Columbia President Reviews 1952 54 Academic Years
Millicent C. McIntosh reports to Columbia President Grayson Kirk on 1952 54, calling these years dramatic in education. She cites threats to intellectual freedom, outlines curriculum and teaching changes, interdepartmental courses, senior seminars, and cross teaching resources, including drama in English and a new elementary teaching training plan.
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Grayson Kirk
Columbia University
Millicent C. McIntosh
McIntosh
Columbia
New York Fund For Children
Council Adopts New Procedure In Appointing
The Student Council on February 14 approved a new interview system to select posts for lesser known students. The first three chairmen chosen are Sarah Fisher, Beatrice Steiner, and Merle Skoler, with roles in Foreign Students, Freshman Orientation, and Transfer Orientation. Candidates discussed plans in private, and successful ones received contact lists for recruitment. Unsuccessful candidates may still obtain posts after demonstrating interest. The council will notify applicants earlier in the future to allow better idea preparation.
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Jake
Sarah Fisher
Beatrice Steiner
Merle Skoler
Student Council
Hadas to Speak on Morality in Greek Tragedy Series
Professor Moses Hadas of Columbia will present the second in a Barnard series on Greek culture tomorrow at 1 pm in Minor Latham Drama Workshop. He will discuss morality and Greek tragedy, author of Ancilla to Classical Reading and a Three Greek Romances translation.
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Barnard
Moses Hadas
Columbia
Latham
Hadas
Emory College
Georgia
University of Cincinnati
O.S.S
North
Africa
Greece
Helen North
Elections Determine 1956 Senior and Sophomore Class Presidents
Last week’s elections chose Anita Favata and Margo Lyons as presidents for the senior and sophomore classes, while the junior class president race remains undecided with a runoff between Janet Gottlieb and Miriam Kurtz to be announced later. The senior vote totaled 116 ballots and Favata campaigned on posting job opportunities and vocational talks on the bulletin board. Lyons won with 117 votes from the 58 in the sophomore race, proposing stronger student government participation and greater publicity for Barnard conference attendances.
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Anita Favata
Margo Lyons
Janet Gottlieb
Miriam Kurtz
Jake
Cynthia Bachner
Miss Favata
Jean Houston
Selma Tennenbaum
Miss Lyons
Representative Assembly
Barnard
Instructors Lead Modern Dance Workshop at Barnard
A Barnard physical education and Teachers College program sponsored modern dance workshop last Saturday in the Barnard gymnasium. Miss Margaret H Doubler led lecture discussions and demonstrations. Attendees included dance students and teachers from metropolitan area schools, with planners Margaret Holland Marion Streng and Richard G Kraus.
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Barnard Physical Education Department
Teachers College
Barnard
Margaret H’doubler
University of Wisconsin
Margaret Holland
Marion Streng
Barnard’s
Physical Education Department
Richard G. Kraus
Three Colleges Enter Fencing Match Here
Barnard will fence Bryn Mawr and Goucher in the Barnard gym on Saturday March 19 at 11 a.m. Barnard's fencers include Bessie Carasculas Astrid Twadell Barbara Anson Harriet Heit and Judy Jost. The match is an annual event with Goucher invited this year. spectators are welcome.
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Barnard
Bryn Mawr
Goucher
Barnard Gymnasium
Bessie Carasculas
Astrid Twadell
Barbara Anson
Harriet Heit
Judy Jost
Barnard-Bryn Mawr
Mundy challenges medieval bans on ideas at Barnard talk
John H. Mundy, Barnard College history associate professor, argued in a Noon Meeting that medieval intellectuals resisted external policing of thought. He said individual freedom from conformity persisted and that knowledge itself shaped moral choices, citing Abelard and St. Thomas Aquinas on reason and revelation.
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John H. Mundy
Barnard College
Mundy
Dr. Mundy
Abelard
St. Thomas Aquinas
Tennenbaum Wins Honor Board Post Heavey Leads AA
Edith Tennenbaum 56 was elected Honor Board chair and Liz Heavey 06 became AA president in a low turnout race. About four hundred ballots were cast, with Tennenbaum defeating Louise Sadler 56 and Heavey defeating Joan De Fato 66 and Judy Jost 56. Tennenbaum urged expanded honor system transparency and judiciary review, while Heavey proposed yearly student clubs to replace fixed committees and adding AA activities to freshman orientation.
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Tennenbaum
Heavey
Edith Tennenbaum
Liz Heavey
The
Athletic Association
Louise Sadler
Barnard
Liz
Joan de Fato
Judy Jost
Miss Heavey
C U S C Conference Features Lectures by Artists and Scholars
Columbia University Student Council announces speakers for a three symposium conference on The Place and Future of the Creative Arts in America. Noted artists and scholars including Salvador Dali, Fannie Hurst, Elmer Rice, Morton Gould, Bosley Crowther, Harriet Van Horne, Doris Humphrey and Sigmund Spaeth will speak at Low Memorial Library and Casa Italiana, with tickets $1.00.
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Columbia University Student Council
America
Low Memorial Library
Norris Houghton
Barnard
Louis Untermeyer
Lawrence Langner
Theater Guild
Salvador Dali
Fannie Hurst
Elmer Rice
Morton Gould
Maurice Valency
Otto Luening
Casa Italiana
Philosophy Hall
Bosley Crowther
Harriet van Horne
Doris Humphrey
Sigmund Spaeth
Douglas Moore
Columbia
Alumni House
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Council
Prof
Favata
Sophs
Lyons
B.C
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