Seventy Five Years of Barnard Education and Change
The piece reflects on Barnard College's seventy plus years since its 1889 Madison Avenue start and imagines future reforms. It advocates thinking oriented learning, revised science requirements, smaller seminar classes, revisiting professor qualifications, due process for faculty, and reaffirming women’s education in liberal arts.
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Time Magazine
New York Times
Barnard
Madison Avenue
Palisades
Barnard Exhibit Explores Women in Politics and Reform
Barnard College opens a Pepsi exhibition on Women in Politics featuring Abolitionists Unionists and reformers such as Abigail Adams Dorothea Dix and Jane Addams. The display traces women’s role in elections campaigns questionnaires and debates while urging modern women to engage in governance beyond the home.
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Barnard College
League of Women Voters
Barnard
Pepsi-Cola
Park Avenue
Abigail Adams
Elizabeth Stanton
Dorothea Dix
Jane Addams
Clara Barton
PEPSI
City Shows B C Exhibit
Susan Conway profiles Barnard College's 1889 start and the journey of thirty-six women who challenged college life in New York City. An exhibit at the Museum of the City of New York honors Barnard Month, featuring the Giant Petition of 1883 and key figures Ella Weed and the college founders.
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Bernard College
Barnard
New York
N.Y
New York City
Barnard College
Columbia University
Ella Weed
Museum of the City of
Exams Of 94 Appear Again
Questions from Barnard freshman exams of 1894 cover geography ancient Athens government and Solon, geometry inscribed angle theorem, algebra fractions, roots, interest problems, and a money puzzle. The snippet notes these items appeared on Barnard admissions exams for the class of 1898.
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Mediterranean
Solon
Athens
Philip I
Barnard
Westside artist exhibit at Riverside Museum through November 8
Alice Rubinstein presents a diverse show featuring oils gouache wood and iron works by Fay Lansner Ilya Boloiowsky Mon Levinson John Koch and Audrey Flack among others. The display spans realism and anti art with Kennedy Motorcade noted as a shocking surreal work. The exhibit runs daily 1 to 5 except Monday.
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Alice Rubinstein
Westside
New York
Riverside Museum
Fay Lansner
Ilya Boloiowsky
Mon Levinson
John Koch
Audrey Flack
Print Exhibition Open in James Room Showcasing Round the World Prints
An exhibit titled Prints from Round the World opens Monday in the James Room and runs through Friday, October 30. Thirty contemporary prints from twenty-two countries span lithographs etchings wood and lino-cuts and were organized by Andrew Stasik of the Pratt Graphic Art Center for a national tour. Many contributing artists are renowned in their homelands and several are Ljubljana Biennale laureates. Barnard's stop was arranged by Prof. Julius S. Held.
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United States
James Room
Andrew Stasik
Pratt Graphic Art Center
Ljubljana
Barnard
Julius S. Held
Art History
Reader complains about Columbia food facilities
In a letter to the editor, the writer recalls a student committee finding on Columbia University's food facilities last spring. They note overpriced and poor quality meals at John Jay and the annex, criticizing Barnard's tunaless tuna sandwich and comparing prices to nearby options.
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Columbia University
Broadway
Barnard’s Annex
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Barnard Bulletin
Phyllis Klein
Sylvia Lerman
Ellen Youngelson
Lynne Braverman
Nancy Klein
Sara Piovia
Anne Wollam
Zane Berzins
Arlene Katz
Janet Roach
Cynthia Meyer
Betsy Page
Elena Schmidt
MEWS
Barbara Crampton
Gloria Leitner
Sharon Zukin
Democratic National Committee
India
Wards
B.C
By Susan Conway
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