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Newspaper
Barnard Bulletin
Location
New York, New York, United States of America
Date
May 12, 1931
Page
1
Barnard College Undergraduate Association publication issued semi weekly during the college year except vacations and exams. This 1931 issue is volume 125 number 48 dated May 12.
The page lists editorial board and staff roles with names and class years for the editor in chief managing editors assistants copy editors correspondents news board and various departments including printing advertising circulation and business. It presents a snapshot of the University publication's leadership and staffing across sections.
An editorial urges Barnard students to connect study with current events. It argues exposure to daily newspapers and cultural happenings enriches college life, linking literature and drama with real world issues beyond library walls. It warns against academic isolation amid cosmopolitan New York and urges active engagement with news and museums.
In a forum letter Betty Armstrong praises Silver Bay for fostering informal evening bull sessions where diverse college delegates exchange ideas. She highlights sing alongs and International Night as engaging, but stresses the lasting benefit lies in cabin discussions that reveal shared ideals across institutions.
Barnard and Columbia jointly staged a Saturday night concert at the Church on West 179th Street and Fort Washington Avenue, featuring Purcell songs and pieces by Donovan. The program ended the Glee Club’s 1931 season, highlighted by outside performances and led by Professor Lowell P. Beveridge with thanks to Evelyn Anderson and Else Zorn for arrangements.
The University of North Carolina reinforcing compulsory attendance by charging 50 cents per excused absence and one dollar for unexcused class misses. Excused exam absences cost one dollar, unexcused exam absences two dollars or a failure at the professor's option. The rule limits absences to the number of weekly meetings.
Dr. Willard C. Rappleye of Columbia Medical School reports the United States leads the world in physicians with one doctor per 800 people. The survey notes rising medical student numbers but a shift toward training in fewer schools and low female enrollment among African women in 1930.
The Louisville College for Negroes began February 9 as a four year section of Louisville University with the same standards. Kentucky laws require racial separation in schools. The venture marks a Negro college within a municipal university previously limited to white students.
The New York City Board of Education ordered 30,000 smaller diplomas for next June graduates. Officials cited wall space and employment handling as reasons for the change, noting the large diplomas were awkward to display and manage.
Dr Frederick H Lund former head of psychology at Bucknell College reports study findings that women students tend to work for grades more often than men. The noted sociopsychological study analyzes gender differences in academic effort.
The Coward farce Private Lives pleases jaded audiences with clever wit and sparkling lines. Gertrude Lawrence shines as the heroine and Coward himself delivers spirited humor in a tale of a divorced couple reuniting in Paris amid comic chaos.
Virginia Levitt guides a Sing event at the Metropolitan Opera House with entrance songs comic songs and Alma Mater numbers. Freshmen knights of Arthur’s Court clash with seniors as sophomores earn praise while juniors staged a motion picture studio sequence and Greek myth costumes parade across the stage.
The American premiere of the German film Student Sein Wenn die Weilchen Bicchen played at the Little Carnegie Playhouse on Fifty-seventh Street. Gert Simmers stars with a tale of student love amid financial strain and family tragedy framed by traditional Studenten Lieder. The plot follows Gert and Lisbeth, and Fred Droysen as romantic entanglements unfold ending in departure and burdened duties.
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