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Two Summer School students were driven from their room at 3:30 a.m. yesterday when a smouldering mattress filled the suite with smoke. Janet Schumann, a resident of Grays Hall 53, noticed the odor of smoke in her bedroom and turned on a fan to clear the air.
The fan evidently aided a small fire which had been started in the mattress, probably by a stray cigarette. Miss Schumann and her roommate, Margaret Pfeffer, alerted their proctor who then called the Cambridge fire department. The firemen quickly extinguished the blaze.
Miss Schumann said the one lasting effect of the incident was to make her give up smoking.
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