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Newspaper
Barnard Bulletin
Location
New York, New York, United States of America
Date
Mar 03, 1931
Page
1
Barnard College student publication issued for the Undergraduate Association. Semi weekly during the college year with breaks for vacation and exams. Volume NAAY issue No 3 dated March 3 1931.
The document lists the editorial and staff members across departments including Editor-in-Chief Ruth Jacobus and Managing Editors Beatrice Saqui and Helen Block, with numerous assistant editors, copy editors, news board members, printing staff, business and advertising teams, and circulation personnel. Names include Hortense Calisher, Ethel Greenfield, Marg Sylvester, Florence Suskind, Celeste Jedel,Dorothy Rasch, and Ruth Levy among many others.
Editorial laments the Friday morning closing of a glamorous paper that for 48 years fought for progress and reform, never aligned with a party, and stood against injustice. It mourns the merger with Scripps-Howard’s World Telegram and questions identity beyond a masthead appendage.
The piece traces how Hebrew literature emerged within about a century, shaping modern Jewish nationalism and Zionism. It contrasts the struggle to live Jewishly at home with cosmopolitan life, noting the soul's indivisibility and the drive toward a solely Jewish environment in culture and politics.
The author argues that a true global union rests on shared intellectual interest rather than race, class, or ideology. He dismisses planned think tanks and congresses as unlikely to unite the intelligent across nations, urging gradual growth of appreciation for mental pursuits. (Continued on page 3)
Professor Montague discusses a neo-fundamental view of God as a cosmic clockmaker who set the universe and left it running. He notes anti entropic life forces and suggests cosmic rays may signal creation or birth energies, referencing Jeans and Millthin. He questions how to choose between modern deities amid these ideas.
Archaeologist William Bell Dinsmoor lectured on Hellenistic Athens and the decline of classical architecture, tracing from Demetrius through Roman influence. The talk, sponsored by the Classical Club with Dean Childersleeve, drew Columbia and Barnard faculty and featured Miss Weeks and Miss Gisela Richter among attendees.
The Writers' Club of Columbia University hosts a poetry symposium on Wednesday evening March 4 at 8 20 in the Casa Italiana. Joseph Auslander and Leonora Speyer plus other prominent American poets are invited to read their work with no set program. A discussion on modern poetry will follow and audience contributions are welcome.
Review notes Pirandello’s As You Desire Me presents a provocative theme about identity and reality though described as mainly a question on stage rather than a full play. Judith Anderson impresses as the Unknown One. other cast members fail to match the intensity.
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