Word: comstocking
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
President Comstock has forbidden eleven Radcliffe students to act in the Dramatic Club's "A Bride for the Unicorn", not because of any specific lines but because of the unsuitability of the parts. And this prohibition was issued after the cast had been tried and chosen, and presumably had a pretty correct conception of the characters to be portrayed. But in addition to this display of shrinking Puritanism on the part of Radcliffe, President Conant has found it necessary for the advisory board of the Dramatic Club at Harvard to decide whether the play shall be banned entirely...
Denial of stories that appeared in a newspaper yesterday to the effect that the University had prohibited the production of "A Bride for the Unicorn" as a result of the barring of Radcliffe girls from the play by President Comstock, came from the officers of the Dramatic Club last night...
Founded in 1862 three years after the fabulous Comstock Lode was opened in Nevada, the San Francisco Mining Exchange was the vortex of a feverish speculative mining boom that burned the land or two decades after the Civil War. During the 1870's while the Floods, Mackays, O'Briens, et al. were plucking some $750,000,000 in gold and silver from the Comstock Lode, police guarded the portals of Mining Exchange as the public clamored to buy, buy, buy. Bodie was the favorite with Eastern investors and caused them more grief than any other stock...
Professor Hocking will introduce William A. Neilson '98, president of Smith College and national president of the institute, who will preside. Other speakers will be Dr. Karl T. Compton, president of M.I.T.; Miss Ada L. Comstock, president of Radcliffe College, and Henry W. L. Dana...
Seymour M. Peyser '34, Philip H. Singer '34, Alvin M. Josephy '36, Herbert A. Fierst '35, Julian A. Wilhelm '35, and Thomas H. Quinn '36, will represent Peru; and Malcolm H. Hoffman '34, Henry Hemmendinger '35, George E. Edwards, Jr. 1G, David Mayer '36, Comstock Glaser '35, and Oscar H. Davis '34 will represent Panama at the convention...