Freshmen urged to participate in Greek Games at meeting
A Wednesday noon class meeting outlined opportunities in the Greek Games stressing participation for all freshmen. Helen Dykema chaired music and noted she composed numbers for dances while chairmen for entrance, dance, athletics, and other committees explained how myths of Apollo would be integrated into performances.
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Helen Dykema
Charlotte Hagerly
Sally Pike
Katherine Horsborough
Jane Lotz
Gertrude Warner
Apollo
Gertrude Leddy
Lillian Wise
Elizabeth Russ Jones
Jean Rugg
Drama Class Stages 18th Century Comedy The Busy Body
Ten English drama students presented The Busy Body by Mrs Centlivre under Professor Latham. Patricia Purvis directed and briefly acted due to a cast illness as Georgiana Penner played the busybody with Constance Smith as the chambermaid. Cast included Susan Lockwood Jena Sleigh Aline McDougall St Clair Baumgarten Susanne Oglesong Betty Surince Sally Dermody among others.
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Latham
Patricia Purvis
Students Oppose War Form Union on Campuses
The National Student Committee’s resident bureau announces immediate antiwar actions across colleges, forming a speakers’ bureau and research group within the Struggle Against War network. Delegates from the Chicago congress report unity and call for mass action to avert imperialist war.
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National Student Committee
Student Congress Against
Chicago
Green International
The
Socialist Party
League For Industrial Democracy
National Student League
Columbia Anti-War Committee
Congress
Jane Addams
Miss. Addams
Industrial workers education discussed
The Social Science Forum heard Mrs. Jerome Nathanson recount the Barnard Summer School’s role in industrial worker education. She highlighted Bryn Mawr’s 1921 start, Wisconsin’s 1925 program, and Barnard’s 1925 effort led by Dean Gildersleeve with Ernestine Friedman, noting language, funding, recruitment, teaching staff, and visual aids as key challenges.
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Social Science Forum
Jerome Nathanson
Barnard
Nathanson
Bryn Mawr
Thomas
University of Wisconsin
Madison
Dean Gildersleeve
Ernestine Friedman
Board of Trustees
Rosenwald Fund
Emergency Relief Committee
Women’s Trade Union
Deadline for Greek Games lyrics submission
Freshmen and sophomores are reminded that January 16 is the final day for accepting entrance lyrics for Greek Games. February 10 remains the final day for submitting the winning lyric.
English Majors To Hear Grierson On Burns Talk
Professor H J C Grierson of Edinburgh and visiting Columbia lecturer will address English majors Monday at four in the College Parlor. He will lecture on Robert Burns and read his poems, followed by tea. Grierson, noted editor and scholar, authored Cross Currents and other seventeenth century works.
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H.J.C. Grierson
University of Edinburgh
Columbia
Grierson
Burns
Robert Burns
McIver to Address Alumnae on College Vision Talk
Lieber Professor Robert M. McIver will speak Monday evening January 16 in Brinckerhoff Theatre on Vision of a College for Women. The lecture covers his vast background in political science and sociology with ties to Aberdeen Edinburgh Barnard Toronto and Columbia. The faculty and undergraduates are cordiality invited to attend.
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Robert M. McIver
Lieber
Brinckerhoff Theatre
McIver
Aberdeen University
Scotland
Toronto
University
Canada
Barnard College
Edinburgh University
Oriel College
Oxford
Passmore Edwards
Carnegie Foundation
Toronto University
Royal Society of Canada
Dominion
Labor Commission
Barnard
Columbia
The Good Life Quest Twofold Says Professor Montague
Professor William Montague at the Tuesday assembly outlines the twofold search for happiness and relief from misery. He explains the law of increasing returns and urges concentrating good while spreading evil, praising insurance and condemning lotteries as forces in society.
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Professor. Montague
William Montague
Montague
Alumnae Talk At Psychology Club On Friday
Miss Emily T. Burr of the Vocational Adjustment Bureau for Girls in New York City will address the Psychology Club Friday January 13 at 4 15 in the Conference Room. She will describe her work with emotionally maladjusted girls and placing them in suitable occupations. Ada Shearon founded the club last October and is president with Natalie Monaghan as vice president Armory Dikijia as secretary Grace Chin Lee treasurer and Sue Foglesong publicity manager. Tea will follow and a general discussion. The college is invited.
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Emily T. Burr
Vocational Adjustment Bureau For Girls
New York City
Psychology Club
Miss Burr
Barnard
Bureau
Ada’ Shearon
Natalie Monaghan
Armory Dikijia
Grace Chin ‘Lee
Sue’ Foglesong
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Purvis
Smith
Remer
United Front
Industrial Workers
Madeleine Gilmore
Summer‘ School
Wisconsin
College
Professor Moore
Emily. T. Burr
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