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Died. Ada Louise Cornstock Notestein, 97, first full-time president of Radcliffe College (1923-43); in New Haven, Conn. During her last year as president, Notestein ended a 64-year custom by persuading Harvard to open its courses to women...
...done and I finished it on the machine for her and had the bastings out before she came. How she laughed." "Oh how can I express the joy of my soul or speak of the mercy of God." When he was not misspelling the journal of his days, Anthony Cornstock acted as president of the Society for the Prevention of Vice. In this capacity he hunted Satan, finding his prey sometimes in the guise of a bartender brandishing a pack of cards, more often as an abortionist fumbling with a contraceptive, most frequently as a pornographer raising the dark symbol...
...publishers that he turned his eye to the devilments of the quack doctors and abortionists. It was his practice to write under a false address, or disguised, to pay a visit to these evildoers. This led to mistakes but the method was not without value. It was Anthony Cornstock who decoyed the notorious Madame Restell to jail and then drove her to kill herself. When he heard of the latter event, the reformer said, "A bloody ending to a bloody life." While he was not alone in his campaigns, few associates went all the way with him. Most...
...line-up for signal practice follows: FIRST ELEVEN. SECOND ELEVEN. Macdonald, l.e. r.e., Kelley Brock, l.t. r.t., Cornstock Gilmore, l.g. r.g., Alley Parker, c. c., Irving Peirce, r.g. l.g., Burns Hoar, r.t. l.t., Blanchard Starr, r.e. l.e., Butler Hall, q.b. q.b., Browne Foster, l.h. r.h., White Lockwood, r.h. l.h., Howes Wendell, f.b. f.b., Hoffman
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