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Newspaper
Barnard Bulletin
Location
New York, New York, United States of America
Date
May 11, 1944
Page
1
The Barnard Bulletin lists staff shifts with editor Phyllis Brand and business manager Helen Sack among key posts. Elaine Jose is new advertising manager and Marcia Holstein remains circulation manager as photography credit goes to No. 40.
Barnard College reports only two formal honor cases last winter amid widespread cheating in exams. A proposed solution via the Student Council and Representative Assembly suggests a tapping method where students signal suspected cheating by tapping desks. If broadly understood and adopted, the plan aims to boost self reporting and reduce required reports, strengthening the honor system for incoming students.
The bulletin cautions readers that grim days lie ahead and mocks “after the war” optimism. It urges morale-building through focusing on upcoming summer joys while warning not to catch Spring fever before That Day.
Memorial campus note requests students donate pennies to Sibyl Herzog to fund a new pair of shoes for former president Joan Carey. Send contributions via student mail immediately to Miss Herzog.
A student chronicles repeated delays to taking the exit exam for graduation. A lifelong commuter subway snafu blocks entry while coursework and five term papers loom. The narrator frets over delays from registrar policies and seeks a timely chance to finally pass and graduate.
A reflective letter urges restraint and future planning, imagining tennis courts jungles fountains and campus life as spring returns. It muses on time remaining to improve circumstances and notes crowds, conversations, and cycles of students and exits in a campus setting.
In New York the Jown Opera season features the Metropolitan with City Center and the San Carlo. Verdi's Il Trovatore receives thrilling singing from Sydney Rayner as Manrico and Elda Ercole as Leonora with Lyuba Sanderovna as Azucena in a lively San Carlo presentation conducted by Emerson Buckley.
Opening night for Pieces of Eight with music by Wagenaar and words by Eager. As opera it flouts dramatic law with halted action and jarring dialogue while the music shows moments of vigor. Set in early 18th century New England the plot centers on Puritan relatives and a mortgage banker villain amid melodrama.
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