Plan for Columbia Festival of Contemporary American Music
Columbia University will host its second annual Festival of Contemporary American Music from May 10 to 13 at Morningside Heights. The event, sponsored by the Alice M. Ditson Fund, features premieres and works not yet performed in New York, with Martha Graham ballets opening the festival and a NBC broadcast concert on May 11.
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Columbia University
Alice M. Ditson
Morningside Heights
Douglas Moore
Columbia
Department of Music
Walter Piston
New York City
Moore
New York
Martha Graham
National Broadcasting Company Orchestra
Charles Ives
Mordecai Bauman
Juilliard School
Edgar Schenkman
Bear Awards Chang Baer Brown Prizes
Bear announces prize winners for the Spring issue. Atta Baer won for her story and Diana Chang for her poem. Phyllis K Brown wins art prize though her work was an inside cut. Essay prize not awarded as submissions were unsuitable. Bear invites new contributions for the June issue.
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Atta Baer
Diana Chang
Phyllis K. Brown
Miss Brown
Spanish Faculty Presents Plays at Barnard College
The Barnard Spanish Department stages two Quintero brothers plays Dona Clarines and Lo que Tu Quieras on March 29 and 30. Friday offers 50 cent tickets for students, Saturday prices reach 2 dollars. Cast includes Senora Hogan DaCal DelRio in Dona Clarines and Senora Escobal in Lo que Tu Quieras with direction by Senora DelRio and Senora Escobal. Guests and student singers Joanna De Muro Marta Obregon and Mary Louise Stewart perform with guitar and piano accompaniment.
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Barnard Spanish Department
Quintero Brothers
Dona Clarines
Senoras Hogan
DaCal
DelRio
Senora DelRio
Senora Escobal
Joanna de Muro
Marta Obregon
Mary Louise Stewart
Liberal Club Names 1948 Officers and Plans Talk
Nathalie Lookstein Joan Sanger and Ruth Landesman were elected president off campus chair on campus chair of the Liberal Club. At a March 29 meeting the new secretary and treasurer will be appointed and plans set. The club will sponsor Leo Huberman for a talk April 8 in the College Parlor.
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Nathalie Lookstein
Joan Sanger
Ruth Landesman
Liberal Club
Hewitt Hall
Leo Huberman
Huberman
New College
Columbia University
National Maritime Union
Pamphlet Press
Reynal and Hitchcock
Vassar Admits Men as Nonresident Students
Vassar College in Poughkeepsie says men will be admitted as nonresident students during the upcoming term and again in September. The decision, made to ease overcrowding caused by the veterans’ return, applies to the women’s college during the emergency period.
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Women’s College
Glee Club Sings With Temple Emanu-el Choir
Barnard Glee Club joins Temple Emanu-el Choir for a Friday concert at 2 80 PM on Fifth Avenue and 65th Street. The program features From the Americas and four pieces by Garcia Villa Lobos Luening and Billings under Igor Buketoff with tickets available through Barnard Hall.
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Barnard Glee Club
Temple Emanu-el
Fifth Avenue
Igor Buketoff
Jose Nunes Garcia
Brazil
St. Sebastian
Heitor Villa-Lobos
Rio de Janeiro
Otto Luening
Barnard Music Department
William Billings
Barnard
Barnard Social Affairs
Barnard Hall
Muriel Chevrous
Glee Club
English majors hear Joseph Krutch today
Joseph Wood Krutch, Columbia University English professor since 1937, will address an English majors meeting today at 4. He has held numerous roles including Drama Editor of Nation, Drama Critic president of the New York Drama Critics Circle, and Brander Mathews Professor of Dramatic Literature. He authored works on Poe, American drama since 1918, and other books.
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Joseph Wood Krutch
Columbia University
Professor Krutch
University of Tenn
Columbia
Nation
Krutch
Vassar
New York Drama Critics Circle
Brander Mathews
National Institute of Arts and Letters
Edgar Allen Poe
William Congreve
Eugene O'Neill
Marcel Proust
Columbia AVC Chapter Aids Veteran Students at Columbia University
The Columbia Chapter of the American Veterans' Committee focuses on veteran students campus issues and helps shape AVC policy. It administers veteran affairs, housing, education, and international matters via subcommittees and aims to recruit 1000 members led by Miss Elinor Front.
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Columbia
AVC Aids
All Veterans’ Affairs
American Veterans’ Committee
AVC
Columbia University
Elinor Front
Barnard
America
Miss Front States
Bachelor Show Steals the Spotlight at Barnard
The 1947 Bachelor Cum Laude show featured lively songs including Song of the Jerks and Columbia Men. Carol Johns Helen Swikart Ann Lissfelt Ruth Rosenberg and Clare Stein starred with enthusiasm, producing and performing in academic gowns and beards to entertain a capacity audience.
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Helen Trevor
Barnard
PC Names Officers For Next Year
At last Tuesday's meeting the Political Council chose officers for the coming year. Margaret Mather was elected Forum chairman, Mary Hitingen Publicity Manager, Gladys Foster treasurer, and Nancy Elmendorf secretary. All are freshmen except Elmendorf, a sophomore. Mather is current Freshman Representative, with Hitingen and Foster as returning helpers.
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Palitical Council
Margaret Mather
Forum
Mary Hitingen
Gladys Foster
Nancy Elmendorf
Miss Mather
Miss Hitingen
Miss Foster
Miss Elmendorf
Margaret Weitz
Aline Crenshaw
Calendar Committee to Meet Daily in Barnard Room 104
Chairman Doris Hering announces daily meetings of the Calendar Committee from 12:30 to 1 in Barnard Room 104 except on days with required assemblies or class meetings.
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Barnard
Doris Hering
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