Ohio Wesleyan University - Le Bijou Yearbook (Delaware, OH)

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Here is found answer to How does your garden grow ; she knows Not for Christmas but for Science is this Pine Cut, its record kept BOTANY As you gaze down at the evening meal on the table before you, and your mouth waters at the serving of beans or potatoes on your plate, do you silently cheer, Hurrah, beans and potatoes!, or is your unconscious comment, Ah, vascular bundles, cambium rings and a mass of cyto- plasm! The latter remark would classify you a botany pro- tegee. Now, botany 101 quote Professor O ' Neil , is the begin- ning of the answer to the four ' w ' s (what, why, where, when) and the ' how ' of plant life. Here students discover that violet is not just an SAE song, that conjunction is not just a part of speech, and that there is another way to tell a mushroom from a toadstool besides seeing a silver spoon turn black when dipped into a bubbling potfull of the latter. Flowers, leaves, and trees, are all studied thor- oughly from their histories in the textbook as well as from their behavior in public. Professor Richards guides the student from one revelation to the next. Measure of water content determines thirst of pines, vital function Watched pots never boil but watched trees will grow,

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y; V IN THE CLASSROOM WITH A CONSTRUCTED DEMONSTRATION COMES FIRST REVELATIONS OF ELEMENTS IN ACTION First phase: Research in the Chemistry Library in Edgar Hall She makes exact measurements of test materials, no margin of error 18