Medieval Studies and Comparative Literature Courses Planned
The university announces two new courses for next year Medieval Studies 1 2 and a Comparative Literature course linking modern French poets with English Irish and American literature. These will be run by individual tutors with a structured honors style program and reading in museums and city resources.
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Rimbaud
Baudelaire
Mallarme
Petrarch
Dino Bigongiart
Wilhelm Kaun
Goethe
Sturtevant
Eugene H. Byrne Ory
Helen H. Lurst
Profession Lawrence
Inifred Sturdevant
Foreign Policy Still Leads Poll For Peace Assembly Topics
A poll by Student Council and Barnard Bulletin shows American Foreign Relations and the Neutrality Act remains first choice for the Peace Assembly on April 20. Seventy six votes for that topic follow fifty four for Possibilities for Attaining Peace in the Present World and forty nine for The Conflict between the Dictatorships and the Democracies.
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Student Council
Barnard Bulletin
United States
Student Action For Peace
Refugee Committee raises funds for Barnard student support
The Refugee Student Committee reports over four hundred dollars raised toward a one thousand dollar goal to aid a Barnard refugee student. The campaign highlights Adamic’s view of refugees from Germany as largely skilled professionals, many Bauhaus members, and notes about one half of the 700,000 wishing to leave Germany are Jewish.
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Refugee Student Committee
Barnard
Mabel Houk
Louis Adamic
America
Germany
Bauhaus
Dessau
France
Holland
Switzerland
England
Czechoslovakia
Moore To Lecture On His Opera The Devil and Daniel Webster
Professor Douglas W. Moore will present a musically illustrated lecture on his new folk opera The Devil and Daniel Webster at a college assembly today at 1 10. Vocalists Bruce Boyce and Mrs William Mitchell assist with the composer at the piano. the work debuts April 20 at the American Lyric Theatre with Stephen Vincent Benet credited on the libretto.
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Douglas W. Moore
the Devil
Daniel Webster
Bruce Boyce
William Mitchell
American Lyric Theatre
Stephen Vincent Benet
Moore
Sinnott to Lead Hybrid Botany Zoology Study at Columbia
Dr. Edmund Ware Sinnott, Barnard botany chief since 1928, will leave next year for a Columbia project uniting botany and zoology to explore developmental genetics. He will work with Prof L C Dunn and supervise students, while lecturing on Principles of Genetics and teaching two graduate courses.
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Edmund Ware Sinnott
Barnard
Columbia
University
Sinnott
L. C. Dunn
Columbia Zoology
Morgan
Harvard
Australasia
Connecticut Agricultural College
Sigma Xi
Phi Beta Kappa
Student petitions set six Honor Board candidates
Fifty signatures are required for nomination to each Honor Board chair position among six candidates Anne Grauer Julia Gray Anne Meding Kathryn Sheeran Virginia Wodtke and Irma Zweigel all seniors of 1940 The Undergraduate Association rules limit signatures to fifty and require them within forty eight hours No signer may back two petitions All nominees have extracurricular activity in their records
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Office of Honor Board
Anne Grauer
Julia Gray
Anne Meding
Kathryn Sheeran
Virginia Wodtke
Irma Zwergel
The
Athletic Association
Deborah Allen
Marie Boyle
Louise van Baalen
Mortarboard
Bulletin
Irma Zweigel
International Relations Club
Quarter
Women to take larger role in public affairs says Gildersleeve
In the Times World’s Fair section Dean Gildersleeve argues women will increasingly work outside the home and direct community services. She says training in humane studies and technical skills will expand as women shape national and international affairs for their families and communities.
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Dean Gildersleeve
Times
Miss Gildersleeve
Students Elect 1939 Undergraduate Association Officers
Margaret Boyle Ruth Taubenhaus and Joanne McQuiston were elected president treasurer and secretary for 1939 40. Ballots totaled 505 for president 442 for treasurer and 411 for secretary with elections held Thursday and Friday 10 am to 3 pm. Installation set for April 18. Boyle praised by outgoing leader and Taubenhaus and McQuiston expressed happiness and commitment.
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Margaret Boyle
Ruth Taubenhaus
Joanne McQuiston
Miss Boyle
Jean Allison
College Song Lyrics Contest Launched by Barnardites
The College Song Leaders open a lyric contest for Barnard students with a noon Thursday meeting in the Little Parlor. Two weeks of judging by faculty will select top lyrics for possible musical setting, with the best song to be performed at College Assembly on April 18.
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Wilhelm Braun
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By Jean Ackermann
Eis Board
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Land and Building Fund
Barnard Hall
A.A. Board
Representative Assembly
Mortarboard Literary and Circulation
Dean
Times Supplement
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