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Newspaper
Barnard Bulletin
Location
New York, New York, United States of America
Date
Oct 27, 1939
Page
1
Barnard College students publish a semi weekly bulletin for the Undergraduate Association. It is entered as second class matter October 19 1928 at the New York post office under the March 3 1879 act. Subscription is 300 dollars per year or 10 cents per issue.
Elizabeth Price appointed price manager at Frorexer Distorr as Turia Fowarps moves to business. Naomi Lersnyi remains managing editor while Tom Edstor Puyiris and Kexver flip roles in the newsroom.
A Barnard editorial questions the purpose of foreign language courses arguing that culture and interdependence of arts demand real language proficiency. It notes student interest lag and calls for reevaluating the curriculum as a semester project by the student curriculum committee seeking constructive suggestions.
Across the street, a Contempory Civilization professor jokes about late arrivals. He laments, I don’t want any more of this business of coming in after the bell. In very time I open my mouth somebody walks in.
Readers suggest workshops with experienced witnesses and leaders. Proposals include regular round tables with war correspondents and authors, pro con debates, newsreel briefings, bulletin board Q and A, lectures on peacemaking, and studying how the European crisis could affect students.
Dr. Eliot’s statistics class considers a mortality table for the average life span of a Jester joke. They estimate a five year-old joke may appear in at least three issues in a single year with about ten to one odds.
A 1932 launched group called The Raven Poetry Circle of Greenwich Village meets monthly at Francis L. McCrudden’s 15 Minetta Street studio to read poems and display art. Members select new poets by unanimous vote. some writers also paint, and the Ravens publish The Raven Anthology.
The review deems Ladies and Gentlemen dull despite an able cast led by Helen Hayes as Terry Scott. Hayes rescue scenes and supporting turns by Philip Merivale William Lynn Joseph Sweeny Evelyn Warden are praised, with director playwrights noted for wit but uneven drama.
The Whitney Museum opens a large Twentieth Century show with a new lighting system and added galleries. The critic notes the expanded group dilutes quality, yet preserves a vivid panorama of American life through Sloan, Glacken, Bellows, Marsh, Sheeler, Biddle, and Kuniyoshi, while finding the sculpture weaker.
The original Don Cossack Chorus, exiled in travel documents, joins the Bali and Java dancers for a multi culture program on the New York stage. They perform sacred music and war songs with elaborate costumes and settings, part of a series of five concerts starting October 27 at the theater.
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