Word: comstocking
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Louise Comstock, sometime dean of Smith College, was inaugurated as the third President of Radcliffe College, Cambridge, Mass. Among those officially present were: President Parks of Bryn Mawr, President Lowell of Harvard, ex-President Briggs of Radcliffe, President Neilson of Smith...
President Eliot was not the only Harvard alumnus who was honored there. Three other former Harvard men received Doctor of Law degrees and Miss Comstock, third president of Radcliffe College, also received this degree. These men were; Rev. William Lawrence '71, Bishop of Massachusetts; Rev. George Angier Gordon '81, pastor of Old South Church; and Mr. Arthur Prentiss Rugg L. '14, chief justice of the Massachusetts Supreme Court...
...second date definitely set is November 13 on which Professor Manley O. Hudson L. '10 will speak on a subject not yet announced. Professor William Alian Neilson, president of Smith College, while in Cambridge for the inauguration of Miss L. A. Comstock as president of Radcliffe College last Saturday, informed the Union management that he would probably be able to speak at the Union the week of November 17. Also, C. P. Fordyee '23, graduate manager, is trying to secure Mr. Thomas William Lamont '92 of J. P. Morgan and Company for the evening of November...
Inaugurations are usually attended with pomp and circumstance of some kind, often of the kind which causes the vulgus to "throw their sweaty night caps up." But the pomp attending the inauguration of Dean Comstock as president of Radcliffe will be derived solely from the impressiveness of the assembly and of the occasion. In this age of enlightenment when greater and greater numbers of young women are bent upon more than an ordinary education, the post of president of a woman's college has become no longer a sinecure but a position of great responsibility and labor. Because of this...
...clock for the delegates, governing boards, and guests. In the afternoon the Radcliffe hockey team will play Wheaton. From 4 until 6 o'clock the Associates and the Council of Radcliffe will give a reception to the invited guests at Agassiz House in honor of Miss Comstock...