April Fool Quiz Sparks Office Spoofs and Jitterbug Gaffe
A crowded room watches Henry Lee Smith portray Professor Preston in a playful April Fool prank. Faculty members including Kurt Forsimeyer and Gladys Archard stumble through quotes and jokes as students and staff react with uneasy humor while attempting to sing The Merry Widow Waltz.
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Henry Lee
Tiger Rag
Smith
Thomas Preston
Proud Parent
Peardon
Pot
Prosor
Canada
Jimmy Dorsey
Ding
Ari Shaw
Kurt Om Forsimeyer
Gladysachard
Mabel Foote Weeks
Helen Page Abbott
American Istory
Tryg
Dogfish Dodge Vivisectionists in Laboratory Alarm
The Zoology department tightened guard over the laboratory after Barnard and Pennsylvanian students caused damage. Alleged acts included twenty five goldfish at Hallahd and about thirty live dogfish at Alma Mater during a lab period.
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Barnard
Vith Hallahd
Franklin
Marshall
Barnart
Barnard Bund Demonstration Calls for Anschluss at Columbia
A Barnard Bund rally of over 80,000 students at Barnard Hall urged uniting all people of unknown origin with Columbia College and Law School. Fritz Spitz led chants praising an Anschluss with Columbia and attacked American lies, calling for one college and one dormitory polity.
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Butler
Columbia
Barnard Bund
Barnard Hall
Fritz Spitz
Brooks Hall
Hudson
Barnard
Spitz
Washington
Alumnae Notes Reflect on College Worth and Occupation Office Stats
The occupation office reports alumnae views on college value and shows 87 percent on WPA, 13 percent unmarried, 1 percent married, with many unaccounted for. The statistics reveal wandering alumnae and marital status patterns from the current year.
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Asestsairtn
Pbesesetene
Plans for Spring Dance Cancelled Amidst Quiet Turmoil
The article notes no Spring Dance this year as the Chairman of the yearly shindig refuses comment. A Chamber maid denies plans, claiming officials prefer muddling their affairs. Proctors in black maintained order while splintered crowds watched. Bubbles Gubbles offered a quip on the rally’s mood.
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Bubbles Gubbles
Giant Panda Escape Frights Bronx Campus
A missing giant panda from the Bronx Zoo has been spotted in Barnard College’s Jungle area. Barnard student Miss Cutupa Crayfish first reported a friendly bear, mistaken for a teddy bear, near her lap. Dr Sitsmore of the zoo worries over the panda’s longing for home after escaping its cage.
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Bronx Zoological Garden
Barnard College
Barnard Zoology
Sitsmore
The
Zoological Garden
Bronx
Startling Library Numbers Racket Busted
District Attorney Flewey says Rinny P Lines led a students' numbers ring at Hia Weed Library. She and accomplices traded boxes of numbers while distractors hummed songs and a hidden librarian listened. Lines claimed innocence and joked about poultry rackets.
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D. A. Flewey
Barnard Library
Hia Weed Library
Flat Foot Flewey
Rinny P
Pan
Flewey
Pussyfoot Shushnell
Shushnelda Allsee
Hereyes
Binny
Greek Follies to Celebrate Pan in April at College
A joint Greek Games committee meeting decided the April show would honor the god Pan. Tyrone Power is slated to play Pan with Echo and a dancing chorus while Sophomores perform feats to celebrate the deity. Tryouts for the chorus are next Wednesday at noon in the gym.
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Pan
Bacchus
Cupid
Dead
Tyrone Power
Echo
Dead Pan
Paris
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