Ellis-Fermor speaks on English university life at college tea
Miss Ellis-Fermor, holder of the Sedgwick Rose and Yale student, delivered a detailed account of the Oxford system at a College Parlor tea. She contrasted English and American undergrad methods, noting Oxford’s two-track student groups, coach supervision, and emphasis on concentrated study over breadth.
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Miss Ellis-Fermor
Miss Fermor
Sedgwick
American Association of University
Yale
Oxford
Barnard Alumnae to Meet Winning Team in Col Gym Friday
Barnard's alumnae basketball squad will face the winners of the Smith Vassar alumnae game on Friday April 6 in Columbia Gymnasium. The Barnard lineup features ex-captains and managers, including Midge Hillas and Waters, noted for early 1910s varsity success and athletic leadership. Dancing will follow the contest.
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Barnard
Smith-Vassar
Columbia
Barnard Dominates Debates Over Government Owned Mines
Barnard defeated Mt Holyoke in a two to one decision on the question of federal government ownership of coal mines. Barnard’s team included Helen Regan and Eleanor Marples with Dorothy Ashworth as a speaker, while Mt Holyoke was represented by Doris Trevitt and M Gertrude Brown with Catherine Neéevius. Judges praised Barnard’s clearer arguments and stronger overall grasp, noting Ashworth’s cost chart and Marples’s regulation plan and Regan’s concise summation.
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Barnard
MT. Holyoke
Holyoke
Helen Regan
Dorothy Ashworth
Eleanor Marples
Ruth Bass
Helen Bradshaw
Springfield
Radcliffe
Gertrude Gottschall
Eleanor Phelps
Cicely Applebaum
Hannah Kahn
Dorothy Putney
Helen Williams
Ruth Barrett
Catherine Conor
Justine Wise
Esther Owens
Carolyn Shebbs
Arthur’ MacMahon
E. V. Frothingham
Henry R. Massey
Wellesley College
Katherine T. Devoise
Smith College
United Mine ‘Workers of America
Dorms Celebrate St Patrick's Day with floor shows
Brooks and John Jay Halls held St Patrick's Day festivities Friday evening. Brooks staged city themed floor performances with Subway winning first prize and Riverside Drive as honorable mention. John Jay had a card party with seven tables of bridge. Marion Kingman chaired the Brooks event.
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Brooks
John Jay Halls
St. Patrick’s Day
New York City
Fifth Avenue
the Bowery
Ellis Island
Subway
Riverside Drive
Brooks Hall
Warner Sugar
New York
Kingman
John
Benavente Entertained at Barnard Luncheon
Sefior Jacinto Benavente visited Barnard College on Tuesday, breaking plans to attend the ceremony at Town Hall then addressing a large Undergraduate Meeting at Students' Hall. He autographed plays at luncheon as faculty and students joined a campus tour of Barnard and Columbia.
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Sefior Jacinto Benavente
Barnard
Sefior Benavente
Miss Dorado
Benavente
Prof. Brewster
le Dic
Miss Gregory
Miss Weeks
Columbia
Undergraduate Meeting Sets Ruhr Resolutions Debated
An undergraduate meeting held on Tuesday March 20 in Room 304 nominating the Undergraduate President discussed Ruhr question resolutions urging economic pressure on France to withdraw from the Ruhr and revise Germanys reparations fund. The group postponed isolations until the French view is heard. A plan to send a three person debating team to England this summer was proposed with possible London debate against Columbia. Tryouts for the team are March 24 26 and 27 before the Dean and professors Seager and others.
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Ruhr
France
Germany
England
Columbia
London
Eleanor Phelps
Seager
Profes
Princess Santa Borghese on Italian women and suffrage
Princess Santa Borghese, just arrived from Italy, spoke at a Barnard Italian Club tea on The Woman in Italian Life. She notes Italian women cling to traditions and mostly reject voting rights, with exceptions in Catholic and Socialist groups and the Mussolini era showing some support for an administrative vote.
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Santa Borghese
Italy
Barnard
Mussolini
National Council of ‘Women
Welfare League
Associazione
Mezzogiorno
Ufficio Notizie
Bologna
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Edna Trull
Miss. Ellis-Fermor
Federal Government of
The
United States
Sefiorita Dorado
Princess Santa Borghese
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