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satisfaction of seeing his own work and his own name in 

 print. As we have seen, most graduate students will have 

 gone through a massive struggle in putting their first efforts 

 into pubUshable form. This effort will be more than amply 

 repaid, however, when the first requests for reprints from 

 distinguished investigators begin to come in. A little later 

 on, the student's heart will beat a bit faster when someone 

 refers to the interesting and challenging results, or the 

 unusually beautiful preparations, of Mr. Liebarbeit and 

 his collaborators. He may have to wait a bit longer for 

 epithets such as "masterly analysis," and he may only dimly 

 descry the day when someone will be kind enough to refer 

 to Liebarbeit's "classical studies." Few graduate students, 

 however, allow themselves to imagine that their work may 

 ultimately emerge as a "monumental monograph." 



But Mr. Liebarbeit does not have to depend on these 

 nebulous future satisfactions. He is in all probabiUty having 

 a lot of fun already. Very probably for the first time in his 

 life he is surrounded by people who are just as bright or 

 brighter than he is and who have the same sort of interests. 

 He doesn't have to be embarrassed by his lack of interest in 

 athletics, his awkwardness on the dance floor, or his in- 

 eptitude at the lighter side of teen-age social fife. He is 

 valued for what he is and not looked down upon for what 

 he is not. Much of his time is spent in talking with other 

 graduate students and his seniors in the department about 

 the conduct of investigations in which all are interested. 

 Some of this occurs in formal seminars, but increasingly it 

 will occupy the coffee break and the laboratory lunch hour 

 to which everyone brings his own sandwiches. To the 

 irritation of the nonscientific spouse, dinner engagements 

 are likely to turn into informal seminars too. 



Very soon his circle widens to include workers in the 

 same field in other universities and institutes throughout 



