Harvard University - Red Book Yearbook (Cambridge, MA)

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' escnted - educa- in pan Mistry, ! middle of Eliot jeas for t ai least ergies of science. temper of hich have more ex- t, science ARCHITECTURAL SCIENCES Students in Architectural Sciences, most of whom plan to do graduate work in architecture, learn the appear ance and functions of various historical architectural methods, and then go on to create their own designs. Work centers about the lecture halls and work- rooms in Hunt and Robinson Halls, and close connection with the Graduate Schools yields increased opportunity for study. Concen- trators take preparatory courses in Physics, Mathematics, and Engi- neering, and rhen go on to the intensive two years of seminars. These small conference groups are informal and illustrated by slides, pictures, and models. Seniors take a course similar to the first year of the Graduate School, making models, plans, and designs. The field is professional training, and the staff of instructors, mostly from the Graduate School, contain many noted architects and experts, including Gropius and Breuer. ASTRONOMY The Department of Astronomy at Harvard is small in number of concentrators, but ranks among the world ' s best in equipment, faculty, and fame. The concentrators work at the student laboratories on Jarvis Street, or take the half-mile walk to the Observatory on Garden Street. Courses range from Navigation to Celestial Mechanics. Mathematics is a prime requirement, for many of the courses require calculus to compute the movements of planets, and the orbits of comets. Professor Shapley, Associate Professor Bok, and Dr. Whipple give most of the courses, while Professor Menzel ' s course on Astro- physical Theory attracts other science concentrators. BIOLOGY Biology, the study of living things, centers around the Biolog- ical Laboratories on Divinity Avenue. The divisions include the Farlow Museum, The Grey Herbarium, the Arnold Arboretum, and the Biological department of the University Museum. Shapley is noted for astronomical observation { } H. A. FROST Professor of Architecture JOSEPH HUDNUT Professor of Architecture Dean of the Faculty of Design B. J. BOK Assoc. Prof, of Astronomy D. H. MENZEL Professor of Astrophysics HARLOW SHAPLEY j. T . EDSALL Peine Prof. Practical Astronomy Assoc. Prof. Bioloajoal C ' Im nistrj R. M. FERRY Associate Professor of Biochemistry G. M. ALLEN Professor of Boology C. T. BBUBS Professor of RntoanoJosy W. C. DARRAH Faculty Instructor in Biology A. B. DAWSON Professor of Z Mil sxy M. L FBRNALD l-i-hcr Professor of N ' lilnriil History. I im tlet of tin Qray Herbarium

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NATURAL SCIENCES A considerable proportion of the subjects represented in the area of the Natural Sciences are new in academic educa- tion. This is not true of mathematics and it applies in part only to astronomy and physics, but recognition of chemistry, biology, and geology has come only recently. Here at Harvard the Natural Sciences received little attention until the middle of the last century, and it was only under the regime of Eliot that they received adequate acknowledgement as subjects for undergraduate study. How different this is from the situation now, when no Harvard student can graduate without at least one course in the sciences, and so much of the energies of students and professors flows in the channels of science. But the change is a natural one. It only reflects the temper of our time, which is so largely the result of the scientific develop- ments of the last hundred years, developments which have come in great part from the universities where, more ex- clusively than perhaps any other branch of thought, science finds its natural environment. JEFFRIES WYMAN JR., Associate Professor of Zoology Lamb teaches chemistry with smoke and chalk

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LEIGH HOADLEY Professor of Zoology E. D. MERRILL Arnold Professor of Botany Director of the Arnold Arboretum A. C. REDFIELD Professor of Physiology A. S. ROMER Professor of Zoology KARL SAX Professor of Botany K. V. THIMANN Assoc. Prof, of Plant Physiology J. H. WELSH Assoc. Professor of Zoology W. H. WESTON JR. Prof of Cryptogatnie Botany R. H. WETMORE Associate Professor of Botany JEFFRIES WYMAN JR. Associate Professor of Zoology A large variety of courses are given with a wide range of interest. For the casual student there are elementary courses in Zoology and Botany. For the medical student there are courses in Physiology and Comparative Anatomy, while fungi, insects, mammals, and sea-life are treated in other classes. Recent war-induced interest has increased enrollment in the elementary courses, while special Defense Classes such as Biological Resources of the United States, and Medical Entomology have attracted many. The large number of courses, the excellent facilities for work, and the staff secures for the department many concentrators, who can do original research if they desire. Likewise it is easy for them to do graduate work, since there are a large number of middle-group courses in semi-specialized fields. The drudgery of pure study is reduced in many courses by after- noon, day, or week-end field and collecting trips, while individual plant or insect collections, and class cultivation of plants, or studies in the genetics of insects or animals give the student a personal interest in his work. The availability of a large staff of skilled graduate instructors and the presence of famous professors have given the department a national reputation. CHEMISTRY Chemistry, of prime importance to a nation at war, has changed its pace to a more rapid tempo. Elementary courses, A, B, 2 — have expanded despite the reduction in college enrollment. Chemistry 2, the basic organic course and a medical school requirement, was only slightly under last year ' s record, and applications from medically- minded students resulted in the formation of a double intensive half- year course beginning in February. While no professors have been lost, since their value is greatest near their laboratories, many make weekly trips to Washington to confer on defense problems. Several section men have been transferred to defense research, while the old Woolcott-Gibbs laboratory, empty since the Public Health Depart- ment vacated last year, has been converted into a defense laboratory. Sabotage fears brought armed guards to Mallinckrodt. Spotlights were A museum skeleton gets an overhauling G. P. BAXTER L. F. FIESER Richards Professor of Chemistry Emory Prof, of Organic Chemistry {30