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Newspaper
Barnard Bulletin
Location
New York, New York, United States of America
Date
Mar 27, 1936
Page
8
A rambling reminiscence describes a dinner party with students, actors, and workers dancing and playing Whoopee. The narrator criticizes internationalism and warns of a jingoistic drift as war looms, mentioning Hearst, Oxford Pledge, and various nations amid social antics.
The Saturday Club audience watches a lecture by Mr and Mrs Gather featuring provocative slides. Images titled My Mother's glasses on the table and My Uncle Three Oranges and a Nude Going Up Stairs spark discussion about social unrest in Freesia. Tea and apricots end the cultural afternoon.
Article reports Jasmine Fleur elected Sunday amid applause. It notes her leadership roles in school, including head of the Committee of Twenty-Five and later Representative Assembly during her junior and senior years.
The campus press faced sharp backlash after an anti-Schaeffer for senior president campaign failed. Editor Diana Hirsh authored pieces attacking campus squirrels, prompting faculty anger and a threat of further Bulletin staff action as the college awaited the next move.
Fragmentary OCR notes reference F. P. A. and A. P. F. with Walter O Keefe Walter Winchell and Walter Lippmann plus phrases You know exactly what we mean with you and me and stinking Ethiopians The World cleaned up but a new Civilian War is implied by gar bage men of the United Front present company excepted
A campus clash over a star based attendance system outlines four prohibitions on star placement in grades. The plan forbids stars aligning with Alabama or course enrollment numbers and suggests playful substitutes like rose tokens for absences. Voting on this program will occur next Leap Year with three ballots labeled Approve.
A Barnard College forum features Letitia Hellson condemning swing as propaganda and incompatible with jazz ideals while Marion Barkhurst defends it and praises masters like Louis Ellington and Duke Armstrong. Eleanor Linkman counters with intellectual support for swing, noting Rudy Lombardo and Guy Vallee as palatable options. The debate ends with no final conclusion on swing’s place in modern rhythm.
Cartoonish notices detail Freedom Unioners tea costumes 1776 and squaw costumes, College Wealth Committee breath drive, Barnard N Y A chair tactics, new party name Get Togethers, Freshman shindig at 304 Barnard with Jews Harps, bar nard song, seniors cap orders, Tree Day on Chewsday, Junglian Sword planting, and an SPCA sponsored puppet-like event.
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