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Newspaper
Barnard Bulletin
Location
New York, New York, United States of America
Date
Oct 07, 1932
Page
1
Barnard College Students publish a semi weekly periodical during the college year excluding vacation and exams. The paper serves the Undergraduate Association and is produced by student editors for campus reading.
Dean Gildersleeve hosts a reception for Dr. Bonnevie and Barnard faculty after a lecture on Norwegian isolation and inbreeding. The talk featured pictures of churches valleys and diagrams on inherited traits like six fingers and dwarf limbs. Attendees included professors Crampton Gregory Dunn Sinnotte Reimer and many Barnard students from Botany Zoology and Chemistry.
An editorial denounces Secretary Doak’s policy allowing foreign students pre-August entrants to work for room and board but not tuition. It warns of international fallout and praises efforts by President Butler and students to repeal the ruling, noting a Barnard Hall petition with over a thousand signees.
New York audiences faced a tedious evening as Vanderbilt Theatre’s production presents a thin plot about two sisters, one materialist and one virtuous. Characters and exits feel forced, with the ending reconciliations and divorces failing to salvage the weak drama. The cast struggles, and even Miss Darrieux’s performance cannot lift the dull proceedings.
The film Le Bal presents a simple family story amid Paris society. Danielle Darrieux and Pierry deliver strong performances in a tale of wealth, neglect, and a Parisian ball that ends with a contented though morally questioned outcome.
The Metropolitan Museum of Art announces its 1932 1933 season with lectures gallery talks study hours and story hours for members and the public. The lineup features Walter Pach M Z Rostovizeff Frank Weitenkampf and others with sessions on design color and art history. Additional courses focus on merchandise design and production with employee study hours and exhibitions. Radio broadcasts on WOR WRNY and WGY share current exhibitions and acquisitions while motion pictures screen in Lecture Hall on Thursdays and first Tuesdays at 2 30 pm.
A list of recent books includes Ellen Glasgow's The Sheltered Life from Doubleday Doran and works edited by Gertrude Hartman and Ann Shumaker. Other titles cover classical studies, biography, and a psychological travel narrative Journey Inward by Kurt Heuser. Notable entries include Metternich by Arthur Herman and The Legacy of Alexander by Max Carey.
Barnard College Catholic group the Newman Club outlines a busy season with a fall re tion and musicale for freshmen and transfers on October 10 and a tea dance at Casa Italiana at month end. Luncheons with speakers are planned for November 10 and December 8 in Barnard Hall Room 408, plus regular meetings and social events through early winter. Officers include Mary McPike President Gertrude Lally Treasurer Gerarda Green Secretary Marguerite Dressner Vice President Edith Beckler Publicity Chair Dorothy Cavanaugh Junior Delegate and Mary Donzella Senior Delegate to the New York Province Conference.
Norwegian zoologist Dr Bonnevie discusses evolution in a lecture, arguing genes link related species and embryos reveal a species history. She notes vertebrate embryos share development stages, with adult forms diverging through primitive mammal specialization.
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