Papers, 1920-1963

Comstock, Ada Louise, 1876-1973

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Ada Louise Comstock (December 11, 1876 – December 12, 1973) was an American women's education pioneer. She served as the first dean of women at the University of Minnesota and later as the first full-time president of Radcliffe College. Ada Louise Comstock was born on December 11, 1876, in Moorhead, Minnesota, to Solomon Gilman Comstock, an attorney, and Sarah Ball Comstock. Her father recognized her capabilities and potential and set about to cultivate them by encouraging an early and sound ...

Sears, Eleonora Randolph, 1881-1968

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Thompson, Anna Boynton, 1848-1923.

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Anna Boynton Thompson was born in 1848 in Portland, Maine, the daughter of Harriot Boynton (Sawyer) and William A. Thompson. She attended Radcliffe College between 1884 and 1902, receiving her A.B. in 1898 and her A.M. in 1899. Anna Boynton Thompson was a teacher of Greek and history at Thayer Academy in Braintree, Massachusetts, until her retirement in 1920. Her book, Unity in Fichte's System, was published in 1895 in the Radcliffe College Monograph Series. She, her sister Mary Frances Thompson...

Hills, Laura Coombs, 1859-1952

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Miniature painter and watercolor painter; Boston, Mass. Specialized in miniatures in pastel. Exhibited in many Expos. From the description of Laura Coombs Hills papers, 1900-1952. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 122552605 ...

Morris Carter

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Morris Carter obtained his AB from Harvard in 1898 and his AM in 1899; he taught at Robert College in Constantinople, 1899-1902; and in 1903-1904 was an assistant at the Princeton University Library. From 1904 to 1910 he worked at the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, first as librarian and later as assistant director. In 1919 he became assistant director of the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum under Mrs. Gardner. Upon her death in 1924 he became director, a post he retained until 1954. H...

Isabella Stewart Cardner Museum, Boston

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Tarkington, Booth, 1869-1949

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Lehmann, Lotte, 1888-

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Pusey, Nathan M. (Nathan Marsh), 1907-2001

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Nathan Marsh Pusey (1907-2001) was the twenty-fourth president of Harvard University from 1953 to 1971. He was also president of Lawrence College (1944-1953), president of The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation (1971-1975), and president of the United Board for Christian Higher Education in Asia (1978-1983). Pusey's tenure as president was defined by new building construction, greater fundraising, and struggles with student protestors. From the description of Papers of Nathan Marsh Pusey, 1...