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Newspaper
Barnard Bulletin
Location
New York, New York, United States of America
Date
Mar 28, 1930
Page
3
The class voted to abolish Senior Show and set Senior Week dues at ten dollars. Commencement events shift to Saturday with a new Barnard Hall Gymnasium Ball featuring supper outdoors and lantern decorations across campus and jungle paths.
Dr Reinhold Niebuhr spoke at St Pauls Chapel urging a practical religion rooted in fellowship. He stressed love of neighbor and imagination toward spiritual life, noting true equality comes from acting on what we profess and living by the universal truth of all men created equal.
The 1930 31 senior junior and sophomore classes announced nominees for class presidents. Elections occur Thursday and Friday. Senior candidates Evelyn Anderson Anne Gary Irene Staubach led by active campus involvement and Mortarboard roles. Junior nominees Madeleine Gilmore Mary Nelson Christianna Furse also highlighted by leadership in student government and activities.
A literary notice by Ethel Sturtevant praises The Barnacle Quarterly contributors Miss Healy Turner and Pierce for originality. Pelletier’s detective tale earns expert attention, while Sturtevant questions the taste of Genevieve’s seduction scene and notes comparable writers like Galsworthy Morley and Wells.
The Department of Household Arts at Columbia Teachers College reports a test on domestic ideals. It ranks a wife by dietetic knowledge economic skill and culinary ability detailing fashion sense and home management. The study promotes a self made wardrobe and thrift to keep a clean kitchen. Excelsior.
A Barnard meeting debated the value of Representative Assembly and elected a five member committee headed by Gladys Vanderbilt to redefine power between Representative Assembly and Student Council. The panel includes Dorothy Harrison, Sally Vredenburgh, Mary Dublin, and Margaret Ralph. The discussion urged clearer limits and possible power shifts to increase duties and oversight. Barnard faculty named Helen Foote and Meredith Olson to Junior Month posts as part of ongoing student service initiatives. Miss Foote, Saratoga Springs native, is an history honors student and honor board member. Olson, a Lake Erie transfer, studies sociology and has worked with the Grefell Mission in Labrador.
Dorothy Rasch business manager calls students to apply for spots on the advertising and circulation staffs. Applicants may visit the Bulletin Office on Friday or Monday between 12 and 1 for details and enrollment.
Sophomore entrance rehearsal scheduled in the gym. On Friday March 28 at 4 6 PM Meredith Olson named as alternate alongside Helen Foote for Junior Month duties.
The Second Symposium on Religion at Earle Hall will feature three viewpoints from Christian Science Protestant and Quaker traditions. Sessions begin at 4 15 pm and run one hour with Orwell Bradley Towne presenting Christian Science on April 1 on questions students ask. Towne, Williams College graduate, did grad studies at Harvard and has lectured in Economics at NYU while serving as English professor at Washburn College in Topeka Kansas. He was active on Boover's Staff.
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