Word: experimentally
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Stephen S. Shohet '56 yesterday won the Martius Yellow chemistry experiment prize in a little over two hours and 24 minutes, missing by just five minutes the record time set four days ago by his Chemistry 20 professor.
"Quite an achievement," was the reaction of Louis F. Fieser, Sheldon Emery Professor of Organic Chemistry, who directed the contest. Fieser's best time for the experiment is two hours and 19 minutes.
After successfully completing his seven synthesized products, Shohet said that he owed most of the credit for his fast time to the short-cuts and hints offered to the class by Fieser, who has done the experiment several times. Fieser's products, Shohet also pointed out, were far better than...
"I've been studying this experiment for 30 days," Shohet admitted. His principal time-saving device was to use half quantities of reactants which are easy to manipulate.
The Little Boy Lost cantata is such an experiment. Based on Blake's Songs of Experience and Songs of Innocence, it was written in 1952 and received its first complete performance at Kirkland House Sunday afternoon. While many of the work's fifteen sections--nine orchestral and six vocal--are...