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CORNELL ALUMNI NEW VOLUME 44 NUMBER 6 Captain Peter M. Wolff '42 and Coach Carl Snavely OCTOBER 30, 1941 LEHIGH VALLEY SERVICE Cornell for the Class Rings FOR WOMEN Dartmouth Ten carat gold mounting, set with sardonyx stone of Carnelian shade. Block "C" and numerals Game cut in the stone. ITHACA, SAT., NOV. IS $11.50 plus defense tax of 10% LOW ROUND TRIP FARES POSTPAID {Tax Not Included) FROM TO ITHACA ROUND TRIP THE CORNELL CO-OP Coach Travel Pullman Travel BARNES HALL ITHACA, N.Y. New York $ 8.95 AS13.10 BS14.60 Newark 8.70 A 12.75 B 14.20 Philadelphia 10.00 A 14.55 B 16.20 Rochester 3.60 Buffalo 5.55 A—Plus Cost of Upper Berth, each way. B—Plus Cost of Lower Berth, Room or Parlor Car Seat, Each Way. EAT COMFORTABLY Lower Berth $2.10, Upper $1.45, Parlor Car Seat $1.50. Double Bedroom ($2 or more) $4.20. Compartment (2 or more) $6.30, Drawing Room (2 or more) $7.35, each way (Tax not included.) Before the Game GOING November 8 Lv. New York (Penna. Station) 11:05 A.M. 10:10 P.M. Lv. Newark (Penna. Station) 11:20 A.M. 10:25 P.M. Lv. Philadelphia (Reading Ter.) 11:15 A.M. 10:35 P.M. Experienced Cornelliαns know Ar. Ithaca 6:41 P.M. x 7:38 A.M. that on a big game day, it's xSleeping Cars from New York may be occupied at Ithaca until 8:00 A.M. best to meet their Friends at the RETURNING University's Lv. Ithaca 12:56 P.M. y 10:52 P.M. Ar. Philadelphia (Reading Ter.) 8:30 P.M. 7:45 A.M. FOOTBALL Ar. Newark (Penna. Station) 8:29 P.M. 7:54 A.M. Ar. New York (Penna. Station) 8:45 P.M. 8:10 A.M. LUNCHEON Observation Sun Room Lounge, Parlor, Sleeping, Dining, Club Cars, and Deluxe Coaches. ySleeping Cars to New York are open at 9:00 P.M. in For reservations, etc., phone LOngacre 5-4021 (New York): BARTON HALL Mitchell 2-7200 or MArket 2-5500 (Newark): RITtenhouse 2815 (Philadelphia): 2306 or 2697 (Ithaca). 11:30-1:30 70c Lehigh Valley Railroad Park early,en joy a leisurely hot lunch- eon, and walk across the road to the • The Route of the Black Diamond • Crescent in plenty oί time to Find your seats before the kick-off. Please mention the CORNELL ALUMNI NEWS CORNELL ALU I NEWS Subscription price $4 a year. Entered as second class matter, Ithaca, N. Y. Published weekly during the college year and monthly in July and August VOL. XLIV, NO. 6 ITHACA, NEW YORK, OCTOBER 30, I94I PRICE, 15 CENTS CORNELLIANS' RESEARCH lasses, rice hulls/ and liver, it has been TO SPONSOR CONCERT Names "Vitality Vitamin" called the "acid of life." For Scholarship Benefit Identification of the mysterious '' vital- British soldiers who have been mys- In Town Hall, New York City, No- ity vitamin," lack of which in the diet teriously stricken with fatigue, breath- vember 14, Cornell Women's Club of of animals has brought similar symptoms lessness, fainting spells, and disturbance New York is sponsoring a concert by to those of a new malady observed of the pulse rate may be afflicted, Dr. three Cornellian artists, to benefit the among British soldiers, was reported at Supplee said, with deficiency of panto- Federation Scholarship Fund. The pro- the recent meeting of the American thenic acid. They show symptoms of im- gram will be by Dr. Egon Petri, Pianist Chemical Society by Dr. George C. pairment of the adrenal gland function, in Residence at the University; Bruce Supplee '13 and two associates. One of and this is in line with laboratory studies Boyce '33, baritone; and Dorothy Sarnoff these is Dr. Raymond C. Bender, PhD '31. of artificially-produced deficiency of pan- '35, soprano. Working in the biological and chem- tothenic acid, but there is yet no direct It is hoped that the proceeds will ical laboratories of The Borden Co. in proof that this is the cause of the sol- sufficiently increase the fund for women's Bainbridge, of which Dr. Supplee is di- diers' disease. If tests on the soldiers scholarships at the University to offer a rector, the scientists reported in April, demonstrate that the malady is due to second one next year. the lack of the vitamin, a simple means 1940, the existence of such a "vitality Announcements of the concert are may be found to overcome it. vitamin" whose lack in the diet of ani- being mailed to all alumnae of the mals resulted in "pronounced inanition Some of the effects of deficiency of Metropolitan District, and all music and lack of vigor and vitality without pantothenic acid, according to the Bor- lovers are invited. The committee is any other objective signs of disease" and den chemists, seem to manifest them- headed by Ruth F. Irish '11, president in " a high rate of sudden and unpredict- selves as the result of a disturbed balance of the Club. Dr. Mary M. Crawford '04 able death." between the two hormones secreted by is chairman of boxes; Mrs. Roger M. Now they have found this important the adrenal glands, two small organs Woolley (Virginia Van Vranken) '2.5 is substance to be identical with panto- located astride each kidney. The outer chairman of patronesses; Mrs. Bernard A. thenic acid, a member of the all-impor- layer, or cortex, of the adrenals secretes Savage (Carmen Schneider) '2.7 heads the tant vitamin B complex. This substance, the life-essential hormone known as cor- selling committee; Alice G. Gordon '2.7 synthesized in March, 1940, had been tin. The inner part, or medulla, secretes is chairman of publicity; and Mrs. John previously identified by the US Public the powerful heart stimulant, adrenalin. P. Syme (Helen English) 'z6, 17 East Health Service as the vitamin necessary In normal adrenals, the two hormones Ninety-seventh Street, New York City, for proper functioning of the adrenal seem to be balanced. With absence of is chairman of tickets. Reservations may glands, without which life could not go pantothenic acid, the outer layer of the also be made at Town Hall, 113 West on. Found in such foods as yeast, mo- (Continued on page j6) Forty-third Street, New York City. CORNELL ARTISTS FOR NEW YORK BENEFIT CONCERT DOROTHY SARNOFF '35 DR. EGON PETRI Achieved Campus notice as a member BRUCE BOYCE '33 Famous Dutch pianist came to Ithaca of the Dramatic Club, and studied Advised by Eric Dudley to study music two years ago, having been driven from abroad, and has been soloist with the when he was a member of the Glee Club his home in Poland by the German in- NBC Symphony Orchestra and St. Louis and a student in the Veterinary College, vasion. Last year he was appointed Municipal Opera. Last season she was a he has given successful concerts in Eng- visiting Lecturer in Music at the Univer- finalist in the Metropolitan Opera radio land, Canada, and this country. Last sity, and this fall, Pianist in Residence. auditions, and this season will appear in year he was guest soloist with the Mon- Students have come to him from all over leading soprano roles with the Phila- treal Symphony Orchestra, has given the world, and his concerts in Bailey Hall delphia Opera Company at the Acadamy two recitals at Town Hall, and has sung have been largely attended. His reputation of Music. in opera in Carnegie Hall. as pianist and teacher is international. 74 CORNELL ALUMNI NEWS tossed two touchdown passes and did the passes to Duckworth, an end, and the punting in the absence of Stofer. ball was on Cornell's iη. Phinney was About After Pierce scored his first touchdown smothered for a fifteen-yard loss trying on the third play, Cornell stayed in Col- to pass. Then he threw a pass to Geyer. ATHLETICS gate's half of the field the rest of the The officials ruled that Pierce interfered period. Pierce turned in another run for and gave Colgate the ball on the -L^. sixteen yards through the same vulnerable Geyer took another pass to the 15-yard CORNELL 21, COLGATE 2 hole in the Colgate line, and Martin line, but the next four passes were The football team, rebounding beauti- reeled off twenty-five yards on a dash grounded or knocked down, and Cornell fully from its recent Naval engagement, through the center. This latter play put took over at that point. Jenkins raced to defeated Colgate on Schoellkopf Field the ball on Colgate's 30, but Micka inter- Cornell's 38 on the end-around play, but last Saturday in just 51 seconds. At that cepted a pass on Colgate's zγ. Roy V. Colgate checked the drive and the teams precise moment, Samuel R. Pierce, Jr. Johnson '43, left end, threw Yakapovich traded punts until the quarter ended with '44, Negro right halfback who started back to Colgate's 7, then, after Yaka- Geyer returning a kick for Colgate to his first Varsity game, crossed the goal povich punted, took the ball on the end- his xo-yard line. line on a twenty-one-yard run through around play twenty-five yards to Col- The punting duel continued into the the Colgate right tackle. It was a reverse gate's 10. Cornell lost the ball on an in- fourth period until Yakapovich broke from right formation, a deceptive play complete pass on fourth down on the up the sequence with a pass to Batorski that sent Fullback Joseph L.