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csebastian:

By the 1940s, the Yale School of Nursing had become a masters’ degree program for students who already held bachelors degrees. The school remained affiliated with the Hospital and students continued to serve at the Hospital as part of their education. This photograph, appearing in the Annual Report of the General Hospital Society of Connecticut, 1944-1945, has as its caption: “A class of student nurses, every girl a college graduate, listens intently to instructions which may, someday soon, help save a life.”

Annual Report of General Hospital Society of Connecticut, 1944-1945, Yale - New Haven Hospital Archives

Grace - New Haven Community Hospital and Hospital of Saint Raphael, 1940’s and 1950’s

(via fyeahnursingthings)

jtotheizzoe:

Dear Einstein, Do Scientists Pray?

A young girl named Phyllis wrote to Einstein in 1936 on behalf of her Sunday School class, asking if scientists pray. He wrote her back.

An excerpt from his response (read the whole letter here):

… everyone who is seriously involved in the pursuit of science becomes convinced that some spirit is manifest in the laws of the universe, one that is vastly superior to that of man. In this way the pursuit of science leads to a religious feeling of a special sort, which is surely quite different from the religiosity of someone more naive. 

To me, he is capturing that intangible feeling of curiosity and discovery combined. That the awareness that our world is ruled by natural laws is a constant “spirit” in itself, and one that we can access at will. Maybe not traditional religion, but an idea that I think we can all agree is worth exploring.

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