Barnard College outlines need for 10 million plan funds
A Barnard College Club pamphlet titled Here Is Our Plan lays out the Development Plan needs. Faculty salaries health and retirement provisions require 2 050 000 dollars while 1 000 000 is sought for 100 new scholarships. Restoration of courses and Riverside Hall renovations add to the total.
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Barnard
Barnard College Club
Westchester
Riverside Hall
Barnard Public Relations
Students Pitch Teachers Out In Barnard Softball Battle
The students defeated the faculty 14 to 8 in a Thursday game at Barnard. Notable players included Gorbman from Zoology and Held from Fine Arts for the teachers, while Captain Lange and Grace Robertson pitched for the students. The contest featured early student rally, a strong faculty push, and a final burst by the students as darkness halted play.
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Gorbman
Zoology Department
Fine Arts
Barnard
Peggy Lange
Grace Robertson
Moore
Yahoo
Larson
Botany Department
Holland
Physical Education Department
J.P
Medical Notice Requires Exam For Senior Programs
Dr. Marjorie J. Nelson announces senior programs will not be approved without a medical examination in the medical office.
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Marjorie J. Nelson
Honor Status Rules Revised
The Dean's List policy notes a warning if a student earns a D or F in physical education and risks removal from the Dean's List after a subsequent D or F next semester. A 3.4 cumulative average remains required, and certain Cs do not disqualify. A high A grade threshold remains unchanged for Honor Points.
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Physical Education Department
Lorna McGuire
Dr. McGuire
Florence Lowther
Virginia Harrington
Gertrude Rich
Clara Eliot
Chilton Williamson
Millicent McIntosh
Jean Palmer
Margaret Giddings
Dorothy Fox
Officiis
Faculty Hears Games Report
Pros and cons on Greek Games discussed at the Town Meeting on October 27 will be presented to faculty and students in a mimeographed report by Vivi enne Feigenbaum and Ruth Schacter. Miss Feigenbaum will attend the Faculty Committee meeting on November 14 to discuss the opinions and answer questions.
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Vivienne Feigenbaum
Ruth Schacter
Miss Feigenbaum
Central Committee
Yukawa Wins 1949 Physics Prize for Meson Theory
Dr Hideki Yukawa, visiting Columbia professor, earns the 1949 Nobel Prize in physics for predicting the meson. The theory, proposed fourteen years earlier and confirmed in 1937, will be awarded with about $30 000 in Stockholm on December 10.
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Hideki
Yukawa
Columbia University
Japan
University of Kyoto
Institute For Advanced Studies
Princeton
Columbia
Stockholm
Barnard Hosts Parents Day With Classes and Entertainment
Barnard will host about 300 parents for Parents Day activities Friday. Class access runs 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. with information desks in Barnard Milbank and Brooks. Dean McIntosh speaks at 4 p.m. in the gym and a 4 p.m. tea welcomes students faculty and parents.
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Barnard
Dean McIntosh
Milbank
Brooks Hall
Barnard Hall
Brooks
Alumnae Conference Set for Barnard in November
The third annual Alumnae Conference will convene Friday and Saturday, November 17 and 18, at Barnard. Under Beulah Amidon Ratliff 15, chair, the program features a welcome by Dean Millicent C. McIntosh, panels on using Barnard education, and a debate on women’s education with Harold Taylor of Sarah Lawrence. Saturday covers alumni discussions and five lectures in chemistry English fine arts philosophy religion and psychology.
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Barnard
Beulah Amidon Ratliff
Millicent C. McIntosh
Harold Taylor
Sarah Lawrence
Barnard Lecture Discusses Postwar Policy and Europe
Dr. William Boyd of Atlanta University lectured Barnard Government and International Relations classes on American policy in the Orient Europe today and postwar reconstruction. He warned against wholesale German hatred and noted a leftward shift in European governments since 1945 aided by U.S. Marshall Plan assistance.
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William Boyd
Atlanta University
Georgia
Barnard
Orient
Europe
Boyd
England
France
Holland
Denmark
Sweden
Poland
United States
CU Sponsors Blood Donation Drive at Columbia University
President Eisenhower urged Columbia students and faculty to support a campus blood collection November 21 and 22. The Greater New York Red Cross blood program will use the donations for New York City’s ill and injured. Registration begins November 7 at campus booths and Barnard may host a future collection.
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Dwight D. Eisenhower
Columbia University
Greater New York
Red Cross
New York City
Barnard
Columbia
University Student Council
Fire drills planned for Barnard and Milbank Halls
Miss Frances J. Maisch announces upcoming fire drills in Barnard and Milbank Halls. A faculty and staff group will direct drills and instructors will teach procedures to their classes. Everyone is urged to move quickly and quietly to the designated area.
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Frances J. Maisch
Barnard
Milbank
Miss Maisch
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Government Department
Dean Millicent C. McIntosh
Eisenhower
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