Opening Exercises Begin Columbia University Year
The 187th year opening exercises take place Wednesday at 3 30 in the McMillin Academic Theatre. Professor James Kip Finch speaks on Science Engineering and the Modern World. Barnard reception follows at 430 in Barnard Hall gym.
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Seth Low Memorial Library
McMillin Academic Theatre
School of Business
Columbians Made Accessible Through New Mail System
Columbia College introduces a new student mail service enhancing cross campus communication. A large Hamilton Hall board will list about two thousand names for Columbia College students and dorm residents. N.Y.A. workers provide envelopes and red cellophane to seal messages, with notes left at a local mail booth for delivery via university mail.
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Columbia University Orchestra Seeks Members For Season
Applications for membership may be made with Professor Herbert Dittler, leader, through Dr. Harwood Simmons at 601 Journalism during registration. Seven major concerts are planned this season. The orchestra also offers social events with dances and receptions after each concert.
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Columbia University Orchestra
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Library Opens for Students on September 25
The library will officially open to students on Wednesday September 25 from 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. After opening the library will operate on its usual schedule. At 12 noon Miss Rockwell will deliver her annual address to the Freshman at a compulsory meeting.
Arthur the Rat Speech Sleuth Introduces Freshmen Tests
Helen Kandel describes a campus program where new students must register at Riverside Building from the 24th to 26th for the English D1 speech test. They will recite a line about a rat named Arthur and face a mock voice issue evaluator.
Publications Hold Tryouts at Barnard for News Staff
Barnard's Bulletin announces news staff tryouts on Tuesday October 1 at 4 PM in the Bulletin office. Applicants must submit three different stories for three Bulletin issues during the one month apprenticeship. Additional tryouts for advertising circulation and About Town will occur later. Mortarboard seeks freshmen and sophomores and invites applicants to see Grace Barrett in Room 402 Barnard Hall at noon after September 26.
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Barnard Freshmen and Transfers to Be Feted at Picnic
About 150 freshmen and transfers will attend a Barnard College picnic at Ossining tomorrow afternoon hosted by the Undergraduate Association. Transport is provided by three buses leaving at 10 a.m. and returning by 4 p.m. Leaders and guests include Frances Murphy chairing Camp Committee and Ruth Taubenhaus Undergraduate President with several faculty and student officials.
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Marjorie Madden
Dean Gildersleeve
Miss Hol
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Banquet Welcomes Transfers at Barnard October 1
Barnard will formally welcome its transfers on October 1 at a banquet as part of orientation. Barbara Heinzen 42 is chair, with co chairs Joan Filley and Marie Mesrobian 41 guiding new students through campus offices. The event stresses that Sunday’s picnic is for freshmen and transfers.
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Glee Club Tryouts Announced for Freshmen Week
Betty Clifford 41 publicly announces freshmen tryouts next week in Room 408 Barnard Hall with sessions September 23 25 from 10 to 12 and September 24 26 from 2 to 4 o clock. The club plans fall and spring concerts with Columbia and two concerts with Wesleyan College plus the Christmas Broadcast joint with Barnard. Rehearsals occur twice weekly and joint sessions with Columbia every two weeks.
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Voluminous Files Offer Barnard History Through 50 Years
Florence Fischman recounts Barnard College’s first fifty years through 1903 to 1911, citing student life, clubs, suffrage activity, campus features, and social events. It notes the Bulletin’s early tone, dorm absence, and petitions for voting rights and new buildings, with references to Earl Hall and Fiske Hall.
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Students Asked to Call Daily for Mail
Students must check their Student Mail daily to receive notices from the Faculty Registrar and Comptroller. Girls are held responsible for all these notices and daily mail retrieval.
Dean Gildersleeve To Address Freshman Day Luncheon
Dean Gildersleeve will welcome the Class of 1944 at the Freshman Day luncheon in Brooks Hall at noon. Many campus leaders and officers will address the newcomers including Ruth Taubenhaus, Ruth Stevenson, Irene Lyons, Meredith Wright, Grace Barrett, and Alice Drury. After lunch, freshmen discuss Barnard activities, Greek Games display, and a tea on the North Terrace with hostesses listed.
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Brooks Hall
Margery Madden
Alsop
McGuire
Gregory
Grant
Ruth Taubenhaus
Barnard Hall
Barnard
Ruth Stevenson
Irene Lyons
Barnard Bulletin
Meredith Wright
The
Athletic Association
Grace Barrett
Mortarboard
Alice Drury
Emily Gunning
Margaret Jackson
Adeline Bostelmann
Gretchen Relyea
Patricia Lambdin
Eileen Alessandrini
Joann McQuiston
Athena I. Capraro
Helen Ayers
Marion Meding
Jeanne Anderson
E. Winifred Anderson
Helen Kandel
Doris Williams
Betty Hans
Ruth Geyer
Martha Lawrence
Eleanor Webb
Alice Kliemand
Georgia Sherwood
Betty Clifford
Mary Damrosch
Juliette Kenney
Marjorie Moore
Campus Calendar Reads September Events At Mc Millin Theatre
September 20 through October 2 list student registration, new student registrations, opening exercises at 3 30 p.m. in Mc Millin Theatre, classes start September 26, floor party September 27 with compulsory transfer meeting, transfer dance September 28, Camp Committee October 1 freshmen assembly and transfer banquet, and October 2 all college tea at 4 p.m. in College Parlor.
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