AO delivery was never spectacular and his voice low, those who 

 moved up close were strangely fired. Here were terseness, fine 

 English, a humor which permitted him to laugh even at him- 

 self; above all, an ability to make an auditor reactive to the 

 eternally romantic hidden in the drama of all living things. 



Besides which Wherry brought forth a paper. It concerned 

 the permeability of bacteriological filters [4] , a labor begun in 

 Theobald Smith's laboratory. In it he stated with finality what 

 later observers were to rehash for a decade — that porcelain 

 filters differ from each other and are unreliable among them- 

 selves; that their pore size determines whether an organism 

 can or cannot be separated from its medium; that filterable 

 organisms are probably not ultramicroscopic ; that certain 

 organisms, in time, actually grow through the filter walls. 



Jordan's laboratory, however, was the locale of another 

 adventure. Marie Eleanor Nast of Cincinnati (the daughter 

 of Albert J Nast and the granddaughter of William Nast, 

 successively the editors of German-American Methodism's 

 greatest voice, Der Chris Hie he Apologete) , as honor student 

 out of Goucher college and scholar in biology at Woods Hole, 

 had chosen to spend the second year of her traveling fellow- 

 ship in a western university; and had picked Chicago. Intent 

 upon becoming an M D, she had heard of Wherry's qualifica- 

 tions and registered with him. Wherry shortly found himself 

 impressed of her scientific sense — also of her black hair and 

 the red rose she always wore. 



