Word: comstock
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Nevada, where the Reno divorce mill grinds exceedingly fast and the ways of women are an old story, the matter caused little comment. In Nevada the Mackay name rings with a sound of pure silver because it was there that the late John William Mackay, Irish pioneer, struck the Comstock Lode in 1873, earning $1,850 for every 15? he had invested. And it is there that Clarence Hungerford Mackay has been endowing the State University in his father's memory ever since 1908. He gave a School of Mines that year, followed by a series of gifts whose...
...unclassified member of the com-mission is the one woman on it, Miss Ada Louise Comstock, stately, broad-minded president of Radcliffe College. As a political independent, she has kept her Prohibition views strictly to herself. Soon after her appointment she was asked, of course, if she was related to the late great Reformer Anthony Comstock. She replied: "There is no traceable connection." Her legal credo is this: "I believe in as few rules as possible and a rigid enforcement of the rules that do exist...
...Radcliffe had grown to be a college of nearly 800 students. It had become a centre for graduate study. Its physical equipment had been gradually enlarged. A full-time president had therefore become necessary, and the associates appointed Miss Ada Louise Comstock, then Dean of Smith College, to direct the administration. Miss Comstock had previously been Dean of Women at the University of Minnesota, which she had attended as an undergraduate, and had been Dean at Smith, of which she was a graduate, from...
...Louise Comstock, President of Radcliffe College...
Second University--Stroke, P. H. Watts '31; 7, M. M. Johnson '31; 5, R. I. McKesson '31; 5, A. B. Rood '31; 4, A. N. Webster '31; 3, C. E. Mason '30; 2, M. R. Brownell '30; bow, C. N. Comstock...