| SOUNDS OF SCIENCE. Students in an Electron Physics Lab at Stuyvesant High School in Manhattan experiment with transmitting musical tones through a beam of light. (Dec. 18, 1934) | |
| | YOU’VE COME A LONG WAY. A teacher shortage in 1918 forced the city to abandon a longstanding bylaw that had prevented schools from hiring married women as teachers--except in extreme cases of “incapacitation of husband or permanent abandonment.” (Oct. 31, 1922) |
A version of this article appeared in the December 11, 1996 edition of Education Week as Windows to the Past, Pt. VIII
