Education: At Radcliffe

Dr. Ada Louise Comstock, sometime dean of Smith College, was inaugurated as the third President of Radcliffe College, Cambridge, Mass. Among those officially present were: President Parks of Bryn Mawr, President Lowell of Harvard, ex-President Briggs of Radcliffe, President Neilson of Smith.

The last decade has given to the Western World, said Miss Comstock, a bitter revelation of the cloudiness, incompetence and ineptitude of the human mind. The theme of her address was that folk are not as bad as they are stupid. Her solution? More education.

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