Word: comstock
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Boldt, M. R. Brownell Jr., C. N. Comstock and Malcolm Taylor Jr. have been announced as the Freshmen who will be taken to Red Top to complete the combination crew. D. F. Baum will be taken as cox. These men, with the first 1930 eight, will arrive in New London at 3:45 o'clock tomorrow afternoon and will take their initial row on the Thames that evening. Pending the arrival of the 1930 members of the combination eight walters have been substituting and S. C. Heard '25, who will coach the crew, has been acting in the capacity...
First Freshman: Willard, stroke; Parker, 7; Brownell, 6; Rawles, 5; Roosevelt, 4; Comstock, 3; Dickey, 2; Lewisbow; Miller...
Crew R: Stroke, Guthrie Willard, 7, L D. Parker; 6, James Roosevelt; 5, G. P. Hamlin, Jr; 4, Rodgers Donaldson; 3, C. N. Comstock; 2, E. W. Page; bow, J. L. Batchelder, Jr.; coxswain, D. F. Baum...
...reformer said, "A bloody ending to a bloody life." While he was not alone in his campaigns, few associates went all the way with him. Most of his contemporaries in fact, detested him. "The spirit that lighted the fires of the Inquisition," wrote Ezra Heywood, eccentric socialist, victim of Comstock's fury. He was called "an incorporated conscience," "an ogre to innocent girls." George Bernard Shaw said: "Comstockery is the world's standing joke at the expense of the United States." He must, though, have had some friends, for he notes, "For Christmas I received a pair...
Crew B--Stroke, Brownell; 7, Taylor; 6, Mason; 5, Hamlin; 4, Roosevelt; 3, Comstock; 2, R. A. Page; bow, Batchelder...