Canandaigua Academy - Academian Yearbook (Canandaigua, NY)

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THE ACADEMIAN Student I nterrviews We decided that it was time for an- other survey on some of the important questions facing every thoughtful thinker of today. Do the students in Canandaigua Academy really think? Read the following questions and some of the answers of our more illustrious students fwe mean the ones we could catch! and form your own conclusions. QUESTIONS 1. Why did you like Rebecca? 2. What is the best book you have read this year? 3. Why is skiing so popular in the U. S.? 4. In your opinion who has the best chance of winning the World Series? 4. Do you think that the number of women radio announcers will ever equal or surpass the present number of men announcers? 6. Why are men considered better drivers than women? 7. Why do more men design women's clothes than Women? 8. What is your favorite magazine? 9. What are you going to do during summer vacation? 10. What do you think of the new Regents Ruling? BOB KENNEDY- 1. It is a picture of the English. 2. None, especially good. 3. It is fast. 4. Yankees. 5. Absolutely not. 6. They have better heads. 7. They know what they like better than women. 8. Life. 9. Sleep. 10. It is a good idea. BILL BU'ELL- 1. Because it was so exciting. 2. I haven't read any. 3. Wouldn't know. 4. N. Y. Yankees, of oourse. 5. They might. . They keep cooler. . Because men look at women more 6 7 than women look at themselves. 8. Life. 9. Never know. 10. I haven't thought about it. ART CHAPIN- l. Joan Fontaine. 2. Haven't read any. 3. Because there is snow. 4. The team that comes out on top. -Cheshire Heights. 5. Gosh! No! G. Just because they are. 7. Way to make money. 8. Mademoiselle. 9. Going hunting??? 10. It is all right with me. BILL KINGSLEY- 1. I didn't-didn't see it. 2. Giants' in the Earth. 3. Because there are so many hills. 4. Canandaigua Academy. 5. Yes. 6. They have more in the upper story, 7. Men know what slays them. 8. Esquire. 9. Swim. 10. It is unjust. ANNA McMILLAN- 1. The Mystery. 2. Sleep in Peace. 3. A very active sport and good deal of competition. 4. Red Sox-Boston. 5. Some day surpass them. 6. I d-on't think men are better. 7. Because they have the opportunity to see them and know what suits them. 8. Mademoiselle. 9. Have fun. 10. Yes, it's a good idea. JEAN WOODSIDE- 1. Well-Laurence Oliver. 2. Rebecca. 3. It's good exercise. 4. What World Series? 5. Not surpass. 6. They talk less. 7. Perhaps they're more observing. 8 . Mademoiselle. 9. I don't know. 10. I think it should be carefully con- sidered. CONNIE VAN DEUSEN- 1. Because it gave such vivid word pictures. 2. Gone With the Wind. 3. Because all Americans have a devil may care strain in their blood. 4. I guess the one who won last year, whoever that was. 5. No. 6. They aren't. 7. They get more liattering lines. 8. Superman. 9. Look for company. 10. What is it. HOWIE MEATH- 1. Sw-ell. 2. The Boy Rangers. 3. Because it snows here. 4. The Yank's will take it again. 5. Yes, I think they will. They have a better gift of gab. 6. If primping would stop While at the wheel ladies may equal the men.

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Louis Pasteur In a small village of France on Dec. 27, 1822, Louis Pasteur was born. His childhood was not in the least out of the ordinary. He was merely a careful, plodding boy in whom no one took any particular interest. One day, as part of a crowd that had formed outside of an old blacksrnith's shop, he heard the fateful sizzle of a white hot iron on human flesh, and the agonizing groan that followed it. The groan had been emitted by the farm-er Nicole. He had been terribly mangled by a mad wolf. Nine-year-old Louis ran from the crowd, d-own the street, to his home. Long after the incident, the sound of that iron and that tortured groan remained in his memory. We cannot truthfully say whether this in- cident had anything to do with his later discovering the cure for rabies, but we do know that whenihe started to find th-e cure, the haunting cries of those victims were still in his brain . . . Many years had passed and Pasteur was now a man, impatient, immodest, and impractical, but for all that a genius. He had already discovered many important things. His patient and loving wif-e, without doing or saying much, was indirectly responsible for these finds. She loved him, as some- one put it, Even to the point of under- standing his work. Pasteur was then working on the ori- gin of microbes. Scientists for many years had asked this question, and he was determined to find the answer. He began on an experiment to find out whether yeast plants came from the air. However, when boiling some yeast soup he realized he was also heating the air, thus changing it. But how to heat the yeast soup without doing likewise to the air was the question. Finally, an old drugglst named Balard helped him out. Why not, he suggested, have a flask the air could get in, but the mi- crobes which stuck to the dust particles could not. Marvelous, exclaimed Pasteur, real- izing at once the ingeniousness of the idea. Balard left, and Pasteur pro- ceeded on with the experiment. In a half hour's time, Balard returned. There was Pasteur, pleased as Punch. eyes shining-the experim-ent had worked! Quite a few years later, after many successes, Pasteur, still terribly ener- THE ACADEMIAN getic, was working on an experiment to cure animals of a dread disease called anthrax. He knew that if he could give them a little of the disease, but not enough to make them ill, they would forever be immune. After many ex- periments on cows and chickens, he found that letting the microbes age, dulled their intensity, therefore, inject- ing a small amount of the old microbes did exactly the job he wanted. It was hard to prove this to an unbe- lieving world, so, when asked, Pasteur readily agreed to stage a public demon- stration. Forty-eight sheep, two goats, and several cattle were injected with the poisonous vaccine. Although Pas- teur had felt quite sure of himself be- fore the experiment, after having done that rather terrifying thing, he became increasingly nervous. But when two o'clock came the next day, and he and his assistants went down to the field, the experiment had worked out per- fectly. Needless to say, many who had hitherto ridiculed him, profusely apolo- glzed. Shortly after this, Pasteur began working on a cure for rabies. He thought of injecting a serum into the dog's brain, but decided it would be too painful. Roux, his faithful helper, knew better, and, against his master's wishes, did inject a serum into the dog's brain. As he expected, t-he dog died in a few weeks, but even Pasteur admitted he had lived long enough to serve his pur- pose. He then set about a plan to dull the serum, and, after long experiments, he found that placing part of the spine of a rabbit, dead from rabies in a germ- proof container for fourteen days, did the trick. Pasteur had now found the cure for rabies. He hesitated to start innoculat- ing on humans because, indirectly, he might cause the death of someone. As he said in a letter to a friend: I am much inclined to begin on myself-in- noculating myself with rabies and then arresting the consequences . . . He finally 'began on humans when a young child, gashed in fourteen places, was brought into his laboratory. He soon realized the boy would die anyway, so no chance would be taken. The serum proved successful and the child lived. Louis Pasteur is acclaimed through- out the world as one of the greatest scientists that ever lived. He was never a modest man, but we can EASILY forgive him that when he could make such discoveries as he did. -Carol Ostrow

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THE ACADEMIAN 7. 'Cause they know more. LILLIAN CAPPON- 3' gfggman' 1. I didn't see in. 10. What's that. 2. Country Lawyer. HELEN KENNEDY- 3' For health' 1. 'Cause I liked Laurence Oliver. 4- Yankees- 2. Grapes of Wrath. 5 Yes. d 3- Because lf' takes People out of 6. I don't think they necessarily are. ogrivhds in it? 7. They are better judges of them. 5. Oh, surpass by all means. 8- Life- 6. Are they? 9. Have some fun. 7. 'Cause they have to look at them. h t - -tg 8. Ladies' Home Journal. 10' W a ls I ' 9. Have a good time. SONNY HOSKINS- 10. Just as .bald as the last one. JOHN SGHLOSS- 1. I didn't see it. 2. How To Be An Aviator. 3. Just a pastime. 4. Cardinals. 5. No, lt's a man's job. 6. They don't gab so much in the front seat. 7. Maybe they like to see Women in them. 8. Look. 9. Two or Three things. 10. I don't prefer it to the old system. 1. I didn't see it. 2. Grapes of Wrath. 3. Because we have Raod Pierce. 4. Brooklyn Dodgers. 5. No. 6. Because women are better back seat drivers. 7. Because they have their own ideas on how women should dress. 8. College Humor. 9. Have fun. -10. I don't. Best Wishes to Graduates 2 8 1,01 W Vu M I 1 Howard JI. oore WHERE QUALITY RULES Patronize Our Advertisers