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...virtue of this head start, "Fern Sem," now the Emma Willard School, is the oldest academic girls' school in the U.S. It is still as progressively rigorous as in the days of its no-frills founder. "No deb balls for us," says Principal William Dietel, 37. "The parents want their children to have a superior education. They don't want it all gummed up with manners...
...Touch of the Dog. "What will die with me when I die, what pitiful or perishable form will the world lose?" Borges wonders, recalling childhood friends and memories. "The voice of Macedonio Fernández? The image of a roan horse on the vacant lot at Serrano and Charcas? A bar of sulphur in the drawer of a mahogany desk...
...regulars stepped off the bus wearing oiled boots, scruffy knapsacks, faded blue jeans. Bright-eyed, they talked of things and places far removed from everyday city life: of lady fern and sorrel, of landmarks with such strange-sounding names as Evolution Valley and Tuolumne Meadows, of high places where the air is pungent with eucalyptus. Their packs held only a few necessities: a knife to carve a walking stick, binoculars clinking against a canteen cup, sandwiches. By contrast, the newcomers in the party wore madras shorts, sneakers, and apprehensive faces. They carried pocketbooks, transistor radios, straw baskets with food enough...
...that happens to her again, Fernanda Wanamaker Wetherill, 18, and her parents have called off a second coming-out party, which was to be held at Christmastime in a Philadelphia hotel. The money will go to a local boys' school-"a much better cause," allowed her stepfather. Said Fern: ".It was the only thing to do. This whole deb business is getting me down...
...while a horde of chickens, dogs and goats (protected under Schweitzer's "reverence for life" mystique by which no living thing should be unnecessarily disturbed) roam at will, adding freely to the surrounding filth. When a patient dies and his body is unclaimed, it is wrapped in a fern-and-palm-leaf shroud, laid in a wooden box, and buried in the bush...