Villanova University - Belle Air Yearbook (Villanova, PA)

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Stalking the microbe . . . following in Posteur's footsteps . . rescorch ond experimentation . . . triol ond error in orgonic chemistry.

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Rev. Bernard M. Albers O.S.A., A.M. Auociotc Professor, Religion William J. Barber M.S. Attiifont Professor, Mcehon.col Engineering Rev. Joseph I. Boyle O.S.A., A M. Instructor, Education Rev. John E. Bresnahan O S.A., A M. Instructor, Latin Leo F. Brown PhD. Associate Professor, Edueotion Horry S. Bucchc M S., E.E. Professor, Electrical Engineering Twenty-»' TRAINING FOR MEDICINE THE Science School, home of Villanovo's future physicians and dentists, is in the main building on the campus. Passing through the front entrance, we find ourselves in the middle of a corridor which runs the length of the building. Offices to the right . . . classrooms to the left . . . information booth in front. We can hear a lecture in Religion . . . that must be in the first class- room . . . yes. Students, thinking up impossible situations, try to ccnfusc the professor—unsuccessfully . . . English in the next: Unity, coherence, and emphasis, gentlemen. Unity, coherence, and emphosis. . . . Philosophy . . . Ethics . . . around the turn more rooms . . . more lectures . . . noise from the end of the corridor . . . Day-Hops' room . . . tables . . . pinochle . . . chatter. Up the stairs and into another long corridor . . . nothing but labs . . . Botany in the first. We open the door: Thallophytes, Bryophytes, Pteridophytes, and . . Whew! Silently we close the door ond cross the hall to the Biology lab, where students arc peer- ing into microscopes and writing down notations. They are much too absorbed to be disturbed. In the Anatomy lab, white-gowned seniors arc gathered around a table, intent on the work at hand. Wondering what they are doing, we walk over and see—a

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Thot humonify moy benefit corpse! We leave less quietly than before and beat a hasty retreat to the Bacteriology lab. Here all work has ceased for the moment while the instructor gives o short tolk on the cause and effects of mcrtal vagrancy. We withdraw. Farther down the corridor . . . Histology—cutting and staining tissues . . . Embryology—charts and drawings . . . Immunology: Now when Pasteur was confronted with this problem, he took . . On the next floor ore the Chemistry labs. In General Chem a student is weighing o sticky brown substance. Beside him is a com- plicated glass apparatus with liquids running from one receptacle to another, changing color in the process. He keeps one eye on it os he checks the results of the weighing. Other students are doing the same with similar equipment. Odd-shaped bottles lining the shelves on the tobies . . . open closet doors revealing rows of labeled containers . . . spigots running . . . busy humming . . . gas To the thousandth of o grom. Twenty-e'9M