Word: labs
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Best of all, "the students basically educated each other. Everyone cared tremendously about finding out what was really true. It was by defending everything and fighting it out in the lab that you learned." And in the idyllic lake country around Madison, work merged with play. They were all ardent hikers, picnickers and skate sailors; Polly used to skate with a sail made of an old agricultural exhibit sign reading IT PAYS TO FEED THE CALF WHOLE MILK...
When she became Mary Bunting in 1937, her husband was earning $6 a month as a resident at Baltimore City Hospital. She supported him by teaching physiology at Goucher College. Then he got a $1,200 fellowship at Yale Medical School and became the breadwinner. She worked in a lab for $600 a year, "feeling darned lucky because at that price they had so little string on me." In two years she used her freedom for pioneer work on microbial genetics, and found her research specialty -a bright red bacterium called serratia marcescens, whose color makes it easy to trace...
When there was time again for genetics, Mary Bunting slipped back to the Yale lab. "When I was home all day, I got tired," she says. "When I was working part-time, I could enjoy the ironing." She needed spirit. The Buntings were building their own house. While digging the cellar, they all lived in a null goat house -after fumigating...
...pledged continued progress: "We have had two good years in the School Committee. Because we had a CCA majority, we did not have the fusses that we had in the committee prior to this one." He praised two very recent curriculum advances: "We have put in a language lab, and have added an M.I.T. physics course to both Rindge and Cambridge High and Latin." And, he pledged two more reforms, both however, somewhat ill-defined: to raise teachers' salaries to the level of those in industry and "to make Rindge a top technical school...
...scientist's scientist," in the estimation of Psycho-Acoustic Lab director Stevens, von Bekesy often works past midnight in his lab. While presenting the Gold Medal of the Acoustical Society of America to von Bekesy last May, Stevens declared, "No one...knows more about...