Dickens Inscribed Book Sparks Powell Mystery at Columbia
A 1844 edition of Dickens's A Christmas Carol in a Columbia library collection prompted a search for its young addressee Frank Powell. Postings in the Saturday Review and press set off inquiries, leading Mrs. Dean Fenn of Montclair to identify Frank Powell as the Civil War casualty and son of Thomas Powell, who knew Dickens in London in the 1840s. The elder Powell described Dickens in his memoirs.
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Charles Dickens
Columbia
Frank Powell
Hilda Ward
Dickens
Frank
Mr. Dickens
Powell
Peckham
Saturday Review of Literature
The
Daily Press
Dean F. Fenn
Montclair
New Jersey
Virginia Powell
America
England
Brennan Explains Manns Enduring Idea of Light From Darkness
Joseph G. Brennan of Barnard University explains at a College Forum meeting that Thomas Mann's works center on light emerging from darkness. Brennan authored Thomas Mann's World and teaches Philosophical Implications of the Modern Novel, including The Magic Mountain.
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Thomas Mann
Joseph G. Brennan
Barnard
College Forum
Brennan
Mann
Hewitt Hall Bar Struggles to Draw Student Patronage
Miss Currier notes a second snack bar at the North Dining Room Hewitt Hall operates 9 to 10 30 p m nightly with coffee milk shakes ice cream cocoa cakes and candies. Yet Hewitt Bar underperforms compared with the Annex Snack Bar averaging ten to twelve cents per check vs about twenty two cents.
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Currier
Hewitt Hall
British Universities Offer Summer Study Opportunities
Five British universities Birmingham London Nottingham Oxford and St Andrews invite American undergraduates and graduates to join 1952 summer school programs. Courses cover Shakespeare and Elizabethan drama, British economic recovery, English education, Britain and the modern world, and life and politics in contemporary Britain with credit possible through the student’s home university. Fees range 168 to 201.60 dollars with optional Cunard travel. Applications to the Institute of International Education in New York.
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Birmingham
London
Nottingham
Oxford
St. Andrews
Cunard
White Star Line
University of Birmingham
University of London
England
University of Nottingham
University of Oxford
University of St
Student Poll on Social Calendar and Joint Dances
Freshmen discuss dance location and pricing showing concern over costs of Hewitt Room and decorations. Day students seek overnight facilities and lower prices. Suggestions urge more Columbia coordination to avoid calendar conflicts and plan joint or aligned events.
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Hewitt
Joyce Seidman
Barbara Perkel
Columbia
Frances Page
Reichard to Speak To College Women In Paris England
Gladys Reichard, associate professor of anthropology, travels to Paris to preside at the International Federation of University Women fellowship awards committee meeting on March 8. She has chaired the committee since 1947 and served on it since 1936.
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Gladys Reichard
Paris
International Federation of University Women
Reichard
London
Norwich
England
Swarthmore College
Columbia
University of Hamburg
Germany
Guggenheim Memorial
Barnard
N. Y. Academy of Sciences
Prague
Philip Mosely
United States
European Advisory Commission
Otakar Odlozilik
Thomas G. Masaryk
Emil Ransdorf
Social Council urged to unite campus activities at Barnard
A Barnard College social report proposes forming a Social Council to coordinate events across housing and class levels. It recommends a central committee with Day and Residence Halls chairs, four class chairs, a College Team chair, and an Athletic Association delegate to publicize opportunities and invite other schools. It envisions a renovated fourth floor cafeteria as a social center and subsidies to help day students secure near campus lodging funded by alumnae support. The plan also calls for revitalizing the Barnard Hall Social Committee with six juniors, six sophomores and six freshmen.
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Barnard
College
Athletic Association
Barnard Hall
American Friends Announce Varied Summer Opportunities
The American Friends Service Committee unveils summer projects ranging from work camps in North Richmond California to nursery renovations in St Louis and hospital attendants in Indiana and Texas. Internships in industry and agriculture span Philadelphia Chicago Kansas City Ohio and international sites in Mexico Finland Austria Germany and Italy.
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Sanford Kravits
New York
Richmond
California
Nursery Foundation
St Louis
Washington, D.C
Robeson County
North Carolina
Sioux Reservation
South Dakota
Logansport State Hospital
Indiana
Austin State Hospital
Texas
Philadelphia
Chicago
Kansas City
Ohio
Mexico
Finland
Austria
Germany
Italy
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112Th Street
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Boston
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