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Newspaper
Barnard Bulletin
Location
New York, New York, United States of America
Date
Feb 27, 1940
Page
1
The Barnard Bulletin is published semi weekly through the college year by Barnard College students for the Undergraduate Association. It is entered as second class matter October 19, 1928 at the New York NY post office under the act of March 3 1879. Subscription rate is 3 00 per year or 10 cents per copy.
Fragmentary OCR text lists names and editorial board members including Fiore, di, Parricia, Anson Elizabeth Smith, associate editors, andHelen Kandel 42 Elizabeth Koenig 42 Marion Pratt 40 Zema Sachs 42 Naomi Sells 741, suggesting a college or school newspaper masthead with staff credits.
The Vocational Committee and Occupations Bureau plan meetings at Barnard to help students discuss career questions with experts. They address the job scarcity and the challenge of choosing a specific field, noting that clear qualifications and deliberation aid undecided students.
Weather aside, campus posters urge undergraduates to donate to Community Chest. The campaign frames donations as civic duty with playful allusions to Jiminy Cricket guiding students away from vanity. Contributions are urged across campus corridors.
A humorous tale from Hewittites centers on a quarrelled couple. The boy drives to Miami in anger, remorse prompts a long distance call, and a witty operator quips an extra charge for poison to poison calls.
A reader brings a BULLETIN and praises a celebrated column claiming a misattribution. The writer concedes a guest piece appeared in Tuesday’s paper and hints Maggie Push will return, while noting Washington's birthday looms and the truth sits on their back.
The note recounts Oswaldo a two year old coatimundi in New York City with a drooping ringed tail on what would be his first and possibly only birthday. The article presents the animal’s fate and citywide sentiment about holiday vacation proposals.
A dated dialogue recounts Oswaldo the raccoon antics at home watched by the Sweetsers and suggests shifting holidays from Thanksgiving to Easter for a longer break. Readers debate Easter versus Thanksgiving vacations with various personal opinions and a humorous note about Oswaldo’s capers.
A 1940 era note contrasts Disney's Pinocchio with Jean Renoir's La Bete Humaine. both screen visions dwell on the human mind from opposite ends, one dreamlike and playful, the other stark psychological drama. The writer muses on Broadway audiences seeing these two titles together.
A winter Saturday crowds the Forty-ninth Street scene as Pinocchio dazzles with Disney artistry and Monstro the whale terrifies. The piece praises Colucci and warns Pinocchio’s film softness, then reviews La Bete Humaine by Renoir as a moodful but flawed adaptation of Zola, noting acting gaps and overreached tension.
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