Debate on Liberal Education and the Post War World
Columbia College Professor J P Bradley Queens College Dean Young Smith and Dean James K Finch debated liberal education aims. Barzun argued education should enable self-education via tutorial groups and lectures while Bradley pressed for a democratic curriculum and citizenship. Finch urged value in work and leisure learning. Edman favored reading great books with social context and electives. Smith and Finch critiqued fixed curricula, seeking mental qualities over specific courses. D. T.
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Government Department of
Queens College
Young Smith
Columbia University Law School
James K. Finch
School of Engineering
Barzun
Bradley
Dean Finch
Edman
Dean Smith
Auction of Lost and Found Items Next Tuesday
Items collected in the lost and found department will be auctioned Tuesday February 29 at noon in the Conference room. Auctioneer Ethel Weiss will offer umbrellas notebooks fountain pens purses eyeglasses jewelry and hats with proceeds to the Undergraduate Association. Last year’s sale netted ten dollars.
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Lost and Found
Comptroller’s Office
Ethel Weiss
Opportunities To Volunteer For War Efforts This Week
The War Activities Committee will press a drive for 1000 pounds of scrap paper including newspapers magazines and te nutes. The Red Cross calls for volunteers for clerical work at the New York Bolch Bank. Audrey Brown 743 can provide information or hours. A WAC drive led by Hope Simon will collect trinkets and castoff jewelry for soldiers barter among natives, to be distributed by the Navy League after Barnard departure. Book Week begins March 6 launching a new campaign for books for the armed services under the WAC.
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War Activities Committee
Jake
Navy League
Barnard
Armed Services
W.A.C
Student postwar seminar leaders announced for Wooster event
Dr Ordway Tead leads a forum on postwar student issues with educators from the American Board of Foreign Missions World Council of Churches and the National Labor Relations Board. Talks cover church work student labor interracial understanding vocation and personal faith.
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American Board of Commissioners For Foreign Missions
Henry S. Leiper
World Council of Churches
Sibley
National Labor Relations Board
New York City
Winburn Thomas
Student Volunteer Movement
Japan
Richard Hudson
Student Christian Movement
New York State
Shirley Sexayer
Barnard
University Christian Association of Columbia University
St. Paul’s Chapel
Earl Hall
Miss Seabury
Feld
Wooster
Patricia Warburton
Barnard “44
U.C.A
Hyla Stuntz
Union Theological Seminary
National Intercollegiate Christian Council
Elvera Jaborg
Christian Association
Hunter College
Barnard Student Election Reform Urged by Undergraduate Chief
The Undergraduate Association president criticizes the voting process at Barnard urging clearer communication to students. He cites ignorance of elections and nomination machinery as causes of low turnout and proposes better candidate introductions and earlier warnings before March elections.
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Undergraduate Association
Barnard
Jake
Undergraduate
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