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...coeds of both sexes share the sentiment of Al Gladstone, a senior 'from Trinity at Smith: "I came to get out of the weekend social life. I was fed up with the hypocrisy of that way of treating people." Academic reasons count too. Senior Roger Faix, for example, insists that he was lured away from Dartmouth by Smith's biology department. "I guess you could say I came to Smith to study hormones," he explains...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Students: Cracking the Cloisters | 9/26/1969 | See Source »

When Paulette wandered off the road to the quiet hamlet of Saint-Faix, she was given shelter by a peasant family. They made a home for her, but they could not understand how much she needed warmth and reassurance. Only Michel, the youngest in the family, understood her fierce affection for dead little animals. It was he who suggested their secret game. They buried dead moles, rats and lizards beneath improvised crosses, a ceremony which somehow consoled Paulette. To get more crosses, they began raiding the cemetery and the church. With covetous eyes, they examined the crosses, trying to decide...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: They Stole Crosses | 8/14/1950 | See Source »

...faix! 't was shuparior sport...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: JERRY MAHONEY'S (K. O. S. P.) PATRICK'S DAY. | 3/21/1873 | See Source »

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