler
Fellowship Holder Writes of England Fellows
An American observing the London School of Economics notes active political clubs across three parties. The Labour group is largest, reflecting faculty ties to government. Special study groups on issues like mines and unemployment are led by graduate researchers. Parliament style Union meetings occur monthly with outsider speakers. Conservatives motioned no confidence over unemployment. Parliament roompacked and doors crowded as in Westminster.
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London School of Economics
Labour Party
School
Fabians
Tondon School
Westminister
Prof Wayman To Take Sabbatical Leave At Barnard
Professor Wayman head of the Physical Education Department will take sabbatical leave in February 1930. Miss Lelia Finan will assume acting head duties during her absence while Wayman writes and travels in the early and later parts of the leave.
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Prof Wayman
Miss Finan
Professor Wayman
Barnard
Edman Urges Meditation on Ultimate Eternals
Professor Irwin Edman of Columbia urged religious meditation as guidance during the new semester at St. Paul’s Chapel. He said students face obscurity after the fall glamor fades and urged reflecting on transient life in terms of the eternal.
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Irwin Edman
Department of Philosophy
Columbia
St. Paul’s Chapel
Edman
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Katherine Brehme
Thelma Rosengardt
League
Patricia Wilson
Brooks Hall
Markloff
Champ Wallace
Mr. Lavelle
Radenbrick
Madeleine Russell
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