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When slim, 29-year-old ex-Convict Leland Ferre was locked up in the little county jail at Monticello, Ill. (pop. 2,612) last March, Sheriff Jason Ripperdam couldn't help feeling sorry for him. Ferre had been indicted for burglarizing a filling station, two stores and a couple...
Early last month, while taking his exercise, Ferre snitched the key to his cell and made a soap impression of it. A little later he rambled over to McKinley's Hardware Store and lifted a couple of files and a metal saw. Working at leisure, he made himself a...
One night as he sneaked out, the jail cat sneaked out with him. Ferre tiptoed frantically around the jail lawn after it for half an hour. The cat was always one jump ahead of him, and after he retreated, it hopped up on the sheriff's window and meowed...
Younger teachers, including many temporary staff members, appeared particularly cool to the idea. One man said that one of the first new project, the Ferre lectures on religion this month, had been a "complete failure."
These suggestions, if adopted, would be the latest in a series of College moves to bring religion more heavily into the life of the undergraduate. For two successive years there have been week-long series of lectures on the Christian religion with supporting meetings in the Houses. This month Nels...