But aspiring women flocked to the school, which in 1867 changed its name to the Woman's Medical College of Pennsylvania. The county medical society excommunicated its professors.
No professional journal would print its announcements.
The American Medical Association refused to recognize the “irregular" institution. In 1850 a group of six Philadelphians, feeling that girls like the Blackwell sisters should be encouraged, founded the Female Medical College of Pennsylvania a block from the house where Betsy Ross sewed together the first American flag. Mid-19th Century America felt that no nice girl should be interested in the study of medicine. But when her sister sought to duplicate Elizabeth's feat she found the school doors closed to her. Two years later she graduated with distinction, becoming the first woman in the U. In 1847 bright, persevering Elizabeth Blackwell wangled her way into the Geneva (N. Read more >Įxcerpt from JanuLife magazine Woman's Medical College of Pennsylvania, Now 95 Years old, is the only one in the U.S. After the last excursion, the Rover will be parked 100 yards or so from the LM with the camera turned on, so that earthbound viewers can have their first look at a spaceship blasting off from the moon.
Wherever the LRV goes, a color television camera mounted on it and controlled from earth can transmit a full view of the landscape. To guarantee maximum opportunity for geological discoveries, mission planners have selected a landing site sandwiched between some 10,000-foot mountains and a 1.000-foot canyon. the cart will make it possible for Irwin and Scott to do more exploring than all the other lunar astronauts put together.
Nor will the vehicle exceed 6 mph unless an emergency occurs or in the unlikely event its drivers find a smooth, fast straight- away and decide to hold the first lunar drag race. For safety's sake Rover will travel only three to four miles from the LM at any time, which is the distance an astronaut can walk if need be. The Apollo 15 mission plan calls for Rover to carry astronauts David Scott and James Irwin about 20 miles in three seven-hour explorations during their 86 hours on the moon.
More simply known as Rover, the cart is built to travel at 10 mph and go 40 miles before its nonrechargeable batteries run down. Folded, squeezed and packed into a storage compartment in the lunar module's descent stage will be a four-wheeled battery-driven moon car called the Lunar Roving Vehicle (LRV). This July, Apollo 15 will have its own version of a golf cart.
Like the modernists Wills tries to build as much practicality into them as he can but never at the sacrifice of such things as knotty pine panels, exposed hand-hewn beams, eight-foot fireplaces and windows filled with tiny leaded-glass panes Read more >Įxcerpt from JLife magazine Astronauts Also Recieve Special Corvettes Earlier this year, Apollo 14 had Alan Shepard and his version of a golf club. On the following pages LIFE presents a portfolio of Wills houses in photographs and sketches. "In rebuttal Wills maintains that good residential architecture should be primarily emotional and, like good art, be a part of the people and understood by them-a status which modern architecture cannot yet claim. They call him a copyist and an opportunist and scorn his lack of enthusiasm for designing machines for living. designer of small traditional houses, Wills has become a focal point for the distaste of many of the country's more vociferous but less popular modern architects. Besides designing real houses Wills has designed several hundred on paper and published them in six books which have a combined sale of 520,000, making him the nation's most popular architectural author. Wills's houses are early American in design-Cape Cod cottages, houses with saltbox roofs or garrison houses with overhanging second stories. tal American ideal of what a home should be. They were designed by Royal Barry Wills, a Boston architect whose products seem to be an almost perfect fulfillment of the sentimen. are some 1,100 houses which long before the housing shortage were receiving the longing stares of almost everyone who passed them by. Excerpt from AugLife magazine Royal Barry Wills Designs the Kinds of Houses Most Americans Want Scattered about the U.S.