Education: More Suicides

Suicidal attempts continued among U. S. students. To the six who killed themselves last month (TIME, Feb. 7), were added:

Claudia Lanun, at State Teachers' College in Springfield, Mo., morose, ended her life.

Bernice Ridhardson. President Mark Embury Penney of Millikin University (Decatur, Ill.) had just read newspaper accounts of Miss Lanun's suicide and was thinking how terrible it would be if such a thing should happen in his institution, when news reached him that pretty Bernice Richardson, 20, one of his freshmen, whom he had just interviewed, had been found moaning on the...

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