Word: mendeler
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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HARVARD 1938 ANDOVER Robey, g. g., Cross Powell, l.f.b. r.f.b., Reed Sargent, r.f.b. l.f.b., Bowen White, l.h.b. r.h.b., Rosenfeld Alexandre, c.h.b. c.h.b., Hazeltine Shirley, r.h.b. l.h.b., Bagg Rowley, l.e.f. r.o.f., Thompson Sleeper, l.i.f. r.i.f., Swihart Simpson, c.f. c.f., Hughes L. Davis, r.i.f. l.i.f., Chakrabandhu Earle, r.e.f. l.o.f., Mendel...
...Morgan discoveries show how the physical and mental characteristics of ancestors are transmitted to offspring. Gregor Mendel showed that such transmission occurred according to a regular system. Other investigators showed that the work is carried on by the male and female sex cells and that in those sex cells the significant factors are microscopic rods called chromosomes...
Anyone can with small effort indeed call to mind some of the greatest scholars and scientists, philosophers and poets, who, far from striving for eminence in their fields, seemed to prefer general notoriety. Some, like Gregor Mendel, were content without either notoriety or eminence...
...Then Mendel's sons grew up to military age. Shemariah escaped over the border, went to the U. S., but Jonas was taken for a soldier. Daughter Miriam grew up too, began to go into the wheatfields with Cossacks. Mendel and his wife, married too long, were sick of the sight of each other. One fine day a letter came from Shemariah: he was doing well in the U. S.. would soon send them money to join him. When the time came they left idiot Menuchim behind with friends. They found Shemariah was indeed doing well...
...when the War was over a famous Russian musician brought his orchestra to the city. Mendel heard his friends talking about it, thought nothing of it until the door opened and in walked the musician, inquiring for one Mendel Singer. It was Menuchim, whom pain had made wise, ugliness good, bitterness mild, and sickness strong. Moreover he was prosperous. His troubles over, Mendel Singer prayed again...