Word: bios
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...sense that it is necessary to provide the required replacements for and additions to such men engaged in such essential activities." The first question asked is the field of study with medicine, dentistry, chemistry, engineering of all sorts, and most other sciences on the list recommended for deferment. But Bio D and Chem 4 are no magic keys out of the training camp. The Student's scholastic record is consulted and unless there is good evidence that he has the ability to complete the course with a high enough standing to justify expectations that he will really fill the need...
Wiley F. Barker, of Santa Fe, New Mexico, who is concentrating in bio-chemistry, and will attend the Medical School...
Judson T. Shaplin, Anthropology; Benjamin H. Landing, Jr., Biology; Robert A. Keller, Bio-Chemistry; Melvin Fields, Jr., Chemistry; Howard C. Bennett, Jr., Classics; Eli Goldston. Economics; William F. Rottschaefer, Engineering Sciences; Marvin G. Barrett, English; Thomas B. A. Godfrey, Fine Arts; Benjamin F. Whitehill, Geological Sciences...
Like all Harvard buildings, the Bio Lab has picked up a few stray or temporary occupants whose tenure now seems permanent. In the basement, sandwiched between cold storage rooms and fish tanks, the Harvard Film Service produces motion pictures for the school of education and records programs of the undergraduate Radio Workshop. In a sunny first floor room the Cambridge Red Cross rolls bandages for Britain, and upstairs the federal government's Department of Interior maintains a research headquarters for its Fish and Wild Life Service. Weekending in Maine and splitting their Cambridge days between laboratories and fishing boats...
...microcosm of the whole world of science, the Bio Lab contains a thousand variegated experiments and in one corner a group studies the flight mechaniism of birds while in another room Professor Henry Stetson plots the ocean bed. In the library during moments away from texts, the old wheeze is whispered about the Freshman who asked the libarian, "Do you have 'Sex and Internal Secretions,'" and was speedily answered, "Of course...