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Newspaper
Barnard Bulletin
Location
New York, New York, United States of America
Date
Nov 19, 1940
Page
1
Barnard Bulletin is published semi weekly during the college year by Barnard College students for the Undergraduate Association. It is entered as second class matter October 19 1928 at New York Post Office under the act of March 3 1879. Subscription rate is 3 dollars per year or 10 cents per issue.
Editorial Board lists Tean Ackermann Jane Goldstein Ruth Blumner Elizabeth Koenig Naomi Sells and associates Mary Damrosch Cecil Paige Golann Roberta Hadley Katherine Hanly with class years shown. About Town staff are noted in the same section.
The piece reflects on Thanksgiving as a moment to value peace security and democracy while noting grim wartime realities in Europe England's war costs and Germany's cruelty. It urges gratitude for democratic rights and calls readers to cherish freedom amid ongoing global crisis. Bulletin staff extend holiday wishes.
A nostalgic, humorous Thanksgiving vignette recalls preparations and family chaos from setting out in New Jersey to the Plymouth feast. The piece highlights travel woes, pantry temptations with Schrafft's plum pudding, seating quirks, and a satirical toast to the National Debt and even Hitler on a platter, ending with a rueful sigh at the twice yearly feast.
Ruth Blumner reports Mrs. Hamilton head of Hamilton Employment Service in New York City, advising job seekers to align a field with their major and interests, project confidence, avoid over dressing, and prove claims with skill. Agencies aid access to contacts, and treating job search as full time work increases chances of success.
The Metropolitan Museum presents a show tracing jewelry as a cultural record from ancient Egyptian collars to Visigothic buckles and late medieval reliquaries. It highlights a Cupid clockwork knight and post Revolutionary era amethyst court jewels, with Marie Louise’s wedding dress girdle noted for its perfect craftsmanship.
The Howards of Virginia traces a Virginia backwoods farmer and his Elm Hill wife through romance and the American Revolution. Cary Grant and Martha Scott headline a portrait of class conflict and political awakening with Jefferson as a key figure, offering a broader democratic view than typical epics.
Billy Bitzer reassembles Biograph camera used for Mary Pickford and Gish sisters as part of a two part Griffith: American Film Master show at MoMA. The first gallery segment traces Griffith’s career from stage to directing while the second presents a rotation of ten Griffith films (twenty two titles) from 1907 to 1924, on display through January 5, 1941.
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