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Newspaper
Barnard Bulletin
Location
New York, New York, United States of America
Date
Mar 22, 1932
Page
2
A Toronto newspaper notes the leap year event where debutantes invite their young men to attend a spinsters dance. The ladies plan to arrange flowers and initiate courting, described poetically as an ingenious scheme.
Lafayette fraternity men staged a joke on a professor by placing a fake bomb at his door. Police responded with buckets of water, grappling hooks, and long range firearms to test the device. The submerged object revealed one and a half alarm clocks, two tubes of toothpaste, and a pencil on a Polytechnic Reporter.
Wilkins, president of Oberlin College, announced a new three year general college for non professional students. It aims to train students in living with intelligence and goodwill across earning, citizenship, recreation, philosophy, and religion.
Students at the University of Berlin select their professors by a six week study period before the semester opens to analyze and compare potential instructors. This Skidmore News item notes the independent student review process and timing.
A collage of joke taglines mocks exams and product pitches. Notable mentions include Cremo Fleischman Yeast Listerine Chesterfield Mason Confectionery and Absorbine Jr referencing humor about exams and consumer goods in a period ad vibe.
The disciplinary board states hours depend on student health and scholarship. Women who maintain high scholarship and physical fitness may gain extra time on weeknights and on Saturdays. The piece notes that those deemed physically buoyant but fatigued or deficient in study may be restricted. Adelphi Fortnightly.
Professor Mornet of the Sorbonne addressed a major meeting on March 17 about L Education d une Jeune Fille Fran caise d Aujourd hui. He traced the status of the French girl from the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries to the present.
Kari Lawrence reports a split in U S education leaders after a Progressive Education Association meeting. One faction favors selective leadership training for a gifted minority, while the Democratic group seeks universal opportunity and leadership potential for every child. Frederick J Reyes and Miss Brown cited. Kelley urged protection of each child's personality as a core right.
Kathleen Roderick serves as dormitory president and represents dormitories at social functions. She cooperates with the House Staff and the undergraduate government on resident student matters and sits on the Student Council. Other dormitory officers will be elected at the House Meeting the first Thursday in April.
Professor Hayes discussed education as a right and traced Europe’s influence on the Western world. He argued against arbitrary period divisions, urges considering social and economic backgrounds, and noted historians need linguistic tools and a sense of humor.
George Welwood Murray Graduate Fellowship, created in 1930 with an annual value of 750 dollars, funds a year of graduate study for a Barnard College graduating senior who shows promise in the humanities or social sciences. If no financial need exists, the fellowship is allocated like the Duror Fellowship.
The Spanish Civilization class presents a photographic exhibition of Golden Age paintings from Velasquez Murillo El Greco and Zurbaran in the Spanish Room 145 Hewitt Hall March 22 31. The college is invited to attend.
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