Papers, 1911-1968

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 ...

Baker, George P. (George Pierce)

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Briggs, Le Baron Russell, 1885-1934

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Radcliffe College

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Vocational short courses and institutes were initiated by the Radcliffe Appointment Bureau to train students for careers after graduation. Among these courses were: the Institute on Historical and Archival Management, 1954-1960; Communications for the Volunteer, 1965-1968; Summer Secretarial Course, 1935-1955, and the Radcliffe Publishing Course (formerly Publishing Procedures Course), 1947-, which continues to offer a six-week summer course in publishing. From the description of Rad...

The Florence Lewis Speare

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Florence Lewis Speare was born in 1886. As an undergraduate at Radcliffe College, she was president of Professor G. P. Baker's "English 47" drama club and wrote two prize-winning plays, "Jones vs. Jones" and "Let's Go A-Gardening." After graduation in 1913 she continued to write plays and novels; several of her plays were published and some produced in Boston and elsewhere. She also taught, in 1919-1920 founding the Department of Drama and Expression at Goucher College and lecturing...