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Murder in the Cathedral

In the prologue to his novel The Go-Between, British author L. P. Hartley writes: "The past is a foreign country: they do things differently there." For 20 years Jeff Rider, a noted scholar of French and medieval studies at Wesleyan, has guided his students in a journey to the past, to appreciate th…
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Deep Diver

ELLEN PRAGER '84 FIRST SAW HYDROLAB, an undersea research habitat, on a field trip while she was spending a semester at the West Indies Laboratory in St. Croix. Intrigued, she bicycled over the hilly roads of St. Croix t…
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Here by Choice

ON A BREEZY SUNDAY AFTERNOON IN OCTOBER about three dozen high school students and parents attended a workshop, sponsored by Wesleyan's Office of Admission, at Marymount School in Manhattan, a Catholic school for girls l…
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