Bernays Gives 5000 Gift for Barnard Social Sciences
Edward L Bernays Foundation donates 5000 to create the Bernays Fund for the Social Sciences at Barnard College. The endowment aims for 1,000,000 to fund four full professorships in history governance economics and sociology at 250,000 each with about 10,000 annual stipends. Dean McIntosh notes the gift as a pace setter to raise core faculty salaries and invites further donations.
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Columbia University
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College Political Institute Concludes Study Of Women's Achievements
A Saturday morning panel at the Political Institute discussed women in politics with emphasis on party loyalty, bottom up engagement, and balancing reform with discipline. Speakers noted the role of voters, the need for broader public groups, and the importance of early group work as a pathway to party activity.
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College Political Institute
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Political Institute
Arthur J. White
Stanley Isaacs
Louise T. Seeley
Angela Parisi
Dorothy
Bell Lawrence
Anna Lord Strauss
Daniel Riesner
Miss Kenyon
Russell on Science Values and World Order
Bertrand Russell argues science can raise human welfare but may cause disaster. In the Marchette Foundation lectures he links science progress to a hopeful world order driven by a world government with a monopoly on war instruments. He warns of disaster if Western powers fail to consent and urges time for wisdom.
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Bertrand Russell
Marchette Foundation
Lord Russell
Russia
America
Appointive and Career Opportunities
The speakers noted a great increase in opportunities in government service of both types. Home makers who wish to enter public life on a part time basis can do volunteer work or give service on boards and commissions.
Student Board sets 1956 deadline to remove restrictive clauses
Columbia College Board of Student Representatives proposes October 1 1956 as the deadline to eliminate restrictive membership clauses from campus organization charters. They urge CSO to push fraternities to amend by 1954 while accepting 1956 as a compromise and will send the plan to University administration. Pamphramtria previously called such discrimination out of place.
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Columbia College Board of Student Representatives
Committee On Student Organizations
Eisenhower
CSO
Victor Crichton
Crihton
Pamphratria
Inter-Fraternity Council of Columbia
Women Speakers Analyze Roles and Voting at Barnard Institute
The Political Institute at Barnard examined American women’s public life thirty years after suffrage. Notable speakers included Dorothy Thompson Agnes Meyer and Chase Going Woodhouse with Patrick Malin. Dorothy Kenyon urged better political engagement and voting habits.
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Carmel Roth
Agnes Meyer
Dorothy Kenyon
Dean McIntosh
Raymond Moley
Barnard Hall
The
Political Institute
Dorothy Thompson
Chase Going Woodhouse
Patrick Murphy Malin
Government Department
Alumnae Association
Moley
Washington Post
Bowen Sees Writer Role Enduring in Atomic Age
Elizabeth Bowen argues at the Institute of Arts and Sciences that writers are not obsolete in the atomic age. She says the creative force requires stimulus and sympathy with society, will immortalize by expressing unrealized feelings, and hints young writers can emerge despite current confusion.
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Institute of Arts and Sciences
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