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...York is still the cultural capital of the world, the Times's critics understandably exert formidable power. Theater Critic Clive Barnes can easily kill a Broadway play with a negative notice, which may be the reason why many readers find his prolix reviews generally far too kind. Ada Louise Huxtable, now part of the nine-member editorial board, is probably the most influential commentator on architecture in the country. The Times has also broadened its cultural reviews to include regular coverage of rock and other outgrowths of the counterculture that would not have made its pages a few years...
...long bald skull like a dented kettle, Smith was born a Cherokee in Indian Territory (later renamed Oklahoma) in 1906. His education was rudimentary-"the three Rs, and farm work the rest of the time" -but during the Depression he managed to put himself through Oklahoma State College at Ada. Then, in 1933, he happened on the art department there...
...Died. Ada Louise Cornstock Notestein, 97, first full-time president of Radcliffe College (1923-43); in New Haven, Conn. During her last year as president, Notestein ended a 64-year custom by persuading Harvard to open its courses to women...
AMERICAN EDUCATION, especially the education of American women, lost a champion when Ada Comstock Notestein died last week. Born, as she liked to point out, the first white child in the Red River valley, in Moorhead, Minnesota, she grew up loving the wide prairies and wheat fields of the West. She was encouraged by her father, to whom she always felt close, to go east to college. She graduated from Smith College in 1897, took graduate work in English at Columbia and from there went to the University of Minnesota as a teacher of English and the first dean...
...Ada Comstock took a life-long interest in the three institutions where she had worked and she is remembered in them all for her wisdom, leadership, courage and strength...