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BARNARD BULLETIN Published semi-weekly throughout the college year, except during vacation and examinauoii penods by the students at Barnard College, in the interests of the Undergraduate Association. as second matter October 19, 1928, at the Post Office at New York. N. under the Act of March 3, 1879." Subscription rate $3.00 per year; single copy, 10 cents. RUTH RAUP Editor-in-Chief RITA DRESNER Managing Editor RUTH MURPHY I Feature Editors JUDITH MORTEXSON MAYA PINES About Town Editor HELEN TREVOR 1 Cartoonists PHYLLIS BROWN MARY WILSON Business Manager NANCY AUSTER Advertising Manager RUTH MAIER Circulation Manager ANN 1 TERRY Photographer EDITORIAL ASSISTANTS "Bafcetre Brimberg, i Brimberg, Ruth Lairdesman, Elaine Ryan, Marilyn Schwartz.

Marguerite St. John. NEWS BOARD Margaret Baruth. Tane Gordon, Marilyn Karmason. Betty Lou Kirtley, Cynthia" Morse-Shreve, Betty Pobanz.

Betty Wall. ASSOCIATE NEWS BOARD Ruth Aney, Elizabeth Aschner. Anna Chacho. Shirley Cohen, Inge Falk, Marion Freda. Jean Goodman, Joan Haldensiem.

Joan Houston, Ruth i Esther Jones, Myra Koh. Jane Mclnnis, Esther Mendelsohn, Koary Scacciaferro, Jean Scheller, Roselin Seidcr. Nonne 1 McDonough. A I A STAFF Dorothy Clark, Sue Cox. Amalie Mayer.

Barne Tait. Nada Vodenlitch. BUSINESS STAEF Marilyn Karmason, Betty Wall. Dorothy Gaebelein, Helen Serrell. Maria'nne Reichert.

June Stein. Jean De Santo. ABOUT TOWN STAFF Astry Beeck. Amelia Coleman CaJdor, Inge Falk. Barbara Henly, Jeanne-Marie Kranich, Elizabeth Hayman, Carol Reynolds, Marlies Wolf.

Then and Now The Sober Columbian Marilyn Schwartz '48 is Assistant Managing Editor for this issue. CAROL JOHNS RESIQNS With true regret the College hears of Carol Johns' resignation from the office of' Undergraduate Pres. ident. Throughout this year, when she has led student -government, and during all her years at Barnard, she lias given generously of her time, her energy, her imagination, and her interest in almost every aspect of campus life. Playing basebaU at Barnard Camp speaking at As- 1 Mermaid' St.

Lawrence: Known In Pool, On Stage --By Ruth Murphy In the October 23, 19-43 issue of THE NEW there was an anecdote about Dr. Alfred Meyer disappearing "in the machinery of the swimming pool." The conclusion was somewhat shortsighted for, he was only wandering around the drained pool "making an inspection of the place to find-out if it was sanitary." Sheila Saint Lawrence probably could not have answered that question for Dr. Meyer in 1943, but she could tell him now, almost the No Longer Cuts Capers act h1ar ness of he boti TM the pool. During a dress rehearsal Once upon a time, as all good of the last water carnival, Sheila fairy stories begin, Columbia he- was practicing a flip which threw men were wont to tear down the her for TWO black eyes on the green fence that gives Barnard its floor of the pool--and even then, air of exclusiveness and burn said the pool was not drained, fence on the trolley tracks at 117 Thorough Baptism Street. Them days is gone forever.

Sheila has probably undergone Instead of engaging in such mid- all the "baptism" into the art of night pranks, students now burn exhibition swimming that she will the midnight oil pouring over vol- ever have to en ure This year umes. Upstairs, the wife takes marked her third in water ballet, time out from her own studies to her first i i a te acquaintance put baby to bed and to pray that i the bottom of the pool! Inci- it stays quiet. Remarkable Transformation This is the 1947 version of Josrah College, a guy who has undergone a remarkable transformation since the war years. Gone is the natty, loud attire which formerly characterized him. Gone are the preposterous prank? hatched in the wee hours in Livingston.

Gone is the strictly now-and-then a i toward studying. More of a Grind The 1947 version of the Columbia man is somewhat older, and somewhat more of a grind. He is absolutely determined to get the most of his courses. This se- a'lil'ilu'tte I'arrieb" uver-tu Jeai- ings with the feminine sex, with marriage looming in the immediate, not the far future. He takes an interest in school politics, but no longer spends hours scheming how to become president of the Debate Council.

No Longer Utopian His years in the Army have pretty much obliterated the rashly impractical and Utopian ideas he once had. He thinks twice before signing' a petition or joining an organization. He's a bit of a cynic, without being world-weary about it. Josiah College used to send a breezy note to Dad saying, "How about another century note'!" The copes with the rise in living costs on his government allotment. Yes indeed, college has changed, but we think it's for the better.

dentally, the grapefruit size bump did not keep her out of water carnival which followed closely on Maurice Chevalier Is Back Before a most enthusiastic audience, Maurice Chevalier brought back to New York a bit of France in his performance of songs and impressions last Monday night, when he opened his four-week run at the Henry Miller Theatre. It was an altogether gay and enjoyable evening. Wearing his inevitable straw hat, Chevalier explained the theme of each song in English before he sang it in French, then acted it out as he sang. The storm of applause which greeted him at the end of the first act was so great that in the second act he added extra songs, and was still called back for three encores. He sang Valentine by request, then Louise for old times' sake, 'as he had sung it on his last American tour.

At one point Maurice Chevalier took off his straw hat: that was while he sang Maridar modes, the tale of an Eastern love affair. Wearing a Chines hat with a long, hanging braid, a mandarine coat, his arms folded, he sang, ending with this moral: that an old man shouldn't marry a young and beautiful girl, because she wouldn't remain loyal to him anyway. Maurice Chevalier wrote the lyrics of his songs. Some of them were in English. One song which made a big hit with the veterans in the audience was about the Place Pigalle in Pans, "Pig Alley" as the G.I.'s called it.

where all types of people, conspicuously including the G.I.'s, used to meet. To show the spirit of the French people during the war he sang the Symphonic des semelles de bois (Symphony of the wooden soles). Because of the wartime leather shortage, wood was put on all shoe soles; Maurice Chevalier tap-danced to imitate the sound made the wooden soles. The audience most semblies, representing Barnard to other groups of students, she has shared her enthusiasm for "Barnard. With humility, dignity, and a sense of humor, she has conductecf herself in her position of Undergraduate President.

She went to Chicago as one of Barnard's representatives to the National Student Organization conference last December. If Barnard could have gone, she would have been our delegate to the International Student Service conference in London last summer. In between times, she has gone to Columbia University Student Council meetings, helping to organize a University-wide body under which the scope of student government will be broadened. She.has literally "spent" herself in inspiring and encouraging 'those who have had occasion to work with her, and in injecting ideas and force into Student activities. We speak for the college in extending appreciation to Carol.

UNIVERSITY COUNCIL Having read Lawrie Trevor's letter about an atti- -tude-expTessed by persons in Barnard College about the newly formed University Student Council, BULLETIN takes this opportunity to clarify some points about the issue. 1) Barnard, far backing out of the Council at the crucial moment, as Miss Trevor implies, was excluded from membership by the Trustees and faculty composing the University Council. According to the Constitution of the new Council, as was stated in an article in BULLETIN on March 6, Barnard is separate Corporation from Columbia and as such is not automatically represented on the Council. We may gain admission to the Council only "upon appropriate petition to the University Council as approved by the Barnard administration." 2) Thus far on Student Council there has no strong opposition expressed to Barnard's i i The group is studying certain points of detail vuth an eye- to applying for membership. 3) Before any decision be reached.

Student Council expects to discuss the matter i Faculty Committee on Student Affairs. Conclusion's which Council may reach are subject to the approval of i Committee and of the Trustees. ITer participation in Wigs "and Cues Fall production, "Alcestis." In Every Production She das followed every Wigs and Cues production through to a successful conclusion since her sophomore year when she appeared in "Julius Caesar." As an intimate part of every production, Sheila's roles have ranged from an anonymous "bit" in Scene One of "The Duchess of Malfi," to important principals' parts in the plays. In the Spring production last year, she played the part of the gay and light-hearted Prince Edward, and this year, that of Heracles who won back the life of Alcestis. Senior Proctor When Sheila is not below sea level with water carnival or above sea level on Brinckerhoff stage, she is generally sitting with the Court of Senior Proctors which meets twice a week, or with Rep (Cont.

on Page 3, col. 3) Barnard Mourns As Russeo Passes On To Blissful Dogdom An account oj the life and times oj Russet, a dog well-knou to most oj Barnard. BULLETIN, learning oj his demise, is publishing a belated 'obituary. Russet, sired by Rusty and out pany her to the Dean's office and of a ribbon winning dam, was born there wait some more, patiently as on October 26, 1932 in Ridgefield, usual, musing- to himself various Connecticut. He was a sturdy little and sundry thoughts the color red cocker soaniel who could wig- of Barnard girls' socks, where he gle a merry tail the rest of them.

He spent most of his life at Barnard, on the campus and at the buried last week's bone and of the days gone past when he acquired a few points to his arts degree by attending French and speech Riverside Building. Russet used to a at i 'de i i watch the panorama of Barnard Last December 30, Russet died i pass by i outside of old a He had lived more than 106 Barnard Hall waiting for his fourteen years. They were happy mistress, Miss Helen As- do ears la romping of a puppy to philosophical reflec- sistant to the Dean in charge of i of ft i i i i i i Public Relations. the purpose of jogdom: to love his Twice a week he would accom- mistress and his existence. Joseph Cotten, Simone Simon, and Claudette Colbert brushed elbows with New York's French colony and customary first-nighters.

But the audience was unanimous in its applause of the famous French star. Juilliard School at Carnegie --By Marlies Wolf The first concert given by the Juilliard School of Music at Carnegie Hall this season took place last Monday night. Juilliard, as usual, showed itself very capable in the interpretation of all the works. Mr. Thor Johnson, the conductor, had the young members of the orchestra well in hand and it was extremely pleasant to watch his precise and smooth conducting.

The only fault we could find with the concert was the choice of the material. As it was all Music Oj The Twentieth Century, there was absolutely no relief from the consistent abstraction, which we found is difficult to take for such a long time. The material included works by Bloch, Debussy, Copland, Kay, Rogers, and Hindemith, in that order. The Debussy work consisted of a set of sketches for some of Pierre Louys' poems, sketches which were then orchestrated by Ernest Ansermet; they were obviously unfinished; none had precise endings. They were simply tonal paintings and very pleasant to the imagination.

The audience was willing to grant ample applause for the outstanding execution of all the material, but we counted up to eight seconds before the first peals of applause began after each piece--one had difficulty being sure of the exact endings. It was like reading a book of abstract short stories in which you turn the page only to find that the story ended on the page you just read. After all the.pieces were played, the usually difficult Mathis Der Maler by Hindemith seemed like a classically complete work by comparison. It consequently stood out as the finest work, although contrapuntally and technically the rest were very inspiring..