Word: nash
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Each autumn students enroll in Chemistry 2, expecting a tough and boring semester of inorganic chemistry. By January they know that they were right about the course's toughness, but few call it uninteresting. Associate Professor Leonard K. Nash enlivens his courses by sprinkling lectures with graphic experiments. Tinker toys show the electron configurations of the elements to Natural Science 4 students, and Nash proves the explosive quality of hydrogen by turning a flamcthrower on soap bubbles filled with...
...Nash admits that his steady stream of conversation during an experiment sometimes interferes with his concentration on details. Chemistry 2 alumni still talk of the day that he forgot to put a sheet of asbestos under a plate of white phosphorus. When the phosphorus ignited, Nash had to dash from the room with the flaming mass before it spread over Malinckrodt. Chemist Nash grumbles that "if things possibly can go wrong, they do go wrong precisely when they can do the most harm...
While his lectures are memorable for their humor alone, it is Nash's interest in students that has made Chemistry 2 and Natural Science 4 so popular during the past five years. Remembering his own undergraduate tussles with gram-atoms and molecular weights, he turns his sympathy for student confusion into an active program of help. Although he has an audience of several hundred, Nash frequently stops lectures to answer questions from the floor. Often he climbs on a chair in the front row to ask what is troubling a boy looking puzzled in the back of the lecture room...
...Nash's Le Mans. To its Nash-Healey sports-car line, Nash Motors added a coupé, the Le Mans. Designed by Pinin Farina, it is low-slung (55 in. high) and racy, has a six-cylinder 140 h.p. engine (up from last year's 125 h.p.). Price: about...
Updike acts the tropical tone of this issue with a two-stanza poem exalting the benefits of a hot climate. Although engagingly whimsical, it seems a rather mediocre attempt to imitate Ogden Nash. "Lines for Bloodshot Eyes" by H. S. Zeigler makes a neat observation on three-dimensional movies, "A bastard drama--Cinerama...