Dorothy Harrison elected to lead Barnard Honor Board chair
Dorothy Blarkson was elected chairwoman of Barnard Honor Board succeeding Kitty Brehme. The office recently raised from class B to class A, reflecting growing duties. Harrison, with prior roles as Junior Class President and Barnard representative to the National Student Federation, faces an emphasized leadership burden in student affairs.
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Dorothy Harrison
Kitty Brehme
Chari
Dorothy Blarkson
Honor Board
Harrison
Ideal Mind Sketched By Dean Woodbridge
Dean Woodbridge cites Gilbert Murray as an example of an ideal intellectual mind. He argues true education elevates contact with great minds like Sophocles and Montaigne over years of schooling and stresses ready assessment of questions before forming opinions.
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Dean Woodbridge
Gilbert Murray
Woodbridge
Ursday
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Imay
Allan Ical
Professor Van Hook Draws Year-Long Leave for Athens Post
Professor Lakus Van Hook will be on leave from Columbia for the 1930-31 academic year to serve as Annual Professor at the American School of Classical Studies in Athens Greece He will also assist with the Agora Commission excavation of the ancient market place in Athens and oversee plans to remove current buildings on the civic site Arrangements with Greek Premier Venizelos have been completed and other American scholars join the Agora Commission including Peabody Weld Capps Chase Robinson and Burt Mer t
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Columbia
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Athens
Greece
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Agora Commission
Haveeen
Venizelos
van Hook
Athens School
America
Peabody
Boston
Board of Trustees of the
American Schools
Winsor Weld
Edward Capps
Princeton
George HI. Chase
Trarvard
Edward Robinson
Metropolitan Museum of Art
B.D. Mert
Michigan
Dewey to retire from Columbia University
Professor John Dewey will retire from Columbia University at year's end after twenty five years. He will devote himself to writing and is noted for work in philosophy education and social progress. The university announced appointments for next year including Giuseppe Prezzolini visiting Italian professor and William Langer visiting history professor. Sixty faculty members receive leave of absence for the next year with several named for winter and spring terms.
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John Dewey
Columbia University
Columbia
Dewey
William James
Ile
League For Independent Political Action
Republic
Guiseppe Prezzolini
William Langer
Harvard University
Carlton J. H. Hayes
Robert S.woodworth
Robert Boas
Raymond C. Moley
Edwin R.A. Seligman
David S. Muzzey
James ©. Bonbright
John Coss
Sound Opinion on Student Fellowship Election Changes
The Student Council approved a three fold ballot to gauge undergraduate opinion on the Student Fellowship. It asks approval of the fellowship, subscription intention, and views on pledge collection methods with a comment space on the ballot. If votes are low, further action will be decided. Fellowship holders must provide three reports to the President of the Undergraduate Association.
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Student Counel
Benefit Performance of Parsifal for Barnard and Bryn Mawr
A Parsifal benefit will be staged at the Metropolitan Opera House on Wednesday evening April 16 to aid the Barnard and Bryn Mawr Summer Schools for Women Workers in Industry. Tickets are on sale at the venue and here.
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Metropolitan Opera House
Tena and
Bryn Mawr
Opera House
Last Days For G.G. Ticket Sale
Tickets for Greek games are on sale today and tomorrow in the little Parlor. The sale is limited with only a small number of seats left. Prices are $1.25.
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G.G
Stark
Helios
Writers at Wrnter Club hear Langdon-Davies on public taste
The event at Casa Italiana featured Mr Folin Langdon-Davies arguing that writers should create what the public wants. Helene Mullins read selections from Balm in Gilead while Charles Recht performed humorous verse from Manhattan Made. The audience reaction varied as Langdon-Davies critiqued American censorship and foiled expectations.
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Helene Mullins
Gilead
Folin Langdon- Davies
Wrnter Club
Casa, Ital
Charles Recht
Manhattan
Funtor Show Delights with Broadway Style Musical
The Sturdy routine junior show by Florence fleaty drew a large audience of faculty students and patrons. Marion Kahn led scenes with a sure-fire briskness as music in blues waltzes and comedy numbers carried the production. Staging transformed the boards with glimpses of S. S. I. Q. seville caves moonlight and charm while dancing girls love songs and sentiment kept a pleasant mood from start to finish.
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Florence Fleaty
Brinkerlots
Cting
Mullins
Baldwin
Latham
Aliss Weeks
Marion Kahn
Brinkerhoff
Second Symposium on Religion to Open March 26
The Columbia Department of Religious Advisers announces eight meetings at Earl Hall in a second symposium series. Prominent speakers from Catholics, Protestants, Judaists, Quakerism, Hinduism, Buddhism, and Christian Science will discuss liberal and fundamental views in an open forum. Several hundreds of student questions from the first symposium last October will be addressed.
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Francis PL Duffy
Earl Hall
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