Renais sance Thought Lectures Begin Series
Professor Paul O Kristeller of Columbia opens a lecture series on Renaissance thought with Philosophical Currents of the Renaissance. He surveys early scientific inquiry humanism Platonism Aristotelianism and scholastic survival as part of the Western civilizational arc.
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Paul O Kristeller
Columbia University
Latham
Kristeller
Assemblies Committee
Germany
Italy
Yale
Columbia
Gilbert and Sullivan Stage Patience in April
Barnard Gilbert and Sullivan Society presents Patience in early April with Evelyn Lerner as Patience and June Knight as Lady Jane. James Austin directs with Bunthorne played by Austin. Grosvenor is the stranger and former childhood sweetheart. The production features a twelve piece orchestra for the first time and costumes donated to the college. Principal cast includes Bob Cummings Grosvernor Leon Satian Colonel and Beveley Robinson as the Duke.
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Barnard Gilbert and Sullivan Society
Patience
Evelyn Lerner
June Knight
Lady Jane
Sarah Peitsch
England
Concens
Bunthorne
James Austin
Grosvernor
Socetys
Bob Cummings
Leon Satian
the Colonel
Beveley Robinson
the Duke
Students Analyze Political Activities In Foreign Lands
Speakers from Chile France Indonesia Norway and Saudi Arabia discussed "The Student and National Affairs" in a National Student Association program. Chilean law student Imogene Connor noted student lobbies shaping legislation while Indonesian graduate student Achmud Dyamal cited student action as foundational to national independence.
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Chile
France
Indonesia
Norway
Saudi Arabia
National Student Association
Imogene Connor
Achmud Dyamal
Columbia
England
Controversy Over Affiliated Clubs At Barnard Campus
The Representative Assembly meets today at noon to decide a proposed constitutional amendment about nationally affiliated groups. The Definitions Committee urged barring chartering and booths for such groups at events and limiting fund solicitations. Freshmen back a vote aligned with a class favoring affiliations. a student letter seeks a campus referendum.
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Representative Assembly
Definitions Committee
Barnard Undergraduate Association
Jake
Barnard
Clubs Council
Ganization
Assembly
Barnards
Houseman to Speak on Producing Shakespeare in America
John Houseman, director of the American Shakespeare Festival Company, will speak in the College Parlor at 3 30 p m tomorrow on Producing Shakespeare in America. The talk is sponsored by Focus and features a noted Hollywood and Broadway lecturer. Houseman organized two Federal Theatre Project units in 1953 and later formed the Mercury Theatre with Orson Welles.
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John Houseman
American Shakespeare Festival Company
Ted Hollywood
Broadway Candiles
Houseman
Federal Theatre Project
Mercury Theatre
Orson Welles
Ernest Gross Keynotes Annual P C Convention
95 college representatives debated American foreign policy at the Political Council conference panel sessions. Morning topics included Western Europe NATO unification and U N recognition of Communist China. Afternoon discussions covered New Nations Southeast Asia Middle East and Africa.
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China
United Nations
United States
Middle East
Political Council
NATO
Joseph C Hanisch
Washington
Chistian Science Monitor
Soviet Union
Far East
Nathaniel Peffer
Columbia
School of International Relations
Southeast Asia
South America
Africa
Objective of United Nations as Peace Coalition
Ernest Gross former Assistant Secretary of State defined the UN as a coalition of common interest and faith in the UN as an effective instrument. He urged American leadership and outlined foreign policy from the Near East Far East and the UN middle disarmament and foreign aid while warning against vague policy and overworded disarmament debates.
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United Nations
Ernest Gross
Ms Gross
Political Council
United States
Mi Gross
Near East
Far East
Palestine
Serious Cerf Opens Open Book Talk on Publishing
Firth Haring Cerf, introduced by Dr W Cabell Greet, spoke at the English majors conference last Tuesday describing publishing hazards and plagiarism waves. He cited Little, Brown buying a book from an Ohio prisoner and later finding the prisoner copied an older novel.
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Firth Haring Bennett Cerf
W Cabell Greet
Began
M. Cerf
Random House Pub
Minerf
Brown
Ohio State
Mr. Cerf
Scribner's
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Lisher
E B White
Charlotte’s Web
America
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Margaret Johnson
Random House
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