Barnard Student Council debated service role and efficiency
A Barnard College inquiry letters page defends the Student Council’s cautious approach to legislation and public service questions. Beverly Vernon praises the Barnard War Board for organizing gifts and luncheon hospitality for Russian delegation guests. Virginia Harrington is thanked for social office hospitality. The author defends Council deliberation and notes early meetings and investigative steps before any action.
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Barnard War Board
Barnard
Virginia D. Harrington
Beverly Vernon
Soviet Women War Front Volunteers Rally United States Aid
Lt. Pavlichenko highlights Soviet women replacing men in mines factories and hospitals while urging a second front this year. She notes students seek American contact and exchange letters as campus leaders welcome the delegation at Barnard College with Columbia and Barnard officials in attendance.
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Pavlichenko
United Nations
Herbert E. Hawkes
Columbia University
Virginia D. Harrington
Barnard College
Joseph Kugaila
Columbia Student Board
Harrington
Mitra Komarovsky
Salvin
Barnard ‘Social Affairs Office
Last Plea For Prudence In War Debate
A correspondent argues against rehashing the Second Front debate and urges prudence in wartime strategy. The writer cites Wilde and Roosevelt, questions sufficiency of manpower and ships, and warns against overemphasizing Russia while cautioning against reopening old hostilities.
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War Heroes Assembly
Oscar Wilde
Mark Twain
Roosevelt
Willkie
Russia
Washington
Europe
Miss Wovchin
Quiz Hour Prizes and CURC Programs Highlight Columbia Bookstore Sponsorship
The Columbia Bookstore becomes CURC sponsor for Thursday quiz night with two prizes a Modern Library Giant and a Modern Library edition. CURC adds new members and programs with students and staff listed across music, world songs, symphonic offerings, and technical and personnel departments.
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Columbia
CURC
Barnard
Lerve
Dance Tonight At 8 Weekly Square Dances
Thursday night sessions in Brinckerhoff Theater begin at eight under the University Square Dance Group. Admission is 25 cents weekly or 75 cents a month. Officers include Ray Menaker president Irene Herzfeld treasurer Lisbet Stumpp secretary. Barnard publicity reps Deborah Burstein Eva Reich. Pianist caller and chaperone provided. Instruction offered for novices. Dances end by 11.
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Brinckerhoff Theater
University Square Dance Group
Ray Menaker
Irene Herzfeld
Lisbet Stumpp
Barnard
Deborah Burstein
Eva Reich
Poet’s Century Hope for Russia Collaboration
A letter expresses hope that in the people’s century Russia will work with freedom-loving nations. The writer stresses no delay but fears imprudence could prolong or lose the war.
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Russia
American Heritage Course Attracts City-Wide Interest
Martha Messler reports Barnard's summer session offers an American Heritage course taught by the history department. Professor Eugene Byrne says the program combats nationalism while teaching patriotism by integrating world history from an American viewpoint, tracing roots from the sixteenth century to present times and highlighting presidents and events that influenced global progress.
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Martha Messler
Barnard
Metropolitan
Tribune
Eugene Byrne
United States
the Tribune
Byrne
Episcopal Club Tours Cathedral and Meets for Service
The Episcopal Club will tour Saint John the Divine tomorrow afternoon and attend the 5 o clock service. Interested members meet on Jake at 3 45. Rabbi Elliot Burstein of San Francisco will guest of honor at a Menorah Seixas Society meeting next Monday from 4 to 6 in Earl Hall Dodge Room. The Italian Club elected officers for the year with Gloria Casciano as president and Marguerite Gianottione as vice president. Josephine DeGeorge is secretary Nicolina L Episcopo treasurer and Ida Sarro publicity manager. Claire Virgien was elected publicity manager of the Glee Club replacing Norma Blickfelt. Gretchen Belyea is club president.
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Episcopal Club
Saint John the Divine
Jake
Elliot Burstein
San Francisco
Menorah and
Seixas
Earl Hall Dodge
Columbia
Gloria Casciano
Marguerite Gianottione
Josephine DeGeorge
Nicolina L’episcopo
Ida Sarro
Claire Virgien
Glee Club
Norma Blickfelt
Gretchen Belyea
French Club Invites Barnard Students to Free Courses
Dean Gustave Cohen of the downtown Faculte des Lettres at the Ecole Libre des Hautes Etudes spoke at La Societe Francaise installation tea on Tuesday and extended an invitation to Barnard students to attend free French courses at his school.
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Barnard
Gustave Cohen
Faculte Des Lettres
Ecole Libre Des Hautes Etudes
la Societe Francaise
Math Club Hosts Industrial Film Night at Brinckerhoff
Shirley Sexauer, president of the Mathematics Club, welcomed thirty students and faculty to Brinckerhoff Theatre for three shorts titled Vernier Micrometer and Cutting a Spur Gear on a Milling Machine. The films illustrate fast training methods used in technical schools to speed up production and emphasize correct instrument use in laboratories.
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Shirley Sexauer
Mathematics Club
Brinckerhoff Theatre
Vernier
Films For Clubs Offer Free Projectors For War Meetings
The CDVO Film Bureau will supply projectors operators screens and films at no charge to meetings supporting the war effort. Any group of a hundred or more may qualify and consult a list of 37 titles in the Bulletin office. A minimum one week notice is required for film use.
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Cdvo Film Bureau
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Jean Albert
Phyllis Wright
Frances Higgins
Marion Kaplan
Hope Simon
Betty Simpson
Gerry Griffin
Caroline Coudert
Virginia Parks
Jacqueline Shadgon
Virginia Heller
Dart Morgan
Gladys Rikert
Eleanor Aliesky
Mariette Arden
Annette Auld
Betty Booth
Betty Campion
Marilyn Chasin
Sue Demarest
Dolores Drew
Edith Goldsmith
Doris Hering
Jacqueline Himmel
Katherine Keith
Aura Kesseler
Jean Lantz
Trudi Leeds
Florence Levi
Lisa Litthe
Mary C. Morgan
Rhoda Oxenberg
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