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Armed with his Sc.D. from Harvard (he has no M.D.), Kinsey joined the Indiana faculty. But a classroom could not hold him. He was forever searching scrub oaks for gall wasps, which fascinated him as living proof that evolution is still going on. When he had collected thousands of specimens in southern Indiana and recorded 28 microscopic measurements of each in a growing pile of statistics, Kinsey had to go farther and farther afield. Eventually he logged 80,000 miles of travel (much of it with Mrs. Kinsey and the children along as helpers) and 3,500,000 gall wasps...
Among the sun-baked hills of Santa Susana, covered with rough brush and scrub oak, the priests and prophets of ancient Israel might walk without surprise; such was the hard land where Jacob lay down to dream on a pillow of stones and David praised God with song and sword. But the hills of Santa Susana are 35 miles from Los Angeles, and the Jews who walk there are men like Furniture Manufacturer Julius Fligelman or Actor Paul Muni. They and other U.S. Jews of all ages come to Brandeis Camp Institute as to a spiritual oasis where they...
When fall comes, the students will go right on with such chores. Though they will study the usual prep-school courses and get their share of skiing, riding and playing, they will also plant, sew, dig irrigation ditches, scrub floors, haul wood, tend horses, clear paths, pound nails, rake leaves, paint walls, and do any other manual labor the Holdens can think...
...administrate its V-12 school from the house. The Colonial-style home was immediately transformed into a "ship." A twenty-four hour watch was stood, and classes for midshipmen were held over the same mahogany table where the Overseers dined in years past. Mis-behaving scamen were assigned to scrub the "deck" and polish the "brightwork"--in this case, oak floors and gold mirrors. Consequently, when the admiral moved out, the ship was little worse for the wear and tear. The Conants were astonished to discover that even the bottles in the wine-cellar were undisturbed. Somehow, through four years...
...maids themselves who impressed their plight upon the Administration, but rather the probing eye of the Boston press. In 1930, the University fired 20 scrub women rather than give them a two-cent an hour raise. Coming on the same day as the University received a five million dollar unrestricted donation, the act gave the University some two solid months of the worst publicity it has ever received. The Boston world looked at these women scrubbing the marble floors of Widener on their hands and knees for starvation wages and called the picture like a chapter from Dickens. The Post...