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...ADA L. COMSTOCK (1923-1943)--The practice of having Harvard professors repeat lectures given at Harvard to students at Radcliffe is abolished when the two schools sign an agreement opening all courses to Radcliffe students and making many classes coeducational...
Mature students are often more focused and less obsessed with competing than their teenage counterparts, who are apt to fret over grades and whether they have a date on Saturday night. An impressive 21% of the 443 graduates of Smith College's Ada Comstock Program, which enrolls women 22 and older, are holders of Phi Beta Kappa keys; 45% walk away with honors. Says Eleanor Rothman, director of the eleven-year-old program: "These women know what they are doing...
...race for the 29th district of Middlesex Country, Vellucci has garnered endorsements from several liberal political groups, including Americans for Democratic Action (ADA), the Massachusetts Choice Political Action Committee (MCPAC), the Commonwealth Electoral Coalition, the Local 26 Restaurant Workers and the Massachusetts Teachers Association, said Campaign Manager Clifford Truesdell...
...Peter Vellucci has for a longer period of time voted for the progressive ideals of the members of this organization," said ADA Executive Director J. James Marzilli. "Marie Howe has moved in that direction in the recent past and is now much more in tune with public sentiment, but the ADA has opted instead to back Vellucci...
Having received extreme unction from a Catholic priest in Houston, Texas, Matilde asks her friend Ada Luz to ensure that one of the "revolutionary priests from the slums" say mass upon her death. Such wishes, however, conflict with the desires of the communist party, which, under the direction of Lisboa, wants to turn the funeral into a leftist manifestation of power without competition from the Church...