Simmons College - Microcosm Yearbook (Boston, MA)

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Nav 5 2 1 , 1 ' Lula l'l'l'NI.Ull of Iillflllfl No. 5 Dr. Tinzm at ease ll'I'f1I 11 is pipe Hugo mul Salvo of Ellen RI'FlIflI'Il.S - -Qc, is H321 You can always tell a Science senior from a distance. They are the girls who which, as you come closer, reek of a 1 , mixture of hydrogen sulfide, ether, and I J-5' - Q14 run around school 111 those smocks U Y I 1 . i formaldehyde. Their appearance is professional. Their lab coats, While not in accordance with Hattie C'arnegie's latest, are certainly functional. Regardless of whether they are majoring ill chemistry, biology, or physics, they spend all tl1eir time in lab. llowever, they haven't always been that Way. Their feeling at l1on1e among test tubes, skeletons, and electronic gadgets is the result of three years of intensive training in the natural sciences. Al- though each student chooses the particular Held in which she wishes to specialize, a good general knowledge in each of the fields is required of all girls in the Science school. During the first two years the Science student gets her introduction to the various fields open to her. She has to take math, chemistry, biology, and physics. At the end of her sophomore year, having had a taste of each of the three branches open to her, she decides on her majorgchemistry, biology, or physics and mathematics. From then on the roads divide. It's more physics and math as well as chemistry for girls going into chemistry or physics. Juniors going into biology have to take anatomy and physiology Qyou've seen their famous cats, haven't you ?Q as well as bacteriology. In her senior ' , TA? vs- - - -- ----v-9-