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chaperon at Psi for the past three years, and it certainly has been a happy
arrangement, for Miriam isn't so old and decrepit that she can't sym-
pathize with the "younger generation." (Yes, she graduated from Wel-
lesley in—, but that would be giving away state secrets, and anyway
we always hope that there are those who think us younger than we are,
and it would be such a pity to disillusion them).

And now, as regards Miriam always chasing some poor, unspecting,
innocent little bacterium, we find that this isn't always the state of
affairs—for don't we hear of trips to New York, trips to Washington, trips
to Chicago. I just wonder if all these trips are strictly business trips.

Most biographies,—if you should be generous and honor these few
homely words of this dissertation by such a name (What's in a name?) —
have a description of the victim and so I must do my noblest. "Mim's"
is petite (at the present time, I am speaking of longitudinal dimensions),
with blue eyes,—the dreamy kind with the far away look ( I often wonder
if it is in Chicago), a pointed nose, with a freckle here and there to make
it interesting (i.e. when they aren't hidden by liquid powder, yes, she
prefers i t ) . Oh yes! she has a tight little mouth, and contrary to all the
sayings about the female sex, you can trust Miriam with secrets. I mustn't
forget her hair which is blonde and beautifully waved (but girls, be ye
not discouraged, for even as you and I , she suffers the torture of a
permanent). No, she doesn't wear flat heeled shoes, but often is the
time she has wished she had, when at the end of a day spent in the
laboratory wearing the "trick" new lizard shoes, she could hardly stand
their (the shoes, don't misunderstand me) snug affection.

Yes, Miriam has gotten the "Club Bug" in her head. She is a
member of the "Soroptimists"—the name is quite forbidding, but I assure
you it is a perfectly proper international organization of business and
professional women, with one woman to represent each business and pro-
fession. Of course, Miriam represents Bacteriology and just this past
week, she has been elected vice-president of the Philadelphia Chapter of
this organization. She also belongs to Sigma X i , the Society of American
Bacteriologists, the American Association of Affiliated Sciences, the
American Chemical Society and dear knows, there may be others.

After leaving Wellesley (when did I say that was?) Miriam held a!
Teaching Fellowship and later a Research Fellowship in Bacteriology,
then she became assistant instructor, and still later instructor, all at the
University of Pennsylvania. Now this past year, she has had the single
honor of being the only woman to have been appointed assistant professor
in Bacteriology in the" School of Hygiene, and incidently she is the first
woman to have become assistant professor in the University, of Penn-
sylvania Medical School. She obtained her master's degree in 1919 and
her Ph.D. in 1925.

Oh! now I must tell you what she has written. Here we find a
diversity of subjects anywhere from "The Determination of Aniline
vapors in the Air" and "Germanium (no, girls, she isn't studying botany,t
the name refers to a gas) Dioxide in the Treatment of Secondary
Anemia," to papers on "Tuberculosis and Calcium" and "Lactic Acid