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Newspaper
Barnard Bulletin
Location
New York, New York, United States of America
Date
Mar 18, 1941
Page
3
About 200 students attended a University Peace Conference at Columbia to discuss keeping America out of war and preserving democratic rights on campus. A committee was elected to continue the policy from the charter adopted at the meeting.
After a five week trial period, 18 sophomores and 28 freshmen are selected to dance in the 1941 Cheek Games on Saturday April 3. Sophomores include Aranow Bouvier Borgenicht Clapper Earle Meers Friemus T] wimoe Libera Javesay Margolin Monsky Neill Me Grace Quinlan Ingles Vans Agnew Hedleskey. Freshmen listed are Bankoff Rand Carroll Cowth DeGeorge and others.
Count Carlo Sforza will address an all college assembly at 1 10 this afternoon in the gymnasium on The Present War and the Future of Europe. He will discuss his experiences as an Italian diplomat and as leader of the democratic opposition to Fascists and his escape from German occupied France in 1940.
Dr. Gustav Reese, renowned medieval music authority, will preview a Gregorian concert by the Choir of the Pius X School of Liturgical Music at Manhattanville College on March 21. The main concert occurs March 26 at St Pauls Chapel, with support from the Committee on Medieval Studies and Dean Gildersleeve.
Seniors who have not yet ordered stockings must fill out cards for graduation orders. Cards are available from Marjorie Lawson 1 through Student Mail and due back by Wednesday. Stockings cost 79 cents per pair in all lengths and sizes.
Doris Bayer of the Undergraduate Association and Jane Devonshire are named among candidates for Honor Board chairman for the coming year. The slate also includes Zenia Sachs but Sachs declined the nomination.
Grace Barrett and Zenia Sachs are nominated for the Bulletin editorship. The Representative Assembly and Bulletin staff will elect the new editor at the March 31 meeting. The pair will write trial editorials in the next three Bulletin issues.
Dr. Robertson lauds Miss Highsmith for Legend of the Convent of Saint Fotheringay comparing it to Sir H. White and pre Baconian science. Notes playful translations of legends and hints at further research into Rhoddurrinnei and Saint Fotheringay.
Dr. Henry Sigerist argued that medicine seeks social adjustment as well as cure. He traced medical progress and noted diseases shift with income, citing tuberculosis among Negroes as economically driven. He cited mental and venereal diseases and premature deaths, urging greater advances.
Anthropologist Oliver La Farge told IRC last Friday that democracy can survive only as a positive, aggressive doctrine. He warned democracies and dictatorships cannot coexist and urged the United States and Britain to unite to halt spreading tyranny, citing Europe from Italy onward. He warned Americans undervalue their freedom and elbow room under the American system.
Joann McQuiston Mary Milnes and Charlotte McKenzie elected presidents of the senior junior and sophomore classes for the 1940 1941 academic year. Marjorie Madden named residence halls president and Jean Ackermann alumnae president with Prury as vice president. Election totals show 155 votes from class ’42 143 from ’43 and 151 from ’44 for a dorm total of 200.
Professor William B. Dinsmoor of Columbia University will address the club on Summer in Athens 1939 at 4 p.m. in 304 Barnard today. Tea will be served at 5 as the college invites attendees.
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