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Perry was born in Williamstown and attended the Universities of Strasburg and Berlin after graduating from Williams. He was trustee-emeritus of Williams, and from 1930, when he retired from his teaching post, until 1914 served as a member of the Harvard Board of Overseers...
...Strasburg Conference...
Detroit's high-school swains discovered a ghost last spring. As they explained darkly to their giggling dates, the ghost was a little girl. She had been hurrying home from the playground when she was hit by an automobile coming down Strasburg Avenue. For a few moments, the little girl clung desperately to the car, rapping on the fender. The driver heartlessly drove on. Then the little girl lost her grip and was crushed beneath a rear wheel...
Once this story spread through the high schools, carloads of teen-agers cruised slowly along Strasburg Avenue every night. Sure enough, there was an eerie knocking from the direction of the rear fender. The girls squealed, and clutched their dates in pleasurable alarm...
...homeowners along Strasburg Avenue were getting no sleep. Last week a Detroit Times reporter investigated. When he heard a ghostly rapping in his car, he stopped and asked a resident for an explanation. Snapped John Novak: "There is no ghost, and no child was killed on this street. We have been hearing this knock for three years-ever since they put in the new pavement of cement slabs. In the daytime, the slabs expand in the sun's heat. In the evening, the concrete contracts, and the slabs wobble when a car goes over it." The edges grate...