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Wilbur Kitchener Jordan of Radcliffe, who took over the college in 1943, carried out the bargain struck with Harvard by his predecessor, Ada Comstock Notestein (TIME, Nov. 24), under which Radcliffe girls were admitted to Harvard classes. Reserved, grey-haired W. K. Jordan instituted a series of graduate seminars, found time to teach two courses in 17th century English history, has done well at money raising. In speaking of his resignation last week, Jordan, 57, listed his academic interests as "teaching, research and administration," in that order, added: "I have come to realize that the college itself has grown over...
Soloway defended a revised state tax program that he prepared two years ago for the state Americans for Democratic Action, of which he is vice-president. The ADA is promoting Soloway's program again this year as a means of increasing tax revenue...
...Died. Ada E. Foote Wrigley, about 90, widow of William Wrigley Jr., who minted millions from chewing gum, owned baseball's Chicago Cubs; after eleven years in a coma; in Pasadena, Calif...
...Radcliffe that Ada Louise Comstock took over in 1923 was something of a makeshift institution. In 1879 a committee of Cambridge ladies asked Harvard President Charles W. Eliot for permission to hire Harvard professors to teach young ladies. The ladies got their permission and hired their profs-and also female chaperons to sit beside them as they taught. The college prospered under Miss Comstock, but until the last year of her reign, she still had to lure Harvard faculty members each year to teach part time at Radcliffe. Then, in 1943, she outraged old Harvards, gave malicious delight to their...
...with warmth of "two convictions which never failed me-that the foundation principle on which Radcliffe was built was solid as rock, and that no college could be happier in those who served and supported and believed in her." Few would deny that chief among those who served is Ada Comstock Notestein...