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Debating for the winners were Langdon P. Marvin, Jr.' '41, William C. Murphy '42, and James J. Pattee '41, John W. Sullivan '43, Payson R. Wolff, '42, and Richard B. Welf '41 took the affirmative at Princeton...
Taking the affirmative against Yale at the Harvard Club in Boston will be James J. Pattee, Jr. '41, William C. Murphy '42, and Langdon P. Marvin, Jr. '41. Assuming the opposite view, Harvard's negative team of Payson R. Wolff '42, Richard B. Wolf '41, and John W. Sullivan '43 will travel to New Jersey to face their Princeton opponents. Harold M. Bailim '43 will act as alternate for either team...
Magic Five. During the last three years in Manhattan, Pharmacologist Marvin Russell Thompson and Biochemist Gustav Julius Martin of the Warner Institute for Therapeutic Research have painstakingly poisoned 30,000 rats, mice and rabbits in their research work. When they gave the animals huge doses of sulfa drugs, or of common poisons, the scientists found that five basic substances present in normal blood promptly dwindled or disappeared. The vital chemicals: 1) ascorbic acid (vitamin C); 2) choline, a nitrogen compound, a constituent of nerve tissue; 3) cystine, a sulfur-containing compound found in hair and finger nails; 4) glycine...
Nostalgic reminiscences on the pre-1929 era of decadence, short skirts, and "tout ce qu'il-y-a plus chic" partake of one of the strongest traditions on the Advocate, of which Marvin Barrett's "The Party" in the previous issue was a continuation. In this vein is "The Year the Rain Came to Deauville" by Curtis Thomas, a narrative-essay on the super-sophisticated international set which located its feverish merriments at the resort towns of France. The sub-title is "Or Why France Fell," and an Editor's Note gives a sociological twist probably not intended...
Harold d'o. Baker '42, Francis D. Cochrane, Jr. '42, Gaelen L. Felt '43, Rosslyn, A. Lyell '41, Langdon P. Marvin, Jr. '41, (Captain), Eugene H. Nickerson '41, T. Decker Orr '43, Dudley B. Palmer, Jr. '43, Alexander S. Parker '43, William P. Given '41 (Manager...