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Smith's Ada Comstock Scholars give more than they take...
What will make a college degree possible for Palano is Smith's eight-year-old Ada Comstock Program for women over 22. Named for a former dean (class of '97) who later became president of Radcliffe, the program is both generous and uncompromising: there is no time limit for earning a degree and, for needier students, there is financial help; but the "Adas" (their campus nickname) must attend the same classes as regular four-year students, which means no snap courses and no credits for "life experience," a popular trend in adult education...
...North Carolina and Yale Law School. Lowenstein first became politically active in the 1950s working with Adlai Stevenson and Eleanor Roosevelt. He went on to organize student activists while a dean at Stanford University and Later served in Congress and as national chairman of Americans for Democratic Action (ADA). He was the U.S. representative of the U.N. Commission on Human Rights, and the U.N. Ambassador for Special Political Affairs in 1977. He was a close friend and side of Robert M. Kennedy '48, and was active in the presidential campaigns of Eugene McCarthy and later Edward M. Kennedy...
...major concern of MacLeish's young life was the incompatibility of his longing to write poetry with the necessity of eventually supporting himself and his future wife, Ada Hitchcock. He agonized over whether business, journalism, teaching, or law would be the best compromise, finally deciding to go to Harvard Law School, from which he graduated first in his class. But three years of promising law practice and lecturing in constitutional law at Harvard College left him unsatisfied; in a letter to his family he calls the law "a mockery of human ambition for reality." And as he wrote Yale...
Unfortunately, the nuggets are spread through an expanse of correspondence that sometimes becomes tedious. Winnick had access to all letters in MacLeish's possession (except those to and from his wife Ada) and he lists two pages of additional sources. No doubt he wanted to make a thorough and scholarly compilation, but the nearly 400 letters probably could have been cut by about a third without losing much. Nevertheless, it is well worth skimming through the housekeeping details, travel plans, and mundane dealings with editors to get to the plentiful meat...