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...Social workers make me very weary. They have no sense of humor." In 1923 he transferred as an associate professor of government to Columbia Uni- versity where he had got his Ph.D. five years before. In 1928 he was made a professor of public law. To the girls of Barnard College he taught government and politics in a humorous, informal way that charmed most of them. They also liked his after-class teas...
Claude Fuess, in a discussion euphoniously headed "Debunkery and Biography," replies somewhat obliquely to the recent efforts of Barnard Devote '20, instructor in English, on that same subject. It is not the point of view diametrically opposite to Mr. DeVote's; but in arguing in favor of modern biography in a loss extreme manner, it develops stronger brief for the maligned disciples of Strachey...
Such a revolution Socialist Norman Thomas had in mind last week when he addressed a convention of the Intercollegiate Student Council of the League for Industrial Democracy at Manhattan's Barnard College. When young representatives of 30 Eastern colleges were 20 minutes late arriving to hear him, he, always punctual, upbraided them thus: "I'm terribly fed up with the romanticism of your generation. You give advice on every subject, including how not to conduct a revolution, but you never get around to a meeting on time...
From Austrian Silesia, in 1754 and 1759, emigrated the Brothers Barnard and Michael Gratz. Their progeny reached eminence in various ways, but none more than Rebecca (1781-1869) daughter of Michael. In Philadelphia today survive charities founded by Rebecca Gratz. One of her good works was to nurse Matilda Hoffman, fiancee of Washington Irving, before Matilda died of tuberculosis at 17. Irving, grief-stricken, hurried off to Europe, where he met Sir Walter Scott and told him about Rebecca Gratz. In 1819, after Ivanhoe was published, Scott is supposed to have written: "How do you like your Rebecca? Does this...
...Barnard College's Dean Virginia Crocheron Gildersleeve, 54, had an organ grinder haled into court when he refused to leave her window. Said he, pleading that he thought she was a student, "Ah, but the beautiful lady looked so young. . . ." Sentence was suspended...