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BARNARD BULLETINFaculty Participates In Diverse ActivitiesSeveral members of the Barnard faculty have been active in “extra-curricula” projects recently.Miss Marianna Byram, assistant professor of fine arts; gave a lecture on drawings to the Barnard College Club of New York on November 18. Professor Henry A. Boorse, of the Physics department, presented a paper on “Recent Re-^ suits of the Heat Capacities ofSuperconducting Metals at Liquid Helium Temperatures” at a meeting of the National Academy of Sciences held at Columbia on November 10.Professor Eugenio Florit of the Spanish department gave a lecture on “Contemporary Poetry in the United States” at the Pan-American Women’s Association of New York, where he also read some of his own translations of American poetry.Professor Basil Rauch, of the History Department, now on leave, will lecture in Salzburg, Austria, on the administrations of Franklin D. Roosevelt. Professor LeRoy Breunig of the French Department is serving on a committee of the New York Chapter of the American Association of Teachers of French which will examine the New York City Board of Education’s proposed program of foreign language study for city schools.Professor Bernice Wenzel of the Psychology Department, has received for the second successive year an award for research in olfaction from the Armour Research Foundation of the Illinois Institute of Technology. Miss Annette Kar, lecturer in history, has been appointed secretary of the American Studies Bibliography Project of the Metropolitan Chapter of the American Studies Association.Professor of History Rene Albrecht-Carrie did a review for the September issue of the “Political Science Quarterly.” Mrs. Amelia del Rio, associate professor of Spanish, and her husband, a Columbia Professor of Spanish, have edited “Antologia General de la Literatura Espahola.”Natl ReviewFeatures Best College WorksCU Players Do Williams *i amino RealThe Columbia Players’ revival of “Camino Real,” the Tennesee Williams play, will be presented nightly in Brander Matthews Theatre December 15 through 18, with a matinee performance on Saturday.“Camino Real,” which was presented on the New York stage in April 1953 drew mixed reactions from the critics, whose only point of agreement was in calling it “cryptic.” The play has no specific time or setting although it does take place in a Latin American “bohemia” and the language is contemporary. “Camino Real” follows the vain searchings of an innocent ex-boxer, Kilroy, for security and love in a confused world.Three Barnard students, Kathleen Cavanaugh ’57, Hale Gabriel-son '55, and Carlotta Lief '67, will appear in the play directed by Robert Goldsley C*49.Hanukah FormalThe Annual Hanukah Formal of the Seixas-Menorah Societies and the Jewish Graduate Society will be held December 23 at Temple Emanu-El, 5 Avenue and 65 Street. A card admitting a couple without charge has been sent to members. Music will be provided by an eight-piece orchestra,• The Vagabonds. No one can become a member at the door.A new national leview of the best college student writing will be edited by Nolan Miller and Jud-son Jerome, membeis of the Antioch College English Department. The first issues are planned to appear annually.The review, which is to be called “Campus Writing Today,” will include stories, poems, portions of novels, short plays and sketches, essays and articles. Material must be unpublished, except in a campus publication and must be recommended by a member of the teaching faculty. Ttye deadline for the first issue is May 1, 1955. Contributors must be ^ students at North American colleges at present, or have attended such colleges within the past three years.fo:thiWCO]alyiSt]stcXmas Formal Bids GoTo Term Drive fundJanet Bersin ’56, chairman of the Barnard College Social Committee, reports that tickets for the Christmas formal are going rapidly, and urges students who want bids to visit the booth on Jake for tickets before they are sold out. Bids for the dance, which will be held in the James Room on December 18, a week from this Saturday, are $4.50. Proceeds from the dance will go to Term Drive. Miss Bersin said that the committee on the formal has not yet made definite plans for entertainment.Chairmen MeetingThere will be a meeting of all club chairmen on Friday* December 10, from noon to 1 p.m. in Room 3 of the Annex, Janet Morehead, Clubs Chairman, has announced. All chairmen are requested to attend.budeiIIcocinisaregioon}sutareofofmailieThlt;cle;ancItorresseltproplicatingStrTproTitlActbiaChiishSchRivogilt;...AND HOWs
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