Students on campus wearing Bermuda shorts, one of the era’s sartorial trends. Wendy Supovizt '63 in conversation with a woman wearing a kimono and Martha Kostyra Stewart '63, South Lawn, ca. 1960. Photography by The New York Daily News, Courtesy of…
Student signing out for the night at front desk, as her date looks on, Brooks Hall, ca. 1960.
The housing rules defined. All residents had to fill out a slip letting college officials know where they were going and when they would be returning. …
Celebrations for the College Bowl team of 1968, pictured with their trophy. They won $19,000 in scholarship money. President Martha Peterson receiving silver bowl from General Electric Vice President John A. Spencer, while Prof. Richard Norman…
The strike against Columbia, protesting the violence that ended the building occupations, May 1968. From The Mortarboard 1975, p.11. Courtesy of Barnard College Archives.
Posture Contest, Barnard gymnasium, January 6, 1956.
The Physical Education Department’s focus on proper body movement culminated in the Freshman “Posture contest” held in January. A panel of professors and staff picked the freshman with the best…