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Barnard Bulletin from New York, New York • Page 1

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BARNARD BULLETIN Published Weekly throughout the College Year, except the last two weeks in January, by the Students of Barnard College EDITORS. Editor-in-Chief Carol T. Weiss, '16 Assistant Editor-in-Chief Doris Maddow, '16 Managing Editors Babette Deutscln, '17 Margaret Moses, '17 Cora Senner Winkin, '16 Associate Editors Edith Grossmann, '16 Eluab-tliVHrfll. ''6 Dorothy Keck, '18 Dorothy Metzger, '18 Elsie Oakley, '17 Blinor '17 i i Seipp. '16 Mary Senior, '18 Rose '19 Kiuabeili Wright.

'17 Business Board Business Manager Ida P. Rolf, '16 Assistants Eliza Marquess, '17 Helena Shine, '18 Eleanor Taylor, '19 SUBSCRIPTION--ONE YEAR, $1.50 Mailing Price. $1.80 Strictly in Advance Entered as becond-class matter October 21st, i908 at the Post Office, New York. N. tinder the Act of March 3rd, 1897.

4ddress all communications to A A BULLETIN Barnard Collegt, Columbia University, Broadway and Ii9th Street N. NEW YORK, MONDAY, FEB. I4ih, 1916 BEAUTY'S TRUTH The twentieth century has become almost ijnonjmous i materialism. It is char- such as efficiency, econ- omj, maximum of result with the minimum of effort. Surely the idea that it is the college students' duty to keep alive the finer, cultural tilings is net a new one.

It has even been that men are too preoccupied with business to give the requisite time to art For these reasons the question of developing one's artistic potentialities "is of peculiar interest to Barnard students There was a time when tile BULLETIN thought of preaching this lesson, using the orld's Fair as a text. The importance that was given to the beautiful there was a most encou'racing sign. But now there is an object lesson nearer home. Perhaps many of you may have noticed the hurly- burly in the Bulletin Room after exams There semed, perhaps, to be an unnecessary amount of noise and dirt. However, the transformation has been as complete as when the butterfly in all its fairness emerges from the homely cocoon.

The BULLI.TIN, feeling the of living up to its "ideals, is now, at length, housed in fitting surroundings. WHITIN TO SPEAK NEW Stagg Whitin, Ph.D., is to speak in Ba.nard Lollege Chapel on Thursday, February 17th, on "The New Penology. Dr. i has been active for a numcer of vears in the work of the National Commit- iee on Ppispns, the organization winch is developing the. new prison system installed at Sing Sing and Auburn New York', the Connecticut Reformatory, and the Refoim School of California.

Ihe Committee has conducted investigations in many of the prisons of this coun- the findings of which are summarized Dr book, "Penal Servitude. The laws of the different states bearing upon a prison sentence have also, been compiled and published under the caption, 'The Caced Man," by the Department of Soc.al Legislation of Columbia Univers ty. The onstrated that the old prison systems have lot tended towards the welfare of the prisoner who has been exploited either for the benefit of the State or some-private business interest. To this exploitation by aflord- ng the prisoner opportunity through self- sovernment and industrial training with for his labor, Mr. Thomas Mott Os- orne, at that time chairman of the Committee, became warden of Sing Sing December, 1914 and Mr.

Adolph Lewisohn, the donor of the School of Building at Columbia University, was elected president Through the cour- esy of the trustees of Columbia Univer- ity, the offices of the Committee are situ- itecl at the University, while members of the Board of Trustees and Faculty are ictve in the work. schools are being organized at Sing Sing Prison under the supervision of Prof. Egbert, of Columbia; Social Hygiene, or the study of the prisoner, mentally, physically and morally, is being developed under a committee headed by Mrs. l-lelen Hartley Jenkins; the Committee on Honor Men, Mr. Charles Henry Davis, chairman, is promoting the employment of orroners upon the public roads, and has lad the ooperation of the Graduate Department of Highway Engineering at Co- rmbia University; Dean Goetze is chairman of the Committee on Business AdminI'tration: Prof.

Lindsay is directing the of the Committee on Humane Edu-alion: and Dean Lambert of the College of Plnsicians and Surgeons, is a member if one adrsory committee which is work- ins; out the 1-est means of dealing with drug v'ctims in the- prisons. A further evidence of the interest of the University in the prison work is shown in 'he establishment of the course in Practi- Penal Problems, which Dr. Whitin is giving under the Extension Department. Dr. Whitin is a Columbia man.

having leen president of his class, and prominent in nil campus activities. After graduating in 1914 he developed the social work of the CohimHa men at Sneyer School. He has aho been a secretary to the Mayor, and held other positions in the City and State government QUESTIONS TO BE DISCUSSED AT UNDER OR AD MEETING, TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 15 Shall we have compulsory Academic Chapel, self-compulsory, not compulsory? -Shall there be an Undergraduate rule that every member of the Undergraduate Association shall consider it a ter of honor to come to Academic Chapel unless she has a legitimate excuse? Does Barnard object on principle to anything compulsory, or does it belieVe that it will ue worth while to get together once a month, to foster that spirit of unity and enthusiasm which should animate a college community Come to Undergraduate meeting and vote on it! Financial reform! Everyone in Barnard must realize the importance and necessity of financial reform. A system is under the consideration of a sub-committee of Student Council and it is desired to get the opinion of the college on thejtiatter. SOCIAL SCIENCE LEAGUE All those interested in tlie'labor group of the Social Service League, come to a meeting Friday at 12 in Room 303.

-The topic to be discussed by the group will be and other matters of vital im- porta.nce laken up. Education Group--Room There will also he a meeting of this group to consider definite working plans. "CHALLENGE" The first challenge will be hurled at the intercollegiate world--as represented by over a dozen different institutions--on Washington's Birthday, when new intercollegiate magazine makes it first appearance. The various colleges represented are Harvard, Radcliffe, Vassar, Dartmouth, Tulane, Iowa State, C. C.

N. New York University, Yale and the Universities of Pennsylvania, Pittsburgh, Southern California, Chicago, and the various departments of Columbia. Elizabeth B. Hall, 1916, Eleanor Parker, 1917, and Dorothy Metzger, 1918, of Barnard College, are members of the Board -f Crallenqe. F.sther K.

Norton and Phyllis Perlman, who were at Barnard last year and who are now registered in the School of Journalism, are also members of the board. The features of the first issue are "Mana," a war play, by Donald MacGretror Stern. 1917, "The Cynicism of the Good," by Preston Slosson, and an article on Preparedness, by Charles Edward Russell, twice nominee of the Socialist Party for Governor of the State of New York. Contributions from Barnard are "The Hesitant Heart" a poem by Winifred Welles, and "An Letter to College Girls," by Esther K. Norton.

PROF. SHEPHERD TO SPEAK On Wednesday at 12 o'clock, punctually, PROF. SHEPHERD will speak in-room 135, on "The Jews in Spain and Elsewhere." Come and bring your friends. It wilHast a half hour, and you will have time your lunch as well as hear this interesting lecture. JEWISH RELIEF Due to the exigencies of examinations, many may have been prevented from doin? their share on Jewish Relief Day.

Contributions for Jewish Relief may be left at Miss Patchin's office. 1915 ENGAGEMENTS Edna Astru ck has announced her engagement to Alfred Jaritzki. The eneagement of Vincent Leroy to Henry has just been" an- Lucy Howe has become engaged to John Dix, of Chicago..

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