Notre Dame Scholastic, Vol. 87, No. 11 -- 7 June 1946
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.^. LETTERS THOMAS WOLFE SAID IT June 1. SIR: "There was a kind of evil sorcery, a desolate and fathomless mystery in the way they could take the choicest meats and vegetables and extract all the suc culence and native flavor from them, and then serve them up to you magnifi cently with every atom of their former life reduced to the general character of stewed hay or well-boiled flannel. "There would be a thick heavy soup of dark mahogany, a piece of boiled fish covered with a nameless, tasteless sauce of glutinous white, roast beef that had been done to death in dish-water, and solid, perfectly lovely brussels sprouts for whose taste there was no name whatever. It might have been the taste of boiled wet ashes, or the taste of stewed green leaves, with all the bitter ness left out, pressed almost dry of moisture, or simply the taste of boiled clouds and rain and fog. For dessert, there would be a pudding of some quiv- Put a finishing touch ery yellow substance, beautifully mould ed, which was surrounded by a thick to that wardrobe sweetish fluid of a sticky pink. And at the end there would be a cup of black, with an Arrow tie. bitter, liquid mud." • Eemind you of anything? "Stewed hay. Well boiled flannel. Boiled w^et ashes. Boiled clouds. Name Arrow points the less. Tasteless." Eemind you of something? " way to perfect Your ever loving tomahawk. grooming. BUSTER. Thank you "ever looking tomahaivk." We shall be looking for your face.—ED. Holy Cross Foreign Mission Brookland Station Headquarters for May 30, 1946 SIR: Arrow Shirfs and Ties Just a note of sincere thanks to you and to all the members of the SCHOLAS TIC for all that you and they did to make the Bengal Bouts the grand suc cess that they were this year. I know that to single out any one person would not T)e just; it was the combined efforts of all of you that made for the best Bouts that Notre Dame has ever put on. I assure you, John Defant,, Paul Wey- HSILBERT'S rauch . the SCHOLASTIC, of the sin cere appreciation of all Holy Cross in 813 - 817 S. Michigan St. Bengal and working for Bengal here at home. What you have done for our mis sion in Dacca diocese will not soon be Here—You are always a Guest before you are a Customer forgotten. Be assured that in my thanks join all '^ (Continued on page 34) Umsn* M itiMf^t i# l^«JFf«l4s «f iii9lii(H|iliigr rfcysf<f, mi4 ii«fttfy Chemistry Finds Better Way to Descale Steel One of the most bother- someproblemsinthemet- al indtistry is the removal of scale from the surface of stainless steels and other alloys. Scale is a thin film of metal oxide which forms at high tem peratures dxiring fabrica tion or processing. It is very abrasive to dies and other metal-forming tools, and if not com pletely removed causes serious flaws in the sur face of finished products. Several years prior to World War II, Du Pont A typical layout showing arrangement of equipment for sodium hydride descaling. The usual treating chemists, engineers and cycle comprises sodium hydride treatment, water quench, water rinse and acid dip for brightening. metallurgists went to work on the problem of developing a quick and positive descaling proc the most part in from a few seconds phide to alkali cellulose (from wood ess. When success came three years to twenty minutes, dapending on the or cotton), and dissolving the mix later, a secrecy order prevented its size and tjrpe of material. ture in water and mild alkali. To public annotmcement at that time The hot metal is then quenched in produce holes, crystals of the desired water, and the steam generated ac size are introduced. Heating in a salt —the discovery went directly into solution hardens the viscose and.dis- war work. tually blasts the reduced scale from the underl3dng metal. A water rinse solves out the crystals. Washing, centrifuging and oven-drying com Process Development and a short dip in dilute acid com plete the process and produce a clean plete the operation. In developing the process, a group bright surface. of Du Pont Chemists fovmd that This process has been called the >v small amounts of soditmi hydride, Questions College Men ask dissolved in molten sodium hydrox most significant development in the ide, effectively removed scale with cleaning of metal surfaces in decades. about working with Du Pont out attacking the base metal or em It is representative of what men of brittling it. However, the problem Du Pont are doing to help American "DOES THE DU PONT COMPANY then arose of finding an efficient and industry to better, quicker, more economic means of obtaining the economical production methods. EMPLOY ENGINEERSr' sodium hydride. This was accom There are many diverse opportunities plished by developing an ingenious at Du Pont for engineers. Principal apparatus for forming it directly in MAN-MADE SPONGES PRO- requirements are for chemical and the molten sodium hydroxide (700° DUCED BY DU PONT CHEMISTS mechanic£il engineers, but opportuni F.) from metallic sodiimi and gaseous ties also exist for industrial, civil, elec hydrogen. Among the most versatile members trical, metallurgical, textfle, petro of the family of cellulose products— leum and others. Practically all types Metal chambers, open at the bot whose members include rayon, cello of engineering are included in the tom, are placed along the inside of phane, lacquers and plastics—is the work of the manufacturing depart the descaling tank and partly im synthetic sponge. ments and the central Engineering mersed in the bath. Solid soditmi is Department. Openings for qualified introduced into these chambers, and Du Pont cellulose sponges have engineers exist at times in all of these hydrogen gas bubbled through. The many of the attributes of the kind departments. sodiimi hydride formed is diffused that grow in the sea, plus several ad ^ uniformly throughout the molten ditional advantages. For example, caustic. quality can be kept uniform; texture, and hole-size can be predetermined; Practical Application they can be cut to handy shapes, and The metal to be descaled is im they may be sterilized by boiling. mersed in the bath which contains The complicated 10-day manufac "ES-U-S-PAT-OfE 1.5 to 2% of sodium hydride. Scale turing process starts when viscose is is reduced to the metallic state for produi^ by adding carbon disul- BETTER THINGS FOR BETTER UVINO ... THROUGH CHEMISTRy - ' T More facts about DuPo/zf—Listen to "Cavalcade of America," Mondays, 6 P.M. CST, on NBC E. I. DU PONT 01 NIMOURS & CO. (INCI WILMINGTON 9«. DILAWARI ^he cNotre ^ame Scholastic SCHEDULE of SEMESTER Disce Quasi Semper Victurus Vive Quasi Cras Moriturus FOUNDED 1867 EXAMINATIONS University of Notre Dame June. 1946 The examinations for this spring semester of 1946 will be held in all the colleges and in the graduate school of the University on the Sunday, Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, and Thursday morning of June 23, 24, 25, 26, and 27, accord ing to the following schedule: JOHN DEFANT. Editor JACK HUMMEL ----- Managing Editor Classes taught at Will be examined at Date PAUL WEYRAUCH ----- Sports Editor GEORGE COLLINS Navy Editor 8:00 on Monday 8:00 on Monday June 24 JOHNNY "WALKER - - . Feature Editor JOE CHENEY - . - - News Editor 9:00 on Monday 8:00 on Wednesday June 26 10:00 on Monday 10:00 on Monday June 24 COLUMNISTS 11:00 on Monday 10:00 on Wednesday June 26 THOMAS M. HIGGINS - - - The College Parade SAM SMITH The Crow's Nest 1:15 on Monday 1:15 on Monday June 24 BILL BRAUN, FRANK McCARTHY . The Green Banner 2:15 on Monday 1:15 on Wednesday June 26 ED CASO, JOE PIEDMONT - - . Soph Soap JERRY OLWELL - - - . Campus Clubs 3:15 on Monday 1:15 on Tuesday June 25 PHOTOGRAPHY Will be examined at Date JIM FERSTEL . - . Photographic Editor Classes taught at AL KUNTZ CHRISTY WALSH FRANK CACCIAPAGLIA 8:00 on Tuesday 8:00 on Tuesday June 25 (Cover by Jack Swain) 9:00 on Tuesday 8:00 on Thursday June 27 •¥• 10:00 on Tuesday 10:00 on Tuesday June 25 CONTRIBUTORS 11:00 on Tuesday 10:00 on Thursday June 27 JACK SULLIVAN JIM REGAN 1:15 on Tuesday 1:15 on Sunday June 23 BILLY SLAVICK JOHN THOMAS 2:15 on Tuesday 3:15 on Tuesday June 25 GERARD HEKKER DICK DEITZ PAUL ABRAHAM JIM CLEMENS 3:15 on Tuesday 3:15 on Wednesday June 26 MICHAEL GREENE PETE BROWN BILL PFAFF JIM MALER Classes taught By- special DAVE WARNER MEL GODDARD after 4:00 p.m. ai-rangement of RAY CHAMBERLAND DICK DOWDLE the instructor PETER PESOLI CLARENCE ZIMMER BILL LEAVEY LEONARD DENTE ROBERT J. 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