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Newspaper
Barnard Bulletin
Location
New York, New York, United States of America
Date
Oct 27, 1931
Page
3
Professor John Erskine, author of Helen of Troy and noted music critic, will address the College Assembly at 1 10 pm in the gymnasium. An amateur pianist and Juilliard School of Music presider since 1928, he has judged Greek Games Lyrics contests at Barnard and speaks here as a music critic for the first time.
A lively gym party featured Sophomores in country attire hosting Freshmen. The scene showed gendered costumes with ginghams sunbonnets aprons and breeches as players gathered for a festive, if hazy, ceremony and singing, recalling a former hazing tradition.
Joseph Wood Krutch argues that modern drama splits into two eras, Ibsen-Shaw-Wilde as intellectual and destructive, and the past decade as seeking emotion and beauty. He says contemporary writers aim to move emotions rather than argue, and the theatre can be a medium for art.
A four week initiative at Barnard College begins November 2 to raise funds for unemployment relief. Students will donate one penny per meal, with boxes placed in Barnard and Milbank Halls. Profits may go to a charity. total hoped to reach 300 to 720 dollars. Dorothy Kramm chairs the Publicity Committee. further details to be announced at the College Assembly.
The Wigs and Cues club announces thirty three new members chosen for their work in recent try-out plays. Names include Sylvia Fabricant Adelaide Robinson Caroline Prager Lois Stefford and many others. Further try-outs are planned for February with a tea honoring the new members featuring Mary Ellis and Basil Sidney as guests.
Mortarboard schedules junior individual portraits to be taken by November 5 at Arthur Studios located at 131 West 42nd Street. Sittings are available for students to have their pictures taken for yearbook records.
Columbia University professor John Erskine will address the college today at 1 10 P M in the gymnasium. The noted author and critic will speak on music.
The piece discusses the pressures of the junior sister role in Barnard's college life. It highlights the paradox of a valued tradition that pairs a freshman with a senior mentor to guide eating and behavior, while noting potential harm from forced intimacy and social scrutiny. The author urges approaching the topic with irony rather than denunciation.
The Curricular Committee proposes a pass-fail referendum to the college this week. Students will be grouped into units of fifteen with group leaders interviewing each participant individually. Voters sign their classes, not their names, and answer questions about academic motivation and performance.
About 150 students representing freshmen sophomores and upperclassmen took part in the annual Play Day at the college on Thursday October 22. Events included a six pass ball tournament volleyball challenges balloon blowing giant volleyball and relays plus folk dancing.
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