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Newspaper
Barnard Bulletin
Location
New York, New York, United States of America
Date
May 10, 1948
Page
1
The CARE drive for Europe's hungry ends this semester amid student apathy. Claire Sheil leads the committee which has raised funds but participation remains low. The piece urges Barnard students to donate this week to prove their role in the world community and overcome lethargy.
Last Tuesday night residents woke to a drill in the dormitories. Sleepy students lined up and moved swiftly to assigned stations. Floor wardens verified names and all returned in under ten minutes. The paper notes Milbank drill forthcoming and urges consistent execution.
The editor of Jester, Bernice Fiering, plans a 48 page Life’s article issue with Life’s regular features and a new experimental take. The magazine will be sold for 4.00 dollars and promises to outshine Lampoon with parodic content and fresh artwork from multiple unnamed contributors.
Betty Sanders reports on the 1948 Columbia University Players production The Streets of New York at McMillin Theater April 28 to May 1. A hero heroine villain plot blends singing and dance with witty scenes as Gideon Bloodgood and his clerk raise laughter and the finale reveals the villain's swindle.
Dr. Chilton Williamson of Barnard’s History Department uses chalk diagrams on Milbank blackboards to illustrate sections on topics from the New Deal to price wars. He earned his PhD at Columbia with a Vermont history thesis and grew fascinated by Loyalist refuge notions fueling his studies. He recalls Hoover’s 1928 campaign speech sparking his interest in history. He joined Barnard in 1943 after Columbia graduation in 1938 and teaches American history with U.S.-British Empire relations while lecturing without notes except diagrams.
Dr Williamson, a Barnard-linked historian, is described lecturing on US economic history while enjoying gardening. The piece also reviews Ballet Theatre’s Met Opera season, contrasting Don Quixote’s classical pas de deux with Agnes DeMille’s modern ballet Tally Ho and Aleko’s fiery pantomime.
The Broadway comedy by Garson Kanin remains timely as it lampoons a chorus girl turned savvy observer of a cartel. Since its February 4 1946 opening, the play endures as a universal wit showcase, with continued audience appeal noted.
A memoir vignette where a senior student decides to marry the first responder to telegrams sent to three suitors in Maine Virginia and New York She avoids parental input and treats marriage as pure chance, leaving the physician after a brief farewell on May Day.
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