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oflFered at times but when they did finally approach him "they were won 

 over by his kindness and anxiety to be helpful." The teaching laboratory 

 building at the MBL is therefore appropriately named after this outstanding 

 scientist, even though he spent much of his life in a research, rather than a 

 teaching, position. 



In fact, the current Loeb Building lies across the street from, and 

 replaces, Loeb's own laboratory building, built and equipped for him by the 

 Rockefeller Foundation after he went to work at the Rockefeller Institute for 

 Medical Research in 1910. The Rockefeller Foundation set up a suite of 

 offices for its own people as well, presumably the better to carry out their 

 fund-raising efforts on behalf of the MBL from 1919 to 1924. It was called 

 the Rockefeller Lab until its demise. 



The communal class laboratories have always provided the opportu- 

 nity for students to work things out together. They can talk about the 

 problems or the new ideas they are having, then get suggestions or try them 

 out with colleagues working on similar research. This is the sort of oppor- 

 tunity for cross-fertilization that the MBL is all about. Late at night a visitor 

 can find earnest prospective biologists at work, worrying through some 

 problem or other and exploring how to get things to work next time. Such 

 dedication has typified student behavior throughout the hundred years, 

 although today's enrollee experiences far more distractions at the MBL and 



Laboratory in Old Main around the turn of the century. Standing in 

 the center is Leonard W. Williams, instructor. MBL Archives. 



