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...century, a newer type of sport, spurred by austerity, has become the rage: hound trailing, where yelping hounds, without horsemen, follow a man-made spoor over hill & dale. The deep-chested foxhounds are descendants of the hunting packs of Peel's time. But the owners are a different breed altogether. Few of England's pinched aristocracy can any longer afford the luxury of thoroughbred horses, pink coats and the rest of fox hunting's traditional trappings, but almost any workingman can afford a hound...
John Landry, who presides over this venerable establishment, has been manager of the farm for the past 12 of its 25 years. However, the number and breed of inmates varies from week to week, he explained, because the farm buys and houses animals at the specific requests of each department. Deers, goats, oppossoms, and hundreds of monkeys have lived there at one time or another...
...doubtful that Sarah Lawrence teaching methods would fit into a more traditional academic set-up. Above all else they necessitate intelligent students, able to choose for themselves, who will not misuse a relatively free environment. The college also requires a patient but vigorous breed of teachers, who believe in Sarah Lawrence's philosophy and who are willing to leave the sanctity of the high lecture platform for the college's individual-to-individual teaching. Sarah Lawrence has done amazingly well in finding both the students and teachers it needs to function properly...
...will then be possible to hand-tailor human beings," he said. "You can breed them for this, that, or the other attribute...
...reporters, purports to be an expose on how "greedy groups and misguided ninnies" are making a nightmare of "man's great dream"--America. In one chapter it states that "Harvard is so gay you can hear the swish across the River Charles," and follows this closely with: "Girl queers breed at Wellesley and at many of the fine finishing schools...