Show Windy Chemists Huff n n Puff To Fame Smashing several records and much glassware the four teams entered in the chemistry departments department's departments department's departments department's depart depart- ments ment's annual track meet engaged engaged engaged en en- in unusual competition Friday Friday Friday Fri Fri- day May 13 in the quantitative analysis laboratory Lawrence Hofer set a new record in the endurance contest completely complete complete- ly emptying a flask set on top of ofa a twelve-foot twelve glass tube He forced more than 73 liters from the flask in one breath a truly phenomenal achievement Another boy with a lot of blow blo Robert Wind bag Johnson blew a column of water up a g lass tube to a height of twelve feet to set a anew anew anew new record The team of Randall Barker and Kenneth Vincent won the yard dash They melted a glass rod in a Bunsen burner and then pulled the molten glass out longer without a break than any other team George Baldwin won the final event of the evening the evening the spelling I Ibee bee conducted by Dr W. W D D. D Bon Bon- ner nero Contestants were required to give formulas of various chemical compounds One of the novel events of the meet was the high jump One window window window win win- dow of the lab which had not been washed for two months in prepa- prepa tion for the event served as a target target target tar tar- get for streams of water which were directed at it from wash bot tIes operated from a chalk line 12 I feet away Other events were the hurdles a relay for speed in titration the yard run in which the runners pushed rubber corks the length of the lab with glass rods and one in which different organic compounds I were identified by smelling I After the meet contestants and spectators were served coffee brewed and served in chemical apparatus ap ap- |