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AMERICAN EDUCATION, especially the education of American women, lost a champion when Ada Comstock Notestein died last week. Born, as she liked to point out, the first white child in the Red River valley, in Moorhead, Minnesota, she grew up loving the wide prairies and wheat fields of the West. She was encouraged by her father, to whom she always felt close, to go east to college. She graduated from Smith College in 1897, took graduate work in English at Columbia and from there went to the University of Minnesota as a teacher of English and the first dean...
...Comstock Notestein, whose leadership as Radcliffe's first full-time president set the stage for the historic 1947 Harvard-Radcliffe merger, died last week...
...Comstock took over the presidency, the college began to build aggressively: Briggs Hall was dedicated in 1924; Longfellow Lecture Hall followed in 1930; Byerly Hall, in 1932; and finally, Cabot Hall...
After a party Friday night in Comstock, a very drunk Harvard junior and a very stoned Radcliffe freshman went back to his room and spent the night. The next morning he woke up very hung over, and she woke up possibly pregnant. Rather nonchalantly, but slightly nervously, she went to the Health Services and received the Morning After pill. For five days she took 50 grams of the artificial estrogen diethyl stilbestrol (DES) a day, was very nauseated, and felt ill the whole time. Yet, at the end of five days, she knew she wasn't pregnant. What she didn...
Parents from as far away as California will attend this weekend's activities which will begin with a coffee hour at Comstock Hall with Radcliffe president Matina Horner, and end with a speech by President Bok at a dinner at the Freshman Union...