Vassar College - Vassarion Yearbook (Poughkeepsie, NY)

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Timo out The registration for science courses has greatly increased. Girls who, in peace time, quailed be- fore long laboratory hours and the complexities of mathematics, are now deep in chemical formulas or physics problems, with the prospect of better and more vital work after graduation than Women have ever had before. This work has more immediate bearing on the war than almost any other done at college. Even taking the Ford motor apart is more than just being able to tell the garage mechanic what may be wrong with the car or to understand baffling Words like distributor or gasket. A climr and reactions

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B , , ,-ff W VW 1 . This has always been the central focus of college. But now the War gives our plans and studies a new urgency, a more definite direction. The many war courses, the interest of all classes in jobs after college, and, more than anything, the three year accelerated program show how completely the college has reoriented itself to wartime conditions. a v

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People who live in glass lalzorutories . .' In other fields, problems ranging from plants to planets to personality, are perhaps less directly connected with the war, but are no less inter- esting to work with. Stars in their eyes Stimulus response