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I finally took a deferred pass, as they called it, and waited a yearand tried again. (You had to pass one of the biological sciences or youcould not graduate. ) The professor had come back from vacation brownas a berry, bright-eyed, and eager to explain cell-structure again to hisclasses. "Well," he said to me, cheerily, when we met in the firstlaboratory hour of the semester, "we' re going to see cells this time,aren't we? Yes,. sir," I said. Students to right of me and to left of meand in front of me were seeing cells; what's more, they were quietlydrawing pictures of them in their notebooks. Of course, I didn't seeanything.
"We' 11 try it," the professor said to me, grimly, "with everyadjustment of the microscope known to man. As God is my witness, I'llarrange this glass so that you see cells through it or I'll give up teaching.In twenty-two years of botany, I--" He cut off abruptly for he wasbeginning to quiver all over, like Lionel Barrymore, and he genuinelywished to hold onto his temper; his scenes with me had taken a great dealout of him.
So we tried it with every adjustment of the microscope known toman. With only one of them did I see anything but blackness or thefamiliar lacteal opacity, and that time I saw, to my pleasure andamazement, a variegated constellation of flakes, specks and dots. These Ihastily drew. The instructor, noting my activity, came back from anadjoining desk, a smile on his lips and his eyebrows high in hope. Helooked at my cell drawing. "What's that?" he demanded, with a hint of asqueal in his voice. "That' s what I saw," I said. "You didn't, youdidn't, you didn't!" he screamed, losing control of his temper instantly,and he bent over and squinted into the microscope. His head snapped up."That's your eye!" he shouted. "You've fixed the lens so that it reflects!You' ve drawn your eye !"
Another course that I didn't like, but somehow managed to pass,was economics. I went to that class, straight from the botany class, whichdidn'