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I am in a q'uzl11dary though a chemical tfrh1Licizm 18 14 Gfllfllj' Will: flu' Sprriw: Science put our feet firmly on the ground as we learnetl that the world Fits into an orderly frame- work. lVlathematics taught ns to equate and cal- culate: logical deduction patterned our thinking and our understanding encompassed absolute quantities. ln physics we mastered the mechanics of laboratory techniques and then looked at the atomic structures around us in the new light of phenomena. properties and proof. With chemistry we entered the realm of the formula and the PH. Vile analyzed qualitatively and broke up organic compounds-or. less fortunately. test tubes. In geology, too, we met the elements. The Catskills and Sunset Lake helped ns to leave few stones unturned in our study ofthe earth's face
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Classes outlined our work-day world, lent a common focus to our images of Vassar. The hours in Rocky and Blndgett, Skinner or Swift left us all with filled notebooks, remembered discussions. corrected hour writtens-and more. Classes were our passport to scientific knowledge, social understanding: and aesthetic judgment. Insight came gradually. but we linally knew that all the facts and trends and theories added up to more than temporary frames of mind. We felt then that after '51, as in the four years before. with analysis, infer- ence, sources and a dash of ll priori wisdom we could make nearly everything integrate. ,..- Cf 'ze- Q ngiiw, N N ow ' Pu 1 Nu D A, ff- llll 'WJ xvxx x 1 I w Q, ,Ai y , -Q' i
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and forces. Astronomy broadened our perspective as we explored the constellations and saw our planet's small place among the solar systems. The world of living things was newly opened to us by plant science. We studied in microscopic de- tail the fungi and bacteria and found that chloro- phyll, not jack Frost. paints the leaves. Advanc- ing with evolution. we entered the animal king- dom. Zoology revealed the logic of nature from the structural bases of function in the amoeba to the genetic constituents of the higher vertebrates. The life processes of man himself came under our scrutiny in physiology: smoked drums, pithed frogs and our own caloric intake enlightened us on respiration. metabolism and the inevitable neuro- muscular fatigue. Juinxal. r'fg4'I1ll11:'. or minrrul. Tllrrf lap: rvrulrd KSN llnmfbook. p. Sll 'Y 'V 19
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