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Newspaper
Barnard Bulletin
Location
New York, New York, United States of America
Date
Nov 22, 1916
Page
2
Oberlin plans for the coming year emphasize student written plays as a regular feature. Brown University announces $400 raises for each full professor, new minimum salary of $3,000 and maximum of $3,650. Tuition at Brown rises to $175, up $23, with scholarship aid boosted by $100,000.
Dr. Goldthwait of the Hygiene and Physical Education Department tests a specially built four oarsmen shell on Paradise Pond. If successful, Smith College plans to acquire several shells for student use in the spring, identical to the Harvard design and weighing sixty five pounds.
The joint council of faculty and students started a fall campaign to revise the social schedule due to congestion. In an all college forum the student body voted to remove fourteen events including the junior promenade from the yearly program.
At the October meeting of the Athletic Association Mt Holyoke College adopted a point system to award letters in athletics. Thirty seven points are required to earn five points for each year's membership.
The article explains a revised honor structure where a letter counts for a team letter plus seven points if the team is champion and ten points for varsity membership, aiming to reward individual merit. It contrasts with the old H system that granted the letter to all championship team members, diluting distinction.
The students at Oklahoma University form a cooperative boarding school plan aiming to house about fifty or more students at a weekly rate of 3.25 dollars.
Amherst College announces a new professorship in science funded by a $100,000 gift. Professor John M. Tyler, noted as a leading biologist and head of Amherst Biology, will be the first to hold the chair.
A year ago Mrs Vernon Castle chose a Redfern Corset at the Redfern Corset Shop in New York. She writes that the corset is comfortable and supportive, offering freedom especially for dancing and serving as a good base for her gown. Three dollars and up.
In an effort to recover time lost by the delayed fall opening, the college will curtail the Thanksgiving and Christmas vacations by four days in total. Continued on page three.
Duncan A. Mayers and William A. Conaway Jr advertise a dance orchestra with two New York City addresses on Harlem phones. The ad lists Mayers at 81 West 141st Street and Conaway at 35 West 131st Street, indicating their professional calling.
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