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^he S^otre Q)ame Scholastic Disce Quasi Semper Victurus Vive Quasi Cras Moriturus College Parade FOtJNDED 1867 By THOMAS M. HIGGINS Due to the increasingly large number of veterans re turning to school, many colleges are becoming overcrowded and hence are going to any extremes to overcome the pres ent housing shortage. Georgia Tech, for instance, has taken over some Army barracks, and Minnesota has purchased a number of trailers in which to house students. The shortage of dorms here, we believe, is responsible for that new build ing at the Circle. It is definitely not a ticket-office where you may place reservations for that 'tween-semesters train ride. Instead, come Mai-ch it will furnish sleeping accommodations for eighty-eight new freshmen. • "Let's cut (censored) today" "Can't—I need the sleep" THE STAFF •> Ball State Netvs FRANK GRIMALDI, Editor-in-Chief Tut to you poor lads who thought that the world had fal len in when St. Mary's i-eceived three weeks Christmas va lOHN DEFANT Managing Editor cation to your ten days. Imagine the plight of the poor studes GEORGE COLLINS Navy Associate Editor at Tulane when their sister collegians at Newcomb took off PAUL WEYRAUCH Sports Editor for five weeks of holidays.—Let's have no more complaints now about the rigorous life at N. D. COLUMNISTS • Soph—Man, I really flunked that Physics exam. THOMAS M. HIGGINS The College Parade Second S.—But didn't you have the answers on your LOUIS ALMASI . - - . The Crow's Nest shirt cuff? ARTHUR MOSHER, RAY FRANKLIN - - The Shillelagh Soph—Sure, but today I wore my chemistry shii-t. JACK STEWART - - - - The Green Banner *** —Qtieen's Joxvnial ED CASO, JOE PIEDMONT- - Frosh Froth The above plug about the Sophs is to remind you of the Sophomore Cotillion coming up February 8. Get your date CONTRIBUTORS early and don't be like the Sad Sack who informed us that he wasn't going because he "didn't Cotille!" JAMES GREENE JUSTIN CICCONETTI • JACK TINKLE JOHN C. THOMAS Our nomination as the worst joke of the week (again BILLY SLAVICK -JAMES JOHN from the Creightonian, although that journal didn't receive GERARD HEKKER BILL PFAFF credit last week.) PAUL ABRAHAM DAVE WARNER "I know Latin, Greek and French, besides a little Ger JOE RENINGER JOHN GUNTHER man, a little Italian, and a little Bohemian—the Bohemian W. O. MILLER BILL BRAUN lives on Tenth Street." JIM REGAN RUDY SCHREITMUELLER • JAMES BURNS WALTER S. BUNKER The Daily Kansan has a note of interest to cinema fans. SAMUEL HAZO RAY CHAMBERLAND A sequel to the movie, "Kiss and Tell" will be entitled, "Neck PAUL RAGAN PETER PESOLI and Shut Up." • ROGER CAHANEY BILL LEAVEY As long as it has been some time since we had a poem in JACK HUMMEL JACK SULLIVAN print, do you mind lending an ear? RALPH HAYMAN JOHN WALKER I think that I shall never see JOE LANG LAWRENCE METCALF A co-ed lovely as a tree; FRANK TYCHSEN ARNOLD ANDERJASKA A tree whose limbs are brown and bare, DAVE OLSON CLARENCE ZIMMER And has no dandruff in her hair; A tree whose head is never pressed * JAMES FERSTEL Photography Against someone else's manly breast; A tree who never wants a meal. ARTHUR COUGHLAN - • - Circulation Manager And never tries to make you feel REV. C. J. LASKOWSKI, C.S.C. Faculty Advisor As if you were a lowly heel. M. E. VARGA Advertising Co-eds are made like fools, you see. But it makes no difference. —Manitoban • Member of Catholic School Press Association, Associated An Arizona hillbilly died recently after seeing an auto Collegiate Press. Represented for national advertising by Na- mobile for the first time—he didn't see it soon enough. tionol Advertising Service, Inc., 420 Madison Avenue, New York • —Seattle Spectator City — Chicago — Boston — Los Angeles.— San Francisco. THE SCHOLASTIC is published weekly during the school year, ex The Indiana Student says that there is one thing about cept during vacations and. examination periods at the Uni golf. The better you play, the more apt you ai'e to end up versity of Notre Dame. Address all correspondence to: Publica tions Office, Administration Building, Notre Dame, Indiana. in the hole. THE NOTRE DAME SCHOLASTIC JBntered as seoond-dass matter at Notre I>«nie, Indiana. Acoeptanoa for »»ta»Ki»g at special rate of poetaKe, Section 1103, Oct. 3, 1917. Authorized Jnne 25. 191t. VOL. 86 JANUARY 18. 1946 NO. 8 those of 30 colleges in the United States. Dr. Campbell and ND Chemistry When used in the treatment of malaria, it is much superior to either quinine or Dep+. Work Extensively on Malaria Cure atabrine, a synthetic discovered in Ger many and first produced in this country Ey RUDY SCHREITMUELLER in 1942. It will cure the malignant ter tiary malaria more quickly than ata brine or quinine. It is superior to quinine Since the spring of 1942 the Depart ing, was the production of quininic acid, or atabrine in the treatment of relap ment of Chemistry at Notre Dame has an important intei-mediate. Such a meth sing or vivax malaria, and it will not been actively engaged in war research. od, once developed, was employed on a cause the yellow coloring of the skin or pilot plant scale to supply diflferent lab the stomach disturbances that atabrine When the Japanese conquests cut off oratories. most of the world's supply of quinine, an does. None of these drugs, however, real urgent necessity arose to find another Although many of the simpler qui ly cures relapsinj malaria. They merely drug to combat malaria. This disease, nine-like compounds were found much relieve the pain. which afflicts as many as 300,000,000 more active than quinine itself, they During 1945, the last year of the con people in the world each year, is espe were too impractical and expensive to tract, the work at Notre Dame concen- cially prevalent in the Pacific islands, prepare on the mass-production basis ti-ated on antimalarials of the plasmochin India, North Africa, and in Italy. required for malaria treatment. type. Plasmochin, another drug devel This problem, which became the num The Notre Dame project was respon oped by the Germans, is effective in ber one medical problem of the armed sible for the preparation of compounds treating relapsing malaria, but is too foi'ces, received a high priority on man closely related to the new SN-7618, toxic to be used safely. Compounds re power and supplies. Shortly after Pearl which has recently been widely publi lated to plasmochin have a remarkable Hai'bor, however, the work was purely cized. The formula for SN-7618, a chlor anti-malarial activity, with some of them on a volunteer basis. At that time, Dr. inated organic compound, is understand being more than ICO times as potent as Kenneth N. Campbell, associate profes able only to the expert chemist. The quinine. While they are all toxic, Te- sor of chemistry at Notre Dame, became drug itself is the result of cooperative search workers hope to find one satis- the 16th chemist in the country invited effort of many laboratories, including (Continued on page 22) to cooperate on the project. Under this volunteer system, Notre Dame accom plished considerable work on the synthe sis of new compounds. ONLY 96 HOURS Later on, the Committee on Medical No. We're not telling you how long an ly enough time to pack a Gladstone I Research of the Office of Scientific De incandescent light will burn, nor how Some of the men who live at greater dis velopment took over the malaria prob much time elapses before your order is tances will probably not get horns at all. lem. They drew up a formal contract taken in Eosie's. Ninety-six hours is Some, referring to those without plane with the University, with Dr. Campbell the estimated duration of freedom be reservation. But those livinj nearby will as responsible investigator in charge of tween semesters! most likely spend a very pleasant five research conducted on the campus. The minutes with their relatives and friends, contract pi'ovided for an adequate sup The latest dispatch from the Director and perhaps will allow themselves two ply of funds, which greatly accelerated of Studies cruelly states that there will or three minutes with the "object of the work. be four days between the Winter and their affection." They will hastily an Spring semesters. Convocation is to take swer her quaint interrogation as to During the past three years many dif place February 27, and four days later, ferent series of organic compounds were whether they are at Notre Dame or in March 4, i-egistration for courses will the Foreign Legion, plant their best up prepared throughout the nation, as the begin. program of synthesis became modified on her soft, upturned cheek (misprint), as a result of pharmacological and path To those who read this with tears in and then take off for the station with ological tests. Over 14,000 compounds their eyes, we might offer consolation by jet pz'opulsion. • were tested for anti-malarial activity in saying that the Spring semester will be The more we think about it, the more the nation-wide program. the last under the accelerated program, incredible it seems. However, our source and after its culmination in June, you is very reliable, and with simple logic At first the aim was to prepare sub can expect approximately three months and a calculating machine, our deduc stances with the chemical structure of of vacation (we haven't found the hours tions are irrefutable.