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"The Science Ball": poetry as historical evidence (1).

In 1906 a witty piece of poetry about girls and science appeared in The Niagara Rainbow. The piece of poetry was written by Mother Berchmans Doyle, IBVM, for the 19 pupils in her science class at Loretto Academy in Hamilton. This paper exhibits how our traditional conception of girls not taking or being interested in science in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries is erroneous. While Ontario high institute teachers were frightened of teaching the relatively fresh and mandatory subjects of chemistry (and physics), biology and astronomy, Mother Berchmans cleverly and easily teaches a task in chemical nomenclature through poesy This paper places ...


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