Dr Wynne to Speak at Barnard Health Assembly
Shirley W Wynne New York City Commissioner of Health will address Barnard College on March 18 at 1 30 pm The talk covers preventive medicine disease prevention and noise reduction reforms in city health services He will receive gym credit and attendance counts toward the Physical Education Week.
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Shirley W. Wynne
New Yorkey
College Assembly
Wynne
Public
Better Times
Dr. Wynne
Barnard
The
Athletic Association
Frank Olmstead Decries Religious Indifference
Frank Olmstead laments student attitudes toward religion during a lecture at Milbank Chapel. He cites surveys from Washington Square College showing only a small fraction maintain vital faith while most are indifferent or opposed to religion, and warns of clergy misfit types in the ministry.
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Frank Olmstead
Hts
Milbank Chapel
Teacher’s College
Washington Square College
Olmstead
Jesus
Campus Flag at Half Mast for Former President Taft
College comptroller announces campus flag will fly at half mast for thirty days in memory of William Howard Taft, former U S president, who died on Saturday March 5th. Proclamation aligns with national mourning declared by President Hoover for the popular leader.
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Taft
Stearn
William Howard Fajt
United States
Hoovers
Eligibility Committee seeks part time secretary aid
The Eligibility Committee proposes hiring a paid secretary for three hours weekly to handle technical and mathematical tasks. Betty Gaw chair says the new system increases clerical load and makes it hard to monitor undergraduates. A secretary would improve filing, allow better case checks, and help assess prospective appointees' capacity. The council weighs requiring eligibility clearance before office. current rules let a girl win offices after much work.
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Betty Gaw
Eligibility
Major choice guided by interest and natural bent says dean
Acting Dean Mullins told Sophomores that the two key factors in selecting a major are interest and natural inclination. He noted economic independence may shape some students’ choices, while the larger group often considers future use of their college course. Conferences will run March 12 to 22 for major guidance, with major slips due the week of April 1.
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Dean Mullins
Mullins
Columbia Psychologist Probes Happiness Findings
Columbia psychologist Dr. Goodwin Watson from Teachers College reports a study on happiness among 400 graduate students with an average age of 30. He finds intelligence does not determine happiness. love success and social engagement are more closely linked to well being and religion acts as a support for the happy.
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Goodwin Watson
Teachers College
Eis Hsueh
Columbia Varsity Show of 1930 Opens at Mecca Temple
A three way competition among singers ballet and orchestra marks the 1930 Columbia Varsity Show at the Mecca Temple. The pony ballet and Fanny Brice style dance deliver the high spots while dialogue relies on timeworn jokes and a missing book plot. The cast includes two leading men a villainess and a silver clad tap dancer performing amid a generic Egyptian theme. The orchestra provides adequate but not standout accompaniments.
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Pony Ballet
Columbia
Mecca Temple
World Wont Disarm Says Scott Nearing
Dr. Scott Nearing warned at McMullan Theatre that the London Conference failed to touch air, land, or naval armaments and that nations will not disarm but expand their munitions. He linked disarmament to industrial nations and noted 1929 peacetime arms spending and a larger US army than 1910. He cited Kellogg Pact signatories sending reps to London to decide war material needs.
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Scott Nearing
Mcmalan Theatre
Nearing
United States
London
Publicity urged for Eastern women's colleges
Mrs Ellinor Ten Broeck Tadi of Barnard told a College Tea audience about the need for publicity to boost endowments for the seven Eastern women's colleges Barnard Bryn Mawr Holyoke Radcliffe Smith Vassar and Wellestein. The Publicity Committee has operated since 1927 to attract funds without outside help. Endowments total about 36 million for women versus 318 million for men, though women's colleges do comparable work with less funding. Continued on Page 2.
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