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...Japan, which places absolute legal restrictions on the dissemination of information on methods of preventing conception. The present Federal legislation consists mainly of Section 211 of the Penal Code, enacted by Congress in the flurry of a closing session on March 3, 1873, at the instance of Anthony Comstock.? It reads in part: "Every obscene, lewd or lascivious book, pamphlet ... or other publication of an indecent character, and every article . . . designed, adapted, or intended for preventing conception or producing abortion, or for any indecent or immoral use ... is hereby declared to be non-mailable matter. . . The penalty imposed...
...Anthony Comstock was Secretary of the New York Society for the Suppression of Vice. He died...
...judges who will award the prize will be Miss Ada L. Comstock, president of Radcliffe, Miss Ellen F. Pendleton, president of Wellesley. Dr. Samuel W. Stratton, president of the Institute of Technology, the Honorable Sir Charles Davidson, former Chief Justice of Canada. Judge Robert Grant '73 of the board of overseers of the University, and Mr. Cyrus E. Dallin, the famous sculptor, and his wife...
...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...
...last decade has given to the Western World, said Miss Comstock, a bitter revelation of the cloudiness, incompetence and ineptitude of the human mind. The theme of her address was that folk are not as bad as they are stupid. Her solution? More education...