Mass Action Trend Discussed By Columbia Professors
Government History majors hear Professor Gerald T. Robinson explain mass action replacing individualization. He warns of an industrial system so complex no one can manage it leading to economic collapse. Professor Holling notes government growth and farmer crop control as signs of the shift.
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Gerald T. Robinson
Columbia History Department
Robinson
Professor Robinson
Hewitt
Harry L. Holling
Primavera Ball Held Tonight at Barnard Hall
About fifty couples will attend the Primavera Ball on the fourth floor of Barnard Hall with guest of honor Tullio Carminati. The Il Circolo Italiano sponsors the event with Rhythm Club Orchestra providing music for a $2.00 dance.
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Barnard Hall
Tullio Carminati
Il Circolo Italiano
Rhythm Club Orchestra
Claire Murray
Agnes Cassidy
Margaret Gabriel
Marjorie Ashworth
Barbara Yacubovsky
Consumers' Club Plans New Cooperative Store
The Morningside Heights Consumers' Club headquartered at 550 West 116 Street announces a cooperative retail store opening near Columbia University at 503 West 121st Street. It will offer packaged groceries fruits cigarettes and toilet articles and be open all day. Members include Ruth Frankfurter and Shirl Rothenberg Barnard '38. further information from them.
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Morningside Heights Consumers’ Club
West 116 Street
Columbia University
West 121St Street
Consumers’ Club
Ruth Frankfurter
Shirl Rothenberg
Barnard
Infantile Games Take Barnard By Storm As Spring Arrives
Ruth Hershfield reports on a springtime street game craze in New York where children and amateurs play Potsy on sidewalks. Players aim to toss flat tokens into boxes, hop between lines, and retrieve the token without crossing lines, amid boisterous rivalries and improvised rules.
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Barnard
Ruth Hershfield
New York
Claremontine
Athletic Association
Dean Gildersleeve Reports From Canada Trip
Miss Gildersleeve, president of the International Federation of University Women, returns to Barnard from a vacation in Arizona and Canada. She spoke on University Women Face a Troubled World, detailing Canadian views on a possible European war and the Padlock Law in Quebec amid religious tensions between Catholics and Protestants.
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Virginia C. Gildersleeve
Barnard
Arizona
Canada
Europe
Toronto
Miss Gildersleeve
International Federation of University Women
Ottawa
England
Quebec
Montreal
Gildersleeve
Canadian Broadcasting System
Dean Addresses Freshman Class at Barnard
Dean Gildersleeve spoke to the freshman class in Brinckerhoff Theatre about the four teen point group requirements to be completed by the end of sophomore year. She argued for a dispersed diversified two year program and against survey courses to avoid superficial understanding. The first group of cultural subjects includes languages viewed as essential for literature, art, culture, and communication. The Dean emphasized mastering English and learning other languages to understand cultures and people.
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Brinckerhoff Theatre
Gildersleeve
Barnard
Harvard
Greek Games Entrance Plot Revealed at Rehearsals
The Greek entrance drama features Nickaeus who confronts Artemis worshippers after killing Artemis' guardian. A noble maiden sacrifice is demanded before absolution is granted. Rehearsals began March 23 with pupil trials for Nickaeus and notes on group choreography.
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Nickaeus
Apollo
Artemis
Caroline Duncombe
Miss Strong
Student Fellowship Day Raises $759.54 Toward $1,000 Goal
The Student Fellowship drive nears its goal with $759.54 raised to date. Receipts from last Wednesday totaled $20.79. Plans for larger fundraising are tentative, with a fruit cart considered as a future engagement.
College Assembly Showcases Dance Rhythms and Techniques
The Physical Education Department stages a Tuesday college assembly featuring fundamental dance technique, rhythm training and movements. Miss Margaret Holland, Miss Marion Strong and Miss Jane Harting direct demonstrations in folk and tap dancing, plus modern dance pieces created by students.
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Anger
Margaret Holland
Marion Strong
Jane Harting
Glee Club
Music Club
O Connell Calls Lincoln Brigade Aid in Peace Drive
Representative O Connell of Montana urged a Sun Dial mass meeting of students to press immediate passage of neutrality legislation to aid Spain. Speakers included Harold Urey Molly Yard and Jack Coughlan as debate linked neutrality to defeating fascism and war.
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Students of America
Jerry J. O'Connell
Montana
Sun Dial
Harold Urey
Bradley
Abraham Lincoln Brigade
Spain
Molly Yard
American Student Union
William Spafford
National League For Peace and Democracy
Jack Coughlan
Columbia
The
O’connell
United States
Germany
Italy
Hitler
Mussolini
Congress
College Editors For 1938 39 Outline Policies And Aims
Irene Lyons reports on Barnard College editors Fiora Ginsburg Miriam Weber and Anne Grauer outlining aims for Bulletin Quarterly and Mortarboard They seek criticism and suggestions and plan to focus on Barnard and national student activities Ginsburg promotes women in journalism and politics while Weber proposes a literary club in Barnard and Quarterly
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Irene Lyons
Bulletin, Quarterly
Mortarboard
Fiora Ginsburg
Miriam Weber
Anne Grauer
Miss Ginsburg
Bulletin
Barnard
New Yorker
Ments
Emily Turk
Miss Grater
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G. T. Robinson
Mary McBride
Donald Read
Teresa Carbonara
Guiseppe. Prezzolini
Dino Bigongiari
Howard Marraro
Carminati
Paris
Dean Gildersleeve
Dean
Urey
ASU
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