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Newspaper
Barnard Bulletin
Location
New York, New York, United States of America
Date
May 02, 1924
Page
5
A playful note from a feline community group announces Cat Alley will become a representative column on Feline Boulevard. It invites contributions from readers, promising the column will reflect all classes of cats and urging inspiration from supporters.
The Y W C A held a tea in the Com rence Room on Monday April 28 for foreign students. Guests included Myria Komarovsky from Russia and Marie Kohnova born in America but raised in Czecho Slovakia. Kohnova is a freshman at Harvard and Komarovsky seeks science, after two years in the United States.
The Greek Games Barnacle is reviewed as mostly comic yet uneven with overused gags and poems that miss the mark. It notes two verses stand out and three short sketches show limited charm while longer tales echo familiar tones and fail to deliver originality.
FANNIA COHN argues for uniting work and education around the individual's environment. She critiques current curricula as filled with useless and congenial studies and urges selecting subjects to fit the learner. She says education should bind useful members of society and foster trained labor leadership.
Barnard backs a constitutional amendment to grant Congress power to limit regulate and prohibit labor by persons under eighteen. The plan cites 1920 census data showing over one million children ten to fifteen in gainful work and argues federal action is needed after earlier acts were struck down.
A college yearbook review praises the 1925 Mortarboard for its charm and simplicity. It notes naive appeal alongside beauty and depth, calling the book an enduring memorial of the college and its spirit with evident individuality. Elizabeth Waterman, class of 1924.
The League announces two economics prizes for 1924 open to undergraduates at American colleges and normal schools. The first prize is $200 and the second $100. essays on suggested topics will be judged by Professor Ogburn. Deadline is June 1, 1924.
The United States Civil Service Commission announces during June 4 and 5 an examination for the position of assistant examiner in the Patent Office, Washington DC, with a $1860 annual salary. Subjects include Chemical, Civil, Electrical, Electro Chemistry, General Chemistry, and Mechanical Engineering. competitors are rated on physics, drawings, technics, chosen subject, mathematics, and French and German. Full info from the Civil Service Commission, Washington DC, or the Board of Examiners at the post office or customs house in any city. An additional 100 positions exist under a new appropriation act, offering exceptional appointment chances for successful examinees.
Milton Hockey and Howard J. Green offer 250 dollars prize plus 50 dollars weekly royalty for the best playlet. Manuscripts must be mailed to the Intercollegiate Prize Playlet Committee by May 30 1924 to Hockey and Green 110 West 47th Street New York City.
Spanish Club invites the college to a May 9 lecture at 8 30 P M in Brinckerhoff Theatre. Senor J Moren Lacalle director of the Spanish School at Middlebury Vermont and translator of modern drama will discuss Jacinto Graw a Reformer of the Modern Sparfish Drama. He will speak in English for all students.
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