Word: labs
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Unlocking the lab door, the professor proceeded us into the room screaming "Franklin, Franklin", at the top of his professorial lungs. Franklin poked his nose out from behind a can of refuse, exhibiting his magnificently scarred coat of fur and his blood clotted ears, fresh from the back alley arenas of Boston's catdom. Grabbing the beast by the nape, our host handed him to us to hold--unpleasant, because Frankie's claws were sharp as steel and busy every second. The professor meanwhile doused a cotton wad in ether on which to deposit the beast...
Laboratory work often takes less constant concentration than does steady reading and intelligible note-taking. For this reason, it is more suited for night work for a man hard pressed for time than are many non-scientific courses. Obviously a man cannot "relax in the lab" every evening instead of getting his usual eight hours, but at least the physical movement entailed will help to keep his mind alert and on the job at hand. When these matters are taken into account, it might be considered more pertinent to close the libraries in the evenings than the various laboratories...
...University of Illinois after an argument with his chemistry professor, he worked with the State Water Survey Office testing Illinois River water, later with Chicago Storage Battery Co., where he became interested in the heat resistant qualities of metal conductors. William Hoskins, a consulting chemist, let Marsh use his lab oratory after work to tinker with alloys, later took him into the firm of Mariner & Hoskins. That is where Chromel was born. Hoskins Co. was incorporated in 1908, marketing an electric furnace developed during the Chromel experimentations. Next year the company was moved from Chicago to Detroit. Hoskins dropped...
...With no one to give the "biochem" course in the Division of Biology (Biology 4), biochemists feel a strong need for courses in their won field. Furthermore, the laboratory work which is essential to any experimental science, comes under the different departments, thus giving no chance for coordination of "lab" experiments. Many tutors and instructors have their "labs" in the Medical School...
Theses for honors must be either original "lab" experiments or "library" theses. The latter are not highly respected by the Department, while the pressure of "lab" problems accentuates the need for a laboratory designed for biochemists and not for the parent divisions...