City College of New York - Microcosm Yearbook (New York, NY)

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EDITORIAL STAFF OF 1910 MICROCOSM

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® If? 1310 iHirrnrnsm fciUtmutl Snarit £Mtnr-iii-(Ehlrf Ira I. Kaplan. ’10 Aaaortatr EMtoro Samuel Weisbr, ’10 Montkfiorh Judblsoiin, '11 Rudolph Stand. ’12 iBuulncnu fllaitagcr Thuisco A. Lepkovics. ’10 Aiumriutr Suoltirflii iflattagrra Nathan N. Sanders. '12 H. I.kicht. ’ll Family AfiuUnirB Prof. Stephen P. Duccan. Prof. Walter E. Clark. Senior Aimhuira Alfred J. Silbkrstf.ix. ‘09 Walter Krumwikdk, ’09 Folio Eight Paul Schulz, ’09 Art (Cnutritiutnra Louis Tanz, ’10

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Jfareworii YEARS gone by, when several embryonic Horace Greeleys of either the Junior or Senior Class were elected to the task of publishing a Microcosm, they endeavored to surround the an- nual with an atmosphere that would create awe and respect among the student body and which would cause contemporary institutions to resemble fresh-water colleges. Unfortunately the moonlit campus, with its boisterous crowd of merrymaking students breaking into yells that contend with the din of deafening shouts and hoarse-throated horns; the brilliantly lighted dormitories with clouds of smoke curling forth from the windows of rooms in which students are lounging in reckless abandon, twanging on banjos and humming the old, old songs of Alma Mater: the dull classroom into which grotesquely dressed students drag their way to a fossiled peda- gogue. soon destined to fall an easy prey to their many bewhiskered and rheumatic pranks;—this rosy paradise, this volcano of fun, this carnival of delight, this primrose path to knowledge has its place only in $1.08 fiction and music-fringed comedy! These fantastic conceits arc but the creations of dreamy novelists and passionate playwrights who scribble to tickle the fancy of the hired girl and the vast army of high-school youngsters to whom college life and a bed of daisies arc synonymous terms. With this paradise in view, the old board of editors, figuratively s| eakiug, reached into the clouds for weird names of sporting organizations, literary societies and drinking clubs (ginger ale, of course). Naturally they created themselves the grand moguls of these organizations. And when the Juniors or Seniors saw how ably the Staff had succeeded in crowning itself with laurel wreaths, they, too. spoke figuratively of the publication— but not in praise. They only regretted that the law protects individuals gifted with overheated imaginations. As for the Freshics and Sophs, they no more thought of the Microcosm than of Hastings and Beach. Our Student Council considered this situation seriously. It is seldom that college organizations ever accom- plish anything beyond displaying a wondrous wealth of oratorical ingenuity. 1 lours are s| ent in discussing that eternal question—the priority of the egg or hen. or juggling with other problems equally stimulative of interest- ing debate. But the Student Council, now a potent college organization, proposed the publishing of the Micro- cosm by a board chosen from the different classes, and with that action assumed responsibility for the annual. If. peradventure, you ever strolled near our editorial sanctum you would have perceived thru the keyhole the touching sight of the Freshic sitting on the Sophomore's knee, while Junior and Senior are ventilating their opinions as to the best means of making this year-book truly representative and worthy of our College. We feel confident that in compiling this Microcosm we have faithfully recorded all activities and interests worthy of recognition. As Dame Fortune would have it. the students, beneath these white-capped towers, have awakened to the realization that dyspepsia is no longer the test of scholarshipspice and zest have consequently been added to Folio Eleven