Freedom and Conformity in Intellectual Freedom Debate
An editorial lauds Professor Commager’s defense of intellectual freedom on the Columbia Barnard campus while warning that fear of conformity threatens free thought. It cites student hesitancy, past bans, and calls for stronger resolve to sustain democracy through courageous dissent and martyrs for freedom.
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Henry Steele Commager
Barnard
Columbia
Grayson L. Kirk
W. H. Auden
Mark van Doren
Millicent C. McIntosh
Commager
Howard Fast
Morrison and
America
Mrs Elinore Mullen Leaves Student Affairs for Milbank
Mrs Elinore Mullen, Assistant to Director of Student Affairs, will leave to become Executive Secretary of the College on October 15 with offices in the dean's, shifting focus from students to trustees and administration. Affiliated with Barnard twenty years she studied at Russell Sage Katharine Gibbs Teachers College and Barnard surveys.
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Barnard College
Barnard
New York NY
Elinore Mullen
Milbank
Mullen
Joan Brown Wettingfeld
Russell Sage College
Katharine Gibbs School
Teachers College
Columbia University
BC'51 Alumna Clarissa Hedges Stars in New Show
BC fifty one alumna Clarissa Hedges known as Chris, a Barnard graduate, headlines with Richard Rogers and Oscar Hammerstein’s new concert unit at the Majestic theatre. She will tour ten weeks, performing nightly in theatres across the South and West, after earlier stints with the Province town G and S Company and Finch Opera Workshop.
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Majestic Theatre
Richard Rogers
Oscar Hammerstein
Barnard
Clarissa Hedges
Clarissa
Chris
Finch Junior College
Rosamund Gilder
Provincetown
Gilbert and Sullivan Company
Finch Opera Workshop
Rogers and Hammerstein
Oklahoma
Crown Vaughn Monroe Crowned King of the Ball
Bandleader Vaughn Monroe is crowned King of the Ball this afternoon at 3 in The Lion's Den John Jay Hall as part of a publicity stunt for the Saturday Homecoming Ball. Blue Key Society sponsoring the event invites Barnard students to attend the coronation.
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Vaughn Monroe
the Lion’s den
John Jay Hall
Blue Key Society
Barnard
CU Players Stage Comic Moliere Satire The Physician in Spite of Himself
Columbia University Players opened with a lively translation of Molières The Physician in Spite of Himself blending period flavor with modern idiom. Barry Grael and Geoffry Gates Brown lead a strong cast with Burton Rossovsky delivering standout laughs while Cecile Pineda Ann Nelson Cathy Rozendaal and others fill out a brisk ensemble.
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Columbia University Players
Moliére
Barry Alan Grael
Sganarelle
Geoffry Gates Brown
Burton Rossovsky
Cecile Pineda
Martine
Ann Nelson
Jacqueline
Cathy Rozendaal
Lucinde
John Flint
David Gerstein
Charles Santoro
M. Robert
Leandro
Valere
Fred Guinther
Bob Lang
Mrs White Uncovers Barnard Secrets for 1954 History
Col umbia University Press plans a two hundredth anniversary series with thirty to forty volumes revealing Barnard hidden stage secrets under a collapsible floor and a notable donor in Delphine Brown. Marion Churchill White leads Barnard history research. she notesFaculty advisors to presidents and long serving deans, with Ida H Ogilvie and Virginia Gildersleeve highlighted.
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Brinckerhoff
Columbia University
Columbia University Press
Marion Churchill White
Barnard
White
United States
Virginia Gildersleeve
U. S
San Francisco
James Shotwell
Woodrow Wilson
Raymond Moley
Roosevelt
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Barnard Bulletin
Aida DiPace
Audrey Weissman
Joan Stearns
Lyne Bresser
Dorothy Coyne
Kathirine Munzer
Ellen Schlecher
Mann Sten
Sho Ols Mintz
Lenore Self
Mrs. Elinore Mullen
BC’51
Chris Hedges
Crown Vaughn Monroe
Catherine Rozendaal
John Ott
John Hollander
G. B. Lully
Mrs. White
Old Barnard
Peggy Collins
Bryn Mawr
Ida H. Ogilvie
Laura Gill
William Kenney Brewster
College
Brewster
Fiske Hall
Milbank Hall
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