Ten Years Ago at Barnard Columbia and Student Council Notes
Ten years back Tuesday assembly by the Athletic Association discussed athletics and the new Barnard Camp at Bear Mountain. Sophomores imposed rules on Freshmen including long hair tied with yellow ribbon and a large yellow number plate.
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Athletic Association
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Bear Mountain
Representative Assembly
Queen Marie of Romania
Columbia
Butler
Board of Trustees
Dean McBain Debates Supreme Court Checks Under the New Deal
Dean McBain discusses proposed limits on Supreme Court power, arguing that any curbs aim to protect Congress while risking states’ rights. He cites three main ideas: veto removal, re enactment override, and mandatory unanimity for unconstitutionality rulings, noting potential future momentum and the Hoosac case as a catalyst.
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Dean McBain
Congress
Hoosac
College Clips Hill Billy Diary
A diary entry notes heavy rain and a birthday gift of a new gun with repeated mentions of hunting being blocked by rain. The fragment ends with a violent line about shooting a grandmother and a rhetorical question about rain stopping. The Niagara Index and Penn State Froth are cited as sources noting University of Pittsburgh players receiving foreign language credit for English.
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Hill
Grandma
Niagara Index
University of Pittsburgh
Penn State
Boomerang Tennis and School News Tidbits
A Harvard tennis court uses a gutter to return balls during practice. King's College London starts England's first autonomous journalism school. Middlebury drops Latin and Math as entrance requirements. Temple University's assets rose by $6,000,000 over ten years. A Drexel math professor mocks syllogistic logic with a paradox: a poor lesson is better than nothing, and nothing is better than a good lesson.
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Harvard University
Associated Collegiate Press
King’s College, London University
England
Drexel
Vasiliev to Speak On Ancient Culture
Noted linguist and scholar Vasiliev, honored by the Kingdom of Belgium in 1933, will discuss ancient culture. He will lecture at Princeton University's Summer Seminar in Arabic and Islamic Studies this summer, with tea served afterward in the College Parlor.
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Barnard
Philolexian Society
Columbia College
McMillin
Politics Club
Howard McBain
Department of
Public Law
Columbia
Christopher Morely
Keats
Blake
Walt Whitman
Emily Dickinson
Doctor Alsop
Kingdom of
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Heas
Institute of Bantine Studies of
Belgium
Brussels
Princeton University
Gertrude
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Eustis
Middlebury College
Temple University
Philadelphia
Vasiliev
Salance
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Lan
Bran
Tobscoe Company
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