Bernard de Voto Leads Living America Speaker Series
Bernard de Voto opened a series at International House on Living America sponsored by the Greater New York Council for foreign students and UN staff. Sundays feature diverse American life topics with figures like Estes Kefauver and Reinhold Niebuhr, speakers to be announced in later Bulletins.
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Bernard de Voto
America
International House
Greater New York Council
United Nations Secretariat
Far West
U. S
Reinhold Niebuhr
Bulletin
Notices Camp Open House and Junior Show Tryouts
Barnard Camp schedules mid year open house sessions with student leaders Grace Robertson Nancy Miller Rose Sgamato and Emily Klein with faculty lists to be announced sign up posters January 11 12 and 18 Dr Marjory Nelson sets final Senior Medical Examinations for January 28 seniors urged to book in medical office Senior physical education exemptions posted January 26 Tryouts for Junior Show February 2 4 4 to 6 pm 7 to 9 pm Brinckerhoff Theater book on reserve junior only No prior acting training needed juniors lead show secrecy emphasized
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Barnard
Grace Robertson
Nancy Miller
Miss Bize
Rose Sgamato
Emily Klein
Mrs. Phillips
Jake
Marjory Nelson
Brinckerhoff Theater
Miss Smith
Gym Department Announces Changes in Registration
Miss Margaret Holland of the Department of Physical Education announced changes to registration for Grek Games Athletics and Dance for sophomores and freshmen, with pre registration and posters on the gym south bulletin board to be removed in two weeks. Bowling is pre registration for upperclassmen only with a $6 50 fee.
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Margaret Holland
Department of Physical Education
Holland Gay
Red Cross
Change Plans Of 49 Games Central Theme
The Sophomore Greek Games chair Lynn Kang states radical changes this year. The outline emphasizes a unified myth centered on Hermes legends, birth, cattle theft, and Argus Io. A dramatic single story is planned with athletic and costume judges from Broadway.
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Lynn Kang
Hermes
Argus
Miss Kang
CUSC Plans Campus Co-op for Book Exchange
Columbia University announces a non profit student book exchange run by the Student Council. Books accepted from January 17 with sales from January 28 to mid February and payments to owners after the sale. Managers named Evan Barrington Don Golelski and Les Brooks.
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Evan Barrington
Don Golelski
Les Brooks
Teachers College
Cord Meyer of UWF To Address Barnard Students
Cord Meyer Jr national president of the United World Federalists will address Barnard students on the United Nations and its link to the Dutch situation Thursday from 4 to 6 p.m. in the College Parlor. He will discuss U N weaknesses and arms race control as part of his talk sponsored by the Government Department and Political Council. Meyer's age 27 and his recognition as a top young man of 1948 are noted along with his book Peace or Anarchy praised by critics.
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Cord Meyer, Jr
United World Federalists
Barnard
United Nations
Meyer
U.N
Dean McIntosh
Federalist Organization
Government Department
Beverly Beck Fuchs
Chamber of Commerce
College policy on student work during exams
The college states regular student jobs must be kept through year end to support services in dining halls elevators telephone service library and check rooms. Students who quit during exams will be replaced by outside workers who must be offered regular employment, creating difficulties for part time workers.
Theater Relics Go on Display at Milbank Hall
A display of theater posters programs and actor pictures from 1890 to World War I opened Friday January 7 in Milbank Hall Room 39 6 p m. Attending were former Dean Virginia C Gildersleeve Miss Louise H Gregory Dean Mary Nicholson and Miss Rebecca Rankin author of New York Worlds Capital City. Members of Columbia's Drama Department also attended. Pictures in Room 89 were given to Professor Layle Hook of the English Department by the husband of a Barnard alumna and will be kept in permanent display in Wigs and Cues Green Room.
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American Civilization and English Departments
Milbank Hall
Virginia C. Gildersleeve
Louise H. Gregory
Mary Nicholson
Rebecca Rankin
New York
Columbia
Layle Hook
Barnard
Cues
Dean to Speak to Freshmen and Majors Meet
Dean McIntosh will address freshmen at 1 10 pm in Brinckerhoff Theatre on Can One Combine Marriage and a Career The talk is part of the revised Freshman Hygiene course Modern Living Economics majors view two films at 1 pm on distribution of goods and housing in America in Conference Room followed by discussion History and Foreign Areas students meet at 1 pm in Milbank Room 3839
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Dean McIntosh
Brinckerhoff Theatre
America
Milbank
Department Plans Washington Trip for Barnard Students
Barnard College invites students to join a two section Washington D C trip to witness government in action. The voyage runs January 28 to February 1, 1949 with organizers Mrs Mary H Fairbanks and Mrs Louise Burr Gerrard guiding separate subgroups. Students should contact Mrs Fairbanks in Room 5 Milbank Hall before January 14.
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Barnard
Washington, D. C
Mary H. Fairbanks
Louise Burr Gerrard
Government Department
Fairbanks
Milbank Hall
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de Voto
West
Harper’s Magazine
Missouri
Middle West
United States
Estes Kefauver
Tennessee
South
Broadway
CUSC
Tom McGowan
Columbia University Student Council
Arid
American Veterans’ Committee
Veterans’ Affairs
Cord Meyer
UWF
Cord Meyer,jr
Brooks and Hewitt
Building & Grounds Dept
Department
Washington
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