Carpet Comes Home To Roost At Delta Phi Rug recovered from Barnard room
Delta Phi officials returned the Brooks music room rug last Tuesday after pledges had removed it on April 30. A humble apology went to Miss Mary Macdonald as the case unfolds with a second mystery tied to a rug that moved toward 116 Street on May 2. Detective Sharmikov weighs larceny versus prank while damages bill covers glasses and suit for passerby Ted La Tier Austin.
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Delta Phi Fraternity
Brooks Music Room
Mary Macdonald
Barnard
116 Street
Sharmikov
Dean McKnight
Ted la Tier Austin
Delta Phi
Columbia
Eisenhower Prepares To Take On New Job
General Dwight D. Eisenhower prepares to become Columbia University president on June 7. In a May 3 interview he discusses joining a community he fears, settling into the President's House at 60 Morningside Drive, and winding down Army duties while pursuing memoirs and hobbies like fishing golf bridge and painting. He plans to wear a uniform when suitable and focuses on orientation before outlining any administration plans.
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Dwight D. Eisenhower
Columbia University
Columbia Faculty Club
Columbia
Eisenhower
Morningside Drive
Seth Low
Student Council Names Proctors And Chairmen
The Student Council announced senior proctors for the coming year including June Bulings Evelyn Box horn Lois Breen Janet Cherry Ruth Cocks Natale Cole Beverly Cooper Ann Day Yvette Delebarre Madeline Deutch and many others. Administrative chairmen for the year were named with Ann Hasker Page Morris Margaret Mather Joanne Thacker and several others in roles such as Library Chairman Interfaith Council Chairman and Assemblies Committee Co Chairs.
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June Bulings
Evelyn Boxhorn
Lois Breen
Janet Cherry
Ruth Cocks
Natale Cole
Beverly Cooper
Ann Day
Yvette Delebarre
Madeline Deutch
Simone Dreyfus
Mary Eitingon
Jewel Fewkes
Gladys Forster
Margaret Forster
Peggy Friend
Mary Gaylord
Jeanne Goods
Marion Gutekunst
Beth Harding
Jean Horsfall
Marion Hausner
Connie Howland
Jean John
Marvyn Karmason
Pixie Lattman
Belle Lincoln
Lee Lyman
Eleanor Madden
Meg Mather
Helen McShane
Anna Mae Menapace
Janet Mora
Betty Pauly
Alma Schumaker
Sally Spear
Mary Sultzer
Barrie Tait
Margaret Ward
Agnes Vanoshat
Ann Hasker
Page Morris
Margaret Mather
Joanne Thacker
Joan Weiss
Marie Fazia
Interfaith Council
Jane Gordon
Greta Hersh
Blue Book
Marget Marshall
Cecilia Politou
Archives
Esther Monaco
Joyce Alessanda
Bulletin Board
Elizabeth Pauly
Nancy Hatch
Eleanor Holland
Natalie Cole
Betty Cary- Nos
Rose Sgammato
Frances Conway
Faculty adopts limits on course load and major exam standards
At a stated faculty meeting on Monday April 26 two resolutions were approved. First no student may take more than five courses without special permission from the Committee on Students' Programs. Second in major exams for the Classes of 1948 and 1949 an average of at least B in the major subject will be considered before finalizing the exam grade. A questionnaire on written work requirements is on file in the Registrar's Office. Students may change programs before August fifteenth without a fine.
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Committee On Instruction
Committee On
Schedule June Reunion for Barnard Alumnae
The Barnard Alumnae annual reunion is set for June 2 with an afternoon Alumnae Association meeting and a Milbank porch tea hosted by the class of 1943. A buffet supper will be hosted that evening in Barnard Hall by the trustees to honor select alumnae classes.
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Barnard
Milbank Porch
Barnard Hall
Dean Addresses Seniors Cites Comprehensive Exams
Dean Millicent C. McIntosh told Brinckerhoff Theatre seniors that passing comprehensive exams with a B or better in their major and a acceptable grade will affect their scholastic average. She urged courage and independence and warned against choosing unsuitable employment or rushing into marriage.
Auden Wins Pulitzer Prize For The Age of Anxiety
The year’s Pulitzer honors include Auden receiving five hundred dollars for The Age of Anxiety, announced by Columbia’s acting president Dr. Frank Fackenthal. Tennessee Williams won the drama prize. Reuben Goldberg earned top cartoon for an atom bomb piece. Michener, De Voto, and Clapp cited for fiction, history, and biography. Journalism prizes awarded to Bert Andrews and Nat Finney for state department security and peacetime censorship investigations.
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W. H. Auden
Barnard Department of Religion
Frank Fackenthal
Columbia
Tennessee Williams
Reuben Goldberg
The
Sun
Development Plan Starts Public Relations Program
The board and faculty approve Barnard College development plan emphasizing a long term public relations program. It argues favorable opinion hinges on a strong educational program and active information to the public. The plan calls for broad faculty involvement in planning and forums to reach all college groups.
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