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Castle On The Hill
1937 The Ranger Annual
Northwestern State Teachers' College

Chemistry Department

by - Lois Miller

Superstitious? Then beware of the "Ghost of Your Wasted Past." His never ceasing command to the multitudes is, "Burn midnight oil!" He reigns supreme in this haunted realm, and sad indeed is the plight of those who suffer the devastations of his frolic on exam day.

Here in the chemistry department is opened the bag of tricks and the youngsters learn what makes the wheels go around. Drama as well as comedy is presented in the classroom illustrations. There's chemistry, catastrophe, and fun in the sailing of a toy balloon, in a miniature reproduction of the blowing up of the battleship "Maine," at the Widow McGinnis' trial for the arsenic murder of her husband, or even when the Widow Brown's house burns. These are but a few of the incidents that create vivid impressions on the minds of Professor Lisk's students and make simpler the mastery of chemistry. He never lets the times get ahead of him -- his scheming villians and firemen heroes are always ready to enact the role of some new aspect or phase of this science. So, whether your chief interest be fun, education, or in between, chemistry has something for you.

In late years the great need for scientific education has been realized more than ever as essential for understanding of one's surroundings. Such training creates greater appreciation, and at least some measure of comprehension of the common ordinary things which happen all the time, but which are so obscure to most of us in their actual working. Northwestern is indeed lucky to have a chemistry prof who advocates this theory and opens the eyes of the pupils as to the why and wherefore of the commercial products and commodities utilized every day.

With the new equipment installed in Jesse Dunn Hall and the old efficiency in teaching, the tasks of educating and being educated are greatly facilitated. Speaking of efficiency, withness one of Tony Buchanan's prize recipes for chlorine water. An innocent student had enough faith to try it one day and got more distinctly audible results. The lasting impression is on the ceiling above Locker 89 in the advanced lab.

In spite of the trials and tribulations of the sutdents there's still smooth sailing -- Prof Lisk is to our chemistry what Rockne was to football.

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