Barnard Women Gain Membership in Columbia Political Assembly
In a spring meeting the Columbia College Political Assembly voted by one vote to admit girls to membership, rejecting Kings Crown alignment. Debate centered on prestige, Freshman day booths, and radio club WKCR where female members are required. Barnard students held three seats amid partisan party caucuses and Oxford Cambridge style structure.
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Columbia College Political Assembly
Kings Crown Activities
Columbia
Kings Crown
WKCR
Barnard
Political Assembly
Oxford
Cambridge
Whig
Liberal
Prominent Speakers At Assembly Meetings Draw Students
The article describes joint meetings featuring a prominent speaker and group debate. Past speakers include Norman Thomas Alfred Kohlberg and Krishna Menon. The October meeting will discuss a resolution to retain the Republican Party in office and invites student attendance and potential members via Martha Wubing through Student Mail.
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Norman Thomas
Alfred Kohlberg
Krishna Menon
Republican Party
Martha Wubing
Board Names News Trustees Elects Bunche
Dr. Ralph J. Bunche, director of the United Nations Division of Trusteeship, was elected to International House Barnard College's trustee board. Also chosen were George W. Perkins and Arthur K. Watson, both prominent executives, reflecting an active leadership for the New York City residence and cultural center hosting foreign students.
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Ralph J. Bunche
United Nations
International House
Barnard College
David Rockefeller
George W. Perkins
Palisades Interstate Park Commission
City Bank Farmers Trust Company
Arthur K.watson
IBM World Trade Corporation
Barnard
New York City
Bunche
Europe
Africa
Liberal Arts Major Topic At Conclave
The Combined Plan Conference of Liberal Arts in Engineering Education gathers presidents and deans from 43 colleges at Arden House Hariman New York to discuss the impact of the Three-Two plan on liberal arts education. Speakers include Clarence Linden General Electric Dr Howard Mumford Jones Harvard Henry S Dyer ETS and Columbia leaders. More than 100 attendees explore curricula, industrial needs, war prep, and privately endowed colleges amid a looming wartime student influx.
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Columbia School of Engineering
Arden House
Harriman
Ne Y
Clarence Linden
General Electric Co
Howard Mumford Jones
Harvard University
Henry S. Dyer
Education Testing Service
Lawrence H. Chamberlain
Columbia College
John R. Dunning
Mario Salvadori
Columbia
School of Engineering
Henry H. Armsby
U.S. Department of Health, Education and Welfare
Catholic Leaders Speak at Columbia Lecture Series
Nine Catholic leaders and lay authorities will speak at Columbia University in a fall lecture series titled Wednesday Evenings of Good Talk. From October 13 to December 15 at 8 15 p m in Earl Hall, speakers include Fr Frederick Wilcock SJ and Miss Eileen Riels with topics on Russia spiritual reading and Genesis and the Modern Mind.
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Columbia University
John K. Daly
Earl Hall
Columbia
Father Daly
Frederick Wilcock
Fordham University
Russia
Eileen Riels
New York Public Library
John J. Dougherty
The
Archiocese of
Newark
Federal Service Topic At Columbia Assembly Held At Arden House
The Sixth American Assembly at Arden House Harriman New York discussed The Federal Government Service Its Character Prestige and Problems with 54 delegates urging the President to oversee personnel policies while Congress supports leadership. A commission to review loyalty security and civil service practices was recommended with broader veteran job fairness and public understanding of public employment.
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Arden House
Harriman
N.Y
Congress
Eisenhower
Manhattanville Center Expands Mental Health Services Program
The Manhattanville Neighborhood Center at 514 West 126 Street announces an expanded mental health program for families and children. A psychiatric consultant will assist staff with behavior problems. a parents group will be formed. about 150 children aged six to twelve are enrolled as the eleventh year opens.
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Barnard College
Manhattanville
West 126 Street
Case Work Department
Harry Emerson Fosdick
Riverside Church
George B. Ford
Corpus Christi Church
Louis Finkelstein
Jewish Theological Seminary
Expert on Indian affairs to speak at Thursday Noon Meeting
Miss Dora David, president of Sarah Tucker College for Women Paramcottah, India, will address Thursday Noon Meeting on India Since Independence. Invited by President McIntosh after their last summer meeting, the event features an eminent speaker with questions and discussion to follow in the College Parlor. Barbara Foley 56 and Louise Sadler 56 organize the schedule.
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Dora David
India
David
Sarah Tucker College For Women
Paramcottah
McIntosh
Barbara Foley
Louise Sadler
Death of Barnard Professor Emeritus Wilhelm Braun
Professor Wilhelm Braun 81 former head of the Germanic languages department at Barnard College died at the Baptist Home for the Aged in Riverdale. He served 43 years on the Barnard faculty beginning as an assistant in 1900 and retiring in 1948. He did war work for the War Department and OWI in WWII and organized foreign language publications in WWI. In 1923 he was invited as the first visiting American professor at the University of Zurich.
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Wilhelm Alfred Braun
Barnard College
Baptist Home For
Riverdale
Braun
War Department
Office of War Information
University of Zurich
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ABC Radio Network
Aaa
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Anheuser-Busch, Inc
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