Professor Goodrich Discusses University in a Uniting World
Columbia University opens with Professor Carter Goodrich of Economics delivering The University in a Uniting World at McMillin Theatre. Nicholas Murray Butler greets attendees and prompts a program featuring Mendelssohn and St Paul’s Chapel choir.
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Columbia
Carter Goodrich
Columbia University
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International Labor Office
Amherst College
Amherst
Michigan College
Wharton School
University of Pennsylvania
United States Resettlement Administration
United States Social Service
United States Labor
Geneva
Switzerland
Nicholas Murray Butler
Butler
Mendelssohn
St. Paul’s Chapel
Dr. Butler
Professor Goodrich
Barnard College Greets Record Freshman and Transfer Arrivals
Barnard opens with 266 freshmen and about 150 transfers totaling roughly 1160 students, near last year's record. Most entrants are local girls, with 25 foreign students from many nations, plus transfers from small Midwestern colleges.
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South Africa
Netherlands
Germany
China
Austria
France
Italy
England
Persia
Mexico
Colombia
Cuba
Bulgaria
Hawaii
Marty V. Libby
Brooks and Hewitt
King’s Crown Hotel
Johnson Hall
Columbia Graduate School
Fresh Gather In Hewitt This Noon
Two hundred sixty freshmen and transfers assemble at Columbia University for Opening Exercises after a luncheon at Hewitt Hall. Hostesses form eight person groups to escort students from the gym to St. Pauls Chapel and then to Hewitt Hall for the noon events led by Dean Virginia C. Gildersleeve and the Undergraduate president Mary Louise.
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Columbia University
St. Paul’s Chapel
Virginia C. Gildersleeve
Mary Louise
Rep Assembly To Meet Monday At Barnard Hall
The Representative Assembly will convene Monday October 1 at 12 oclock in 408 Barnard Hall. Agenda includes the War Policy adopted last spring and the continued operation of the National Service Committee. Transfer students and Freshman Class members are urged to attend.
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Representative Assembly
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National Service Committee
Freshman Day Opens Student Government Program Informal
The Freshman Day program on Saturday September 29 will be an informal introduction to student government led by Mary Louise Stewart president of the Undergraduate Association. Barnard College films narrated by Raiford Ragsdale will be shown and Student Council members will outline their duties without detailing the entire process. Refreshments follow and transfers and the Class of 49 are expected to attend.
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Mary Louise Stewart
Barnard College
Raiford Ragsdale
Representative Assembly
Fate of NS First Assembly Problem
The Barnard Winter Session reopens as the Student Council and Representative Assembly face fallout from the end of the war. Key issues include the fate of Council Member Betty Jane Smith, the National Service Chairman, and the National Service Organization and its wider implications.
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Butler Retires After 44 Years From Columbia Presidency
Dr. Nicholas Murray Butler, long serving Columbia University president, retires after forty four years. His tenure saw the expansion of the Columbia Summer School and hospital centers, and growth of journalism education. He joined Columbia as a student and rose to lead the university.
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Columbia University
Columbia Summer School
Columbia- Presbyterian Hospital Medical Center
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Teachers College
Columbia College
Columbia
The
Educational Review
National Education Council
William Howard Taft
United States
Jane Addams
Carnegie Endownment For International Peace
Try Out Early for Campus Activities at College
Mortarboard announces spring tryouts for editor in chief and business manager for 47 year staff. Posters invite applicants for art, business and literary staffs as Barnard College urges undergraduates to submit essays stories poems and sketches to Editor Marie Anne Phelps. Freshmen and transfers urged to try out for art literary or business posts with the date to be announced.
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Priscilla Block
Jake
Barnard Bear
Barnard College
Marie-Anne Phelps
Press Board governs college news releases
The Press Board selects members after competition and approval by the Office of Social Affairs and the Office of Public Relations. Headed by Chairman Virginia Moore, the group sends undergraduate activity news to local papers while requiring Public Relations Office approval for any release.
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Virginia Moore
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Barnard Hall
CURC to pilot candidate system at Columbia radio
CURC the Columbia University radio station introduces a two month candidate system that tests and trains students simultaneously. each candidate proves ability before joining staff while training for a station position. CURC opened in 1941 and airs twenty hours weekly Monday through Friday. Continued on page 3.
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Columbia University
National
Wigs and Cues Seeks Members for Campus Society
Leora Dana urges interested students to contact her or sign a poster on Jake for Wigs and Cues. Membership depends on tryouts in Brinckerhoff Theater later this semester. Mr Joge Ruben will return to direct the fall production.
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Leora Dana
Wigs
Jake
Brinckerhoff Theater
Joge Ruben
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Community Service
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