Senn High School - Forum Yearbook (Chicago, IL)

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Sixtee n THE FORUM tirst subjects to receive consideration at the Carnegie Institution of lVashington. They leased a ten-acre tract of land at Cold Spring Harbor, Long Island, New York. On this tract is a main labora- tory, an office building, animal house. Director's residence, greenhouses, pig- eon houses, cat house and a house on Goose Island together with some minor buildings for conducting investigation on plants and animals in a state of isola- tion. The station is under the direction of Professor Davenport. This Institu- tion also owns lwenty-one additional acres within a mile of its main buildingsg tifteen miles of this are wooded, and the rest is used as an experimental gar- den, They also have a laboratory at Tus- con, Arizona, equipped for the special needs of botanical research in desert areas. The principal laboratories of the Department of Marine Biology are located at Logger Head, Kentucky, and Tortugas, Florida. The Tortugas lab- oratory is one of the best equipped trop- ical marine stations in the world. The object of these stations is to pur- sue intensive studies upon problems of the tropical ocean. They otl'er distin- guished investigators exceptional oppor- tunities to pursue those researches, for which the tropics atford peculiar advan- tages. The result is that during the past ten years, forty-nine investigators have made one hundred and eight visits to these laboratories and many discoveries in biology and geology have resulted. The Marine Biological Station at San Diego, California is as yet very small, but there are possibilities of opening this station as an educational as well as a research station. Through investigation in the case ot' those stations which do not carry on di- rectly any educational work and through the teaching of those which do conduct summer instruction courses, the teaching of natural history throughout our coun- try will be greatly improved. Alma Lorentzen. Laboratory and Tent. Houses at Friday Harbor, Puget Sound, Wash,

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THE FORUM Fifteen glassware, and a small library on the biology of the Pacific northwest. A steamer is employed to transport parties to points of vantage among the islands as well as to manipulate the dredge used in exploring the deep waters of the channels and bays in search of bottom forms. The cost of living is minimized as far as possible. Tent houses are pro- vided as sleeping quarters at about 56.00 for six weeks, whether occupied by one or more persons. The tents are IOXI2 feet. Table board is furnished at 34.00 or 84.50 per week. This is gauged over a period of years in such a manner that the Station neither gains nor loses. The same is true of tents and their equipment. The cost of a stay of six weeks at the station, including the incidental ,fee of SI0.00 board and lodging need not exceed 5550.00 A person doing research work without the help of an instructor does not pay the incidental fee. A maximum of six semester hours of credit may be U. S. Fish Commission Buildings Wood's Hull. earned at the Station during a session and these will be accepted at par by any of the affiliated institutions. The biological station at VVoods-Holl, Mass., is situated on the north shore of Vineyard Sound at the entrance of Buz- zard's Bay. This location gives it an exceptional advantage for study and research. The shore is varied by necks, points, bays, and islandsg there are also numerous fresh water ponds and lakes in the vicinityg and there is no muddy river or city sewage to pollute the sea water. The flora and fauna are excep- tionally richg the climate is especially favorable for summer work: and the place is free from the distractions of fashionable resorts. The laboratory is a four story brick building and two and three story wooden buildings, which are supplied with run- ning sea and fresh water, gas and elec- tricity. The library has many reference books and the most important journals on zoology, physiology, and botany. The supply department is equipped with boats, including a steam launch, two gas- oline motor boats, and a number of row boats, wharves, Hoating cages, fish traps, two of which are in operation through- out the summer months, seines, dredges, tangles, trawls, and tow nets. A limited number of rooms are sup- plied by the laboratory to its members at prices ranging from 51.00 to 34.00 per week a person. Room accommodating one or two persons may be obtained near the laboratory at prices varying from 52.00 to 36.00 per week and up. Board is supplied to members of the laboratory and of the United States Bureau of Fish- eries Station, and their immediate fami- lies at The Mess, at 55.00 per week. The price to others is 57.00 per week. The number of students that can be ac- commodated in the laboratory is limited and therefore no one should reach Woods-Holl without previous correspon- dence. The fee for each of the courses in botany or zoology, as well as for a table for an investigation under supervision is 550.00 Students are expected to sup- ply their own microscopes, slides, and cover glasses, and a good sectioning ra- zor. Courses of instruction run from the last week in june to the second week in August. Facilities for research are available throughout the year, and a col- lector furnishes any material desired, if it is ordered beforehand. Practically all the colleges and universities give full credit for work done in botany and zo- ology at VVoods-Holl. The amount given varies with the course taken and whether or not an examination is passed. There are two courses offered in bo- tany practically every year. One is a course in the morphology and taxonomy of Algae, and the other in Physiology and Ecology of Marine Strand and Bog vegetation. A course in zoology is de- signed for those who have had previous training in zoology and for those having a professional interest in the subject, Research in biology was one of the

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Ellie 3lanitnr'a , wifes Glmina' Nurse Girl. Y first and only working experi- ence was as nurse girl for a pair of twin babies. When I began to think about taking work, I nev- er dreamed of the experiences that were to be mine. iVhen school closed a year ago last summer, I thought I should like to work at something, partly for the thrill of really earning some money, and partly for the sake of keeping out of mischief. To find a position, I diligently read the advertisements. I was soon mortified to find that I could not qualify for any of the positions I read about. I was not an experienced pastry cook, nor a marcel waverg I could not con- verse in Polish, nor retail fish. My family began to tease me. and began to address me with much deference as my dear .ruIr.rIndy, my dear ti'n.vl1lady, and even esteemed scrnbmissus! It seemed to me that the Fates had con- spired to keep me jobless, though I was willing to do even the humblest kind of work, just to be doing it, But finally, after many futile applications for the coveted work, I found this position as nurse girl to the twins. If the attractive features of the posi- tion were to be deliberated upon, I fear another in my circumstances would not have taken it, In the first place, my mis- tress was a janitor's wife, and lived in the basement of one of the large Hat buildings of Rogers Park. In the second place, the babies were only seven weeks old, and were promising vocalists. And in the third place, I was to be rewarded for my labors with the munificent sal- ary of two dollars a week! The pros- pects were indeed brilliant, and the joke tickled my family immensely. But I was determined to stick it out for only a week. So I packed and left. After I had settled my belongings in the corner of a tiny clothes closet in my temporary home, I looked about to in- vestigate things. The mother of the twins was a comfortable Swedish woman with leanings toward dressing sacks and chewing gum. Since she was always cheerful, and'alxvays considerate of me, however, I soon forgave her her haug- ing braids and heelless slippers. The father was a riddle to me. I was in his employment, and I was a ridicu- lously unimposing specimen, still he always said, Yes, ma'am, and, No, ma'am, when he had occasion to speak to me, and he said, Ma'am, earnestly. The first time I heard if, I must have opened my eyes anrl mouth in surprise. But afterwards I decided I might just as well be the little queen that he so re- ligiously made out that I was: so I ac- cepted his queer politeness with good grace. The little boy of the family, a talka- tive piece of nine years, gave me inter- esting work to do from the first moment he saw me. If his new sisters fwhom he adnredj were safely sleeping, he was sure to bring me cardboard and crayons to draw him a circus poster. My stock of circus ideas was rather limited at first, but later I fell into the habit of not- ing pictures of elephants, clowns, mon- keys, and dancing maids, so that, when Henry's old poster got rained on in the yard, I could make him a new one. I have come to the babies-those bu- bies! I can feel their little fingers on mine now in their clinging grasp, ex- pressive of their dependence on the mercy of their holder. How many times, with one little weight on each arm, Ihave sat in the deep rocker in the kitchen, singing the dear things to,sleep! QAnd their musical education was in no way slightedg I sang them everything from Italian street ditties to Saint Saens' Dead March. J Before long, I was able to distinguish between Frances and Gladys-Gladys was a few hairs more bald headed. The greatest good that I derived from my working experience was the love for little children. I had al- ways lotted them, but not in the yearning manner in which I must need love the