Mortarboard status debated at Bulletin committee meeting
The Bulletin committee proposes returning Mortarboard to junior yearbook status with funding pledged by sophomores. If adopted the Undergraduate Association would no longer cover any deficit. Miss Latham criticizes formalism and favors a spontaneous junior expression akin to earlier Barnard functions. (Continued on page 4)
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Bulletin Committee
Miss Latham
Barnard
Mrs Meyer Guest At Menorah Luncheon
Mrs Alfred Meyer a Trustee of Barnard College was guest of honor at the Menorah Luncheon on Thursday Dean Gildersleeve introduced her noting she did much to interest people in starting Barnard She spoke on the college founding and obstacles to carry out the founders plan She recalled a 1883 petition by 1400 people to Columbia to open doors to women and the initial steps toward collegiate courses and degrees for women
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Alfred Meyer
Barnard College
Dean Gildersleeve
Barnard
Leyer
Quarterly Magazine Distinction Hyped by Fairchild
Hoxie N. Fairchild’s editorial for the December number of the Quarterly argues the publication should represent the college’s best literary talent. It should be written by students who know how to write and read by students who know how to read, warning against subsidies diluting campus life.
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Ernest Hemingway
Gene Stratton Porter
Genaitis
Direct Action Urged by Student Congress Against War
Seven hundred delegates from forty-two states and two hundred fifty colleges gathered in Chicago for the Student Congress Against War to push immediate action against war. The group formed a New York bureau to organize a national campaign and backed policies including abolishing R O T C pledges and opposing militarist misuse of college facilities. The assembly also endorsed relations with the Soviet Union and support for the World Congress Against War, while noting tensions between liberal ideals and practical standards in college publishing.
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Chicago
Harvard
University of California
New York
Congress
Soviet Union
United States
Latin America
American Committee For the Struggle
Pledges Due January 20 Prompt Students to Register
Announcement from the Dean's office warns that any student who has not paid her Student Fellowship pledge by January 20 will be barred from spring registration unless a time extension letter is provided by the registrar. Applications for extension must be sent to Gertrude Rubsamen, Student Mail, by January 20.
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Gertrude Rubsamen
Madeleine Gilmore to Speak at Social Science Forum
Madeleine Gilmore formerly of the class of 1932 will address the Barnard Summer School for Workers in Industry at noon in room 408. A general discussion on Workers Education will follow. all interested are urged to attend.
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Social Science Forum
Jerome ‘Nathanson
Madeleine Gilmore
Barnard
Barnard Alumnae Tea Hosts Stage Notables
Fully half of Barnard attended an Alumnae tea honoring stage celebrities held January 4 in the College Parlor. Guests included Blanche Yurka Maureen Delaney and May Craig of the Abbey Theatre plus Broadway figures such as Ernest Lawford and Dorothie Bigelow. Several Barnard trustees alumnae and faculty were present. Jane Wyatt was unable to attend due to rehearsal.
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Barnard
Blanche Yurka
Lysistrata
Troilus
Cressida
Lucrece
Miss Yurka
Maureen Delaney
May Craig
Abbey Theatre Players
Philip Ben Greet
United States
Vivian
Annie Nathan Meyer
Barnard College
Alice Duer Miller
Earl J. Hadley
William L. Duffy
Helen Erskine
Alumnae Association
Rhoda Erskine
Newton
Anita Kahn Block
Theatre Guild
Hans. “Bruno ‘Meyer
Arthur L. ‘Walker
New York Little Symphony
Ernest Lawford
Christopher Bean
Dorothie Bigelow
Anne Erskine
Chrysalis
Miss Barker
Group Theatre
Mabel Garrison
Metropolitan Opera ‘Company
Richard Mansfeld
Hatcher
Hughes
Columbia
Jane Wyatt
Singing Plan Opens With Montague and Moore Roles
Professor Montague of the philosophy department will speak at 1:10 PM on The Geometry of the Good Life. Douglas Moore, who chose the new songbooks, will conduct the singing. Montague and Moore will attend a noon luncheon in Barnard Hall Dean's dining room.
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William Pepperell Montague
New York
St. . Paul’s Chapel
Montague
Douglas Moore
Moore
Columbia Orchestra
Barnard Mourns Death of Miss Charlotte Baker
Barnard College trustee Miss Charlotte S. Baker died December 23. She joined the board in 1909 and chaired the Buildings and Grounds Committee during Barnard Hall’s planning. A former associate principal of the Spence School, she taught art history and contributed wide building expertise and travel-informed taste.
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Dean Gildersleeve
Barnard
Charlotte S. Baker
Baker
Barnard Hall
Spence School
Spence
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