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

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fi }C 1023 ing. Up the aisles they surged, throwing the house into panic. On the boarded stage itself sought they out Antoville’s followers. Fierce raged the combat that night—loud were the shrieks of the audience (who knew not the cause of this uproar). At last the battle was ended by the blue-coated minions of Redmike, but not till the Sophomores thoroughly knew the taste of rankling defeat. And tell yet another talc, of a struggle more frenzied than that one: Ended was the tug-o’-war, wherein the mighty sinews of '23 had availed not ’gainst fickle Fortune. But though theirs was the coveted victory, the craven Sopho- mores now lied the field in haste, barring themselves from pursuit in the castle whose lord is Woll. Nothing daunted, the Freshmen followed. Vain was their hope to shatter the massive iron gates! Meanwhile the besieged had discovered hoses of large dimensions, with which they shot torrents of water on all who dared to come near them. So great was the rush of the water that, like straw, the burly attackers were torn from their points of vantage and lightly tossed aside. But wise beyond their years were the Freshmen. Through subterranean passages toiled '23, until the crash of falling doors in their rear foretold to the Sophomores their approaching doom. After its own manner of fighting was ’22 attacked—with countless four-inch hoses before whose roaring flood neither Sophomore nor Hygiene Building escaped destruction. Ever higher rose the swirling waters, ever fiercer fought the contending hosts, till, as night began to fall, someone saw the stately anger-shaken form of Bonney swimming through the broken gate. . . . Sing of the wrath of Dean Brownson, of the awful dooms he dispensed! Tragic were the months that followed, full of woeful enforced inactivity which crazed the mind, driving some men even to study. Came a new term, and with it an end to verdant Freshmanhood. Many were the doughty warriors who were now no more. Some had fallen before the thunderbolts which issue from Room 121, some had been lured to ex- tinction in law and mcd. school, some had slipped into that Tartarus which awaits the good and the bad of us alike—that unspeakably loathsome existence called holding down a job.” Conflicts raged again. The presumptuous youths of '24 were taught their abys- mal inferiority, their transgressions were duly punished, and the autumn sun saw strange things done to a group of Frosh named Zukcrnick. Yet sick of heart were our blood-craving heroes, bemoaning the ease of their triumph, for the olden bloody traditions had already begun to fade. Nor knew they then of the dismal worst—that in years to come Albert and Dave and Zuk and count- less more of these striplings would lay unhallowed claim to the title of “ ’23 man”! And once again was Louie made President, man knoweth not how or why. The usual dances were danced, the accustomed banquets were eaten (wild was thirty-four

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LEO KLAUBER President of the Student Council; Captain of the 1923 Basketball Team Most Popular

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ftye 1025 RicrociCT g tubent Council Snsftgnia 1923 MAJOR Professor William B. Guthrie Albert H. Aronson David Beres M. Monroe Pass M i lton Green berg Louis A. Warsoff MINOR Bernard Benjamin Henry B. Clapp Peter G. Denker Solomon Dickstein George Iscol Leo Klauber Milton I. Levine Isidore Michaels Joseph Petix George Shapiro Isidore Zu her nick thirty'five J