Commencement address urges Class of 1939 to defend democracy
The message notes the harsher job market and global tensions since 1929 and 1939 graduates are urged to apply liberal education to practical challenges. It emphasizes citizen responsibility, participation in national life, and joining progressive forces to keep the United States a strong democratic presence abroad and at home.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Europe
Austria
Czechoslovakia
Spain
United States
Radios Bring Solitude to an End in Tomorrow
The writer envisions a future where portable radios negate loneliness. Poets like Keats and Wordsworth would abandon isolation for companionship from music and devices such as the Stromberg Carlson and Emerson, as people carry radios under their arms and share sound everywhere.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Keats
Stromberg-Carlson
Charlie McCarthy
Wordsworth
Emerson
Riverside Drive
People Line Up at Bell Telephone Building at World Fair
Visitors admired the Bell Telephone Building and its many telephones while waiting for lucky numbers to call relatives. Hundreds left disappointed, receiving consolation prizes and listening to others boast of calls to Uncle Adolph in Duluth and Cousin Newt in Butte.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Bell Telephone
Tucson
Arizona
Uncle Adolph
Duluth
Newt
Butte
Barnard memories hint at four years of college life
A montage of junior shows Greek games senior ball and moon lanterns plus lectures and banquets. Students recall lab mishap and Phi Beta Kappa moments, a cocktail party toast, a first job, and an undergraduate election.
Man and Machine Framed by City Street Scene
Readers reflect on civilization and man’s fate in modern life as a lone man races a streetcar at One Hundred and Thirteenth Street and wins, while other notes praise historical courses, a baby named Zoe, dorm life, and a Barnard transfer banquet with name mispronunciations.
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Broadway
One Hundred and Thirteenth Street
One Hundred and Fourteenth Street
Reader critique of a large streamlined art show
The essay condemns a vast 1 214 piece exhibit housed in redwood veneer, critiquing its democratic jury, selection quotas, and perceived lack of social conscience. It praises new sculpture and mid early 20th century moves while noting overall mediocrity and questions whether the display truly reflects contemporary American art.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Rome
Swing era notes and piano pieces in a music column
A column surveys swing era bands like Glenn Miller Tommy Dorsey Wayne King and Duke Ellington with notes on their styles and forthcoming sides. It also reviews Mozart Mendelssohn Haydn and Beethoven recordings and performers such as Pasquier Trio Anna Dorfman and the London Philharmonic with conductors Cited choirs and orchestras.
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Glenn
Island
Ellington
Charlie Barnet
Harlem
Artie Shaw
Columbia
Mozart
Robert Casadesus
Orchestra Symphonique
Paris
Eugene Bigot
Pasquier
Mendelssohn
Anna Dorf
London Yn Phony
Goehr
Haydn
Coumbia Broadcasting Symphony
Howard Barlow
Ernst Wolff
Deutsche Volkslieder
Beethoven Fidelio
Don Philharmonic Orchestra
Felix Weingartner
Sims
Bia
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Barnard Bulletin
Barnard College
New York
N. Y
Florence Dusrort
Elizabeth Price
Jutta Epwarps
Naomi Lershky
Paytuis Kenner
Elizabeth Smith
Shirley Ellenbogen
Geraldine Sax
Miriam Margolies
Miriam Weber
Jean Ackermann
Doris Prochaska
Ruth Blumner
Jane Mantell
Jane Goldstein
Rita Roher
Elizabeth Koenig
Naom Sells
Irene Lyons
Louise Volcker
National Advertising Service, Inc. College Publishers
Madison Ave
Cicada
Boston
Los Angeles
Sam Francisco
Barnard
M. FL
Professor Greet
Chem
J. Vv
L.H.A
G.A
T.C
D.S
C.H. Aks Naa
R. G
Sir Herbert Grierson
John Donne
M. P
M. K
M. H
J. B
Washington
M. G
R. C
V.R
Bulletin, Naturally
F. G
Mr. Hacker
Zoe
V. G
B. S
Eddie DeLange
Mrs. Mose
Eagle Eyed Finkle
Erskine Hawkins
Hawkins
Lionel Hampton
Denison
Chu Berry
Hampton
Goodman
Washington Square
Cab Calloway
Henry James
King Porter
Indiana
James
Claude Lakey
Les Browns
Glenn Mil
J. M
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