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Definite plans for the WAVES at Radcliffe are a long way from formulation, according to President Ada L. Comstock. The press reports in yesterday's afternoon papers showed general confusion as to the details of the new school, and no official comments were available...
...Miss Comstock answered "we don't know" to all questions put to her concerning the organization of the women's Supply School, and suggested that a statement will be forthcoming with the complete story as soon as it is decided...
President Ada L. Comstock admitted hearing "rumors," but refused to state definitely that any plan had been worked out. Miss Ruth Davenport, director of Admissions, and the publicity office both denied hearing of the proposed school...
...Commander Mildred McAfee, commanding officer of the sailorettes, was in Cambridge recently looking over the Business School. Presumably she conferred with President Comstock on the details for the program at the same time...
...work of Mark Twain is America's literary Comstock lode and its foremost assayer is bellicose Bernard DeVoto (Mark Twain's America, 1932). As custodian of the Mark Twain Papers, Critic DeVoto has been busy since 1938 panning through an immense, theretofore jealously guarded mound of pay dirt: Mark Twain's letters, notebooks, manuscripts. Much of this haphazard heap is just rubble. But some of it is ore that assays high. And it contains clues galore to the size & shape of Mark Twain's talent, his working methods, the ambiguities of his mind and spirit...