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Newspaper
Barnard Bulletin
Location
New York, New York, United States of America
Date
Nov 22, 1929
Page
3
The New York State Deans Association met in Albany to study freshmen adjustment issues. A Rochester High School survey of recent graduates showed lack of study skills and lab technique, with students wanting colleges to supply training, while colleges should bridge the gap until high schools act.
Hazing has definitely been ban ned. Mysteries becomes a dignified event with a formal Mysteries Supper to welcome incoming Freshmen. The Sophomore meeting on Wednesday approved the plan drawn by four freshmen representatives and the Sophomore Executive Board. Decisions on dancing after the supper and recitation of a pledge were postponed to the Freshmen and Sophomore classes respectively.
Professor Caroline Spurgeon of the University of London outlines a new approach to Shakespeare through imagery. She argues poets reveal themselves in word choices and images, focusing on nature and home life’s garden and everyday scenes to illuminate plays including Hamlet Macbeth and Romeo and Juliet.
Health Day activities at Barnard Hall include posture talks during morning gym sessions for Freshmen, noon posture contest between Freshmen and Sophomores, four o'clock pool play day, and five o'clock interclass basketball games. Apples and milk will be sold at a Barnard Hall booth as the Health Department stresses good posture and broad participation.
Dr H S Coffin will speak at St Pauls Chapel on Tuesday November 26 at 1 10 PM Seats are reserved for Barnard College attendees and others.
The transfer group, about one tenth of Barnard's student body, shows generally high scholastic averages. In 1930 92 transfers joined from 76 U S institutions, fewer than 131 in 1928, with 38 from the 1928 group dropped this spring. Activities and social mixing among transfers remain uncertain.
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