iliéflli ill ‘iivviini fifix . onquereol Loyola, Chicago Teachers College, and De Paul in previous The Techmen asserted their on 'ieriority early in the meet, winning [he first three events, giving way to .‘ho Vikings Miote in the backstroke went, and then finishing the meet y taking firsts in the remaining wants. Along with McNernoy, John iinkielski and Ernie Helmer pro— tected their individual undefeated season’s record. Mchrney took firsts in the 50 and 100 yard free style events. Makielslti repeated by taking top honors in the diving competition while Holmer added five points to the Tech total by winning the breast stroke event. The Swimmers set a new school record in the 400 yard relay in their conquest of the Vikings. The relay squad composed of Nelson, Mailer, Mitchell, and McNerney turned in a time of $204.2, beating the ore- vlons record by 2.4 seconds. Summaries: 50 YARD FREE STYLE—Won Nernoy, Illinois Tech; Schmidt, Illinois Tech. B‘JWnd: Watson LeWi-oncc, ll1i1dfl‘imc :‘ .2. 10 0 YARD B REAS’I‘ STEOKE~WOX1 by Hellmer, lllinoia Tech; Bockmnn. lliinois Tech, second; Jonge. Lawrence, thirvl.‘1‘ime, i: 13. 6. 200 YARD FREE STYLE—Jillian by Nelson, Illinois Tech; Elscm mun. Lawrence, second; Altcrmnn, lllinois Tech,tl1ird. Time, 2 25.2 100 YARD BACK STROKE“ Won lay Milli/(2!. Lowrance: Meier, iliinoio Tech, second: Axel- rood. Illinois Tech, thim Time, 1:09. 1. 100 YARD FREE STYLE-Won by Mc- Ncrncy. illinoio Tech: Mitchell, lllinoio Tech. second; Calvin Lawrence thirti Time, : DI lNG~Won by Makieleki. llllnoi» Toch; scoomi: I-linzc anronc co, ihir 150 YA RI} MEDLEY RELAY Won by lilinols Tech. (Axolrood, lielirner Schmidt). To”, 1...“ '23:) WARE RELAY—Won by lllinois Tech (Nelson, Mailer Mitchell, McNeri‘myl Time. 4104.2. 'l‘vvo Meets; Thin Week Al: ’I: 00 pm Friday, the swim« wars will play host to Chicago Bleachers College in a return meet at the Valentine Boys Club pool. in the first meeting of the two schools, the Techawks whipped the OTC crew 52-22. North Central College will provide the tankmen’s opposition Saturday in a dual meet at tho Valentine pool at 3:00 pm. Little is known about the Naperviile aggregation although latest reports indicate that the sub urbaniteo will give the Scarlet and . Grey their first real test of the current campaign. Dei’anl Swomnctl 76-7 Winning every event by large margins, the illinois Tech swimming squad beat DePanl University 76-? in a dual meet: last Friday. Faced by Joe McNorney, the swimmers had little trouble in chalking up their third straight victory. McNerney shattered the 60 yartil free style marl: by .9 seconds, swimming the distance in 30.7 seconds. iiovon lfilin involving in llrogvhoi @onicoi Seven men have received awards in the Technology News sponsored “Pick the Winner" contest in the first eight Illinois Tech basketball games. John Secgers, Senior Civil, has Won two of the contests which enables members of the stinient body to pick the winner onci the more of the Tog-howl: cage games during the current campaign. For their winning selections in this unique contest, the victors receive two cartons of Chesterfield ciga- rcttcs. The winners and the games for which their entry was the best se— lection are as follows: Dave Hath man, Loyola; Cari Berg‘strom, ChL cage Teachers; Slim Gibbons, George Williams; Wally Grow, U of {7; Rich Land, Lake Foreot; John Bailey, 53%? Paul Seegeis’ winning combina~ iions come in the Concoidia go me mad in the return match with Loire Forcrxt. it oifixfi iiitiiii filntloiooiovl ‘Lfiilifiimi‘i on Eincoiiiniio fixfiml- “ll Sparked by co captain Joe McNerney, the lllinois Tech swimming squall trounced Lowxence College 63-13, in a dual meet last Saturday at Appleton, Wisconsin. The victory was number four in as many starts for the tanltmen who have Two looms Elimmoieoi: ill lining Holy Unhooion ”loom in ii: Comooiiiion The firet two rounds of play in the ll“ tournament eliminated two tenmo, Sigma Alphas. Mn and the Proctorions. Pi Kappa Phi was the only team to remain undefeated with scores oi? 36-15, 27-22 and 40-34 over Al— pho Sigma Phi, Daednlions and the Delis respectively. The 40—34 win over the Rho Delta was the highest scoring contest of IF competition in the past three years. it was also one of the roughest: games of the year with thirty—five fouls being called, eighteen against the Pi Kano and seventeen against the Rho Belts. Marv (John is the tour ney’s highest scorer with fiftyvfive points in three games. The other six remaining teams. have won one and lost one. They are Alpha Sigma Phi, Daedalians, Delta Tau Delta, Phi Kappa Sigma, Theta Xi and Triangle. ’l‘hree of these will be eliminated this week. Sixty Univoroiiioo rind Collogci loolicoio Elmira To liloriit‘nooio ill iieloyi More than sixty colleges: and uni— versiiies from 17 states have al- ready indicated intentions of en— tering the 1947 Illinois Tech Relays which will be resumed at the Uni« varsity of Chicago Ficldhonse on March 15 after a three year wank time lapse, Athletic Director John J. Schommer today announced. Notre Dame University, coached by E. R. “Doc" Handy, which won tho 1943 university championship over 33. field compoocé oi? lilinois, Michigan, Michigan State, Mar- quette. lndiana, Missouri, Northwest- ‘ern, Purdue, Wisconsin, Drake, and Chicago, will enter a full ssquacl in defence of its title. In the college divieion tentative entries have» been received from every team which scored a point "in the 1943 gaineé, with the dc- fending champions, Michigan Nor— mal of Ypsilanti, heading the field of forty. Among the otates' which will prob— ably be represented are lilinoin, 11n- diana, Wisconsin, Missiouri, Michi- gnn,’ Nebraska, Alabama, Texas, Tennessee, iowa, Louisiana, Kaunas, C(ilorndo, Ohio, Minnesota, South Dakota, and North Carolina. fix; loll?” will Win Antoni ii“ oifi l. . no it) fit ilfitifi nix film: yawn» Ema £4 gm axial llfifilfilfifigllfim 'lhe Illinois Tech cage soiled dropped their sin: ch encounter in nine starts last Saturday, suffering a. 433—40 {lefeat at the hairdo of Lawrence College on the Vikings home court. The Wisconsin oquoii led at halftime 39 17 and were never pressed for the learl at any time timing the. game. Jim Oldslxue, Techowk center, garnered 18 points to clinch individual scorn- ing honors for the evening. The Tochawks "found considerable trouble in setting their defense and the Vikingn took advantage of the Scarlet and Gray’s dilemma by pil- ing up a big; lead which the Tech- men found impossible to overcome. Lacking the services of guard Ned Grable who failed to make the trip, the Techawlcs “fast Poi-cal: attack failed to click satisfactorily. Ten of the eleven members; of the Lawrence crew aided in the scoring column. ’ifcclinwlm lieot Lolita Forest In the return game with Lillie Forest, “the Techawlt (fingers again beat the north shore squad on their homo court, 72.51. Paced by guard . Ned Groble who led scoring for the evening, with 22 points, the Toc- hawkn were never bohiml during the entire contest. it was lilinois Lawrence (63) lllinoio Tech (450) 1;; r n F P LarsonJ 1 1 l Sonar“ 2 l 5 ‘Swenoonl 4 2 l. Fleck! l. l 1 Mil-lent 3 1 4 Bohrens.f 0 1 2 Halli i 5 1 Oldshuem 6 6 5 Davin,c 8 2 4 Swanson,c 0 0 3 Vsnd'rwyd’n,c2 4 3 Murphy,“ 5 2 4 Burtolm; 4 o 2 mile“; " o a 0 [33211390113 3 0 5 0"Gcgry,g 0 1 4 Cooper,g 0 0 1 O'Connell.g 0 6 1 Buying 1 0 E) Slhim’lpf'tlimgll (l“ i Cut-ring 2 0 3 \ ,. I Tech’s third victory of the oeason, this being the seconcl at the er:- penee of Lake Forest. DePanl “i5” Tcain Victoriono In the last game before the holi- days, a mighty DePnuI squall,‘com~ prised of players who were do— elated ineligible for regains: vowel» , ’ty competition, dealt illinoio Tech cage defeat number five by a 90-55 count. Although the Tech squad proved to be no match for the “Home of the Mittens" squall, the Techawks found many holes in the DePanl defense. As evidenced by the score, the game was an ofiem sive game for both teams. All filliolioviglo to Elooonrch Mon oinii flinginocrn The use of techniques involving pres» olives up: to and above 1,000 atmospheres (15,6001bs. per sq. in.) has had a tre- mendous influence on chemical manu— facture in the past twenty- five years. The availability of unlimited quanti- ties of nitrates vie. ammonia from nitro— gen of the air by high pronoun: synthesis him greatly affectezl chemical economics as well as agriculture. The plostico induotry, too, has loane- fiteri greatly by the reduction in price of urea from about. 80¢ ii). to less than 44-, and methanol (to give formaldc~ hydc) from $1.25 gel. to less than 25¢. High pressure syntheses have also par—x ticipatecl in a major way in the devel. opment of entirely new products such as nylonand polythene. in fact, starting from coal, air and water, Du Pont now malice over 120 widely used products. in addition to improving the existing proceseco of manufacturing ammonia, methanol, higher alcohols, urea and other important chemicals, Du l’ont organic and physical chemists, cherub col“, mechanical and metallurgical engi— neers have (liscoverecl and developed high pressure syntheses for the follow— ing: ethylene glycol; liexamethylene (liamine; acetic, propiooic and liyilmxyu acetic acido; methyl inmate; C5,, Cw- aml Cm- alcohols; and numerouo others. lfi finitely oi Mygaor Compton fixinvoogvhoms Magnum in the At the, same time, the gaseous reactants r‘ are forceoi into the liquid phase to give higher concentrations anti again better conversion. F110 ieaction rate anti there~ fore the late of passage through the re— action chamber are both increased i) increaoing the temperature under higEn There are other: equilibrium considerations that affect the industrial proo‘uation of urea, but preosurc conditions. ooro ”coal to living miles up to 'fGCi—WW Afimmonio «incl iii-ethanol iiynilvoo on . llvcsiiono mileage iiivo £i$li ohooi working wins in Porn y . Wlifiil‘ iiiml oil retiiniwi organizoiion «loos iii: Font limo? There are ten manufacturing depart! iaivontoivycrx tonsil iiirohiomo The use of high pressureo offers numer- ous aévnntngee familiar to technical students, such as: (i) forcing an equi- librium in the direction of a volume ole- creasc, (2) overcoming the reversing elfeci of high temperatures in exother- mic reactions, (3) more? sing reaction: and thioiigh— -plii‘, rates anti (4) provid~ ing, in some cases, a liquiz‘i phase which might not otherwise be present. The synthesis of urea from carbon dionicie and ammonia is a gooci illus~ tration of some of these tirincipleo: cm + coins Q With three goalies. of rcectnnts anti only two of renultants, increase of great-info given on origination increase in. oonvernion. 3“ Comma); + H30 they are too lengthy to discuss here. Along with its; ativaninges, the use of high pressure gives rise to nroblenis that often severely mi: the abilities of engi- neers and chemists. For example, (i) (lifficnlties of clesign of packing glands, valves, connecting rods, closures, etc, increase rapidly with increased pros~ sure, (2) extmorciinary corrosion prob- lems. arise in which even stainless steels are attackeé arm‘ cannot be used, (3) owl inary stools are permeable to hydro assures. and temnera- tures. 'l‘ base are hula of the chnllenge that high yrcssmo studies present to the technical anon anfi particularly to the metallurgical ' 393‘. High gioetxuro $3 ntiieeis has now hem RE ‘ ofindustrinitixom» entiy lnuiiexxiu‘iure gen at higher pr and mos: honicol on comic n’sepexraixoi f istry with an on, avaiiab few illusti rations: Moro facts anom- Du Font—linen to “‘Qovziioczio oi iimcfico,” l 1, . «n, .. hmiemyv, now 1..“ :5} if? mot: no i} i. no room non” i i menu»; in Du Pont. each operating as a separate organization and each with lie: own research and engineering stall". in addition. there is 21 control chemical de‘ {mrtmont and a control engineoring do partmont Consequently them is a wide variety! 0. ”Insect-oh and onginocring work other technical opcaiinlirtw to: further information w rite for the new booklet “The. Du Pont Compiling: and tho Col~ legs Groduoie,” .2521 Nemonrs Bldg., W ilmington, Delaware. Wives-2 inmost mg m; Mirroring Sfififi’lliiWEV origins» ems find v2 U. § ”My?“ . -» «~7-