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Replying to a sample poll yesterday, only two dormitories--Comstock and Whitman--declared overwhelmingly in favor of the proposal. Approximately half of the girls in Holmes and Moors approved the suggestion, with residents of Barnard, Bertram, Briggs, Cabot, and Eliot generally opposed...
Still stirring controversy in Connecticut last week was a relic of the long-forgotten crusades of Anthony Comstock (1844-1915) and his bluenose New York Society for the Suppression of Vice. In 1879, during the Comstock agitation in New York and neighboring states, the legislature in Comstock's native Connecticut made it illegal to use, or to help or advise anyone to use, "any drug, medicinal article or instrument for the purpose of preventing conception." Penalty: $50 fine and up to one year in jail.* Despite perennial campaigns to soften or repeal it, and despite the evident availability...
...wife of a House Master, Mrs. Owen has become knowledgable with the concerns of the House. She knows about the problems of the Comstock-Winthrop merger, can tell you what Winthrop boys play on what teams, and has though up some answers to give Sophomores who ask about Sophomore slump...
...example was last Sunday night at the meeting in Comstock Hall with undergraduate leaders. In a short question-and-answer period, the Russians' only questions concerned the functioning of the Student Council, while the Americans seemed more interested in questioning the delegation about the effectiveness of last summer's Vienna Youth Festival...
...delegation--eight men and four women--stayed in groups of two at the Business School, Divinity School, Adams House, Kirkland House, Bertram Hall, and Comstock Hall during their stay, and after the first night two or more of them would be taken out to dinner or invited to a home by a different person each night...