Authors Talk At Columbia Symposium
Caldwell Komroff and Dorothy McCleary spoke on short stories at Columbia University in a Writers' Club event held at the Casa Italiana on Wednesday evening October 26. Whit Burnett introduced the trio as the country’s three best short story writers and posed their views on substance over style.
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Erskine Caldwell
Manuel Komroff
Dorothy McCleary
Writers’ Club of
Columbia University
Casa Italiana
Whit Burnett
Story Magazine
Mr. Caldwell
Tobacco Road
Rus
Komroff
Esquire
Senior Proctors To Receive Gifts
Student Council hosts an all college tea in the College Parlor tomorrow at 4 oclock to honor senior proctors who will each receive a gift. The 1938 39 board was appointed last year and includes Jane Bell as chairman and Jean Morris as vice chairman. The proctors oversee undergraduate elections, publicity, and voting, and enforce library rules, smoking restrictions, and attendance at compulsory college assemblies.
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Mnior
Honor Ward
Jane Bell
Undergraduate Association
Jean Morris
42 Presidential Nominees Would Rather Be Right
Four 1942 freshman candidates Evelyn Gonzales Frances Hunt Joanne McQuiston Helen Marraro reveal humorous views on campaigns education and professors. Dewey and Charlie McCarthy noted as campaign managers while the group contends over how to put 1942 on the map with playful rivalries and mixed emotions.
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Jane Goldstein
Evelyn Gonzales
Frances Hunt
Joanne McQuiston
Helen Marraro
Dewey
Charlie McCarthy
Israel Urges Social Idealism at Columbia Jewish Society
Rabbi Israel of the Her Sinai Congregation Baltimore urged the Columbia Jewish Student Society to pursue democracy and human rights in Jewish philosophy. He warned against totalitarianism, argued Jewish social thought rests on a belief in a superior reality, and urged discussion groups and a State Department letter urging England to loosen Jewish immigration limits to Palestine.
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Rabbi Israel
Her Sinai
Baltimore
Columbia Jewish
League For Industrial Democracy
Russia
Israel
Zionist Organization In
America
Germany
Hitler
Dr. Israel
Support For Palestine
Maurice Samuels
State Department
England
Palestine
Barnard Ends Sports Week With Mixed College Volleyball Event
Friday afternoon eight mixed teams brought Barnard's annual sports week to a close with faculty and students competing. The faculty contributed twenty two members across eight teams led by captains Helen Christenson Virginia Rockwell Marion Fenton Frances Murphy Cozette Utech Anne Milman Elizabeth Wright. Archery on Thursday saw Yale win the informal tournament with 590 points while Columbia scored 305. Paula Kassell Princeton led individuals with 210 points. Violet Ballance and Ruth Cummings won the tenikoit finals as Barnard resumes its regular winter indoor program.
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Barnard
Helen Christenson
Virginia Rockwell
Marion Fenton
Frances Murphy
Cozette Utech
Anne Milman
Annie Weir
Marcelle Christ
Yale
Violet Ballance
Ruth Cummings
Munich Pact Seen as End of Collective Security, Call for U S Readiness
At a Foreign Policy Association meeting, Nicholas Roosevelt Ernest Lindley and George Fielding Eliot argued the Munich Pact ended collective security and underscored the need for U S military preparedness to deter invasion of the western hemisphere. They urged rearmament as treaties unravel and democracy faces peril.
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United States
Western Hemisphere
Foreign Policy Association
Hotel Astor
Nicholas Roosevelt
New York Herald Tribune
U. S
Hungary
Ernest K. Lindley
Washington
News Week
George Fielding Eliot
U.S. A
Munich
America
Raymond Buell
Association
Germany
Europe
England
Roosevelt
Lindley
Gideonse to Speak on Academic Freedom at Barnard
Professor Harry Gideonse, chair of Barnard economics, will address an afternoon assembly at 1 10 on Academic Freedom and Academic Privilege. He previously taught at the University of Chicago and succeeds Emilie Hutchinson after her death.
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Harry Gideonse
America
The
Foreign Policy Association
IRC Prepares For Conference at Swarthmore and City Quarters
The International Relations Club met in Barnard Room 304 to plan a New York foreign quarters tour and to prepare for the Swarthmore College conference on December 16 and 17. Panel topics include Latin America Far East crisis minority issues and U S foreign policy. Constance Flora was elected treasurer and Isabel Gleason poster chair. the first Swarthmore discussion will be held Wednesday at noon.
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International Relations Club
Barnard
New York City
Irma Zweigel
Swarthmore College
Mabel Houk
Isabel Gleason
Eileen Sturgell Belittles Alaska Life in New York Visit
Eighteen year old Eileen Sturgell from Maska Alaska arrives in Barnard after studying at the University of Alaska. She proclaims Alaska liveliness mirrors the states with Fairbanks as a modern city and Alaska’s weather puzzles New Yorkers. She adores Barnard and its subway and buses while noting only one motion picture house in Fairbanks.
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Maska
Eileen Sturgell
Eileen
Alaska
Barnard
University of Alaska
Fairbanks
States
New York
Fileen
Peace Forum Organized by Council Opens Discussion
The Student Council plans a Faculty-Student Peace Forum for Tuesday November 15 at 1 10 p m in the college parlor during the regular assembly hour Dean Virginia C Gildersleeve will chair and speakers include faculty members Students and faculty will participate The committee includes Jean Allison Flora Ginsburg Elizabeth Jackson and Ruth Taubenhaus
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Virginia C. Gildersleeve
Jean Allison
Flora Ginsburg
Elizabeth Jackson
Ruth Taubenhaus
Thomas P. Peardon
Arthur D. Gayer
United States
Stephen S. Wise
Peardon
Dr Clark To Discuss Lehman Social Legislation
Dr Jane P Clark from the government department will address the Political Study Group of the ASA on Governor Herbert Lehman s social legislation achievements. The ASA group led by Julia Edwards sponsors open forums field trips and lab projects with commissions on housing labor and social security.
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Jane P. Clark
Government Department
Herbert H. Lehman
American Student Union
Barnard
Lehman
A.S.A
Julia Edwards
Housing Commission
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McCleary
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Rita Roher
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Dr. Clark
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