Word: comstock
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...early years, Radcliffe--through Comstock's tenure--was subject to Harvard's whim, each year having to commission professors to re-teach their courses to the ladies across the Common...
When Ada L. Comstock drafted her diary entry on June 19, 1931, the 56-year-old Radcliffe College president was on edge. That day, Comstock, who rarely strayed from the faithful recording of her meals, her weight and the weather, penned four words that bear evidence to months of anguish in the making: "Fear trouble for Radcliffe...
...diploma incident was eventually resolved, but Comstock's diary helps reveal the dual nature of women's lives at Harvard--as well as the degree to which the tables have turned in a half-century...
This fall, a missing-rug phenomenon hit Pforzheimer House in a big way. On the House's popular Pfoho-Open e-mail forum, six students posted pleas for the safe return of missing rugs stored in the basement of Comstock Hall...
...writing in reaction to Richard Shames' May 11 op-ed asking Harvard to institute his so-called "Comstock Plan," a plan, as he puts it, to "bring back Radcliffe...