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Newspaper
Barnard Bulletin
Location
New York, New York, United States of America
Date
Nov 15, 1938
Page
4
Jean Ackermann profiles Collegiate Spirit in Hewitt hall as dorm life revives with jam sessions shag dancing midnight snacks and late night kitchen chatter. The piece notes museum trips arts events and social gaiety while hinting at the back to college trend and rumors about radio and vitamin pills fueling the revival.
Professor La Rue Van Hook speaks on Classical Lands in 1938 before the Classical Club today at 4 10 in room 304 Barnard. After the lecture a light tea or ten will be served. The college invites all attendees.
Professor Latham of the English Department will discuss current drama at a Tuesday Night Committee gathering of the Alumnae Association in Barnard Hall Tonight the talk will be followed by a floor discussion and refreshments. The college is invited to attend.
A Barnard Columbia musical program of classical recordings will be held tomorrow at 3 p.m. in room 115 Startley. Admission is free and open to anyone interested.
The Menorah Society schedules a Monday evening benefit theatre party on November 28 featuring Danton's Death at Orson Welles Mercury Theatre. Proceeds fund a gift for the Hebrew University medical department in Jerusalem. Tickets cost 1.10 and 1.65 dollars from Heleni Fabricant or Miriam Margolies.
On Friday November 18 at 4 o clock Dr Guilielmo Alsop will address the Wycliffe Club in the Conference Room on The Christian's Attitude Toward health. The college is invited to attend the lecture and the tea to follow.
A junior meeting is announced for Friday in the Barnard building to elect a delegate to the Representative Assembly. The event aims to organize the junior class and select leadership for the upcoming assembly.
The Peace Council rally continued with calls against Hitler and a warning that democracies face extinction if action is not taken. Secretaries urged that the United States will be drawn into a global struggle and that peace is indivisible, urging students to work for worldwide peace to keep America out of war.
The Registrar Admissions and Residence Halls report 337 new Barnard students this year. Two thirds are from New York State with 449 from NYC and 226 from elsewhere in the state. North Atlantic states send the most out‑of‑state, led by New Jersey and Connecticut. Thirteen students are foreign, with transfers from Vassar Bryn Mawr and several universities noted.
The first in a series of sports parties was held in the gymnasium Friday afternoon with four faculty members and about thirty students playing volleyball tennis and badminton The event ran from 4 to 6 p m Mary Walrath vice president of the Athletic Association leads future Friday sport afternoons and next week badminton will be featured Faculty attendees included Miss Helen Abbott Mr Kurt von Lorstmeyer Dr Edgar Loreh and Mr Charles Llendley.
The Health Committee hosts an exhibit of modern and colonial shoes this Thursday from 12 to 4 in the Conference Room. Mary Evelyn Richey is Health Chairman and oversees the event with a sandwich man promoting the display in Charlie Chaplin style sourced from department stores and museums.
At a College Parlor meeting, Mrs Labastille argued Europe could see peace soon, citing Britain's concessions to Hitler amid Munich based on economic understanding. Speakers from Czechoslovakia and New Zealand warned of rising fears and Japan Germany ties, urging America to oppose exploitation of China and to shoulder leadership roles.
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