Bryn Mawr College - Bryn Mawr Yearbook (Bryn Mawr, PA)

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Chemistry . . . The real hazards of a Chemistry major are encountered in Park. There is always the possibility (Ha!) of an explosion. If you take time out from your labors for a spot of tea — brewed in a beaker — there is constant danger of mixing it up with some cyanide. (For the information of those who want to end it all, cyanide kills you in fourteen sec- onds.) When you finally escape for a date, your hair is scented with hydrogen sulfide and your nails are repulsively black with silver nitrate. But there is one advantage which out- weighs all the disadvantages: the good will and high spirits of the department. Who can forget Dr. Crenshaw ' s gunpowder lecture, when he gleefully set off explosives, the last one nearly knocking us off our seats, and the magic touch of Dr. Berliner which produced red flowers from blue, the formula for nylon shaped like a stocking containing a lovely leg, and a trick synthesis which, on the black- board, turned out to be Merry Xmas in the last class before Christmas Vacation. Then there were lollipops tossed to a drooling class after masquerading as atoms; ice cream cones . . . We could go on, but there are only five seconds left till the cyanide takes ef- fect . . . Page fifteen

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ROSEMARY THERESE GILMARTIN EMILY C. EVARTS EVA KRAFFT Page fourteen

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SARA BERMAN BARBARA H. BUNCE ELLEN BROOKS CARY RUBY LEKUN CHEN Page sixteen