Revised Co op Book Exchange Opens Sales Next Semester
The Book Exchange Committee reorganized the former Cooperative Book Exchange and outlines operation for next term. Barbara Hyde chair says only second semester books are accepted and a schedule for drop off January 30 to February 2 and sale February 6 to 17 is set with weekly later hours. Volunteers are needed and prices depend on condition with a five cent service charge per book sold.
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Book Exchange Committee
Cooperative Book Exchange
Barbara Hyde ’50
Miss Hyde
History Forum Plans Events for Liberty Conference
History Forum announces a History Conference on March 10 and 11 with delegates from twenty five eastern colleges. Noted speakers include Harvard’s Ralph Barton Perry and NYU’s Sidney Hook, along with Columbia professors Commager and Barton and poet W H Auden.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Ralph Barton Perry
Harvard University
Sidney Hook
New York University
Henry Steele Commager
Jacques Barton
Columbia University
W. H. Auden
Camp Positions Open for Summer Counselor Roles
Students urged to contact the Placement Office for camp positions for the coming summer. Miss Ruth Houghton, Director, notes openings in private and organizational camps for specialty and general counselors. The Red Cross Life Saving Course will be held at Barnard through the spring semester on Tuesdays and Thursdays at 5 p.m. starting February 17.
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Ruth Houghton
Red Cross
Barnard
Physical Education
National Teacher Examinations Offered For 1950
The National Teacher Examinations sponsored by the National Committee on Teacher Examinations of the American Council on Education will be held February 18, 1950. Applications must reach Educational Testing Service in Princeton, New Jersey by January 20. A separate oral work in modern languages approval test will be given at Barnard on February 10 with details through Barnard Placement Office.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
National Committee On Teacher Examinations
American Council On Education
Educational Testing Service
Boards of Education
Princeton
New Jersey
New York
State Education
Barnard
Barnard Hall
Major exam review in progress at Bar nard College
The Faculty of Bar nard College created a major examination for the Class of 1947 in November 1940 and plans a 1949–50 review. A study on the exam’s educational value is underway, with decisions not affecting current seniors. Millicent C. McIntosh, Dean.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Barnard College
Millicent C. McIntosh
Barnard Freshman Posture Contest Winners
Stephanie Lam won Barnard College’s freshman posture contest held in the gym last Wednesday with Barbara Cosgrove as runner up. Judges included Dr. Clara Eliot André Mesnard and Dr. Harriet McCormick. Bettina Blake won the school leader’s posture contest.
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Stephanie Lam
Barnard
Barbara Cosgrove
Clara Eliot
André Mesnard
Harriet McCormick
Columbia University’s College of Physicians and Surgeons
Grace Grasselli
Bettina Blake
CUSC Elects WSSP Drive Recipient and Common Cause Debate
The Columbia University Student Council selects World Student Service Fund as 70 percent recipient of a February 12 to March 4 Relief Drive ending in a Dance at John Jay Hall. Funds also support the Columbia Foreign Student Loan Fund 5 percent National Scholarships for Negro students and Manhattanville Community aid. Common Cause members warn the Conference on Democracy in Education may be communist dominated and vow to oppose it on campus unless publicity is unfavorable to communism.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Columbia University Student Council
John Jay Hall
World Student Service Fund
WSSF
Columbia Foreign Student Loan Fund
Columbia
Manhattanville Center
Morningside Heights
Manhattanville
Conference On
Democracy In Education
Organization
Common Cause
Ted Price
Walter Nelson
National Common Cause
Price
Nelson
C.D.E
Dean to Speak On Family Life at Barnard Course
Dean Millicent C. McIntosh will join Barnard College as a lecturer for the second semester of the Modern Living course. She will discuss parent-daughter relations, making friends, joining the workforce, and marriage basics, with others covering dating, courtship, sex attitudes, and job opportunities for college women.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Millicent C. McIntosh
Barnard
Mirra Komarovsky
Gladys Meyer
Ruth Houghton
Dean McIntosh
Komarovsky
Houghton
New York Suffers Water Shortage From Extravagant Use
Professor Cornelia L Carey warns New York faces a water shortage as population growth and extravagant use deplete supplies. She argues for metering, conservation, and rethinking long term dependencies on water and nonrenewable resources amid a warming, drying climate.
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New York
Catskills
College Cuts Use of Water Initiatives Across Campus
In cooperation with city efforts to conserve water, Building and Grounds and several college departments launch projects to reduce wastage. Posters urge dorm residents to shut faucets tightly and curb water use. The Physical Education Department trims water in the pool per Professor Margaret Holland.
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Margaret Holland
New Columbia Name Chamberlain Dean of Columbia College
Professor Lawrence H Chamberlain a political scientist in the Columbia College Government Department since 1941 was named as the new Dean to succeed Harry J Carman. President Eisenhower announced the appointment. Carman will retire July 1 under university age rules and return to a full time history professorship.
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Lawrence H. Chamberlain
Columbia College Department of Government
Harry J. Carman
Columbia College
Dwight D. Eisenhower
Chamberlain
Columbia
Dean Carman
Herbert E. Hawkes
Regulation University
Moore Collegiate
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History Forum
Marion Strong
Basil Rauch
Commager and
Hook
America
Rauch
Lam
Blake
P. E. Department
CUSC
WSSP
Dean
Cornelia L. Carey
New Columbia
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