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

Text from Pages 1 - 318 of the 1929 volume:

Copyright 1929 JACK B. ROSENBERG AND HAROLD I. CAMMER wm y 19 Jiltcrocosm iibltsdjel) 1)? tjjc jentor Class of QT1)C College of tfje Citp o! J eto orfe MAIN BUILDING COMPTON HALL THE GREAT TOWER URBS CORONATA BASKERVILLE HALL THE TERRACE THE LIBRARY N June 7th, 1847, a popular referendum approved the establishment of a Free Academy and four days later an inspired editorial writer, under the impression that the new school would emphasize studies in technology wrote: A Mechanic will be President of the United States!” But Mike Walsh, an individual familiar in Tammany annals, writing in The Sub- terranean called it a vile scheme of robbery on the poor.” An anonymous property holder tremulously cried out in the columns of The Journal of Commerce, A calm ob- server of the signs of the times must distinctly perceive unerring indications of the spread of that agrarianism which preceded the decline and fall of the Roman Republic.” The term, socialism, had not as yet its modern spurious connotations. On January 15th, 1S49, one hundred and forty-three fidgety and awkward boys, wearing starched, winged collars and high black shoes, assembled in a chapel that was still fragrant with the raw odor of fresh paint and varnish. On the platform stiffly sat ten men, who, with their bushy side-whiskers and steady disci- plined gaze, seemed to be the very devil's disciples. A sudden hush and Dr. Horace Webster, graduate of West Point, in character a composite of Cato and Andrew Jackson, stepped to the front and intoned a passage from the Scriptures, a custom that would persist down to the days of Dr. Finley. Thus did the College of the City of New President Webster York begin. President Webb Eleven President Fini.ey The Library Dedication suspended. The Free Press was published anonymously outside of the College and poked merciless fun at the great ones. Mercury prospered. The red turreted and Gothic- arched building at Twenty-Third Street and Lexington Avenue strained beneath the weight of increasing numbers. Alumni became active and soon only $200,000 was necessary to start building on the new site. General Webb travelled up to Albany. It was an exciting moment when at the last session, Mr. Ellsworth led the distinguished President of the College out on the floor of the Senate, and introducing him as the hero of Gettysburg, ob- tained unanimous consent for the appropriation. With the accession of Dr. John Huston Finley in 1903, the College impatiently began to mark time until it should occupy the new buildings on the Terrace. Bands of undergraduates would organize picnics and travel up to watch the carpenters and masons and to steal a marvelling glance at the architect’s plans. At length, in May, 1907 sur- rounded by Mark Twain, Ambassador Bryce, Rufus Choate and other dignitaries. Presi- dent Finley, under the eyes of mocking gargoyles, inaugurated this Brightest Gem in Democracy’s Crown.” In 1908 The Cain pits appeared. Four years later the Evening Session was organized. Modest in its beginnings it soon developed into one of the most prosperous arms of the College. A dean was created in the person of Professor Brownson. In 1914, Sidney Edward Mezes, President of the University of Texas, became President of the College. Under him the curriculum was broadened, creating precedent for the widely variegated courses we have today. Student activities plodded along; The Campus deplored the lack of spirit when no pro- testing hand was raised against the sophomore who violated the exclusiveness of the Senior Pedestal. But the Juniors still met every Wednesday evening in the shadow of the same pedestal Absentem ut cantant amicam.” Once more a war shattered the cloistered industriousness of the College. Several hurried off to volunteer. The drafts President Mezes soon caused the abandonment of all classes. The Great Hall was converted into a huge sleeping barracks, the Concourse into a mess hall. The Federal Government contracted to raise a structure on Amsterdam Avenue, the Robinson Foundation. The war ended. The Government forgot its contract and the College emerged with a silently eloquent honor roll and a strongly intrenched R. O. T. C. unit. Between 1919 and 1920 the organization of a School of Business under Professor Robinson, a School of Education under Professor Klapper, and a School of Technology under Professor Skene, all attested to the great proportions the old Free Academy had assumed. In the spring of 1926, Dr. Frederick Bertrand Robinson ’04 was elected to succeed Sidney E. Mezes as President. Daniel W. Redmond was simultaneously elected dean. The old Free Academy fell to the sighs of many an alumnus and a modern skyscraper that shall house the School of Business rose. The first wing of the library was built. A little internal fireworks, gentle repercussions of war time days, kept the College from smugness. Today we arc a University in all but name, a living, pulsating tribute to the fore- sight of the city fathers. Vourtetn Officers of Administration Frederick B. Robinson, Ph.D., LL.D., President Frederick Skene, B.S., C.E., Dean of the School of Technology Paul Klapper, Ph.D., Dean of the School of Education Daniel W. Redmond, Ph.D., Dean of the College of Liberal Arts and Science George W. Edwards, Ph.D., Dean of the School of Business and Civic Administration Paul H. Lineman, Ph.D., Director of the Evening Session and of the Division of Vocational Subjects and Business Administration Adelbert Grant Fradenburgh, Ph.D., Dean of the Brooklyn Center Joseph X. Healy, J.S.D., Assistant Director of the Evening Session in the Queens Center, and Director of the Summer Session Howard C. Green, A.B., Assistant Director of the Evening Session, in charge of the Commerce Building, and Co-Director of the Summer Session Limond C. Stone, B.A., Assistant Director of the Evening Session, in charge of the Brooklyn Center, Boys’ High School Building Irving Mariash, B.S., LL.B., Assistant Director of the Evening Session, in charge of the Brooklyn Center, Willoughby Building Thomas P. Smith, B.S., Assistant Director of the Evening Session, in charge of the Municipal Building Harriet L. McCartie, Secretary to the President George M. Brett, A.B., Curator Morton Gottschall, J.D., Recorder Walter Stalb, Bursar Morton- Gottsciiall B.A. (C. C. N. V., 1913) ; J. I). Registrar George W. Edwards B.A. (C. C. N. Y., 1911) ; M.A.; Ph.D. Dean of the School of II us in ess and Civic Administration Daniel W. Redmond Ph.B.; Ph. I). Dean of the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences B.A. (C. C. N. Y., 1904) ; Paul Klapper M.A.; Ph.D. Dean of the School of Education Frederick Skene B.S.; C.E. Dean of the School of T'ethnology Sixteen Hyers Saxton Fulton Brett Department of Accountancy T required lengthy and dry research to unearth the story of the Depart- ment of Accountancy. Like an esoteric cult it pursues its way, unappre- hended and unobtrusive. An instructor in the department volunteered the information that it was modeled on the efficient Economics branch, but that was all. But from the Register we gleaned the fact that one can secure a Diploma of Grad- uate in Accountancy either by meeting the entrance requirements for the curriculum leading to the degree of Bachelor of Business Administration, or by presenting a Certi- fied Public Accountant’s qualifying certificate issued by the Regents of the University of the State of New York. The courses in the Department of Accountancy range from fundamental principles including the preparation of simple financial statements of a single proprietor to judicial accounting, including testa- mentary, executors’ and administrators’ accounts and bank- ruptcy accounting. The department proposes to give its students a thorough understanding both theoretical and prac- tical of this important feature of modern big business. Professor Brett who is chairman of the department is a quiet, exactly dressed gentleman, efficient as the department he directs. Hist immediate colleagues are Professor Saxton and Eggleston. The soporific qualities of Professor Saxton’s voice are notorious in the department; as a matter of fact the whole department is afflicted with this disease or quality. Like the School of Business the Department of Accountancy is moving down to the Commerce Center. Prof. Brett Weinberg. Land, MacDougall, Foley, Tea, Glascold Autexrbith, Kelly, Neus, Schulman, Haskell 'Department of c,Art ITH the regretted retirement of Professor Hunt, it has been most difficult to replace the Bohemian art school” spirit with which he endowed the De- partment. The aged and most sophisticated professor always had the power to convert any student into an aesthete, even a competent critic. His was the ability to communicate to the undergraduate that much needed enthu- siasm towards the worls of plastic arts possessed in great abundance by the professor and always ready for dispensation. Enough of Professor Hunt’s inspiration remains with his disciple, Professor Schul- man, to ensure the talent of the school with at least two very interesting electives, classical sketching, and water color painting. The exhibition in the Lincoln Corridor of the products of the talent in Professor Schulman’s classes was really indicative of the pedagogical ability of this excellent teacher. It is interesting to note, however, the new perspective which has recently developed in the Department itself. Since the College was converted to a great extent into a training school for teachers, Education 152 became the nucleus of the curriculum for a select group of students. The art faculty set out definitely to effect a complete metamorphosis in the aspir- ing pedagogue. One is given a course of study of six months duration at the end of which time he is supposed to be able to conduct an art class in the public schools. The unexpected part of the situation, however, is the fact that the students taking these courses became remarkably adept at their tasks. For- merly unable to conduct a pencil in a straight line between two points, they could sketch for you an imaginary landscape, or a number of blocks of wood drawn in perfect perspective, or a poster developed along the most modernistic lines. Prof. Neus llitctn Friedman, Cmaikems, Simpson, Schechtkr, Haff. Veacii. Cohen, Ktkin, Copei.and Ruckes, Browne, Mei.ander, Scott, Johnson Department of Biology HIS Liberal Faculty offers twenty-six courses and Bio 1. That is, so blows the general consensus of student and senior conviction. Probably Pro- fessor Melander would protest mildly, in his subdued, smiling manner. No one doubts that be enjoys lecturing four times each week to despairing groups of one hundred and fifty odd students. He relishes particularly, as one of the leading entomologists of the United States, to discuss the ways and means of Imecta (fourth class of Arthropoda, ninth phylum of the animal kingdom). Dr. Melander has but recently declined the post of New York State entomologist in favor of his present position as head of his department. A comparatively small staff of about forty maintains an incessant activity, day and night, winter, summer, spring and fall. Professor Scott, author of a somewhat no- torious textbook, is, when not acting in such capacity, stretch- ing his tissues as chief of the histological division of the de- partment. Professor Browne is the premier bacteriologist of the Col- lege, and for the past few semesters has had plenty of oppor- tunity for practical application of his talents in scrutinizing Hammond’s comestibles as chairman of the Faculty Lunch Room Committee. It is rumored that the professor has never been seen in the faculty dining room. Another name mentioned in Men of Science is that of Professor Goldfarb, whose professional standing is due for most part to his work in invertebrate zoology evolution, experi- mental biology, and genetics. We must not forget the ubiquitous fellow and tutor, un- sung and unheard, and the departmental librarian, unsung but not unheard. Prof. Melander Ninette Seugman, Naim an, Quinn, Lifsciiitz, Starrs, Brown, Dorin, White, Genciiof, Mari.ibs, Wacreicii Bi.iss, Jones, Pi.echner, Mei.tsner, Sciiutt, Apfei.baum, Zieiii., Hart, A. Lehrman, Liebcoi.d, L. Lehrman Curtis, Kstabrookk, Stevenson, Moody, Prager, Curtman, Harrow, Babor Department of Chemistry HE growth of the Department of Chemistry from a group of possibly 200 students each term, taught by a staff of five or six, in branches limited to five courses taught in two laboratories, to a Department teach- ing approximately 2,000 students each term in three different centers, cared for by a staff of nearly forty, is quite in keeping with the phe- nominal growth of the whole college. During the last ten years a course in Chemical Engineering has been added to the curriculum of the Department, and the equipment necessary to carry on such courses has been slowly secured. The Chemistry Building was first occupied in 1908 and was planned to care for a maximum of 900 students. It is only by the most careful assignment of space that the present large group is able to receive instructions. Under Professor Moody the work has undergone much change in late years. Some courses have been largely aban- doned, others much developed, and still others added. The most notable changes have been in the almost unlimited de- mand for Organic Chemistry, and the increased call for all subjects connected with medical education, especially Physical Chemistry and Biochemistry. The facilities of the Department will in the near future be greatly enlarged by new construction in Brooklyn, an entire new center on 23rd Street, and increased space given to the Division of Industrial Chemistry and Chemical Engineering made possible through the construction of the new engineer- ing building. Prof. Moody Twenty-one Hausman, Quackenbos, Newton, Lease, Edwards, Shei.don, Bridge Burke, Run� , Brownson, Cosbnza, Brown Department of Classical Slanguages HE day has forever passed when the brighter run of students could adeptly turn a Latin verse and undergraduate themes would abound in 'quotes’ from Pindar and Herodotus. Just as often, the further one advances into Livy, Horace or Cicero the more one needs a 'trot,’ so the more popular the classical languages, the less stringent the requirements. It would be a dismal day for the undergraduates were the professors to call for a bit of original prose in Ciceronian style. While the classical language courses may have undergone modifications, the pro- fessors themselves arc much the same as the traditional Latin instructor. Civilized, ancient of aspect, an overwhelming knowledge of the old world legends: nothing is more diverting than to hear Professor Quackenbos dryly retail the complicated maze of incidents surrounding the curse of the house of Pelops, unique senses of humor, unobtrusive idiosyncrasies and a genuine fondness for the language they teach—characterize these an- achronisms in the modern efficient educational system. Professor Brownson with his fierce mustache whose dis- criminating knowledge of pipes and tobaccos is traditional with those who know him holds sway over this, the oldest depart- ment. Then there is Professor Rupp whom Dame Rumor has made a retired football player, and who still can hold an ir- reverent class after the bell by an inspired philological dis- cussion. And Professors Ball and Burke will terrify incoming classes to the last gong of Prom. So the Classical Department trudges on, as some would have it, a last stronghold of a real civilization. pR0K Brownson Vwrnty-tvjo Hoi.brook, Byers, Spengi.er, Love, Hastings, Fulton Bradford, Snider, Edwards, Mayers Department of Economics T would be a sad state of affairs were the Economics Department to deny its name in its very organization, but under the leadership of Dean Ed- i wards, of the School of Business, it has been developing itself along the directed lines of a business institution. ----—------J Although George Bernard Shaw may not agree, it is generally believed that the department has kept astride of the most recent changes and developments in contemporary economic thought. Advertising, Public Utilities, Marketing, Real Estate, and Transportation are some of the courses recently inaugurated. A great part of the work of the department is shouldered by the Evening Session of the College where the day instructors work hand in hand with men especially recruited for that Session. A distinc- tion should be made between the Department of Economics and the School of Business, one being a part of the School of Liberal Arts and Sciences, the other a school in itself. Dean Edwards, a convivial and mild mannered gentle- man is the one probably the most responsible for the new commerce structure at Twenty-Third Street. Under him also, has been instituted the granting of diplomas in the various economic fields to those not working towards any established degree. The members of the department often spend their leisure hours in visiting the cco departments of different high schools. By coordinating their observations and helpful suggestions from elsewhere many time-saving features have been instituted in the department. It is in the Business School that we find courses ranging from Russian Markets” to Cable Code and Practice.” The whole school is packing up preparatory to moving down- town. Prof. Edwards Turner, Falion, Maixon, Abelson Cohen, Heckman, Klapper, Mei.vin Department of Education MOULD the City College man, feeling Apollo lightly pulling his sleeve or for some other reason, deny his talents to law or medicine, he will usually turn to teaching, hence our expanding Department of Education and an ever lengthening waiting list. In view of the waiting list some may lament the success of Dean Klapper and his colleagues in piloting so many students safely past the license exams. But piloted they arc, and virtually fifty percent of the instructors in the public school system arc being recruited from City College graduates. Dean Klapper, the guiding light in the department, is probably the College’s greatest democrat, what with his leathery smile, crinkled countenance and his buying theatre tickets at Gray’s. And only the Dean knows those rare pedagogical topics about which he has not written. Under Dean Klapper is also the School of Education. It is one of the most ambitious aspects of the College endeavor- ing to satisfy the baccalaureate aspirations of a host of ele- mentary school teachers, the pedagogical appetites of liberal Arts men, and others not to be put into any category. It recruits among its lecturers a score of elementary and high-school principals and a few district superintendents. Its courses arc manifold and range from classes in educational theory proper, to those in short story writing and Russian Literature. Many of the courses given in what is known as the ''Afternoon Division” arc given for the particular con- venience of teachers though they arc attended by others. pROf. Klapper HE Engineering Department boasts of the most popular office staff around the College. Courses (in the department) arc various and interesting. Blue prints, plumb lines, and slide rules lend a touch of scientific superior- ity to these gentlemen of the faculty. Ennui is never a trouble to the men of the Mechanic Arts Building. If ever the headaches due to outwatching the Bear on physical problems, those at the mast convene and declare a moving picture on the thrills of building a paint factory, or a trip to Westinghouse, or even a banquet, and boatridc. The aristocratic dean, Frederick Skene with his Rizzi assistants, boast of interests in the manly sports and it must not be thought that the galivanting of Dr. Goldsmith is confined to the other. Here, gentlemen, are men of brawn, brain and Irish ancestry— you must meet McLaughlin and Ryan. The school over in the northwest corner of the campus does not number too many students. They’re a rather clubby lot and those on the staff go right with the boys. Often the class in Thermo-dynamics resembles a social club— oh, yes. But josh as we do, we must acknowledge that thes; men of the Technology Departments arc recognized leaders in their fields. It is no wonder that President Robinson refers to the school as his pet hobby. It is no wonder furthermore that many of these men are very often heralded as the principal speakers at technology gatherings and over the radio. It is rumored that the school is soon to get its much needed addition on Amsterdam Avenue. In the meantime the school is not marking time but is still striving forward. And when the addition is already a surety, then says Dean Skene, the real work will get the advance it has long longed for. This, plus the fine field work the Department engages in, will certainly establish a fact for which we have long sought confirmation— that the School of Technology is the best for miles around. Prof. Skene T?� Twenty-four Benson, Butler, O’Connel, Adams Department of (feology T is not so very long since this department also broke away from the Divis- ion of Natural History. Since its individualization it has assumed a mien of dignity all its own. At any rate, we find it diificult to pasquinade. Dr. Bertram T. Butler, professor of this Department, embodies this clan to high degree. Perhaps his grey hair and mustache emphasize the unassum- ing but not retiring manner in which he conducts his classes. During his spare moments free from departmental work, he dashes off northwards to the heathers of Jersey to dissi- pate in what is euphoniously entitled geomorphology.” Chief among the earnest young men working their way up in geological circles is a pleasant Irishman called O’Connell who, besides illuminating freshmen in Science Survey and enervating bedraggled upper classmen in old Geology 1, hies over now and then, to what is still wild of the east Bronx, to trace the P-l-e-i-s-t-o-c-c-n-e Ice Movements and incidentally to correct some negligence of previous geological geog- raphers. On Jewish holidays, it is suspected that he also does some researches on bacteria as weathering agents, and something on metasomatism. He may be a Dr. by the time this appears. There are two quiet little fellows called Benson and Adams you also see about the labs and show eases of the Department. If you want to touch up a conversation with the former the best way to do it is to mention Appalachian structure. Ref- erence to the Geo. division at Columbia will do the trick for the other chap. This past year the Department has sponsored several popu- lar special excursions to spots and rocks of geological interest in a scsquiccntcnnary area about New York. The fossils col- lected as a result of their labors may be found on the third floor. The faculty and the students also appear to be in- terested in the scenery hereabouts. Prof. jjutler Sl-OCHOWER Whyte LlPTZIX Kinkei.dei Department of German HE Neo-Romanticism of Richard Wagner lustily accompanied by the voices of Dr. Liptzin’s Dcutchcr Vcrein Octette typifies the German Department. Rarely docs one find a member of Dr. Whyte’s staff who cannot boom out in full tones Ich ging ein mal schnatziren” and end his recital with Die Lorelei.” These gentlemen in facultate though few in number range from the extreme con- servatism in the dress and general policy of the Herr Professor to the liberal ideas and exotic coiffure of Herr Von Bradish. Throughout the school year these intellects lead discussions on diverse topics, from Nietzsche” to the Spirit of Jazz in the Fatherland.” And according to The Campus they arc quite popular. Much of the color of the old days is gone and tastes arc different—at least so they say. The beautifully decorated Steins remain empty in the museum closet of Room 308 and the glasses no longer clinkle to the beer and pretzels. In hushed whispers the Herr relates to his classes his delightful trip to Milwaukee and the Steins there. In louder voice arc heard the doings of the professorial Ford and its idiosyncrasies. Captain VonBradish after sufficient coaxing will tell you how he and his Austrian squadron played tag with the Italians up in the Alps. They arc a nice set of gentlemen, these German instruc- tors despite their lack of mustachios. Only let them not be overcome by Prohibition and What the well dressed man will wear.” Prof. Whyte Carter, Ross, Newton, Thomas, Cai.ahan Blckvar, Josephs, Guthrie, IIai.ey, Warsoff Department of (government ] HE faculty of the Department of Government and Sociology, though one of the smallest in number, is yet rather extensive in its relation to the student body. Professor William B. Guthrie, endeared to his students as Big Bill,” possessor of five stories (some of them are perhaps humorous), was chosen by the subscribers to this yearbook the most popular professor.” The title of most conceited,” on the other hand, went to the fashion plate of this same Depart- ment, Mr. Oscar Buckvar. And although no item in the ’29 Senior Questionnaire sought to gauge sentiment as the person in the faculty who did most for the student body, such questionable recognition certainly is deserving by Dr. Louis A. Warsoflf, the third member of the Department of Government. In the capacity of faculty advisor to the Student Council, and councillor to numerous undergraduates, he is without doubt the most in- dustrious and most generous of the younger members of the teaching staffs of the College. Two new men have been added to the personnel of this division of instruction—Dr. Samuel A. Joseph, and Dr. H. Haley. Both have met with the Department’s standards by taking an active interest in students’ affairs. A new organiza- tion, the Anthropology Club, has been formed under the leadership of Dr. Joseph. The elementary course in government listed as Govern- ment 1 in the College Register aims to acquaint the student with the fundamental principles of American Government. The advanced courses and electives in the Department of Gov- ernment, consisting of a number of law cases and a larger num- ber of anecdotes, develop various aspects of politics and juris- prudence from the point of view of typical judicial decisions. Prof. Guthrie Wisan, Keep, Telfair, Janowsky Mora is, Clarkson, Moore, Morse, Buss, Green, Morris Fradenrurcii, Thompson, Mead, Schapiro Department of History HE new curriculum has wrought havoc within the scholarly ranks of the sgjl History Department. For several years, the chroniclers of the past had ITl been plodding along a well grooved path, a path ennobled by the same, oft- ay thumbed, slowly decaying textbooks. Robinson” and Haycj” were the quintessence of our courses in histroy. Revolution, however, was now and last year the first guns were fired against the citadel of the Old Regime. Under the terms of the innovation, students as well as professors arc required to delve into many mighty tomes of ancient, medieval and modern history. Ideas arc em- ployed to hammer facts into the protesting minds of young students, and the serious effects of this policy of change arc apparent in the forty-two cases of incipient samtv to be found among the disciples of the living past. These tragic developments, however, arc only superficial, for the reins of power persist in the hands of certain illus- Xj trious gentlemen. The leonine J. Salwyn Schapiro is still to 'ff be heard preaching on the social state,” (shades of Wells, i «1 Russell, Marx and Shaw!) Rumor has it, too, that the profes- Hr sor is occupied on the composition of a volume, that will treat on the formative factors of European history. This statement, cW J to be quoted. I Professor Nekton P. Mead renowned as the man who once rebuked Scott Nearing, continues his work, his countenance lined by long hours of reflection, flitting through our corridors. pROf. Mead T u-rnty-ciff it Department of Hygiene MEMBERS OF THE STAFF 1929 Frederic A. Woi.i., Pii.I)., Professor and Director Walter Williamson. B.A. Canute Hansen, D.D.S. Richard J. O’Neil, B.8. Lionel B. McKenzie Edwin T. Hauser, M.O. John J. Dailey Raymond F. Purcell Radford J. McCormick Nathan Holman Walter S. Heard. D.D.S. Frank W. Wheeler Harold J. Parker, D.D.S. Joseph A. O’Conor, M.D. Abner Stern, M.D. Paul J. Lepore, M.D. James C. Wilson, M.D. Jack E. Rider George G. Holz, D.D.S. Oswald LaRotonda. M.D. Leon I. Levine, M.D. Clifford F. Hurlhurt Roy Plaut, B.S.S. Alexander Dricband, B.S.S. William II. Andrews Lee A. Juillcrat Harry Karlin Samuel E. Cantor Frederick A. Olesen, B.S.S. Michael Interrantc, M.D. Herbert G. Diurner, M.D. Helen Bruning Marie E. Moisten Sidney F. Schocnholtz Louise Gordy, M.D. Merrill I). Lipsky. M.D. Irving Ephron, B.S.S. Anthony Orlando, B.S. Theodore Christianson Jack Goldberg, B.S.S. Max Hodesblatt, B.S.S. Herman Gallcr, B.S. Joseph Bresslcr, B.A. Julius Beckcnstein. B.S.S. Pincus Match, B.S. Louis Oshins, B.S., M.S. in Education Harold Solodar Benedict Lupica Howard A. Hobson, B.S. Glenn W. Howard, B.A. Elton 'I'. Gustafson, B.S., M.A. William Burg, M.D. Arthur II. Dcsgrcy HIS year marked the publishing of the final book in Professor Storey’s in- dividual and group hygiene scries, and rebellion for a while was rife among the undergraduates. The year also marked the development of the monthly yes and no” tests so different from those of the old times when one was handed a booklet and wrote away for dear life, knowing, since the things were not read anyway, that quantity would make the desired impres- sion. But all is changed today. . . . Except Professor Woll and his lectures. He carries on and delivers his “ten percent in the pants” homilies with a deadly inevitability. And by the fourth term his loquaciousness and good nature overcome one’s seemingly inherent objections to the course. The endeavor to develop robustness in the City College man leaves no apparent trace on the department for they maintain a freshness and youthfulncss of appearance that is absolutely discouraging to their more debile colleagues across the road. Buccarei.li, Braxdbnbercer, Pei.ton', Decs'a s', Symioss, Shindei. Boi.as, Holton, Lewis, Brown, Rees rflirty Military Science and Tactics HE Department of Military Science and Tactics burgeoned this year and henceforth its cadets attired in roomy long pants will make a natty” though rather self-conscious display on the field. The bulletin boards also have prospered and now the student body is told by choice excerpts from editorials about 'those pacifists and slackers.’ ” The Colonel promises the installation of ranges. Colonel George Chase Lewis, a mysical figure about the College has injected new life into the department. It has become aggressive and is growing despite the fact that the course has been made elective. Colonel Lewis is a wily old campaigner who has seen the battlefields of Cuba, the Marne and at present is surveying the somewhat peaceful City College sector. He assumed command of the City College unit upon the retirement of Colonel Arnold. About him has grown up a colorful legend that has been fostered by a hero-loving student-body. His exploits in the Philippines, the gaining of the nickname Bolo” have become part of the tradition of City College. The other men in the department, Captains Brown, Bolan, Rees, Pclton and Lieutenant Degnan, have quickly fallen into step with the new colonel and the department, young and mettlesome, is ready for all comers. At the Charter Day ex- ercises, the unit to the blaring of horns and in well-disciplined ranks provided the traditional bit of color. Colonel Lewis Baldwin , Neidi.ikger Department of JMnsic O most undergraduates music at the College means Professor Baldwin. Often early in the morning or late in the afternoon the Professor slips onto the organ bench and practices to the delight of the knowing ones. Students will furtively steal in and listen, finding the sonorous harmonies of the organ appropriate accompaniment to the studying of Vergil or the easy contemplation of a book on the mystical and haloed Middle Ages. The broad rolling chords fill the grey, dimly lighted hall to jostle one another like the winds of Aeolus clustering about the barriers, and the student finds it easy to slip into the role of Aeneas or raging Pyrrhus. When Professor Baldwin is not at the organ you can find him back of the Blash- ficld mural where some narrow passages run into a shadowy office, elongated to the point of grotcsquencss. Rows of bulging tiers laden with scores and tattered manuscripts give his retreat the atmosphere of a musty, medieval library. To the initiates, the Music Department has a wider connotation: Pleasant hours spent in the study of harmony, counterpoint, composition or listening to Professor Baldwin on the three B’s. Of late a new phenomenon has appeared in the Department, the dynamic leather- lunged Professor Ncidlingcr. With him undergraduate musical activities have sprung to life and now the College has an active glee club and an orchestra. Professor Ncidlingcr also gives a course in orchestral technique besides the courses in harmony. Sen neck, Strong, Krikorian Marsh, Overstreet, Cohen 'Department of Philosophy Prof. Overstreet T hirty-two Lucia si, Hoffman’, Spark, Ranaroni, Rico y Fraga, Levy, Holmes, Elias, Luria, Bergeron', Waltman, Sass Arbiu-Costa, Camera, Weill, Downer, Laffargue, Knickerbocker Department of Romance Languages RAVEST of the problems confronting the department of Romance Lan- Kguages is the ever increasing number of students clamoring at its portals. Reacting to the press of public opinion, several neophytes have been added to the staff. Particularly severe has the ordeal been on Professor Charles A. Downer, the Nestor-like chief of the department, who has seen the number of his students mount to such proportions that a division of his elective courses was rendered imperative. Nevertheless, the Professor, with his Rabelaisian grin, Franciscan pate and all, still welcomes his students warmly, never ceasing to proclaim to the world the virtues of the students of City College. In the Grand Oracle’s own words, our boys dis- tinguish themselves in all fields, and invariably carry off all laurels from their rivals.” The library of the department will soon be the object of its especial pride; the collection of volumes therein is con- stantly being increased, and in the near future, the library will have become the most complete of its genre” in the city. The passage of time has done nothing to impair the vital- ity in the department’s teaching; Prof. Arbib-Costa continues his work, a lone agitator for the teaching of Italian; before his awe-striken students, Prof. Laffargue, by his remarkable histrionics, perennially puts new life and beauty into the fables of La Fontaine; while through the halls, Prof. Weill is always to be seen, moving along with his cat-like step. Prof. Downer T hirty-three Summer Session Joseph X. Healy, B.A., J.S.D., Director UR summer session is probably unique in chat it doesn’t subscribe to the needs of those pathetic people who must persevere in taking courses to hold their teaching posts, but otherwise it is similar to others. Its stu- dent body is made up of Hunkers,” of those who want to economize time in securing a degree, of those romantic persons who take English courses in the hope of lazily digging through a heap of correlative reading, of those who find this the only way to get somewhere in the vicinity of young ladies. The courses offered arc almost as numerous and varied as those of the winter ses- sion, although the student is allowed to take but eight credits. They arc drawn from the curricula of the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences, the School of Technology, the School of Business and Civic Administration, and the School of Education. Special vocational and teachers’ courses arc also included. The faculty is an amorphous body changing every semester and including besides officers of instructions from the College, men from other institutions and, at times, from professional practice. Professor Healy whose golden hair and mellifluous voice give him the appearance of eternal youthfulncss is the Director of the Summer Session. Incidentally, since 1917 when the session was organized as a war emergency meas- ure it has grown along until at the College last year 4,529 were enrolled. Prof. Healy msa. Headlines of the Year 12- 20. 21. 22. 24. 26. 30. 1. 2. 4. 6. 8. 12. 12. 16. 17. 20. 22. 25. 27. 31. 3. 9. 10. 14. 17. 18. 20. 23. 30. SEPTEMBER 19. REGISTRATION WEEK. CLASSES REGISTER AGONY AND IM- PATIENCE AS GOTTSCHALL’S HIRED WORK-GUM'M ERS GUM WORKS. CAMPUS BUSINESS MANAGER THROWS FIT AS HE SEES FIRST ISSUE DISTRIBUTED FREE. VARSITY WIPES FLOOR WITH SCRUB TEAM DAILY IN INTENSIVE TRAINING STRETCH. 900 FROSH DECIDE THEY MUST BE ATTENDING THE COLLEGE OF HARD KNOCKS. SECOND FLOOR OF LIBRARY COMPLETED. FIRST FLOOR FALLS APART FROM SURPRISE. WINDOW-PANES AND CONTRACTORS GO BROKE. PLUMBING AND LIBRARIAN HAVE BREAKDOWN. CIRCOLO. NEWMAN, AND Y. M. C. A. ALCOVES DESERTED AS YOM KIPPUR ARRIVES. MIKE STAFF CONSIDERS GETTING TO WORK. OCTOBER AIR COLLEGE OPENS AT W. N. Y. C. FACULTY RESUMES SPOUTING AIR FOR THIRD SEMESTER. COMPLAIN ETHER PUTS RADIO AUDI- ENCE TO SLEEP. U TICKET SALES AT RECORD HEIGHT. MANAGER WRITES AWAY FOR STEAMER CATALOGUES. MERCURY WILL GO ON NEWSSTANDS. IS ANNOUNCED. MERCURY WILL STAY THERE. IS REPLY. VARSITY TIED 6-6. BY LEBANON VALLEY. BEFORE THEY CAN BE UNTIED FROM PULLMAN TRIP. CLASS ELECTIONS HELD. VICTORS BUY CARS. “SET A THIEF TO CATCH A THIEF,” SING FACULTY AS STUDENTS ARE APPOINTED TO DISCIPLINE COMMITTEE. VARSITY ELEVEN STARTS WINNING STREAK. FIRST PAINTING ST. LAWRENCE 38-0. ONE-MAN MERCURY APPEARS. TITLED IMBECILE NUMBER. EDI- TOR ACCUSED OF EGOTISM. FROSH APPEAR IN MILI SCI UNIFORMS. STAND AT ATTENTION WHILE UNIFORMS STAND AT EASE. VARSITY CONTINUES NON-STOP VICTORY RECORD. DOWNS D REX EL 26-6. MIKE OFFERS REWARD AND MEDAL TO FIRST SUBSCRIBERS. LOUIS WARSOFF PREDICTS DEFEAT FOR I. R. T. IN SUIT. SUPREME COURT LATER AGREES WITH HIM. VARSITY MAKES HABIT OF WINNING. CHOPS DOWN GEORGE WASHINGTON 33-0. MIKE STAFF DECIDES TO GET TO WORK. NOVEMBER RENSSELAER BECOMES CONCEITED. HOLDS VARSITY TO 0-0 TIE. COLLEGE BATS .500 AS 6 ALUMNI WIN IN ELECTION AND 6 ARE DEFEATED. WISE MONEY BETS THAT LAVENDER WILL APPEAR THIS TERM. ELEVEN COMES BACK LIKE A RUBBER CHECK AND BEATS NOR- WICH 19-0. CAMPUS STARTS LUNCHROOM DRIVE. ROASTS HAMMOND. THE END OF A PERFECT SEASON. UNDEFEATED LAVENDER TEAM GOES UNDER TO WEAK MANHATTAN ELEVEN. 14-10. BEGORRAH. IT'S ST. PATRICK'S DAY ON THE MANHATTAN CAMPUS. r� V T'P’C vr� ( VIPDIID TUI mim mitc M BUT OY. IT’S YOM KIPPUR ON THE HEIGHTS. “LIFE IS LIKE THAT.” SAY STUDES AS NEWSPAPER NUMBER MERC APPEARS. FACULTY INSPECT LUNCHROOM. COUNT COCKROACHES. MIKE PLANS TO GET TO WORK. OF T hirty-five DECEMBER 1. RIFLE CORNERS THREE-CORNERED MATCH WITH M. I. T. AND MAINE. LAVENDER APPEARS AT LAST. IS RECOGNIZED BV OLD- TIMERS. 4. MAYOR WALKER INVITED TO LAY CORNERSTONE FOR COMMERCE BUILDING. AT ARRIVAL TWO STORIES ARE COMPLETED. STONE HAS TO BE INSERTED. 6. FROSH TRY TO LOCATE SOPH SMOKER. SO DO SOPHS. 7. 100 WOMEN BECOME SWELL-HEADED FOR LIFE AS SENIORS HOLD FORMAL PROM WITH DIGNIFIED AND HIGH-TONED WHOOPEE. 10. DRIBBLERS DOWN TEMPLE 33-29. SWIMMERS MURDER FORDHAM, LOSING ONLY 43-19. 14. ORCHESTRA AND GLEE CLUB GIVE FIRST CONCERT TOGETHER. OR ALMOST TOGETHER. 17. FIVE LOSES TO ST. JOHN. 33-24. YOU JUST WAIT. JOHN! 18. SWIMMING WINS OVER TEMPLE! 19. CAMPUS REVIEW PANS MERCURY NUMBER OF MERCURY. 20. MERCURY NUMBER OF MERCURY APPEARS. 21. CAMPUS APPEARS; NOT TO BE LAUGHED AT. 22-31. MERRY CHRISTMAS. BASKETBALLERS TAKE VACATION. ROMP THROUGH PRINCETON. W. AND I.. BUCKNELL. 31. MIKE STAFF MAKES RESOLUTION TO GET TO WORK. JANUARY 1. HAPPY NEW YEAR! 2. WHAT A HANGOVER! 5. SWIMMERS LOSE AGAIN. POLOISTS WIN AGAIN. IN RUTGERS MEET. VARSITY PRESENTS ALL FOOLS. AN ELIZABETHAN DRAMA. AU- DIENCE APPROVES OF TITLE. 7. ANNOUNCEMENT THAT MERCURY WILL APPEAR ANY DAY. “ANY DAY” IS RIGHT. 9. HAL CAMMER ELECTED STUDENT COUNCIL PRESIDENT ON KU KLUX TICKET. 17-20. DONT FAIL ME IN MY HOUR OF NEED!” CRY STUDENTS AS MARKS APPEAR. 28. EPITAPH:—“THEY REMAINED GOOD TO THE LAST DROP. 31. MIKE STAFF DECIDES TO GET TO WORK. FEBRUARY 2. OVER 5000 STUDENTS TRICKLE PAST GOTTSCHALL AS PROFESSORS PREPARE TO TURN MORE CULTURE INTO BREAD AND BUTTER. 7. FIRST CAMPUS ISSUE A SELLOUT AS COPIES ARE DISTRIBUTED FREE. “UNDONE BREECHES FALLING DOWN SING SOPHS DURING FIRST RUSH. 14. CLERGYMAN PRAYS FOR COLLEGE AFTER ADDRESS TO FIRST FRESHMAN CHAPEL. 15. U SALES DOUBLED AS TWO MORE BUY TICKETS. 16. TERM GETS INTO SWING AS FORDHAM BEATS BASKETBALL TWID- DLERS 50-19. FRESHMEN LOSE 35-10. WATER POLO IS TRIMMED BY YALE. WHILE SWIMMING LOSES 45-17 AND DEBATING TEAM’S WIN- NING STREAK IS BROKEN BY PITT. FENCING SAVES COLLEGE HONOR BY SPEARING TRINITY 9-0. 17. SOPHS PLAN TO EAT FROSH AT FROSH FEED. FROSH TRY TO LOOK INTELLIGENT IN ATTEMPT TO EVADE DETECTION BY CLOTHES- SNATCHING SOPHS. 18. HAMMOND SHOOS COCKROACHES AND SNAKES OFF TABLES. PAINTS WHITE TOPS IN FEAR OF FURTHER CAMPUS IMPROPA- GANDA. 20. PHI BETA KAPPA KEYS WRAPPED AROUND ANOTHER DOZEN- WEASELS. STUDENTS CHORTLE AS CLASSES ARE INTERRUPTED FOR ELECTION OF CLASS OFFICERS. 21. SOPHS LAY DOWN LAW TO FROSH. FROSH LAY DOWN SOPHS. 22. MIKE QUF.STIONAIRES DISTRIBUTED TO SENIORS. FILED IN LOCK- ERS AMONG UNDUSTED TEXT-BOOKS. sToeeT seme TKt LOST CHORD L.C. IN NATIVE COSTUME S.B. 5l s oe TNtRntfU • YQUttGeft • OeaecieOAKOCi AoviceTo Moveto HittiNoTue Hiflti 25. MERCURY WILL CONTINUE LILY-WHITE.” ANNOUNCES GRANICH. CHORUS OF GROANS AND SNICKERS. 26. PRESS AND PUBLICITY BUREAU IS FORMED TO MAKE THE PUBLIC CO LLEG E-O F-TH E-CIT Y-0 F-N EW- YORK-CONSCIOUS. 27. CLASS OFFICERS ELECTED ONCE MORE AS BALLOTS WHIZ AND FLY. MOVIETONE MADE OF FROSH-SOPH RUMPUS; SOPHS OFFER PRIZE FOR THEME SONG. 28. MIKE STAFF DECIDES TO GET TO WORK. MARCH 1. GREENBACKS CHANGE HANDS AS CLASS ELECTIONS ARE AN- NOUNCED. CAMPAIGN MANAGERS AND JANITOR FORCES CLEAN UP AFTER BALLOTING. 2. FEBRUARY NUMBER OF MERCURY APPEARS. YOUNG MAN BUYS COPY FOR QUARTER. LATER FOUND TO BE HARRISITE. 4. TEACHERS’ TRAINING MAMAS BEGIN TO DRESS UP AND WASH BE- HIND EARS AS SPRING WEATHER PERMITS CITY STUDENTS TO RE- SUME OUTDOOR SPORTS. 5. FRESHMEN RESTRAINED FROM RECRUITING FOR THE MARINES WITH DIFFICULTY AFTER GENERAL HENTIZELMAN ADDRESSES CHAPEL 7. BRIDGE GATHERINGS CRUMBLE BEFORE ONSLAUGHT OF PING- PONG. THE SPORT OF MIKADOS. 8. STUDE COUNCIL FRAMES MORE BY-LAWS. WHOLE CONSTITU- TION IS FRAMED!” WHISPER ALCOVE-MONGERS. BRAIN-TEAM ANNOUNCED. ENTIRE COLLEGE AWAITS APPOINTMENT TO CAP- TAINCY. 9. N. Y. U. DEFEATS VARSITY BASKETBALLERS IN TRADITIONAL CLASSIC. 40-24 AS MET CHAMPS HOPES ARE SQUELCHED. CRUSHED. BLOTTED OUT. 11. U SALES CHAIRMAN FORCED TO DIET AS SALES REMAIN AT REC- ORD LOW AMOUNT. 12. LACROSSE PREPARES FOR STRENUOUS SEASON BY INCAPACITAT- ING TWO PLAYERS AND KILLING THREE IN ACTION. 13. FRESHMEN TRAPPED BY SCHEMING GANGSTERS AS FRAT BIDS START. 14. Y. M. C. A. EXCURSION CALLED OFF. HUDSON CONTINUES TO FLOW PAST COLLEGE. 15. BEN (EPICURUS) KAPLAN ANNOUNCES HIS PREMATURE DEATH IN RETALIATION FOR BEING CALLED IMMATURE. 17. MERC TWO DAYS LATE ALREADY. EDITORS BEGIN TO PLAN THE ISSUE. 18. “AND AFTER THREE DAYS. HE ROSE FROM THE DEAD.” EPICURUS ANNOUNCES REPORTS OF DEATH TO BE GROSSLY EXAGGERATED. ADVISED TO COMMIT SUICIDE FOR ACCURACY’S SAKE. 19. TARGET PRACTICE DROWNED OUT AS GARGLERS TRY OUT FOR VARSITY SHOW IN R. O. T. C. ARMORY. 22. EASTER VACATION BEGINS. STUDENTS SWEAR TO STUDY. 23-30. EASTER VACATION. STUDENTS DO NOT STUDY. 31. LAST DAY OF EASTER. STUDENTS SWEAR. MIKE STAFF RESOLVES TO GET TO WORK. APRIL 1. ALL FOOL’S DAY. SCHOOL OPENS. 2. SOCIAL PROBLEMS CLUB CLUTTERS LOCKERS WITH MANIFESTO. “THE DIRTY SLAVS!” MUTTER FACULTY. 3. SOCIAL PROBLEMS' BOMB FAILS TO GO BOOM. RIGHT WING OF CLUB DETACHES SELF. THINKS LEFT WING TOO FLIGHTY. 4. BASEBALL OPENS WITH FOOTBALL SCORES AS VARSITY OUTRAGES CATHEDRAL COLLEGE 29-4. 5. MARCH NUMBER OF MERCURY APPEARS. CONSIDERED BEST JOKE TO DATE. COUNCIL AWARDS 9 INSIGNIA. WITHOUT A SINGLE REFUSAL. Thirty-nine 7. VARSITY GIVES ST. JOHN’S A REST. LOSES 14-3. FROSH WIN. LOOK VERY PROMISING. CONSIDERING. 8. BRAIN TEAM ESTABLISHES SLEEPING QUARTERS IN LIBRARY AS TRAINING .STARTS. 10. PREXY KEPT BUSY LAYING CORNERSTONES AS THREE BUILDINGS ARE CONSTRUCTED FOR COLLEGE. 12. VARSITY SHOW CANDIDATES RESIGN IN INDIGNATION AS PRIN- CIPLES ARE ANNOUNCED. 13. PROVIDENCE BEATS VARSITY 4-0. EVEN PROVIDENCE CAN’T GIVE THEM A VICTORY! LACROSSE OPENS WITH VICTORY OVER N. Y. L. C. AT 2-0. DEMONSTRATES FINE DEVELOPMENT OF LA- CROSSE-EYES. 15. QUESTIONNAIRES COUNTED. 47 SENIORS DECLARE THEY DON’T NECK AS STUDENTS LAFF AND LAFF AND LAFF. 16. STUDENT VOTE EXPRESSES DISGUST WITH GRILL. HAMMOND WEEPS COPIOUS TEARS—INTO MILK. 17. TELEPHONE EXCHANGE INSTALLED IN COLLEGE. BETWEEN VARSITY CHORINES AND CAMPUS SHIEKS. 18. RAIN STOPS. VARSITY TRIMS STEVENS 5-4. 20. VARSITY SWIMS TO VICTORY OVER DREXEL IN STADIUM BASEBALL POOL. 7-2. 21. HAMMOND WILL NO I ONCER FEED STUDENTS! TRUSTEES ABOL- ISH LUNCHROOM. DECLARE STUDENTS WILL NO LONGER FEED HAMMOND. 22. PUBLICITY NUMBER OF MERC APPEARS. EDITOR DISAPPEARS. 23. MEETING OF LOCK AND KEY HELD OPEN LONG ENOUGH TO ELECT NEW MEMBERS. 24-25. MORRIS R. COHEN ONLY PROFESSOR TO HOLD CLASSES ON PASSOVER (UNOFFICIAL) VACATION. 30. MIKE STAFF DETERMINES TO GET TO WORK. MAY 2. A. A. DEFEATS MOVE TO HAVE PING-PONG AND POTSY INSTALLED AS MAJOR SPORT. 3. ROSENSPAN LEAVES FOR CHICAGO AS CHAIRMAN OF CZECHOSLO- VAKIAN DELEGATION. 7. NATIONS TREMBLE AS MI LI SCI CADETS DRILL ON CHARTER DAY. NONE KILLED. NONE MISSING. NONE WOUNDED. ROSENSPAN, MIRACLE MAN. RETURNS FROM CHICAGO. UNWOUNDED. 10-11. VARSITY SHOW SUCCESSFUL. AFTER DRESS REHEARSALS BE- FORE SOLD-OUT HOUSES ON MAY 3-4. 14. ANNOUNCE MERCURY’S ACADEMIC NUMBER WILL APPEAR THIS THURSDAY, THE 16TH. 15. HAMMOND CONTROVERSY GROWS STALE. LIKE EVERYTHING ELSE. 23. MERCURY APPEARS ON A THURSDAY. AS PROMISED. 31. MIKES WILL APPEAR ANY DAY. IS ANNOUNCEMENT. MIKE STAFF ABSOLUTELY RESOLVED TO GET TO WORK. JUNE 5. ELIGIBILITY RULES ENFORCED ON PING-PONG FIENDS TO INSURE THEIR KEEPING UP WITH STUDIES. 6-13. EXAM TIME. RISE IN MARKET ON MIDNIGHT OIL. 8. MIKE STAFF DECIDES TO GET TO WORK! 14-18. FAREWELL EVENTS HEARTILY ENJOYED BY SENIORS AS THEY SEE EACH OTHER FOR LAST TIME. 19. ARMY 'OF UNEMPLOYED SWELLED AS ALMA MATER EXPELS SENIOR CLASS ON COMMENCEMENT NIGHT. 30. MIKE BANKRUPT. GIVEN UP AS HOPELESS. MIKE STAFF AND ALSO SENIOR CLASS. DECIDE TO GET TO WORK. The Qdss of '29 A CANTATA Recitativo When hailstones drive and mist and snow, Like unleashed furies, wildly blow About our legs and head. When life’s December’s surly blast Obliterates the summer past, And all lies cold and dead, We crouch about the leaping blaze And quaff the ruby wine; We talk of golden, olden days, And drink to Twenty-nine, To Twenty-nine, to Twenty-nine, To Twenty-nine now hoary, To Twenty-nine, to Twenty-nine, Our love, our life, our glory. Before the fire, in freshman cap, With freshman Latin on his lap, One sat and watched the blaze; His eves were dim with tender tears As he looked back upon the years, Upon his freshman days. There dancing in the phantom flames He saw a bacchanalian line; He moved his lips and whispered names And called the roll of Twenty-nine, Of Twenty-nine, of Twenty-nine, Of Twenty-nine now hoary; Of Twenty-nine, of Twenty-nine, Our love, our life, our glory. CJordy Lebowitz Air: Freshman Song In twenty five we did arrive, A four-year grind before us; When things were dead, the Board of Ed. Built Teachers’ Training for us. The gorgeous girls in colored swirls Tript languishing among us, And after dark, in some dim park, We sagely studied fungus. The Freshman sheen is doused in green, As people all inform us; We’ll rail nor write, nor plot nor fight While ladies love to warm us. Lou Sadloff ifii r gsns� : m Lou Graxich The Sophomores arc deadly bores, No women e’er will love ’em, And tho we’re young our callow tongue Speaks wisdom far above ’em. While we are ruled, 'tis they who're fooled In things concerning Venus; They surely know that there is no Comparison between us. Rccitativo Mere ended he and at his right A young sophisticated wight Stood up and called for peace: Upon his upper lip he wore The symbol of the Sophomore Who sees his hairs increase: Me looked about, then struck his stance, And gestured left oblique; Me rolled bis eyes, and bitched his pants, And so began to speak Of Twenty-nine, of Twenty-nine, Of Twenty-nine now hoary; Of Twenty-nine, of Twenty-nine, Our love, our life, our glory. Air: Sophomore Song I am a Sophomore, I myself have said it, And it’s greatly to my credit, I am a Sophomore. I preserve a quaint distinction That higher men disparage; Life bores me to extinction And I show it in my carriage: I am languishing and “arty,” My mind is one vast void, But I liven up a party With my monographs on Freud 1 belong to genus peacocks, I’m the vainest of my sex. But I know Dementia Praecox And the Oedipus Complex. O my trenchant wit is Gallic, Which means to me it’s French, sir; My talk is only phallic In the evening on a bench, sir. Recitativo Then here he stopt and sat him down, And wearing on his face a frown Me languisht like a lily: A lusty youth, of joyous mien, Whose whole aspect was fresh and green, Arose and sang tranquilly. Me sang and joy was in his voice; Inspired by the muses nine, Me sang this song, and of his choice It was a song of Twenty-nine, Of Twenty-nine, of Twenty-nine, Of Twenty-nine now hoary; Of Twenty-nine, of Twenty-nine, Our love, our life, our glory. Hal Ca.mmkr Arnold Siiukotoff Forty-threi Sandy Rotiibart Bill Woi.ARSKY If you wish to succeed as a Junior you’ll need To cultivate real savoir faire: You must merrily smoke, and casually joke About women you’ve given the air; He a merry buffoon, a light-hearted loon, Hut let the world know that you’re tragic. Have moments ironic, cultivate the Hyronic, And use all of puberty’s magic; Make believe you're a sot, pretend what you’re not, Disillusionment’s good for appearance: Tho just out of the cradle, you’ve a head like a ladle, That won’t be a great interference: Just he witty and wise, with your head in the skies, And learn cv’ry day a new maxim: If one should approach you, and with dullness reproach you, Don’t argue just cleverly axe him. Recitativo He ended and then one arose, A black gown cast upon his clothes, A sheepskin in his hand; A sober look is in his eye He leaves his college world to try To hoard a thousand grand: He squares his shoulders, does not shirk The scene that meets his eye; He must leave school and go to work And heaves a tender sigh. Of Twenty-nine, of Twenty-nine, Of Twenty-nine now hoary; Of Twenty-nine, of Twenty-nine, Our love, our life, our glory. Air: Senior Son and Chorus Senior: After years of hesitation In college's quaint aroma, With a joy of exclamation I claim mine own diploma. AH: With a joyous exclamation He now claims his own diploma. Senior: Like a worm I’ve bored my way thru The pond’rous tomes of learning, Hut I never passed a day thru Without a tender yearning. All: If you want a frank confession We’d call it best repression.’’ Senior: Just like a monk encloisered In the darkness 'ncath the decks, I never really roistered With the so-called weaker sex. All: He never really roistered With the so-called weaker sex. Senior: Hut now I have my freedom It were folly if I tarry; No longer will I be dumb I’ll get a dame and marry. All: If you want a frank confession We'd call it best Expression. Sanford Craig Mac (JlTI.IN 3 7 3_ VVtj w fVr Senior Elections hi the Class In the Faculty Jack B. Rosenberg............Most popular............................Prof. W. B. Guthrie William Halpcrn..............Best all-around athlete ......................Nat Holman Harold I. Cammer.............Most likely to succeed.........................Dean G. W. Edwards Arnold Shukotoff ............Did most for City College.......................Pres. F. B. Robinson Sanford Craig................Did City College for most................... John Hammond Abe Cahn.....................Biggest cigarette grubber..................Prof. W. B. Otis Teddy Bloom..................Cutest.................................Prof. J. G. Cohen Louis Sabloff................Most modest................................ Prof. P. Saurcl Sanford Craig ...............Biggest bluff............................Government Dept. John B. Clark................Most sophisticated ................Prof. H. A. Overstreet Artie Lipsky.................Thinks he is...............................Joseph Meyers Arnold Shukotoff.............Most conceited.............................Oscar Buckvar Sylvan D. Freeman ...........Most ardent lover......................Sgt. J. Buccarclli Harry Fuchs..................Biggest grind..........................Prof. E. M. Turner Ralph Fagin..................Best poet..................................Prof. L. F. Mott Jack Entin ..................Least appreciated.......................Dr. M. Gottschall Lou Granich .................Wittiest............................. Prof. T. Goodman Lou Rabinowitz...............Biggest politician.....................Pres. F. B. Robinson Paul Grctsch ................Handsomest.....................................Capt. Browne Charlie Shapiro .............Thinks he is..........................................Oscar Buckvar Ed Levy...................‘....Best dresser.........................Prof. W. Neidlingcr Charlie Shapiro..............Thinks he is............................... Oscar Buckvar Ben Kaplan...................Most brilliant.........................Prof. M. R. Cohen Sam Schccter.................Thinks he is...........................Prof. M. R. Cohen hi the Curriculum Most popular course...............................Philo 5 5—Eng. 30 Least popular course .......................................... Bio 1 Easiest course ...........................................Music 11 Most difficult course.......................................... Bio 1 Most useful course...........................................Ed. 41 Most useless course.........................................Philo 3 Most popular department.....................................English Least popular department....................................Physics Most capable department...................................Chemistry Least capable department....................................Physics Sammy Baldwin Coi.i.y BROWN'SON Abie Goldfarr ROBBIE A Bunch of the Boys No. 1 Moisiiie Cohen Forty-six Forty-seven iiiiUA l ■■ Vs The Senior Mind PERSONAL Age............20 Years, 10 Months, 4 Days Height...................5 Feet, 8.5 Inches Weight........................ 151 Pounds Birthplace Nearest—New York, Furthest—Constantinople Do you smoke?............Yes 174, No 141 Drink?.........................Yes 64, Gamble?..................Yes 144, Do you neck?...................Yes 226, If not, have you the opportunity? Yes 1, No 187 No 132 No 47 No 46 Pet Vice.................................Women Arc you interested in women?...............Yes Have you ever been in love?..Yes 61, No 112 If so, how many times?........ Would you marry for money?..Yes 26, No 141 Arc you broadminded?.........-Yes and How! Political Party...................Democratic State concisely the kind of success you aspire to................Financial Sc Cultural What advice would you give to Freshmen? Get into activities GENERAL Favorite novelist...........................................Theodore Dreiser, Sinclair Lewis Favorite poet..........................................................Edgar Lee Masters Favorite shaving cream.............................................................Palmolive Favorite cigarette..............................................................Lucky Strikes Favorite tooth paste..................................................................Sguibbs Favorite soap.......................................................................Lifebuoy Favorite tobaccp...................................................................Edgeworth Favorite dramatis:...................................................................O’Neill Which do you prefer?................................Phi lleta Kappa 308 Varsity Letters 71 What income do you expect to receive 5 yrs. after graduation?...........................$4000 Is a college education worthwhile?........................................ Yes 352, No 27 Are fraternities worthwhile?..............................................Yes 207, No 172 Highest undergrad activity.......................................................Publications Favorite college publication..........................................................Mercury Greatest American....................................................................Lincoln Greatest living man..................................................................Einstein Five greatest men of all time.................•Iristotle, Jesus, DaVinci, Shakespeare, Newton Best picture of the year..................................................................The Patriot Best drama of the year.................................................................Street Scene Best novel of the year.................................................Point Counter Point Favorite actor................................................IValter Hampden and Alfred Lunt Favorite actress................................................Lynn Fontanne and Janet Carol Favorite movie actor.....................................Emil Jannings and IVilliam Haines Favorite movie actress......................................Janet Gaynor and Greta Garbo Future profession................................................Teaching—Law—Medicine Favorite outdoor sport.................................................................Tennis Favorite indoor sport...................................................Bridge and Necking Do you eat in Hammond’s?...................................................................No What is City College’s greatest need?..................................A New Lunch Room YOUR SOUL MATE Age..............................................................................19 Years Height.................................................................5 feet, Sl 2 inches Weight...........................................................................128 pounds Color of hair..........................................................1................Brown Color of eyes...........................................................................Brown Does she smoke?................•.................................................On occasions Drink .................................................................................... No Docs she neck—for others......................................................... wonder For you..............................................................Call it love Size of neck, in hours, days and weeks..............................................Perpetual Clever and how.................X.................or beautiful but dumb?................. Outstanding characteristic (in one word)..............................................Ba-by! Forty-eight STUART H. AARONS, B.A. S5S West 151st Street Honors: Cum Laude, Roemer Prize. Very good, Stuart. Go to the head of your class. 1SADORE ABERLIN, B.S. 195 West 10th Street A. S. C. E. Is studied Engineering; he intends teaching Messrs. Whitehead and Work something about bridge. PHILIP EDWARD ABBOT, B.A. 501 West 170th Street Freshman wrestling; Cercle Jusserand. Phil, minus the cowl and surplice. NOAH ABRAMOWITZ, B.A. 1573 41st Street, Brooklyn Politics Club, Spanish Club, Menorab. The old fisherman sat by the bedside of his dying comrade with bated breath —and caught pneumonia. PETER ACHILSON, B.S. 2380 8th Avenue Circolo Dante Alighieri. Forsook the pursuit of drugs for C, C. N. Y. Wc wonder. . . LEON ALCALY, B.A. 24 East 116th Street Honors: Cum Laude. Believe it or not! He looks at litmus and it turns blue. DANIEL ALLEN, B.A. 709 Lelferts Avenue, Brooklyn President, Menorah Society; Inter-club Council. Who was that hobo I seen ya wit last nitc? Dot vas no oboe, dot vos mine fife. ARISTOCLES E. AN DR FADES, B.S.S. 471 West 42nd Street Just another one of those great Greek philosophers. Fifty ABRAHAM APPELSIS, B.S. 55 Cannon Street Geology Club; Politics Club; Glee Club. Appelsis!—Banana Oil!! JACOB ARONSON, B.A. 300 West 108th Street Mercury. “Full many a flower is horn to blush unseen, And waste its fragrance on the desert LEON B. APPELBAUM, C.E. 504 Steinway Avenue, Astoria, L. I. Football (1). (2); Boxing Team; A. S. C. E.; Officers’ Club. If I said, “I am handsome,” what tense would that he? Pretense, Leon— pretense. RICHARD AUSTIN, B.S. 2446 University Avenue +PK Campus (1). (2). (3); Radio Club (1); Took a B.S. as a background for C.P.A. work. Wotta man! SAMUEL AVINS, B.S. 303 Richmond Road, New Dorp Physics Club; Radio Club. Avins—and B loses. See? MATHEW BARISH, B.S.S. 329 West 17th Street Honors: A 'umentis, Minor l.ritcr, Varsity Letters. Varsity Wrestling Team (3), (4); Vice- Chairman, Student Council Dance Commit- tee (3) ; Intramural Wrestling Champion, 158 pounds (3). Bearish—is the word, Mat. SOLOMON N. AXELROD, B.A. 250 Hart Street. Brooklyn Honors: Ward Medal in Greek. College Orchestra And the cameraman said, “Smile, please.” BENJAMIN H. BARONOFSKY, B.A. 11-13 Avenue D Menorah; Cerclc Jusserand; Hebrew Circle. What Greta Garbage would give for a little pash with him! SYDNEY BASIN, B.S. 3405 Putman Place Geology Club; Fencing Club; Elections Committee; Traditions Committee Alcove Committee. Introducing — Mr. J. Effingham Washbowl. LOUIS BASS, B.S. 30S East 165th Street Geology Club; Vice-President, Fencing Club. Second Bass. HYMAN E. BASS, B.S. 14 East 120th Street AKII Biology Society; College Symphony Or- chestra; College String Quartet; Class Committees. First Bass. FREDERICK RUSSELL BASSIN, B.B.A. 1267 5th Avenue Honors: Numerals. Class Athletic Manager (4) ; Dance Com- mittee (1), (2), (3), (4); Curriculum Com- mittee (4) ; Microcosm Business Board (4). Home Plate! H Fifty-three ISAAC BENREY, B.S. 2119 Colonial Avenue The scalpel is mightier than the sword —and just as dangerous, too. SIDNEY BERKO WITZ, B.S.S. 16S0 Clay Avenue Insignia Committee. College Activities: Attended class dances. EMANUEL BERGER, B.S. 810 Jackson Avenue Circulation Manager. Campus’, Deutscher Verein; Biology Society; “U” Sales Com- mittee. Despite his self-support through col- lege lie found time to serve Ills Alma Mater. ALFRED J. BERNSTEIN, B.S. 18 East 199th Street Varsity Rifle Team; R. O. T. C. Rifle Team; Officers’ Club; Geology Club. Bound for Edinburgh, eh? Fifty-four SIDNEY NORTON BERRY, B.A. 520 West 122nd Street Cercie Jusserand (1); Executive Com- mittee, Menorah (2) ; Junior Prom Com- mittee (3). “Why, we’re the Berrys.” “Well, I don’t care if you’re the cat’s pajamas ...” MICHAEL BEYILACQUA, B.S. 80-26 88th Avenue. Woodhaven, L. I. The man who found the urge in surgery. FELIX P. BERTISCH, B.B.S. 1989 Prospect Avenue 2«MI Honors ’.Tremaine Scholarship. Politics Club; Officers Club; S. C. Elec- tions Committee (4) ; Chairman. S. C. In- signia Committee (4) ; Circulation Staff, iqjq Microcosm. Radish, fetish, hcrtisch—same category. LEWIS P. BLASKOPF, B.B.A. 60 West 76th Street Freshman Swimming Team; Business Administration Society; Accounting Editor. Business Bulletin; Editor-in-chief, Business Bulletin; Student Representative. Faculty Committee on Real Estate. Pale head, I love, beside the Shalimor, Fifty-five JOSEPH FRANCIS BLAUVELT, B.S. 1162 51st Street, Brooklyn Brooklyn Track Squad; Geology Club; Y. M. C. A.; Newman Club. He’s as hard as the rocks he studies. DANIEL BLITZ, B.S. 999 East 163rd Street TAO College Band; Biology Society; Business Staff, Microcosm. One of Santa’s reindeer, n’est-cc pas? THOMAS BLOOM, B.S. 1078 East 14th Street, Brooklyn So cute, you could simply go Wilde over him. SAUL ROBERT BLUM, B.S. 2036 East 21st Street. Brooklyn AB4� Circulation Staff. Mercury; S. C. Elec- tions Committee; Class Committees. Singular—Blum ; plural—Bla! Fifty-six ARTHUR BLUMENFELD, B.S. 215 West 179th Street Honors: Minor Letters. Varsity Wrestling (2), (3) ; President, Physics Club (3). Wrestling — Physics — Any Connec- tion ? MILTON BRACKER, B.S. 611 West 158 Street XAP Honors: Numerals. Class Secretary (2) ; Athletic Manager (3); A. A. Control Hoard (3); “U” Com- mittee (3); A. A. Sales Committee (2); Class Dance Committee (2). Never missed a class or a college social or athletic contest. HARRY BRAUTMAN, B.A. 36S East 8th Street Our Own little Dick Schopenhauer. HERBERT JOSEPH BRIGGS, B.A. 217 East 22nd Street A£ 1 Y. M. C. A.; I. F. C. Mr. “Arrow-Collar Ad.” Fifty seven SIDNEY BRODMAN, B.S.S. 124 East 39th Street Honors: Numerals, Major Varsity Letters. Captain. Manager. R. O. 'I'. C. RiHe; President, Officers Club; Class Committees; S. C. Committees. A wide man at target practice. LEWIS H. BRONSTEIN, B.S. ISIS SIst Street, Brooklyn Honors : Cum Laude; Phi Beta Kappa. Senior Photography Editor, Executive Board, ’2Q Microcosm; Chairman. Elections Committee; S. C. Curriculum Committee; Biology Society; Geology Club. Lew is an indefatigable worker and a good sort of guy at that. Fifty-eight SOLOMON B RUSSELL, Ph. G., B.S. 2059 Davidson Avenue sat Deutscher V'crein. See how his moustache (?) sprouts. Aw, Cabbages! ALBERT BYRON, B.S. 1465 DeKalb Avenue. Brooklyn ♦All HARRY BUCHOLTZ, B.S. 1420 Stebbins Avenue XAP Student Council Elections Committee. John Physiology. ABRAHAM CAHN, B.A. 1085 Eastern Parkway, Brooklyn Business Board. 1929 Microcosm; Stu- dent Council Elections Committee; Activi- ties Committee; Alcove Committee. And he shell study medicine, Shelley? A lawyer interested in “bones. Sixty HAROLD ISIDORE GAMMER, B.A. 27 East 104th Street Honors: Student Council Major Insignia. Business Manager, 1929 Microcosm (4); I’ccsi dent Student Council (4); Student Councillor (4); Editorial Staff. 1928 Microcosm (2); Chairman S. C. Elections Committee 3); Menorah; Politics Club; Social Problems Club. Hal was first in Council, first in Mike, and first in the hearts of his college-mates. SAMUEL CASS, B.A. 1725 Eastburn Avenue Secretary, Menorah Society; Menorah Debating Team. Lucky his name isn’t Jack. MORRIS HARRY CASE. B.S. 1806 Vyse Avenue Student Council Elections Committee (3), (4); Menorah Socity; Dcutscher Verein; Frosh Soccer. And here, gentlemen—a most interest- ing Case. CHARLES CHANCES. B.A. 1471 Brook Avenue “Why is the milk blue?” “Because it comes from discontented cows.” RICHARD CHARET, B.S. 950 50th Street. Brooklyn Politics Club; Math. Club. I asked her to kiss me without avail.” “I don't like kissing through those things either.” SOL CHESTER, B.A. 175 East 91st Street, Brooklyn His father was a shiek; hut he’s a little shickcr. HOWARD B. CHARNEY, B.S. 547 Amboy Street, Brooklyn AH As Antonio said, when Shylock ap- proached, “A man after my own heart.” JOHN BUTTRICK CLARK. B.B.A. 333 West 144th Street AKE Notions I’arsit y Letters; Soph Sku'.l; Lock and Key. Captain. Varsity Football Team (3); Varsity Football Team (2), (3), (4); Joint Discipline Committee, Secretary (4). Two hundred pounds of good man. Sixty-one SEYMOUR L. COBLENS, B.S.S. 3017 Bedford Avenue, Brooklyn ZBT Honors: Numerals. Water Polo Team (2), (3) ; Class Treas- urer (2) ; Associate Board, Campus (2), (3) ; Class Committees. What a change in this young man, since he entered college. AARON COHEN, B.A. 6S I.enox Avenue Sore—because there were more Kap- lans than Cohens in the graduating class. SAMUEL COE, B.S.S. 119 Rodney Street, Brooklyn Social Problems Club; Wrestling Team; Philosophy Club. Eternal wearer of the Bvron-Coe shirt collar. ABRAHAM GEORGE COHEN, B.S. 501 Shepherd Avenue. Brooklyn Honors: PM Beta Kappa; Cum Laude; Fellowship in Biology. Biology Society; Elections Committee. Abie, the pet of the faculty. Sixty-two BENJAMIN COHEN, B.S. 1560 Amsterdam Avenue Honors'. I'nrsity Letters. Freshmen and Varsity Football. A good-looking bull-dog, at that. MILTON COHEN, ILS. 157 Fast 96th Street. Brooklyn Got so drunk, one night—he started looking in a cuckoo clock for eggs. HARRY COHEN, B.S. 1461 East 3rd Street, Brooklyn Math Club (3). Still—the most ardent lover of the class. SAMUEL B. COHEN, B.S. 601 Chester Street, Brooklyn AIM� Geology Club; I. F. C.; Social Problems Club. Always had a kindly word for the City College proletariat. Sixty-three WILLIAM EDWARD COLFORD B.A. 9234 21 Stli Street. Queens Village. L. I. Spanish Club; Secretary. Officers’ Club. Generalissimo—Torcadorissimo. JACK COOPER 225 Buffalo Avenue, Brooklyn S«MI '29 Dance Committee. Radiance, glamor, joy—Cooper! RICHARD CONNOR, B.S., C.E. 596 Riverside Drive AA A. S. C. E., Secretary (4). “Did you know Wilbur Blockhead is now the father of twins?” “Looks like his wife doubled his bid.” NATHANIEL COOPER. B.S. IS55 East 13th Street. Brooklyn ZBT Honors: Fellowship in Hiolotjy. Freshman Swimming Squad; Elections Committee. Cornell got a good break, Nat. CARL DIEHL CORDUA, B.S. 644 Bedford Avenue, Brooklyn AKE Honors: Ward Medal, Descriptive Ge- ometry. Y. M. C. A., A. I. E. E. “Some moon — some stars — some dew ...” “I don’t.” WALTER JOSEPH DEGNAN, B.S. 1721 Montgomery Place A 2 4 She was only a steelworker’s daughter, but oh! what a structure. SANFORD CRAIG, B.S.S. 2825 Grand Concourse Honors: Student Council Minor Insignia; Numerals Assistant Business Manager, 1929 Microcosm; Student Councillor (3); Chairman, '29 Dance Committee (4); S. C. Curriculum Committee (3); President, February '29 (2); Chairman, Senior Cap and Gown Committee. Even wants his knock to he complimentary. HERBERT J. DEITZ, B.S.S. 720 Riverside Drive 2AM Honors: Class Numerals. Freshman Baseball. Herb says he found the Follies barely interesting. Sixty-five MATHEW ARNOLD DEROW, B.S. 17 West 9th Street Geology Club, Physics Club. Expects to do X-ray work—on his patients’ pockets. LOUIS DI LEO, B.S. 242 East 75th Street A. S. C. E.; Circolo Dante Alighieri. What’s your first name, anyway. JACK G. DEUTSCH, B.S. 90 Pinchurst Avenue Honors: Lock and Key; Cum Laude; Var- sity Letters; Student Council Minor Insig- nia. Chairman. S. C. Curriculum Committee; Chair- man. I ’ Committee; Treasurer and Assistant Treasurer. A. A.; Art Staff, Mercury; President. Mathematics Society. “Albert and I came to the conclusion that everything in this world is relative. Under- stand ?’’ EMIL DI MOTTA, B.A. 2263 Second Avenue OK l I love my Alma Motta. SIDNEY H. DITZION, B.A. 1894 Arthur Avenue Promoted from a buttermilk dairy To assistant in the School Library. JULIUS DOBKIN, B.S. 1323 West Farms Road If you can’t. Dobkin. LOUIS DOLIN'SKY, B.S. 195 South 9th Street. Brooklyn Menorah. Ever alert For a red silk skirt. BERNARD ALBERT DO MB ROW B.S. 2467 Valentine Avenue Vice-President, Mathematics Club ; Charter Member, Vice-President. Physics Club. Highbrow, lowbrow, dombrow. RAYMOND A. DRESCHER, B.S.S. 914 Bryant Avenue Vigilance Committee; Politics Club; Class Football, Baseball, Basketball. A ’30 man who saw the error of his ways. JAMES DRISCOLL, B.S.S. 720 St. Nicholas Avenue He says Scotland Yard is 2 feet 11 inches. NATHAN JEANETTE DOSCHER B.S. 368 West 50th Street a iie Varsity Wrestling Team; Gym Club (4) ; Captain, Boxing Club (3); Intramural 125 lb. Wrestling Champion (3); Intramural 128 lb. Boxing Champion (2) ; Freshman Baseball Squad (1). The reason why Tunnev retired. NATHAN DREZNER. B.S. 1633 East 5th Street. Brooklyn Biology Society; Dcutscher Vcrcin; Geology Club. Then with a heigh—heigh—heigho— I dearly love my Bio. Sixty-tight HAROLD DAVID DUNDY, B.S. 1517 Park Place, Brooklyn Mcnorah Society; Mathematics Club. He lookin’ just like Harold Lloyd. Dundy? MAX EDELSON, ILS. 591 Stone Avenue. Brooklyn “Honey, I’m kncc-dccp in love with you.” O. K., I’ll put you on my wading list.” HAROLD HILLEL DYCKE, B.A. 1752 Anthony Avenue Honors: Cum Laude; Phi Beta Kappa. The inspiration of “My Phi Beta Kappa Man.” BENJAMIN EFRON, B.S.S. 137 Ludlow Street K A stubborn dreamer in a wide- awake world.” Sixty-nine LEON HERBERT EHRLICH, B.S. 312 West 76th Street Intramural Swimming; S. C. Elections Committee; Business Board, 1929 Microcosm. And the little Drosophilas called him “Poppa.” BENJAMIN ELLMAN, B.S.S. 2157 Douglass Street, Brooklyn That sneer is copyrighted, Mr. Ell- man. MORTON MICHAEL EINSTEIN, B.A. 501 West 175th Street Radio Club; Menorah; Politics Club. Albert and Morton Michael—the up- holders of the family name. HERBERT GLOVER ELSINGER, B.S. 92 Delaware Avenue. Long Beach, L. I. OAX Honors: Class Numerals. Freshman Swimming Team; Varsity Water-polo Team; Varsity Wrestling Squad El (Jolson—The Jazz) Singer. Seventy MEYER EMANUEL, B.S. 749 Ocean Parkway, Brooklyn Gym Club; Menorah. You little scientific researcher, you! FREDERICK ENTMAN, B.S.S. 221 Barrett Street, Brooklyn A114� Campus (1), (2); Lavender (1); I. F. C. College life is all one big minstrel show, and Fred is one of the Entman. JACK W. ENT IN, B.A. 122 East 113th Street «MIX Honors: Varsity Letters; Numerals. Varsity Cheerleader (3), (-4); Sales ami Cir- culation Manager, 1929 Microcosm; Chairman, S. C. Elections' Committee (4); '29 Representative Frosh-Soph Committee (4 . Don't be fooled by his looks—he is really one of the whitest fellows we know. BERTRAM EPSTEIN, B.A. 1326 Crocs Avenue Circulation Staff. 1929 Microcosm; Class Treas- urer (4); Circulation Staff, Mercury; Menorah (1), (2), (3), (4); Dramatic Society; MciiQrah Dramatic Productions. A Kosher—Ham Actor! Seventy-one Seventy-two EUGENE JOSEPH ERDOS, B.S., E.E. 158 East 84th Street Assistant Staff Photographer Campus (1) ; Varsity Rifle Team (2), (3) ; Vice-Presi- dent, Officers Club; R. O. 'I'. C. Rifle Team (1). (2). (3), Assistant Manager (4). His girl refused to go to Florida with him because he said he was going to Tampa with her. IRVING FEIRSTEIN, B.A. 1974 Mapes Avenue College Glee Club; Orchestra; String Quartet. The porcupine had something to do with man’s evolution. FRANK EPSTEIN, B.A. 103 South 2nd Street. Brooklyn Honors: Claflin Medals in Greek. Politics Club; Menorah. His middle name is Sophocles, but he’s modest. AARON N. FEDER, B.A. 8657 23rd Avenue, Brooklyn Menorah Society; Brooklyn Basketball Squad; Assistant Circulation Manager, Pioneer (Brooklyn). His head is not as light as his name, No Sir! LOUIS JOEL FEIT, B.S. 574 Bedford Avenue, Brooklyn Basketball Squad (1), (2); ’29 Basket- ball Team; Menorah; Physics Club. Feit, team, feit! KENNETH WILLIAM FENWICK, B.S., M.E. 820 Riverside Drive Secretary-Treasurer, A. S. M. E. The world’s greatest Mechanical Engineer 2-B. BEN FELDMAN, B.A. 1956 Bathgate Avenue Freshman Track Team; Cerclc Jus- serand; I. C. C. Ben now knows what he doesn’t know, what he knew he didn’t know, and what he knows he shall never know. ABRAHAM FERMAN, B.B.A. 1327 Merriam Avenue AAM Business Administration Society. A weighty man in any discussion. Seventy-three ANTHONY J. FERRE RIO, B.A. 124 Menahan Street. Brooklyn A+A C. I). A.; College Band. An iron man who plays the saxophone. LOUIS FI ELAND, B. A. 1683 58th Street, Brooklyn Honors: Fell on-ship in Education. If Sonia saw him now, without his moustache . . . SEYMOUR PAUL FINK, B.S. 1262 Manor Avenue Biology Society. Hinky-dink, a bottle of ink— His name is now Seymour P. Fink. WILLIAM FISCHBEIN, B.A. 1211 Westchester Avenue BA«1 College Band. 'Fite kind that’s bad to swallow. Seventy-jour RALPH FLAX, B.S. 1251 Grant Avenue Biology Society; Deutschcr Verein; Elec- tions Committee. We love the odor of cats And the smell of dogfish lures us; But there’s naught that can compare With a rotting, old Necturus. MALCOLM T. FLEISCHER, B.S.S. 42 Bay 25th Street. Brooklyn Menorah Society; Business Administra- tion Society. A patriot, begad! HARRY N. FLEISCHER, B.S. 2136 60th Street, Brooklyn Politics Club; Advertising Staff, 1929 Microcosm; '29 Dance Committee. Proud possessor of the best and only Packard in the undergraduate body. JOSEPH FRANK, B.S. 331 West 27th Street Always above hoard—a dissecting one. STANLEY B. FRANK, B.S.S. 2403 Crcston Avenue AMS Honors: Varsity Letters; Soph Skull; Lock and Key. Sports Editor, Campus (2). (3). (4); Varsity Track Team (2). (3). (4); Sports Editor, 1929 Microcosm (4): Chairman, Frosh-Soph Commit- tee (3); Vice-President February '30 Class 11 . Proud possessor of a line “understanding’’ —and he made good use of it on the track, too. HERBERT TOBIAS FRAN KEN B E RG, B.A. 720 West 173rd Street Education Club. Tobias or not to bias-. SAMUEL FRANKEL, B.A. 60 West Trcmont Avenue Dcutscher Verein (3), (4) ; Social Prob- lems Club (2). (3), (4); Glee Club (3). (4). A thorough “Raphaelitc” (Morris Cohen variety.) DENIS FREEMAN, B.A. 101-56 113th Street She was only a miner’s daughter, but oh! what natural resources! Seventy-six OTTO FREEMAN, B.S.S. S665 21st Avenue. Brooklyn Honors: Cum Laude. Brooklyn Student Council (1). A bright young man is Freeman, Otto, “Live and let live” is his pet motto. JULIUS I). FREILICHER, B.S. 177 Herzl Street, Brooklyn orK Honors: Numerals. 1929 Frosh Baseball Team; Varsity Squad; Mcnorah; Menorah Dramatic Pro- ductions; Class Committees; Secretary, ’29 Class (4). Just a happy alcove loafer is Yud. SYLVAN D. FREEMAN, B.S.S. 30 Clarke Place, East Honors: Cum Laude; Numerals. Business Manager, HaiuUiook- (4): Business Board, 1929 Microcosm; Joint Faculty-Student Discipline Committee (4); Curriculum Committee (4); Class Athletic Manager (3); Chairman, Senior Class Xight Committee. Every dark cloud has a Sylvan lining. JOSEPH PHILIP FREIREICH, B.S. 1515 Boston Road Honors: Reader, Department of Econom- ics. Business Club. What a glorious combination—free and rich. Seventy-sevei OTTO FREUER, B.A. 919 Third Avenue He’d make a fine lawyer, Would Otto Freuer. GEORGE HARRIS FRIEDLANDER, B.A. 2967 Webster Avenue Honors: Rottnrr Poetry Declamaion Prize, 1928. Varsity Debating Team. Already he’s warning Barrymore, O’Neill, Robinson and Wall Street???? RALPH FREYER, B.A. 1048 Kelly Street Of eggs or fish, Ralph? IRVING FRIEDMAN, B.S. 600 West 161st Street K Honors: Cum Laude, Fellowship in Biol- ogy; Phi Beta Kappa. Student Curriculum Committee. A little of Cohen, a lot of Darwin, and the result is a brilliance that only a few men possess. Seventy-eight EDWARD ALLEN STERN, B.S. 1591 Stcbhins Avenue Campus (1), (2). Ultimate vocation—Legbooter! But you will not be too stern, will you, Stern ? NATHAN STILLMAN, B.S. 5119 18th Avenue, Brooklyn Elections Committee. Oh, Baby, what gold this Baby’s hoarding up, seeing as he’s always a Still- man ! ELLIOT STERN, B.A. 1561 Union Street, Brooklyn Menorah Society. A misnomer! Elliot is jovial and al- ways smiling. LOUIS STOLLER. B.S. 284 Barrett Street, Brooklyn Baskcrvillc Chemical Society. A tempermental chemist is Louis Stollcr, When he causes an explosion, you ought to hear him holler! (And the excessive “cuts” he took, made him yell yet worse!) One hundred forty-five BEN JAM IN SUCH MAN 692 Cleveland Street. Brooklyn His angelic face forbids us to speak ill of him. But what arc you always searching for, Mr. Suchman? NATHAN SUSSKIND, B.S. 14 West 118th Street Fuchmayor, Deutscher Y'crcin (4). Fuchmayor? Isn’t it rather Fiuns- mayor or at least as foxy as one, at any rate? ARTHUR SUFFIN, B.S. 1421 40th Street, Brooklyn Freshman Baseball. Suffin catfish! What a man! And will you make your patients Suftin? DAVID SUSS MAN, B.S. 559 Nostra nil Avenue. Brooklyn Mcnorah Society; Brooklyn Boxing Club; Gym Club; Bio Club; Spanish Club. A future Ch. E. from the suburbs. Of course, the Mcnorah may be a so- ciety, but where could you expect a club, One hundred forty-six ALEXANDER TAEFEL, B.S. 1170 Walton Avenue Honors: Cum I.nude. Al’s a student—quite fanatic, On matters only mathematic. And you ought to have heard him demonstrating the problems on the Taffel! JOSEPH TAMES, Tech. ROBERT H. TALSKY, B.S.S. 960 Grand Concourse AS Honors: Brooklyn Varsity Letters. Secretary Brooklyn Association (2) ; Brooklyn Student Council (2) ; Associate Editor, Pioneer (2); History Club (3); Glee Club (4) ; Vice-President, ’29 Class (4). . . f “A concentrated article of action ’ as he talsky in his walztsky to acstsky. 23 Haven Avenue Joseph Tames— Lions, tigers or Engineering Pro fessors? ALEXANDER TAPLITSKY, B.S. 430 Livonia Avenue, Brooklyn Intends becoming a professor—it seems longevity of life is hereditary in his family. ROBERT LOVETT TAYLOR, B.A. 210 East 63rd Street Y. M. C. A.; Spanish Club; Education Club. Docs Robert Taylor like his Alma Mater? Lovett! HARRY A. TITEFSKY, B.S. 332 Heckman Avenue Advertising Staff, Microcosm. Member in good standing of the W. L. A. (Woodcraft League of America) Women who arc Loving, Attention! EDWARD TIEDEMAN, B.A. 1355 Putnam Avenue, Brooklyn Cabinet, Y. M. C. A.; Inter-club Council; Spanish Club. A big man with a big heart—but kind of shy of Cleopatras. J. MELVILLE TOBIAS, B.S.S. 1738 University Avenue «Mil Honors: Chess Numerals. Glee Club; Frosh Swimming Team; In- ter-Fraternity Council. Always sings in the bathtub, as doth the robin, mavbap, to attract its mate? One hundred forty-eight BENARD TOMSON, B.A. 804 Seneca Avenue, Ridgewood, Queens Swimming Team; Water-polo Team; Dramatic Society. Hitchcock on land and “Tommy” in the water. ALEXANDER E. TRIFON, B.S. 704 Sackman Street, Brooklyn 111 IT Honors: Major Letters; Cum Laude; Minor Letters. Lacrosse Team (2), (3); Captain (4). Small, but can he wield that Lacrosse stick! Like his namesake, Alexander, in Prowess! SEYMOUR TRACHTENBERG, B.A. 1337 Clinton Avenue Honors: Phi Beta Kappa; II'on Essay Contest of Franco- ! rnerican Maritime League, June, 92S, for Free Trip to France. Insists that the U. S. Venuses have it all over the French ones. Where are your man- ners, Seymour? Is that a nice way to treat those you visit ? CHARLES TRILLING, B.S. 82 Wadsworth Terrace MIA Manager, Tennis Team (4). Ever play with X-rays? My, it’s Trilling! One hundred forty •nine One hundred fifty LEONARD TROSHINSKY, B.S.S. 54S West 164th Street Class Treasurer (1); Class Vice-Presi- dent (3); Athletic Manager (2); Chair- man Junior Hop Committee; Politics Club. Joe Politics! LEON B. TUCKMAN, B.S.S. 1100 Grand Concourse Glee Club; Geology Club. Cock-a-doodle-do Any knock’ll do! For the door of opportunity, Is always for Tuck, Man! open free. EUGENE TUCK, B.S.S. 72 Barron Street AM Honors'. Campus Silver Charm. Campus (2) ;News Board (2), Associate Editor; Lavender Book, Managing Editor. A literary man is Eugene 'I'uck, Going to be a lawyer? Well, lots of luck! HAROLD JOHN VAN AKEN, B.S. 117 Avenue N, Brooklyn Van Achin; Vous tetc-a-vas a vous? JESSE WALLACE, B.B.A. 764 Dawson Street A K11 Business Administration Society. The Queen was in the kitchen— “Honey, Jesse is only busy counting money!” WALTER WARSHOW, B.B.A. 1003 'I’inton Avenue TAft A military parade—in name, at least! SAMUEL WALLACH, B.S. 2301 Bedford Avenue, Brooklyn Mcnorah (Brooklyn) ; Math Club (Brook- lyn) ; Bio Club (Brooklyn). A Brooklyn boc, but sane nevertheless. More or less! CHARLES E. WARSHAUER, B.S. 1815 Seventh Avenue MIA Publicity Manager, Microcosm (4) ; Chairman, S. C. Sales Committee (4) ; Vice- Chairman, Elections Committee (4). Charlie’s philosophy of life: Live, Laugh, Learn, Love! Apple sauce. One hundred fifty-one SAMUEL WASSERMAN, B.S. 1409 Fulton Avenue Can you swim, Sammy? If so, why? If not, why not, and wherefore? MITCH EL WEINER, B.A. 2S23 East Sixth Street, Brooklyn President, Brooklyn Debating Society. A man connected with the theatre, But by profession a good debater. ALVIN A. WEINGARTEN, B.S.S. 674 St. Mary Street Politics Club; Business Society; Micro- cosm, Business Staff. Can you imagine? Right in his own back yard! JOSEPH WEINTRAUB, B.S.S. 1601 East New York Avenue, Brooklyn Menorali (Evening) ; Student Council (Evening). Attempted to be a wit, but only half succeeded. One hundred fifty-tno LEO WEISS, B.A. 157 Hopkins Street, Brooklyn Menorah Society; Education Club. A real Lion—socially, we mean. JACK VVEISSER, B.S.S. 1041 Hoe Avenue Jack is Weisser! MORTON D. WEISS, B.A. 1041 Hoc Avenue Politics Club; Spanish Club; Elections Committee. Morty is Weiss, but— MORRIS WIGLER, B.S. 94 Rivington Street Honors: Cum Laude. Baskcrville Chemical Society (1), (2), (3); Secretary (4). A chemist there was, who couldn’t be prouder, He graduated from college, in four years—cum laude. One hundred fifly-lhret WILLIAM JORDAN WITHROW B.S. 505 West 138th Street President, Dramatic Society. Introducing Mr. Walter Hampden Withrow! MAURICE WOLINSKY, B.A. 103 Rockaway Parkway, Brooklyn +AM Honors: Minor Scholastic .'Iward (Brook- lyn ). Vice-President, Brooklyn Students' Council. Maurice: I am a stew-dent! Us: What ales you, Wolinsky? Be- findcn Sie sich nicht, Wol ? WILLIAM WOLARSKY, B.S. 251 Fort Washington Avenue XAI Chairman, Senior Prom Committee; Class Treasurer (2), (3); Menorah Society; Poli- tics Club. A great big small Varsity! Ready, let ’cr go— Willies going to be a d----n line medico. GEORGE WONG, B.S. 517 Lenox Avenue A. I. E. E. Wing, Wong, Wung. You’ll get it right if you’ll try. One hundred fifty-four EDWARD R. YOCKEL, B.S. 590 East 166th Street a nr Honors: Numerals, Major Insignia (Track) ; Ulccled to Track and Field Society. Varsity Track (2), (3), (4) ; Newman Club (1). (2), (3), (4); Secretary (2); Track and Field Society (3) ; President (4). Yumpin, Yockcl, the vivacious vaulter. COSTANTINO ZAINO, B.S. 2311 Crotona Avenue Organizer, C. C. N. V. String Quartette; Deutscher Vcrein Octette. Ask zem how I play zc violin, Zaino! MORRIS YURON, B.A. 539 East 171st Street I’ll bctcha five— Yuron! NATHAN BENJAMIN ZETKIN, B.A. 32S Chester Street, Hrooklvn Math Club; Latin Club. Nobody can finish such a wonderful class, but Zctkin. One hundred fifty-five Class of 1930 B ARROS- IS Junior year finds the collegiate in the midst of wearing off his sophomoric and officious tendencies and sinking into a contemplation of the wonders of dignity and intellect- uality. By the time the third year of undergraduate ex- istence rolls around time rests evanescently on the shoul- ders of your Junior. The intricacies of the College, including the most efficient manner of dissipating time in the alcoves, snap courses, class rushes, fraternities, enjoyable professors, athletic teams, etc., arc fairly well-known to him. Behind him arc the neophyte, raucous and energetic years of his stay in school. Before him lie the restful, serious and con- templatively enjoyable periods of college existence. And he breezes along, serenely confident of his status and abilities. The Class of 1930 commenced its third year of activity with the election of Joe Stocknoff and Hy Bicgcl as the Presidents of the upper and lower classes respectively. Other officers selected included Paul Fcinstcin, Bill Rubin, Joe Winkler and Jim Lipsig. Sol Chcscr and Harry Wilncr were Student Council Representatives. Moc Bandlcr, as Council Vice-President, and Charles Binder as Council Secretary, were additional delegates of the Class. Soon after came the crowning event of a Lavender undergraduate’s social life, and incidentally the outstanding social occurrence of the school year. Set in the elaborately festooned main ballroom of the Hotel Paramount, and to the tunc of the Chic Winter Orchestra synco- pation, the formal and select Junior Promenade gave ample evidence of the glory that was ’30’s. Harry Moss, Anita La Rue, and several other Broadway celebrities combined to aid Joe the Junior in displaying the Biegei. attributes of his class and classmates to that one above all, Her.” One hundred fifty-six Feixstkin Stocknofk This classic affair was held in the evening of December 15, and was arranged for by Charles Binder, Herbert Barron, Nat Plotkin and Bert Cotton. With the advent of mid-year exams our Junior pro- ceeded to take stock of his newly assumed intellectual- ity; and with results alternately satisfying and annoy- ing to this complacent individual. New Class officers included Paul Feinstcin and Hy Biegel as Presidents, and Eli Blaustein, Bill Rubin, Dave Roemer and Jim Lipsig as other officers. Stocknoff was chosen Secretary of the Student Council. Wilner and Sylvan Elias were entrusted with the Editorship and Business Managership of the 1930 Microcosm. The class sought social relaxation at a dance tendered on May 11. Lock and Key elections found the class copiously represented. In intramural competition, the class displayed a modicium of energy only suf- ficient to sustain the respectful dignity of a group of Juniors. The association football team lost out in its first encounter, but the basketball five advanced to the final round before bowing in defeat. The varsity sport teams contained a plentiful sprinkling of athletes coming from the class. With his Senior year staring him in the face, the contemplative Junior approaches the closing of the school term with an ever-increasing gravity. When school re-opens in the fall, he will find himself further removed from the rah-rah and bustle of early college years. But Junior years, and Junior proms come but once in the life oi an undergraduate. And as such, the class of 1930 will ever look back upon the past yeir as a vital one in solidifying the enjoyable feeling which accrues from collegiate existence. One hundred fifty-seven Class of 1931 UTSIDE at the flagpole, ’32 was slowly straightening ou the kinks in its long coiling line. Wiseacres bemoaned the fate of ’31. The freshmen were prematurely jubilant over a supposed victory. Suddenly from the building a yelling mob burst forth. Then the Furies were loose. The ’32 imperial nabobs, the Frosh-Soph Committee, succored the last remnants of the Frosh. Back to the ’32 alcove streamed ’31. The remain- ing table! Hammond despaired for his cups. The New- man Club, an innocent bystander had a window shat- tered to fragments. The battered Frosh returned— without a table. Scenes of disaster and desolation rivalling those of the greatest floods in history were enacted in the Con- course against the class of 1932 when a tiny band of vengeful ’31 men turned a powerful but misdirected IIf.rsox stream of icy water full upon the Junior alcove. The rush which preceded the deluge was one-sided but breathlessly hectic. Out- numbered by the proverbial ten to one, a paltry handful of loyal classmen strove in vain to stem the irrcsistable tide of rambunctious freshmen who poured into the ’3 1 alcove to demolish everything but the walls. Before the onslaught of the neophyte vandals a picture of a shapely young Eve demurely clothed in a glass frame hung in the alcove. Her glass covering was shat- tered by some over-exuberant Freshman and, clad only in her own shimmering tresses, she now cowers before the unsympathetic stares of those who pause to gape at her unadorned beauty as she gazes into the opaque waters of a secluded mountain pool. And then came the close of Frosh-Soph activities for the class! One hundred fifty-eight fThe crunch of broken noses and the hollow popping of fractured skulls echoed grucsomely through the Stadium as ’31 successfully defended its flaunted banner from an attacking horde of Freshmen. By virtue of this victory the inter-class banner was clinched. The previous year also, 31, then freshmen, won the covcrted honor. And not alone have the activities of the class been concentrated in the inter-class affairs but the fields of athletic endeavors have proven the worth of 31. Count- less ’3 1 luminaries shine forth in College and class activi- Miu.er tjcs Foremost is Frank Dc Phillips, varsity basketball and baseball star; then Bob Vance of football and lacrosse fame, followed by Mike Steffen, swimming captain, Monte Massler of water-polo repute, Ruby Schwartz, Joe Sabowsky, Hy Miller and Bcrnie Friedman in lacrosse, Murray Gartner in swimming, Irv Schiffman, Jesse Segal and Sol Jankowitz in football and numerous others. Then there is Leo Bradspics, student councilor par excellence, Phil Delfin active in class politics, and well— why go on? Yes, sir. That’s a class!” One hundred fifty-nine Associate Alumni HE Associate Alumni of the College of the City of New York was organized by the first class gradu- ated from what was then known as the Free Academy in 18 53. This date has special signif- icance in view of the fact that the oldest or- ganized alumni association in the United States, that of Wil- liams College, was founded in 1821. The unincorporated body created in 185 3 was reorganized as a membership corporation in 1913. The influence of the Associate Alumni has been exerted largely in an effort to perpetuate and intensify a spirit of col- lege loyalty and to give moral support in all efforts for the betterment of the institution. On several notable occasions, ___________„ .. , I Ai • I I , . , . , C EORCE H. lAYI.OR, JR. however, the Alumni have shown their desire to have a part in the upbuilding of the material resources of the College. Particularly was this so in the days when Alma Mater had outgrown its first home on Twenty-third Street. Led by Edward Morse Shepard, ’69, Alexander P. Kctchum, '67, and Edward Lauterbach, ’64, the Alumni made upon the City of New York a successful demand for more adequate quarters. The buildings which now house the major portion of the student body were the result of their efforts. The present year marks a further achievement in this field. Before the student body returns to its work in September there will have been opened the new Alumni Library, the corner stone of which was laid Commencement, 1927. All the activities of the Alumni center in the Alumni Office in the Webster Room of the main building which is the home of the society. Here arc maintained various records and files necessary to the maintenance of an effective alumni association and here also are issued the various numbers of the Alumni magazine and the several publications of the Association. This central office has been in operation for ten years and during that time has served to coordinate the activities of individual alumni and of the several classes for the building up of a truer sense of alumni loyalty to the college and for the carrying on of various projects looking toward the welfare of the institution. Membership in the Associate Alumni is open to all graduates of the several schools of the College and to former students who have completed one year of College credit. Annual dues for each of the first fifteen years after graduation are three dollars, and for each year thereafter five dollars. Life membership is open to any alumnus on the pay- ment, at one time, of one hundred dollars. The privileges of membership include a subscription to the City College Alumnus, the monthly publication of the Associate Alumni. c_Associate cAlumni Roster OFFICERS George H. Taylor, Jr. '92........ Frank Schi.esi.vger '90.......... Saul E. Rogers '02............... David B. Stein man '06........... Herbert M. Holton '99............ Donald A. Roberts '19............ John S. Battell 73............... Howard C. Green '02.............. ...........President .1st Vice-President 2nd Vice-President .3rd Vice-President ......... Treasurer ...........Secretary ...........Historian :lssociate Historian To Serve Until 1929 William J. Campbell '78 Maurice A. Oudin ’85 Charles A. Downer ‘86 Peter Scbmuck '93 Alexander M. Bing '97 Alfred Frankcnthalcr '00 Louis I. Dublin '01 Arthur M. Lamport '02 Nathaniel Phillips ’03 Winfred M. Stern '07 Joseph D. R. Freed '17 Clifford O. Anderson '22 BOARD OF DIRECTORS To Serve Until 1930 Henry Mottet '69 Marcus M. Marks '77 Samuel Schulman '85 John S. Roberts '95 John G. Dyer '04 Frederick Zorn '10 Jacob Schapiro '11 Laurence Vail Coleman ’15 Donald A. Roberts ‘19 Israel Oscas '22 Charles Epstein '24 To Serve Until 1931 Frank Schlesinger '90 Nathaniel E. Elsberg '91 George H. Taylor, Jr. '92 Sidney H. Herman ’98 Herbert M. Holton '99 Henry Moskowitz '99 Saul E. Rogers '02 David B. Steinman '06 Benjamin Antin ’10 Edward F. Unger '11 Sidney M. Winner '18 Arthur Taft '20 LIFE DIRECTORS E. Francis Hyde '61 Henry S. Carr '66 R. R. Bowkcr ’68 Samuel Grcenbaum '72 Edward M. Colie 73 Charles P. Fagnani 73 Nelson S. Spencer 75 Lewis S. Burchard 77 Alrick H. Man 77 Sigmund Pollit cr 79 William M. K. Olcott '81 Thomas W. Churchill '82 Joseph L. Buttcnwiescr '83 Robert F. Wagner '98 James A. Foley '01 The lAlumnus Donald Alfred Roberts ’19, Editor-in-Chief Theodore Goodman ’15, Associate Editor College Alumnus is a monthly magazine issued by the Associate Alumni of The College of fc'? ' the City cf New York under the direction of the City Publication Committee, as a news medium for the graduates of the College and as the official organ for the pub- lication of their various reports and documents and the expres- sion of their attitude toward the affairs of the College. The magazine appears every month except July and August and contains about five hundred pages of text and illustrations in each volume. Don'ai.d A. Roberts The Alumnus enlists the services of a large number of graduates of the College and of members of the teaching staff in the building up of its content. During recent months contributions to the maga- zine have been received from Robert Abbe '70, Alexander H. McKinney ’81, Lewis F. Mott ’S3, Benjamin F. Roeder ’84, Leon Huhner ’90, Arthur Guiterman ’91, Leon W. Goldrich ’94, Montrose J. Moses '99, Samuel J. Woolf '99, Morris R. Cohen ’00, Abra- ham Goldfarb ’00, Robert Lowie ’01, Elias Lieberman ’03, Walter Pach ’03, Morris Abel Beer ’06, Harry Kurz ’09, Jess Perlman ’ll, David P. Berenberg ’12, Joseph T. Shipley ’12, Francis E. Faragoh ’20. Until January, 1926, the Alumnus appeared as a quarterly publication called The City College Quarterly. This magazine was founded in 1904 by James Walter Sheridan '99, who be- came its first editor. He was succeeded in 1906 by Professor Lewis F. Mott ’83, who continued the publication until his retirement from the editorship in 1924. The Publication Com- mittee appointed as his successor, Donald A. Roberts ’19, of the Department of English, who remained as Editor of the Quarterly until the expansion of the magazine in 1926 when Theodore Goodman' he was appointed Editor of the new magazine. ©rgant3ations One hundred sixty-three Wm.ner, Cheser, Cammbr, Lipkowitz Handler, Levy, Rosenrbrg, Hinder Student Council FALL TERM Jack B. Rosenberg ’29, President Morris Bandler ’30, Vice-President Charles A. Binder ’30, Secretary ROM outer darkness into the pitiless glare of the limelight, the sad state of the intramural lunchroom was dragged through the joint machina- tions of the Council and The Campus. In a strident denunciation of existing conditions, the undergraduate governing body crystallized the long-neglected opinion of its constituents. A faculty-student lunchroom committee was appointed to investigate thoroughly all charges and to recommend suit- able alterations. As a result the concessionaire was forced to install a wooden grill, separating the kitchen from the cafeteria proper, to repaint tables with durable, white lacquer, and to make substantial additions to his corps of assistants. Empowered under its new charter to regulate all extra- curricular activities other than those controlled by the Athletic Association, the Council promptly created the Inter-club Com- mittee to rule over College societies. Friction developing due to lack of faculty co-operation with the newly-formed dele- gation was assuaged by the passage of a resolution of protest. The first major meeting scheduled by the Committee was an all-college rally at which representatives of the four leading political parties spoke. Completely revised and rewritten, the Lavender Hand- book, was published under the council’s auspices. To clarify the fundamental principles of its charter, a By-Law Commit- tee of five was organized to formulate an efficient body of auxiliary rulings. The commission’s report, however, was deferred until the spring term. Jack B. Rosenberg One hundred sixty-jour May, Wilner, Cheser, Nelson, Calafiura Kaplan, Cammer, Olshansky, Stocknoff Student Council SPRING SEMESTER Harold I. Cammer ’29, President Eli Olsmanski ’29, Vice-President Joseph Stocknoff ’29, Secretary NTERING immediately into a discussion of the scope and variety of its powers as delegated by the new constitution, the Spring Council incor- porated a group of effective by-laws and began to dispatch the duties of appointing committees and arranging dance dates in a most expeditious manner in order to proceed to the more important business of carrying out the new legislation proposed by the members of the council. Without bickering or unavailing argument, the Council projected a host of activi- ties calculated to benefit and add prestige to the college. Plans to form a brain team were promulgated. A smoker for the benefit of the freshmen was conducted. A Central Auditing committee was appointed to inquire into finances of college functions, whose straightforwardness was questioned. Besides these, two all-college social affairs were conducted. By far the most striking achievement of the 1929 Spring Council was the concerted campaign it waged to remedy the deplorable condition of the Student Lunch Room. By a bold stroke a universal referendum was conducted to gauge un- dergraduate opinion. By an overwhelming majority, the stu- dents voted for total abolition. The trustees of the college de- cided to conform with the expressed views of the student bodv, and bid Hammond vacate by June 30, 1929. Dr. Louis A. Warsoff ’23, chosen by the Council as official legal advisor, helped not a little in making the ’29 Spring Council the most efficient of the past two years. Harold I. Cammer The 1929 '-Microcosm OR the Microcosm to appear before Commence- ment is almost without precedent. Yet the 1929 edition (at this writing) bids fair to do just that. The indolent indifference of former senior classes towards their year book created an intangible though potent obstacle which Mike” executives in the past found impos- sible to surmount. The air of wholehearted co-operation which has miraculously replaced this attitude has been an added impetus to the more rapid completion of this book. Four hundred and twenty-eight seniors responded to an early drive for subscriptions and promptly paid the requisite stipend with- out undue solicitation. With financial worries alleviated, the machinery cf contract making ground out the framework of construction. Even more important from the time-essential viewpoint was the rigidity with which the same four hundred and twenty-eight seniors adhered to the pre-arranged schedule of photographer’s appointments and their celerity in returning the proofs so vital to progress in the il- lustrated sections of this volume. Yet the editors of this yearbook must acknowledge the fact that they have grossly violated the trust bestowed upon them by their classmates. For (at this second writing) there is no prospect that the ’29 Mike” will be published and distributed in time for display to admiring relatives and friends on the eve of graduation. For robbing you of this superb pleasure, Mr. Collective Senior, we bow our heads in shame. The blame for this monstrous destruction of the faith you placed in us is solely our own. As a matter of fact, the very man in whom the Class of 1929 intrusted supreme authority and con- fidence for the prompt and proper appearance of their year book developed a host of human frailties, far in excess of the normal dose in any languid and lazy senior, and throughout could not be brought to realize the sacrcdncss of the mission with which he had been entrusted. Yet in respect to the men who have taken over the problem of completing the publication of this volume, the writer of this article hopes that the purchasers and sup- porters of 929 Microcosm will lay the cause of this delin- quency of its editor-in-chief merely at the door-step of for- tuitous circumstances. And now, forgetting what is and what might have been, let us toast to the Class of 1929. And who can deny that it is, and always will be, The Best Class Ever? Jack H. Rosenberg Harold I. Cammer MANAGING HOARD Jack B. Rosenberg '29, Editor-in-Chief Louis N. Kaplan '29, Managing Editor Harold I. Cammer '29, Associate Editor and Business Manager Sanford Craig '29, Assistant Business Manager Simon L. Moskowitz '29, Art Editor Henry Margolies '29, Asst. Bus. Mgr. Arthur B. Lipsky '29, Fraternity Editor Stanley B. Frank ’30, Sports Editor Joseph P. Lash ’31, Faculty Editor Moses Cammer ’30, Auditor ASSOCIATE BOARD Senior Editors Samuel Kaiser '29 Louis H. Bronstein '29, Photo. Editor Abraham H. Raskin ’3 1 OrganizationsEditor Arnold Shukotoff '29 Murray Funt '29 Louis Granich '29 Louis Sabloff '29 Robert May ’32 Leo Abraham ’3 1 Delmore Brickman ’30 Abraham Breitbart ’30 Philip I. Delfin ’31 Louis Feuer ’3 1 Sylvan D. Freeman '29 EDITORIAL BOARD Harry Gittleman '29 Meyer Gottesman ’31 David Grandizky ’33 Meyer Libf.n ’32 Moses Richardson ’30 Donald B. Robinson ’32 Ben Rosenthal '29 BUSINESS BOARD Irving Samuels ’30 Samuel Schechter '29 Anthony Terino ’32 Harry Wilner ’30 Arthur Goldfarb '29 Jay Si.onim ’30 Jack W. Entin '29, Sales and Circulation Manager Meyer Rosenspan '29, Advertising Manager Daniel Blitz '29 Abraham Cahn '29 Leonard Cammer ’33 Solomon Cohen ’32 Sylvan Elias ’30 Sam Delfin ’32 Bertram Epstein '29 Paul Feinstein ’30 Julius D. Freilicher Harold H. Levy '29 Nathan Jochnowitz Louis Konowitz ’33 Robert May ’32 Ralph Pastor '29 '29 George Plotkin ’31 Hyman Miller ’31 '29 Alvin Weingarten '29 Chas. E. Warschauer '29 One hundred sixty-seven Mercury Louis Grasich EATURED by a year of singular success in offer- ing to the student body a periodical replete with the wholesome, healthy humor, the Mercury once again followed the fine tradition that the little god of quip and jest” had established during the past few years. At the very outset, Louis Granich, editor-in- chief, voiced his intent to raise Mercury to new heights and in a very fair measure lived up to his promise. In spite of every indication that Mercury was destined to experience one of its leanest years, the humor magazine has more than justified its existence. In the past, there always had been a handful of men of the staff left to carry on the work; but this year, only two veterans remained—Louis Granich and Mac Gitlin. In both the editorial and the art work, Mercury had to rely solely upon the efforts of these two men. In the spring semester, however, the readers of Mercury began to notice the gradual development of a group of able contributors. Notwithstanding the handicaps prevalent during the fall term, the issues appear- ed, not too irregularly, containing all the features for which Mercury is famed. End- less variety on every page, spontaneous and delightful humor, skillful illustrations and cartoons, good taste—all were blended to produce a magazine that had no peer in collegiate circles. Louis Granich carried the editorial burden, performing a difficult task exceedingly well. Mac Gitlin, the art editor, was eminently successful in introducing striking and original effect into his drawings. His cover designs were especially praiseworthy. The numbers that appeared this year arc: The Imbecile Number,” dedicated to the Young Hopefuls”; The Newspaper Number”; The Mercury Number,” featuring clippings of articles gleaned from former Mercury’s dating as far back as 18S0; Old Times Number”; Travel Number”; Publicity Number”; and a Text Book Num- ber.” Already well past his fiftieth birth- day, the jovial God has entrusted the business destinies which he can no longer direct into the hands of an official representative. During the Fall the Business Manager was Henry B. Helm, but on his graduation Milton R. Goldman acceded to the post. Bert Cotton was elected editor for the fol- lowing year at a dinner less annual dinner, while Goldman was again Hen'ry B Hei m chosen to head the business division. One hundred sixty-eight EXECUTIVE BOARD Louis Granich ’29............................ Editor-in-Cbief Milton R. Goldman ’30..................... Business Manager Maxim M. Gitlin ’29................................Art lutitor Bert Cotton ’30 ASSOCIATE BOARD Stuyvesant Van Veen ’32 EDITORIAL BOARD Lawrence Greene ’3 1 Stanley Kaufman ’3 1 Joseph Oxer ’29 Adolph Weisenburg ’30 Arthur Goldfarb ’29 ADVERTISING BOARD Charles Eckstat ’30, Asst. Bus. Mgr. Irving E. Berenson ’31, Ailv. Mgr. Milton V. Freeman ’31 Nathan Zamoff ’32 CIRCULATION BOARD Julian E. Bers ’31, Manager Irving E. Schwartz ’31, Asst. Abraham Bernholz ’32 Bernard Bloom ’32 Murray Gartner ’3 1 Bernard Harkavy ’33 David Reich ’32 Kassy Sarasohn ’29 George Weinfeld ’32 One hundred sixty-nine The Campus UT of the chaos of sweeping reorganization and change came a new and greater Campus marked by a notable extension of editorial scope, the inclusion of numerous featured novelties, and an increase in the size and number of issues. The laxity of previous years was replaced by a machine-like effi- ciency which resulted in the unprecedented production of six more issues than the thirty-two stipulated by its contract with the Union. Under the stringent reins of the Shukotoflfian regime, a system of concentrated responsibility was devised whereby the majority of the inherent evils of the past were eradicated. In addition to the consequent general improvement in tone, a page of exclusive features, which made its appearance regu- larly throughout the Spring semester, was instituted. In this special supplement was printed a glittering anthology of the contemporary trend in art, music, literature and the drama. Likewise an innovation in Campus policy was the reproduction of tantal- izing magazine articles relating to college problems which stimulated heated debate among faculty and undergraduate readers. Two new columns made their debut during the course of the year. The Alcove, conducted by Aubrey Shatter, rapidly rose to an eminence which rivalled that of Hcy- wood Broun’s famous It Seems to Me.” Collegiana, under the supervision of Abraham H. Raskin, presented exotic and colorful news items from collegiate centers throughout the world which lent a tinge of romantic allure to the tri-weekly’s pages. That old favorite, Gargoyles, taken over by the erudite Benjamin Kaplan, became a model of polished wit and suave urbanity. Book reviews by Louis N. Kaplan appeared regularly while critiques of the cosmos musical witnessed a prolific revival under Benjamin Nelson. Interviews with outstand- ing personalities in and outside the College were printed in profusion but were continued in more or less desultory fashion after mid-year. Stanley B. Frank and his associates gave a new dignity and interest to the presentation of sports. The most important single feature of the intellectual renaissance which uplifted The Campus was the expansion of its editorial range for which credit is due to the ceaseless strivings of the editor, who conceived all of its improvements. From a squad of novices ShukotofT welded a compact editorial board which contributed its mite to the countrv’s editorial iconoclasm.” The epic campaign, launched by The Campus, which resulted in the abolition of the lunch-room will long be remembered for its fearlessness and efficiency. The cur- tain rang down on the year’s activities with a banquet at the Hotel Imperial on June 3rd. Bernard Wen. .7� Arxoi.d Shukotoff EXECUTIVE BOARD ARNOLD SHUKOTOFF ’29........................Editor-in-Chief BERNARD L. WEIL '30................................Business Manager LOUIS N. KAPLAN ’29.........................Managing Editor Abraham A. Birniiaum ’29........................News Editor George Bronx '29................................News Editor SAMUEL L. Kan '29.......................Contributing Editor Stanley B. Frank '30..........................Sports Editor Benjamin Kaplan '29...............................Columnist ASSOCIATE BOARD Abraham Breitbart '30 Julius Weiss ’30 Benjamin Nelson '31 Moses Richardson '30 Leo T. Goodman '31 Abraham II. Raskin '31 Leo Abraham ’31 Harry Wilncr '30 Morris Grccnfcld ’31 George Siegel 31 Joseph P. Lash ’31 Philip I. Delfin '31 Aubrey Shatter, Special Contributor NEWS BOARD Irving S. Schipper ’31 Austin J. Bonis ’33 Julian S. Liberman '33 Morton Liftin ’32 Harry Freundlich '32 Henry Hillman ’33 Meyer Liben ’32 Arthur V. Berger '32 Arthur Karger ’33 Paul Kaminsky ’31 Henry Bernstein '32 Lazarus Jedeikin '33 Aaron Addelston '32 Anthony 'Ferino ’32 Sol Rubin '32 BUSINESS BOARD Sylvan Elias ’30................................Advertising Manager Emanuel Berger ’29..............................Circulation Manager Irving E. Schwartz '31.............Isst. Circulation Mgr. Martin Whyman ’31.......................Staff Accountant Irving Greenberg ’30 Howard W. Woolf '32 Leonard E. Cohen 31 Stanley E. Waxburg '30 Mortimer Cowen '32 Alfred Z. Markewicli '29 Samuel Reiter '29 Herbert Perlman ’31 Charles Wertheimer ’30 Harry Mazer ’30 One hundred seventy-one ''Debating N the best Lavender tradition, the College forensic squad maintained a winning average throughout the year. Representatives of the nation’s leading universities were engaged on the rostrum of the Great Hall in dis- cussions of various phases of the proposition Resolved: That the jury system be abolished.” Teams bearing the colors of Pittsburgh, Vermont, Northwestern, Boston and Western Reserve visited the College in rapid succession to face the local debaters. Ben- jamin Kaplan ’29, who had led the Lavender through the previous campaign, was re- elected captain, while Abraham A. Birnbaum ’29, succeeded to the managerial post. Taking the stand for the College on different occasions during the arduous schedule were George Bronx., Herman Platt, Morris Maltzcr, Martin Whyman, Julius Rosenberg, Jesse Messittc, George Fricdlandcr, Theodore Lcskes and Israel Goldberg. With indifferent success, the Freshman aggregation met the Sophomores, New York University yearlings and Brooklyn center. The team, managed by Benjamin Nelson ’31, consisted of Milton Mantncr, Sidney Ment, Julian Moses, George Rabinowitz and David Bogdanoff. Hr i I- nr iillir‘ One hundred seventy-two Chess Team NTERCOLLEGIATE champions for 1929, the varsity chess team enjoyed a year of unbroken triumph during which three major rivals bowed be- fore its matchless strategy and master play. Captain A. S. Kussman suc- cessfully defended his national intercollegiate individual title, being for the second consecutive season the league’s high point scorer. The high spot of the collegiate tourney, held during Christmas week, was the Lav- ender’s epic clash with its arch rival. New York University, title holders throughout the past four years. With the team championship hanging in the balance, the Violet quartet weakened before an irresistible College attack, succumbing by a 3-1 count. Captain Kussman extended his winning streak of the previous year to seven suc- cessive games by virtue of three victories and no defeats in the current league com- petition. R. Willman, a team mate, captured second scoring honors with two wins and a draw in three matches. I. Kandel, who did not figure in the N. Y. U. match, and N. Grossman each accounted for two triumphs. J. Fishman, participating only in the meet with the Violet, was unable to score. As a unit, the quintet scored nine and one-half points out of a possible twelve, and won all three of its matches. The team scores were: College 3, N. Y. U. 1; College 3, Penn 1; College )l , Columbia Zi. The final league standings: -----Matches------- Points---------- Team Won Lost Won Lost C. C. N. Y.................... 3 0 91 ;, 2 2 Pennsylvania ................. 2 1 6 6 KN. Y. U....................... 0 2 2Zl 51 2 Columbia...................... 0 2 2 6 N. Y. U.-Columbia match incompletcd. _Menorah OFFICERS FALL SPRING Zachary Server ...................President............... Morris J. Kaplan Jack Prutman....................Vice-President............ Abe Tannenbaum Robert Herzog.....................Secretary.......................Samuel Kass A. Elihu Micmelson................Treasurer.............A. Elihu Michelson PENING the year with a sadly-dcplctcd treasury, the Menorah Society im- mediately launched a series of receptions, dances and theatre parties which succeeded both in rehabilitating the club’s shattered finances and enlarging its already extensive membership. Menorah’s purpose is best epitomized in this, its creed: For the study and advancement of Jewish culture and ideals. The first social event of the season, an excursion to the Yiddish Art Theatre, scored an unqualified success, while, at the second, a Freshman Smoker, an overflow crowd was present to enthusiastically applaud the program arranged in its honor. Several weeks later an extramural dance or frosh reception was conducted jointly with the Hunter College Menorah at the Central Jewish Institute. The program for the fall term wound up in a semi-annual dance in the College gym. In the first of the forums, Prof. Morris R. Cohen discussed Jewish Intellectual Life. Further lectures and alcove discussion groups comprised the remainder of the educational program. One hundred seventy-four Following the election of officers for the spring term, a novel frosh reception was held at the College during school hours. Beer flowed freely and countless pretzels were gorged by the eager maws of rapacious yearlings. The Menorah octette, under the direction of Milton Katz, was prominent among the entertainers. A second Hunter-C. C. N. Y. Menorah reception, the counterpart of that of the previous fall, followed. Ably coached by Morris J. Kaplan, the dramatic group presented Pinski’s Treasure’’ as the annual theatrical produc- tion. Even more enjoyabe than usual, the annual concert of Jewish music was arranged by Abraham Tanncnbaum. Dr. Mordicai Grossman delivered the initial lecture of the season on Scepticism, the Func- tion cf the Jewish Intellect.” Among the other speakers to address the society were Mr. James Waterman Wise and Dr. Benjamin Harrow. Weekly meetings of the Hebrew Circle, revived by Morris Lamb, were held under the auspices of the Menorah. Discussions, songs and lectures were featured in the Circle’s programs. Dr. Churgin of Yeshiva College, Dr. R. Gordis ’26, J. Z. Frischberg and Levi Scharfstcin spoke at its sessions. A Zionist Circle was founded by Reuben Gordon and Abraham Ducker who became its leaders. Morris Adler and Sol A. Fcffcr comprised the faculty of a regularly conducted Hebrew class. Discussion groups were led by Daniel Allen, Joshua Marcus and Benjamin Ellman, the club’s most notorious gate-crasher. Friday afternoons were devoted to group singing of Hebrew and Yiddish songs; Managed by Reuben Gordon, the debating team partici- pated in the Inter-varsity Menorah tournament where it acquitted itself creditably. Zachary Skrwkr Prof. Gom f. rr George M. Koehl .................................President John F. Connor .............................Vice-President George Clemens Secretary-Treasurer (Fall) Arthur Kamenoff............. Secretary-Treasurer (Spring) Ray H. Legate......................................General Secretary MINIATURE world in itself, the College Y” provides for its members a kaleidoscopic round of social, athletic, and cultural activities. Regularly it despatches delegates to national and metropolitan conventions and con- ducts intramural assemblies and tournaments. Affiliated with the New York Intercollegiate Y. M. C. A. and the Metropolitan Christian Student Movement, the local chapter maintains an alcove where problems of interest are fully debated. During the past year representatives have been sent to the Buck Hills Falls, North- field Student, and Metropolitan Christian Student Conferences. A joint dance with the Hunter Y” was another feature of the year’s program. Basketball, handball, and checker tourneys were run off with consistent success and unflagging interest on the part of the participants. Under the leadership of Arthur Moor devotional groups met weekly at the P. and S. club. Due to an unfortunate condition of affairs the regular Varsity Excursion was not conducted under the auspices of the Y. M. C. A. In a letter to President Robinson, George Koehl, President of the Association writes: The Varsity Excursion has grown beyond the legitimate activities of the Christian Association with its limited member- ship and resources. Therefore we can not run the excursion in 1929.” One hundred seventy-six Circulo Dante Alighieri FALL SPRING Edvard E. Feleppa...............President....................Anthony Cioffi Peter Massaro...................Vice-President................Frank Brescia Frank Brescia...................Treasurer.................Joseph Mondello Anthony Cioffi..................Secretary................James Di Francesco Professor Alfonso Arbib-Costa, Faculty Advisor RGANIZED with a view to welcoming into its fold all students interested in Italian literature, folkways, and problems, the Circulo Dante Alighieri designed a rich and varied program for carrying out its plans. The club played host to a galaxy of prominent speakers during the year. In ac- cordance with its aim, it enlisted the talent of the best informed scholars on past and contemporary Italian Culture. Every meeting of the club was featured by an interesting and stimulating lecture and discussion of important Italian movements. Professor Maicerates of the University of Venice was one of the many noteworthy men to address the society. The C. D. A. did not confine its activities to the intellectual realm alone. Two tea dances, climaxed by gala affairs at the International House and the Casa Italian.!, served to round out a brilliant year of social activities. Not only did the C. D. A. function as a socializing and intellectual organ, but it also helped to glorify the athletic tradition of the college. The club basketball team, captained by Edward Feleppa, subjected the Manhattan Italian Club to an overwhelming defeat. One hundred seventy-seven ' Deutscher Verein Sam Baron, President Jerome Feinstein, Vice-President Solomon R. Berger, Secretary Paul Riess, Treasurer HE DEUTSCHER VEREIN has always been famed for its good fellowship, diversified activities and fine scholarship. This year, the club has re- ligiously followed the fine traditions of the past. In early May, the Verein staged one of George Brickncr’s finest plays at the International House. Over forty members of the organization participated in the production. It was by far the most ambitious undertaking that the Club had ever attempted. Among the many social activities that the Club planned, the most enjoyable was the Kommcrs or beer evening—an occasion devoted to the singing of German student songs, the munching of many pretzels, and the drinking of much beer, American style. The Octette of the Club was a feature of the evening’s entertainment. The Verein was the first student organization in America to realize the need for a German literary organ. Under the editorship of Herman Ramras, the Studcnten- schrift has appeared for the fifth consecutive time. The magazine features poetry, short stories, and critical essays on current movements in German Literature. Among the many non-student contributors to the periodical this year were the famous Ludwig Lewisohn and Kuno Franckc. One hundred seventy-eight Deutscher Veretn Octette RGANIZED but three years ago, the Octette cf tenors and baritones of the Deutscher Vcrcin has gathered fame unto itself and has always reflected credit upon the College and upon the organization from which it sprang. From its very inception it has enjoyed consistent and amazing success. The successfully won the first prize trophy in the song contest conducted by The Campus for two years. The ability of the group of singers is universally recognized around the College and they arc called upon frequently to entertain at collegiate affairs. During the past year they have displayed their talents by singing at the Freshman Chapels, the Student Council Moving Picture Show, Charter Day Exercises, and Senior Class Night. Jerome Ecinstcin, a member of the 1928 Octette, directed the unit. At each occasion at which the group entertained the participants were chosen from among A. Berman, M. Figowitz, A. Rosen, C. Zaino, H. Krassnoff, H. Hcrzig, I. Klein, A. Rabenau, and J. Mctzncr. Octette has One hundred seventy-nine Douglass Society FALL OFFICERS SPRING Denzil Carty..........................President....................Hamilton Soden Hamilton Soden.....................Vice-President ................Harold Edghill Walter Ramsey..........................Secretary Edwin Kirton Joseph Sylvester......................Treasurer.................................Joseph Sylvester Harold Edghili.........................Director....................Ki-nneth Hughes Hugh Newsam.............................Director................................Norman Rowan Faculty Adviser, Dr. Samuel Joseph ESIGNED to promulgate, disseminate and perpetuate Negro history, cul- ture, and advancement in the College and among the general public as well, the Douglass Society sponsored several lectures and musical pro- grams during the ’29 year. With its membership drawn entirely from the colored population of the Day Session, the organization was able to hold well-attended meetings every Thursday of the academic year. An address by Mr. Ira Reid on The Negro in Industry” opened the fall term. A musical recital of Negro talent followed, after which Prof. Costa lectured before the society anent The History and Romance of the French West Indies.” Informal student discussions were an outstanding feature of each convention. Spring activities were initiated with a talk by Mr. William Pickens on Economic Interpretation of Race Problems.” A second all-Negro recital was undertaken while the undergraduate forums were continued. Credit for the club’s remarkable social success is due to the Board of Directors who, as governors of the organization’s destinies in the intervals between meetings arranged its programs. The board consisted of the society’s officers and two delegates designated by the members. One hundred eighty The %adio Qub J. J. Newman, W2AKG, President B. Paradis, Vice-President H. Greenberg, Secretary A. Roberts, W2AKE, Treasurer Wm. Nosofsky, W2AWC, Chief Operator Proi-. Harry Baum, E.E., Vacuity Advisor LTHOUGH the Radio Club has never been popularly acclaimed by the Student Body, it has achieved a measure of success in the radio world that it is a tribute to the untiring efforts that its small roster of radio enthusiasts have expended in its behalf. The Club can boast of accom- plishments that few amateur organizations in this country have attained. In the past year, the Club has reached out and has circled the earth in its radio wanderings. The boys have spoken to all of the European and Central American coun- tries. Even the distant lands of Australia and Africa have been kept in communication. The Club’s scientific activities arc divided into branches of radio work. A thorough ground work in radio theory is afforded to all those who wish to secure the government amateur operator’s license while setting up of transmitters, dabbling in television and experimenting with novel devices comprises the practical side of the Club’s program. The Biology Society Sidney Ross ’29, President Louis N. Kaplan ’29, Vice-President Carl Greenfeld ’29, Secretary (Fall) Alex Kaplan ’32, Secretary (Spring) Samuel Abramson ’29 Treasurer Professor Abraham J. Goldfarb, Vacuity Advisor LESSED with a group of competent officers who at once embarked on an ambitious program of cultural and social functions, the successful outcome of the year’s activities of The Biology Society seemed almost a foregone conclusion even in September. The meetings in the fall term were to be devoted to the delivery of papers and addresses by members of the Society on individual scientific research. The spring semester was set aside for the entertainment of some of the most eminent figures of scientific circles in the fields of experimental biology and medicine as well as prominent mem- bers of the College science departments. With this extensive program in mind, the first step was to increase the number of scheduled meetings; so that every Thursday something inter- esting and instructive awaited the members of the Society and its numerous guests. The year opened officially for the Society when it enter- tained the three senior members of the Biology Department faculty who reminisced on their variegated experiences during the past summer. Professor Axel L. Melander waxed enthu- Prof. Goi.dfard ■ —i its f—-Mrt Sidney Ross siastic over his attendance at an entomological convention. Professor George G. Scott told of his residence at the Cold Spring Harbor Experimental Station. Professor Abraham J. Gold- farb, just having returned from an extended tour of Egypt, Palestine, and the Near East, relegated his field of the biological sciences to the background for the moment and became the social philosopher delving into the educational systems of the occidental countries he had personally visited. With this au- spicious start there followed a scries of student lectures on sub- jects varying from botany to physiological chemistry embrac- ing such interesting topics as Color Reactions for Vitamin A and Animal Behaviourism.” Interspersed among these were two addresses given by Professors Harrow and Pragcr of the Chemistry Faculty who talked respectively on The Synthesis of Vitamins In Plants’ and Pictet’s Synthesis Of Sugars.” And on two consecutive Sundays in the balmy days of Indian Summer, the more fresh-air-loving type of member ambled away on a fauna and flora hunting expedi- tion to the swamps and streams of Hunters Island. By this time the Christmas Vaca- tion loomed prominently and soothingly. And, as is the custom, the vice-president of the society planned a smoker for the members. This biggest and best smoker was a thrilling precursor of respite from study. Here were in over abundance pictures and skits of the most pseudoscientific and risque nature. To say that a good time was had by all is to be too mild and trite. With the dawn of the new year, the Society performed one of the most useful functions; namely, that of conducting the annual Medical School Meeting at which Dr. Gottschall and Prof. Goldfarb acquainted the premcdical student body of the College with the requirements of the various medical schools. The Activities of the Spring Semester were marked by a scries of talks given by prominent scientists and the younger instructors of the Biology Faculty. The So- ciety was fortunate in securing the services of Dr. William Woglom, associate director of Cancer Rcascarch of Columbia University and the Crocker Institute; Dr. Alfred Fabian Hess, Professor of Pediatrics at Bellevue and chief of the clinic of Mt. Sinai Hospital; Dr. Greenwald of the Society of Experimental Biology and Medicine; and Dr. I. Newton Kuglemass ’17, the director of research at the Fifth Avenue Hospital. Besides the four ad- dresses delivered by these men, the Society was entertained by the interesting accounts given by Prof. W. W. Browne on Some Practical Applications of Bacteriology”; Mr. H. H. Johnson on Circus Freaks” and Mr. Alexander Chaikclis, Joseph Copeland and Abraham G. Cohen. During the entire year, the Biology Society strove to present to the College a host of illuminating programs which would at once serve to entertain and fire the spark of the Louis N. Kaplan scientific spirit in its members. One hundred eighty The Political Quh FALL Leo Pillar ’29.... Meyer Rosenspan ’29 Ralph Pastor ’29 OFFICERS ....President..... . Vice-President. . Secretary-Treasurer SPRING Meyer Rosenspan ’29 Sanford Craig ’29 Ralph Pastor ’29 Faculty Advisors Dr. Louis A. Warsoff Prof. William B. Guthrie Execu ti ve M eni hers Harold I. Cammer ’29 Jack B. Rosenberg ’29 Meyer Rosenspan One hundred ei{ hty-four OFTY ideals, entertaining programs and a series of addresses by men prominent in the legal world have combined to give the Politics Club a posi- tion in the limelight of College clubdom. Re- organized in 1924 by a joint committee consisting of Presi- dent Frederick B. Robinson, then Dean of the School of Busi- ness, and Professor William B. Guthrie and a group of en- thusiastic undergraduates, the society adopted its present name and continued the policies advocated by its predecessor, the now defunct Civics Club. Rapidly gaining popular interest through the clear-sighted- ness of its views and the broad scope of its activity, the or- ganization today ranks as one of the largest on the Heights. The club’s paramount aims are to foster open forum discussions of current political problems, to arrange lectures by eminent speakers, to conduct field trips that the members may better comprehend the machinery of government through personal observation and, most important of all, to introduce students into the realm of political endeavor. In keeping with these policies, excursions have been undertaken to Sing-Sing penitentiary, Ellis Island, Welfare Island and several state and city courts. Among the outstanding lawyers and orators who have addressed the society arc Max D. Stener, Judge Panken, Mr. Anderson, Justice Hartman, Dr. Kunitz, Dudley Field Malone, Dr. Perkins, Arthur Garfield Hayes and Samuel Untermeyer. Although intimately connected with the various branches of government administration the Politics Club is entirely non- partisan in nature. Ever increasing in membership, the Club is continually altering and reshaping the course of its activity to meet the augmented requirements. The Club during the past year conducted two visits to Sing-Sing Prison. During Christmas week Dr. WarsofT con- ducted one hundred and fifty day session students through the prison and repeated the visit in the Spring term with students Ralph Pastor from the evening session. Leo Pillar Officers’ Club FALL SPRING Harold Soi.odar .................. President Sidney Brodman Edwin P. Curtin ................Vice-President................. Eugene J. Erdos Walter J. Degnan ..................Treasurer.....................Paul V. Bitzer William E. Colford Recording Secretary .........Albert S. Roistacher Victor J. Marma............. Corresponding Secretary... Dominick Montelbano Charles A. Hachemeister Marshal Charles A. Hachemeister College Representative Professor Herbert M. Holton Vacuity Advisor Captain Harry W. Bolan, 37th Infantry One hundred eighty-six IlAROI.l) SOI.ODAR OST fraternal of all the College’s multitudinous organizations, the Officers’ Club during the past year rose to the greatest heights of social achieve- ment in its short but colorful career. Climaxing the Fall and Spring activities were two brilliant formal dances and the Charter Day ceremonies. Impressive indeed are the ideals embodied in the preamble to the club’s constitution: We, the cadet officers of the Reserve Officers’ Training Corps, at the College of the City of New York, in order to encourage and promote a greater interest among the rank and file of this organization, and a spirit of sociability among its officers, do hereby unite to form this Officers’ Club, and pledge ourselves to actively advance the good of the College, community and country.” At the inductory smoker, which opened the year, serious ritual vied with innocent pranks to make the evening a riotous success. Throughout the Fall semester bi-monthly conviviums, lectures and informal dances were conducted with uniform enjoyment to staff, alumni and undergraduate participants. The highlight of the fast waning year was the Winter Dance in honor of the newly appointed commandant and his wife, Colonel and Mrs. George Chase Lewis and other distinguished guests. The second of the season’s formal proms feted Captain Philip E. Brown and Captain Harry W. Bolan, retiring instructors of the department who were also guests of honor at the Final Smoker. As usual members of the club officered and marshalled the Cadet Corps at the Charter Day exercises reviewed by the Commanding General of the Second Corps Area and his staff. A tea-dance followed the ceremonies. Active and alumni members engaged in regular rifle and pistol duels. Technical Sergeant George Brandenburgcr, who will re- tire in mid-September, was tendered a smoker in recognition of thirty years service, nine of which were spent in the local de- partment. The bi-monthly smokers of the Fall term were made weekly affairs in the Spring and every Friday evening. Members of the Club covered themselves with glory and medals at the Plattsburg Summer camp winning both the Efficiency and Marksmanship plaques and eight of eleven spec- ial battalion awards. In addition fifty-six individual rifle and pistol marksmanship trophies were captured by representatives Sidney Brodman r ,c College. Dramatic Society STUDENT OFFICERS William Jordan Withrow, President Ira M. Silberstein, Stage Manager Asa Harrison, Business Manager Paul Liebowitz, Business Manager Irving Samuels, Publicity Manager Morton Liftin, Secretary FACULTY DIRECTORS Professor Joseph L. Tynan Professor Gustave Schulz Captain Reese E. Lyle Winters Prof. Tynan- TTEMPTING an experiment strangely different from those practiced in the Chemistry laborator- ies, the Dramatic Society demonstrated the reac- tions of My Phi Beta Kappa Man when lie is exposed to the charms of womanhood for the edification of almost two thousand eager undergraduates, alumni, and their friends. For weeks the columns of The Campus seethed with it, the concourse walls displayed banners heralding it, the amateur Coney Island barkers filled the al- coves with it. On four nights in May, a cast of thirty-eight co-eds trotted across the boards in the first musical comedy to be produced by the college Dramatic Society which was written by students of the college. Twelve scenes carried the audience swiftly to the campus, from the locker rooms to the football field, from alcove to mili sci drills, and from study to nonsense. The book and lyrics for the musical comedy were written by Jack B. Rosenberg ’29, the music was composed by Arnold Shukotoff ’29. Being a play written by stu- dents in the college, it was well received by the student body. The Dramatic Society put a great deal of work into the performance, making its own original drops, rebuild- ing the Harris Auditorium and costuming a cast of fifty. Townsend Harris Hall was the scene of busy activity on the part of the cast, production and scenic staffs, business managers. Campus reporters and big-shots who spent their afternoons in the Academic Theatre for no apparent reason but perhaps to gambol with the chorus girls. In addition to the chorus, there were thirteen characters developing the theme of the show. The plot dealt with the standard Phi Beta Kappa Man, fallen into the snares of thrills more apparent and enjoyable, pro tempore, than books. Almost all the outstanding organizations and person- alities of the College came in for their share of fire with the rapidly changing scenes. Nor was My Phi Beta Kappa Man” the only performance of the year to be staged by the Society. Under an ambitious program, the College Thespians inaugurated a new policy of giving two productions a year. The first play produced in the Fall was All Fools,” an Elizabethan drama, by George Chapman, famous for his translation of Homer. The Dramatic Society went to some expense in rebuilding a typical Eliza bethan stage for its presentation, but as the play had little ap peal to the student body, the Society suffered a financial deficit The success which came later in the year has, however put the Dramatic Society definitely on the road to expansion One hundred eighty-eight MY PHI BETA KAPPA MAN A Musical Comedy Book and Lyrics by Jack B. Rosenberg Produced by the Dramatic Society Music by Arnold Shukototf Cast of Characters Algy, the Phi Beta Kappa man ...................................... Robert Wohlbach Debby....................................................................Anna Wolfe Captain......................................................................... Keith O’Keefe Sergeant.......................................................................William Halpcrn Alfic, Captain of the Football Team ....................................Arthur Nolan Tom, Debby’s brother...............................................Harold Alexander Archie........ ....................................................J. Francis Knipe Hester..................................r............................ Estelle Halpcrn President Prexy.....................................................Lawrence Goldsmith Professor Deadhead .....................................................Abraham Olian The Ofliccboy................................................................... Henry Coelho The Football Coach...............'..................................... Herman Heiser Sybil...........................................................................Bertha Kaslow Miss Pinkerton ...................................................Jacqueline Walker Chorus Girls—Helen Weil, Betty Moran, Elise Kapillian, Lilian Weiner, Berta Cirota, Virginia Slcvin, Ella Shields, Annette Fass, Mary Alderiso, Dolly Rheinwald, Betty Suchman, Alice Shaw, Rose Horowitz, Eleanor Bedrick. Fraternity Men, Football players, etc.—George Patterson, Charles Phinney, Edward Young, L. P. Newbakcr, Archie Bell, Jesse Sobel, H. V. Combs, Herbert Elsinger, Stanley Waxberg, Bernard L. Weil, Alfred Markewich. H. Lyle Winter, Director Joseph King, Captain Reese, Herman Heiser, In charge of Dances FOR THE DRAMATIC SOCIETY William Jordan Withrow, Production Manager Ira M. Silderstein, Stage Manager Milton Goldstein, Chief Electrician Morton Liftin, Assistant Stage Manager Edmund Levy, Chief Linesman One hundred eighty-nine Baskerville Chemical Society HE Baskerville Chemical Society is composed of students interested in ex- tending their knowledge in fields of chemical science not covered in the regular courses of the college. A knowledge of the various phases of theo- retical and applied chemistry is secured through lectures given frequently by men prominent in the world of science, in the college faculty, or in the society itself. New members arc required to give an initiation talk on some division of chemistry with which they arc familiar; these talks are usually accompanied by experimental demonstrations. Open meetings arc held each week in Room 204, Chemistry Building, where fa- cilities for experimental and moving picture demonstration are available. A bulletin board of '‘News in Chemistry” is maintained by the society in the Chemistry Building. Occasional trips to factories employing chemical processes are made. Among the social activities of the society is an annual smoker attended by members of both the Alumni and undergraduates. Tetter Men Frank Babor Sidney Liftin Lester Barckman Woody Liscombe Bernard Blum Sam Liss Edmund Bokat Harold Malter David Brack er Gerald McMahon George Bullwinkei. Sam Michei.son Frank De Philips Charles Munves Jack Edei.man Arthur Musicant George Enders Ben Puleo Jack W. Entin Maxwell Reiskind Stanley Frank Henry Rosner Herbert Fitzgerald Heyman Rothbart Sam Futterman Jack Sandack Philip Garelick Thomas Saphier Sam Goldberg Walter Schwartz Paul Gretsch Abraham Schnerr Jack Grossberg Jack Segal William Halpern Harold Solodar Frank Hynes Aaron Tauber Samuel Kaiser Irving Tenzer Jack Kany Edward Tietjen Jack Krugman George Timiansky Alfred Lambert Edward Yockel One hundred ninety-one OR the first time since the most popular of all college sports was re-established at St. 1921, the Lavender i Nicholas Terrace back in BSJ achieved something approximating national recognition on the gridiron for the 1928 cam- paign. Unprecedented publicity and attention was directed towards the College eleven as it swept through a seven- game schedule, just failing to attain the ultimate in a season —an undefeated team. It is indeed a far cry from the scoreless wonders” of the 1923 vintage to a team that went down to the last game of the season with a clean slate, yet that was the feat accomplished by Coach Hal Parker’s gridmen just five years later. As the renaissance of football continues un- checked at the College, the 28 team represents the best efforts made by the Lavender in the quest to make the gridiron game the outstanding course in the sports cur- riculum at C. C. N. Y. Four games won, two tied and one lost, was the splen- did record turned in by Captain Willie Halpcrn and his men for the season that surpassed anything ever experienced at the College. The eleven was one of the twelve undc- One hundred ninety-four fenced ten ms in the country until the very Inst game of the campaign, when an inspired Manhattan squad toppled the Lavender from the ranks of the mighty with a 14-10 set- back in a stirring battle. George Washington University, St. Lawrence, Drexel, and Norwich fell before the superior prowess of the home team, while Lebanon Valley and Rensselaer Polytcch engaged in tic games with the College. With a wealth of veteran material available and several new men displaying unusual ability in their first year with the varsity, Coach Parker and his assistants were able to put a team on the field that was able to hold its own with any small college team in the East. Veterans and newcomers were synchronized nicely to form an aggressive, intelligent aggregation that added considerable prestige to the College despite the ballyhoo surrounding the exploits of larger in- stitutions. The second training camp in the College’s history was set up with twenty-five gridmen answering the clarion to football wars. Coach Parker and his assistants, Roy Plaut, Al Dreiband, and Joe Tubridy, brought back from Camp Monterey, located at Great Barrington, Mass., a well-condi- tioned squad that was further advanced for that early period in football technique than any other team Parker had ever worked with at the College. Two more weeks of pre-season training in Lewi soli n Stadium further prepared the men for the opening of the campaign. The sensational pony” backfield of the year before, consisting of Bicnstock, Barckman, Goldhammer and Cohen, was broken up, due to the brilliant work of Targum, perhaps the most valuable man on the team. These five men alternated in the backfield all season, and gave the team a versatile quintet of ball-carriers. An old failing of the team, inability to play its best brand of ball away from home, prevented the team from opening the season with a victory at the expense of Lebanon Valley at Annvillc, Pa. A rather disappointing 6-6 dead- lock was played by the two teams, with the College failing to exhibit the same quality of football that had character- ized its work in practice. The work of the line was outstanding in this initial battle and was indicative of what was to come as the sea- son progressed. The fine precision of co-ordinated play that was lacking in this game was immediately remedied after the first contest. Returning to the Stadium for the annual encounter with St. Lawrence, the team recovered some of its lost prestige with a decisive 3 8-0 victory over the invading up-staters for the largest score of the season. The game soon lost all semblance of a contest as the line and backfield over- One hundred ninety-six whelmed the Laurrics completely, and rolled up six touch- downs to score a most satisfactory victory. It was in this game that Bernic Bicnstock, Lavender field general, flashed to the fore as the team’s best scoring threat. The shifty little quarterback tallied four touch- downs to place him among the first five leading scorers :n the East. Charley Hochman, reserve end, scooped up a fumble and converted it into a touchdown, and the reliable Morty Targum came through with a touchdown. Drcxel invaded the Stadium with an impressive record, having won four games, a fine run of victories so early in the season. The Philadelphians, however, left the Gotham with their winning streak rudely shattered and a 26-6 de- feat tacked on them, one of the two setbacks suffered all season by Drexcl. The College’s effective aerial attack, combined with the impregnable defense furnished by the line, was entirely too much for the visitors to handle, and the St. Nick gridmen added another victory to their rapidly growing collection. Continuing to run roughshod over the opposition, C. C. N. Y. thoroughly trounced George Washington University at the Capitol City by the convincing margin of 33-0. Unfamiliar surroundings, miserable weather, and an un- precedented number of penalties all combined to make the game with Rensselaer Poly tech at Troy, N. Y., a disappoint- One hundred ninety-seven ing affair. The Engineers, obviously a weaker team, fought the Lavender to a standstill and held the home team to a 0-0 tie in a fiercely contested battle. Hank Rosner re- covered a fumble in the third period and ran forty-five yards for a touchdown, but the play was recalled for off- side. The staggering total of 185 yards in penalties was meted out to the Lavender during the game and ruined all chances and opportunities the team had for a score. Reputed to be the strongest team on the schedule, Nor- wich University of New Hampshire waged a grand battle for two periods, only to wilt in the last half before a sus- tained drive that carried the College to its fourth victory of the season. Superior line play slowly wore down the op- position, and three touchdowns were run up in the closing minutes on the fast-tiring New England cadets. An inspired Manhattan team precipitously shattered all hopes for an undefeated season with a hard-earned 14-10 decision in the final game of the season year in a bang-up battle all the way that saw the lead alternate three times before the Green finally established its superiority. The Jaspers, who had obviously made the City College contest their main objective for the season, surprised Coach Parker’s men with a well-coached, aggressive squad that was just a bit too resourceful for a somewhat tired and peaked Lav- ender outfit. One hundred ninety-eight Play was all in New York’s favor during the first period, when McBride suddenly broke into the clear and galloped sixty-five yards for a touchdown from scrimmage. Morty Targum signalized his entrance into the game by intercepting a forward pass and taking it back with him fifty-five yards for the last white line. MacMahon’s drop- kick tied the score at half-time. Going into the third quarter the two lines played each other to a standstill until a successful pass gave Captain William Halpern an oppor- tunity to kick a placement goal from the fifteen-yard line that gave the Lavender an apparently safe lead at 10-7. Manhattan still continued to press the action and a scries of off-tackle smashes finally culminated in the winning touch- downs for the wearers of the Green. Competent critics hailed this 1928 City College eleven as the best produced under the present football regime and one that played a brand of football comparable to that exhibited on any gridiron in the East. Bernic Bienstock was unanimously proclaimed All-Metropolitan quarterback and was chosen by one daily as the outstanding signal caller in New York State. The same publication selected Captain William Halpern, Morty Targum and Bienstock for the All-State small college ream. One hundred ninety-nine T nsrggnga Jayvee Football OTHING presages more assuredly the Lavender’s consistent rise to a place of eminence on the football horizon than the success of the young junior football squad during the fall of 1928. From a promising group of young- sters, many of whom were initiated into the intricacies of football for the first time, Coach Al Dreiband moulded a really capable eleven whose record of five victories and one tic game attested to the worth of the team from whose ranks the future stars for the College on the gridiron must be chosen. At the imminent risk of being extravagant with praise, the ’28 jayvee team exceeded all other junior teams, with the possible exception of the 1926 aggregation. Despite their lack of experience, the youngsters developed rapidly into a well-balanced machine that ran up a total of ninety-five points to the enemy’s thirty-nine. A powerful line was the outstanding feature of the team’s play, and carried the team throughout the season despite the absence of seasoned backficld material. Still a rather green outfit, Captain Charley Munves and his men managed to tie Stuyvesant High School, 12-12, in a desperate last-quarter rally. The rock-bound defense furnished by the line, coupled with a deceptive aerial attack, enabled the juniors to trounce their next five opponents. Seton Hall, Wagner College, Brooklyn Center, and Montclair Normal fell before the onslaughts of Coach Dreiband’s men by the scores of 6-2, 24-13, 10-0, and 12-0, respectively. Then, in a grand finale to a brilliant sea- son, the jayvee reached its peak against the heavy St. John’s junior varsity in the closing game of the schedule, overwhelming the Scarlet invaders to the tune of 31-12. ik -Ddb Tv;o hundred Basketball HE oid order changcch. In the halycon days of the 1921-25 vintage, when championship bas- ketball teams and metropolitan and Eastern titles were nonchalantly ac- cepted as the usual course of events, peerless Lavender quintets were making history for future generations to aspire to and revere, in the in- imitable manner surrounding all hallowed college traditions. And in the light of recent developments on the St. Nick court, that tradition will probably mark the ultimate in the College’s role as an outstanding figure in the basketball firmament, an elusive, intangible something” that will be attained again only with difficulty. Surely, a season which numbers nine victories in fourteen starts cannot by any considerable stretch of the imagination be considered wholly an unsuccessful one, yet such a record is not exactly satisfactory to your ardent fan at the College, who takes his basketball very seriously indeed. Crushing defeats suffered at the hands of rivals of long standing did not help to make the 1928-29 season what might be termed a howling success either. When this Lavender team was good, it was quite a proficient combination, but when it was bad, it was really quite distressing. Starting the season in approved fashion, the team played well until the half-way mark was reached, when the five slumped badly to drop the last four out of seven games. Despite the loss of three regulars from the previous campaign, a capable squad was seemingly in the process of formation, with Captain Sam Liss and Lou Spindcll available as the nucleus for the ’29 five. The splendid improvement of several re- serves from among the varsity holdovers and the development of a former freshman star further heightened the optimistic belief that the College was due to resume its former unchallenged position in no uncertain manner. Frank DePhillips, captain of the 1928 freshman five, soon established his super- iority as the leading center, gaining the post over Sid Liftin. Jack Sandack, hero or Two hundred one the Fordham game of the previous winter, apparently had his berth at forward clinched, while Art Musicant’s marked improvement made him the obvious choice for a varsity assignment at guard. In the main, Coach Holman relied upon the same men to carry the team through an arduous schedule, although considerable experimentation was made before a com- bination was selected. Sandack retired in favor of Emil Kany, a senior, after the first seven games, but the determined bid of Milt Trupin for a regular berth forced Kany to the sidelines in the closing contests of the card. By their sheer speed and deception, the men looked to be a promising crew. As customary, a dazzling passing attack was the outstanding feature of the Lavender’s play, and even in their poorest exhibitions semblances of a well-founded offense were still visible through the shadows of mediocrity. As usual, St. Francis obligingly opened the schedule, but the otherwise peaceful Franciscans almost helped usher in the campaign with a defeat for New York. After a listless exhibition in the first half, the team suddenly remembered what they were supposed to do, and proceeded to tag the Saints with a 20-17 defeat after a few anxious moments. Unfortunately, the team chose to play its best game of the season in the second battle on the fourteen-game card. However, Nat Holman’s men had to be at their best to turn back a good Temple University five that later gained decisions over some of the leading squads in the East. Employing a method system of play remarkably similiar to that used by the home team, Temple waged a grand battle for forty min- utes, only to go back to Quakertown with a 3 3-29 defeat dragging behind. A little occurrence that promised to assume alarming proportions was again enacted when St. John’s administered the season’s first defeat by a score of 24-33. Subsequent events proved that St. John’s had a team of first ranking, but that fact was unknown before the two teams went out to do and die for Alma Mater. It was merely a ease of too much St. John’s, nothing more and nothing less. Obviously, the better team had won, and it was felt that with one defeat to take the edge off a schedule studded with difficult games, the men would strike their proper stride. This was precisely what the men proceeded to do in the next four games, parading a streak of the best basketball they were to show all season. During this time, St. Lawrence, Princeton, Washington and Jefferson, and Buckncll, were trounced by convincing margins, while the team gave promise of fulfilling all the nice pre-season predictions made for it. A new modern record for high-scoring was established at the expense of St. Law- rence when the upstaters were buried under a deluge of field goals and points. The final score was 58-17, which was not exactly hard to take. Two hundred two Reviving a time-honored series with Princeton, the team gained its first really im- portant victory of the season when it set back the Tigertown representatives, 40-25, in a game that saw the men performing at their best. The issue was never in doubt, and the men maneuvered to a most satisfying victory in a rather dazzling fashion. The new year was ushered in with appropriate ceremony when W. and J. was soundly trounced on New Year’s Eve, 41-17. Continuing its sensational play against Buckncll, the Lavender gave a sound exhibition in winning from the Pennsylvanians by a count of 44-27. In both these games the home players were forced to give away a crushing handicap in weight and height, but their consummate skill in action more than compensated for any physical deficiencies. Up to this point, the team had performed in convincing fashion, and the under- graduate and alumni body was entirely satisfied with six victories out of the first seven games. The bubble broke in the Rutgers game, however, when a crude Scarlet team that refused to be defeated emerged on the long end of the 33-32 count after a bruising, Donnybrook affair that saw the spectators work themselves up to a frenzy rarely seen on St. Nicholas Terrace. Captain Sam Liss and his men got under way nicely, fooling the dazed Rutgers men repeatedly. Going into the second half the College was still in front, but with a remarkable rally, considering their limited ability, the visitors came back to tic things up at the end of the regulation period. In the overtime, Rutgers dropped in two field goals to eke out a one-point decision. What was undoubtedly the poorest exhibition of the season was next staged at Bethlehem, Pa., when the squad engaged in its only trip of the season to meet Lehigh in the annual homc-and-home series. It was another ease of spirited play defeating a more finished, but strangely lackadaisical outfit. But for the individual brilliance of Lou Spindcll, the count would have been very much worse than the 39-30 defeat sustained. Spindcll, given the task of guarding the vaunted Bob Many, came through with a flawless exhibition, scoring fifteen points while holding Many to a scant seven. Meeting the poorest Manhattan team developed at Rivcrdale in the last decade, the Lavender ranked the favorite to down the Jaspers in the first important engagement in the metropolitan series, but the rather disappointing work of the home team did not make the issue a certainty. With a characteristic performance, however, Nat Hol- man’s men came back into the winning column again, handing Manhattan a neat 31-16 defeat. A fast start enabled the Lavender to hold a 19-2 lead at half-time, and the locals just breezed through until the final whistle. Duquesne served as a warmup for the Fordham embroglio, and the Smoky City men were downed, 31-21, in a fast game. Going into the annual classic with the Maroon on the latter’s court, the College men were asked to face the best team pro- duced in the East during the winter of 1929. Fifteen straight games had been regis- tered by Fordham’s great team, and the College merely made it sixteen. Losing the game was of secondary importance, for the Ram courtmen tagged on to the team a humiliating SO-19 score, which represents the most disastrous defeat suffered in the College’s history. The sheer brilliance of Fordham’s attack dominated every phase of the play, and New York never had a chance. In the penultimate contest the team again chose to play good basketball, with the result that Catholic U. was overwhelmed, S8-2S. The ability of the men to recuper- ate after their most unpleasant experience at Fordham was seen as an encouraging turn of events preliminary to the N. Y. U. game, which closed the season for both teams. A hard-hitting Violet quintet, holding a decision over Fordham. helped to fill the Lavender’s cup of woe to overflowing with another one-sided victory. This time the count was 40-24, but it was the same old story of the team forgetting everything they had ever been taught. Prospects for the season of 1929-30 shape up as exceedingly bright at the present time, but that, of course, is not much consolation to the graduating class. Frank DcPhillips, leading scorer of the team, Captain-elect Spindell, a polished player who should be even better next year, Art Musicant, and Milt Trupin, all varsity regulars this winter, provide the nucleus for a team that may make 1929 merely one of those things” when the College’s greatness on the field of basketball endeavor is again an established fact. Freshman Basketball | HE aura of mediocrity that has invariably enveloped freshman quintets at the college during the past several years, gently enthralled the 1932 yearlings who, in spite of an epic struggle in the curtain contest, compiled an ex- tremely poor record of three victories in twelve starts. Victories over Boys’ High, Evander Childs, and the sophomores were the only high spots in a campaign otherwise studded with defeats. The season opened auspiciously enough with a hard-fought 19-18 win over Boys’ High but the freshmen then dropped consecutive engagements to the St. John’s fresh- men, George Washington, and Thomas Jefferson—all by close scores. This tidal wave of defeats was hammered into ripples by a 19-16 decision over Evander Childs in which battle the Lavender startlingly spurted from behind to win in a stirring finish. Ill-fortune, however, returned to dog the heels of Coach Plaut’s pupils, who lost hotly contested battles to Stuyvesant, Manhattan cubs, Morris, Monroe and Fordham frosh, before they once again broke into the winning column by walloping the sophomore outfit. The finest exhibition of the season was uncorked in the wind-up game against the New York University yearlings. At half-time the Lavender held the edge 13-9 and at the three-quarter mark was still in the van 18-16. In the final period, however, the college team cracked, allowing the Violet to come through 23-19. Captain Halpcrn, Palitz, Offerman, Libcn, Goldman, and Gordon took the court regularly for the local first-year men during the entire season. dii3 ft Two hundred five aiMU 'Baseball ECOUNTING the achievements of the 1929 edition of the varsity base- ball team assumed the nature of merely repeating what has been accom- plished on the diamond within recent years on St. Nicholas Terrace. Ap- parently destined to win only half of their scheduled games, Coach Hal Parker’s men followed the traditional procedure by registering an average of .500 for the first half of the campaign, with the prospect of continuing that per- formance during the latter stages of the season. Although no less than eight veterans were again available for service, the Laven- der failed to establish itself as a leading figure in college baseball. The uncertainty of the pitching situation, coupled with erratic work afield and a lack of scoring punch did much to hamper the nine’s efforts. An all-veteran infield and outfield was put on the field, but sophomores bore the brunt of the battery work. At the opening of the year the infield was composed of Captain Jerry MacMahon, Bcrnic Blum, Cy Futterman, and Frank DePhillips, but after the initial games Futterman was shifted to the outfield with Mac Mahon going from third base to first, causing Phil Garclick to forsake his berth in the outfield for the hot corner. This combination remained intact for the remainder of the season. Art Musicant, Sid Liftin, and Futterman comprised a hard-hitting, clean-fielding outfield trio that performed satisfactorily for Coach Parker. The inability of Musi- cant, for two years the team’s outstanding hurlcr, to take his regular turn on the mound due to a lame arm, unquestionably handicapped the club and prevented it from registering a higher average for the year’s work. Coach Parker placed most of his faith in the ability of first year men to fool the opposition during their turn at bat. Irv Ten .er, southpaw sophomore, received the starting assignment in the box for the majority of the important contests, although Hal Maltcr, a letterman from the preceding year, ranked on a par with Tenzer in point of ability. Ben Pulco, Nat Sicgal and Milt Brackcr all saw frequent service as relief pitchers and accounted for two victories between them for the first eight games. Tivo hundred six Wally Schwartz, a converted sophomore inficldcr, rapidly outdistanced the res: of the field for the catcher's berth and developed into a most capable receiver as the season progressed. Tradition had it that the ball team would win approximately half its games, while flashing one outstanding effort during the season in the scoring of one important victory. At the present writing the nine has admirably fulfilled the first part of the contract, triumphing in five out of nine starts, but that one premier performance was still to be shown. The colleges that fell before the team’s superior ability were Cathedral, Stevens Tech, Manhattan, Drcxcl and Upsala, while St. John’s, Providence, Rutgers, and the New York A. C. gained the decisions over the Lavender. As we go to press, contests with St. Francis, Lehigh, Fordham, Trinity, N. Y. U., Clarkson and St. Lawrence in that order still remained to be played. To the loud accompaniment of a deluge of base hits and a profusion of runs, the team auspiciously opened its season with a 29-4 victory over Cathedral, shattering all previous records for high scoring. The batting punch that was present in so much profusion suddenly vanished against the airtight pitching of the St. John’s and Provi- dence moundsmen, and the team was set back by scores of 9-3 and 4-0 respectively. In this last game Tenzer held Providence, tied with Holy Cross in 1928 for the East- ern collegiate championship, to three scattered hits, but his mates failed to connect at tljc right time with the offerings of the Dominican tosscr. Following this, three straight games were won during the team’s best spurt of the year. Stevens was first set back, 5-4, in a well played battle, and Drexel was sent home with a 5-2 defeat tagging after them. Upsala was bested, 15-8, in a loosely played game. At Rutgers the team was handed its second coat of whitewash to the tunc of 6-0, and the New York A. C. surprised by batting out a 9-2 victory. Two hundred seven Wrestling URPASSING the performances of all other minor sport aggregations, the wrestling team firmly established itself as one of the College’s most capable teams during the winter of 1929. According to old-time followers of the Lavender’s fortunes in the sport realm and as a result of a diligent search through the record books, the ’29 grapplers were conceded to be the best all-around combination seen on St. Nicholas Heights since the inception of the mat sport in the early years of the century. Led by Captain Nat Sclnvalbenest, the matmen completed a most ambitious cam- paign, scoring six straight victories and dropping but one decision at the end of the season, and that to a great Franklin and Marshall combination. In recognition of the squad’s excellent work, the Athletic Association, for the first time in the history of the College, awarded major insignia to the varsity members of the team. The men so honored were Captain Sclnvalbenest, Captain-elect Sam Heistein, Milton Schwartz, Nat Doscher, Charles Pomcrantz, Max Barish, Abe Marcus, and Manager Al Joseph. Among the major victories the team scored were sweeping triumphs over Rutgers, Lafayette, Temple, and M. I. T., and all by the overwhelming margins of at least eighteen points. In the minor engagements, Brooklyn City College and the Institute Branch of the Y. M. C. A. were both shut out as the squad rode roughshod to easy victories. Two hundred eight Two hundred nine N REGARD to actual success and number of victories garnered, the his- tory of swimming during the past campaign resembled very closely its aquatic partner, water polo. However, for the first time since 1924, the college natators climbed from the cellar position of the I. S. A., gracefully relinquishing that post to their metropolitan rivals from Outstanding during the season were the 52-10 and 48-14 decisions over Franklin and Marshall, and Temple, and that 33-29 win over Columbia. The latter victory, together with the defeat administered to the Lions by the College sextet, gave the Lavender tank teams their only double league victory of the past campaign. The work of several sophomores throughout the season was particularly gratify- ing. Stef fin, in the dive, Cronan and Gartner in the back stroke, and Kelly in the 440, showed a lot of promise. The latter broke the College record for his event in the F. M. encounter, splashing his way over the long course in 5:59 2-5. Dave Herman annexed high scoring honors with 22 points, while Paul Grctsch duplicated his feat in polo by also taking second place in swimming with 20 points. Myron Stcffin was chosen to succeed Jules Karaschcfsky as captain. The latter, Grctsch, Young, Herman, and Goldman, will be lost to next year’s team. Water Polo HILE boasting a team that showed great potential ability, the Lavender water polo outfit concluded a rather unsuccessful season, dropping from fourth place last year to a tie with Dartmouth for seventh place in I. S. A. standing. Only three wins were turned in, two against league teams, Columbia and Rutgers, and the other against the N. Y. U. sextet. When playing in the home pool, the College poloists displayed a wealth of offen- sive punch, together with defensive ability, but no sooner did the team leave the en- virons of Gotham than defeat was imminent. The fact that the trio of victories was turned in at the local natatorium lends credence to this statement. The high light of the season proved to be the great fight against the Yale six in the home pool, in which the Bulldog won, 47-24. .. Jess Sobcl, sophomore flash, led in scoring, with 115 points, which put him in sixth place in the league competition. Captain Paul Grctsch was second with 71 markers. Milt Kulick was elected captain to succeed Gretsch. The new pilot was unable to play the greater part of the season because of illness. In addition to the retiring captain, Lew Krauss and Bcrnic Tomson will be lost to next year’s team. Two hundred eleven 1Track C. C. N. Y., 92 2-3; Manhattan, 33 1-3. HIS terse statement marked the College’s outstanding achievement on the cinderpath during the last decade, and merely served to establish the fact that of all the major sports functioning at St. Nicholas Terrace, track had consistently made the best record. During the last two years, five out of seven dual meets had been won, and with prospects more promising than ever, the track and field athletes anticipated an undefeated campaign for 1929. Despite the loss of several mainstays through injury and ineligibility. Coach Mac- Kenzic managed to assemble a well-balanced combination that found the Lavender with a strong representation in virtually every event. After a rather disappointing third place at the classic Penn Relays, the team recovered to administer a most decisive vic- tory over Manhattan, rolling up the highest score ever tallied by the trackmen. At the present writing, meets with Temple, Fordham, and Rensselaer Polytcch still re- main, and the squad was rated more than an even choice to sweep all three of them. Woody Liscombc, star colored flash, was easily the outstanding performer, run- ning brilliantly in the dashes, supported by Jess Grosberg and Whitford Lynch. Stan Frank, Morris Tannenbaum, and George Bullwinkle ranked the leading middle-dis- tance men, while the latter also starred in the mile run. Tietjen and Kaplan, two sophomores, were the best distance runners on the squad. Lester Barckman and Ben Lamhut ensured the Lavender of a strong entry in the hurdles, the former racing over the high sticks with the latter stepping over the lows. In the field, the genial Coach MacKenzic presented a talented array of jumpers and weight men. Ed Yockcl again shattered his record in the pole vault, while Babor, Fitzgerald, and Saphier flirted with the high jump mark. Gus Enders shattered the discus standard, and Sicgal, Tauber, Hirsch, Schnier and Barckman were capable of sending the weighted implements down the field for long rides. Two hundred twelve Cross Country ROSS COUNTRY, of all athletic teams, was the only one that did not share in the renaissance that seemed to mark the efforts of Lavender sport teams during the fall of 1928. Not a single victory in dual meet competition was chalked up by the varsity hill and dalers, although they gained the decision over the St. John’s team by virtue of a default. Frank Hynes was re-elected to lead the team, which consisted of Sam Goldberg, Marty Lazarowitz, Lou Dlugatz, Sam Halsband, Henry Berkman, and Sam Becker. Sam Goldberg, diminutive track captain, holder of the College records in the mile and two mile runs, proved to be the most consistent performer of the year. Devel- oping rapidly under the tutelage of Coach MacKcnzic, Goldberg ran well all season, placing second in every race. Traveling to Easton, Pa., in its opening meet, the varsity harriers trailed Man- hattan and Lafayette in a triangular meet, with 48 points. Manhattan was second with 46 points, and Lafayette captured the honors with the low total of 26 points. Encountering Manhattan and then Fordham, in annual dual meets, the College cohorts lost close decisions to these schools. The Green and the Maroon were the victors with the low scores of 26-29 and 27-28, respectively. Illness cut heavily into the ranks of the harriers and prevented a better showing of the team. Tuo hundred thirteen lacrosse ANDICAPPED by inexperience and tile lack of suitable training facilities, the varsity lacrosse twelve plodded through its season with but one victory in seven engagements. The unimpressiveness of this record, however, is tempered by the knowledge that in stacking up against the East’s most for- midable teams, the college put on the field an aggregation composed of comparative tyros in the highly intricate technique of the Indian game. The stick wielders displayed most of their latent potentialities in the curtain- raiser against the New York Lacrosse Club which was won by a 2-0 score. A slight let-down in the sterling quality of play uncorked in the opening fray was evident in the Flushing encounter in which the strong club team overshadowed the Lavender 3-2. In an out-of-town match Stevens defeated the college twelve 4-0 after which Coach Rody’s charges journeyed to Easton, Pa., where their measure was neatly taken by Lafayette 7-1. The Gotham Indians then returned to home soil for the first time in a month and dropped a close battle to New York University, after a lively set-to in which the college monopolized possession of the rubber for the major part of the con- test only to fail to convert the tries for goal, by a 4-2 count. The season closed with an 8-0 defeat at Rutgers. Two hundred fourteen t® xx xsrm Phi Beta Kappa OFFICERS GAMMA CHAPTER OF NEW YORK 1928-1929 1929-1930 ELIAS LIEBERMAN ’03.....................President........ELIAS LIEBERMAN ’03 PAUL L. SAUREL ’90...............1st Vice-President.........PAUL L. SAUREL ’90 WALTER M. BRICKNER ’93 . . . .2nd Vice-President. WALTER M. BRICKNER ’93 JOSEPH E. WISAN '22.....................Secretary.............JOSEPH E. WISAN ’22 CHARLES A. CORCORAN ’04.................Treasurer...............ALFRED IACUZZI T7 INITIATES, 1929 Benjamin Bokser Abraham G. Cohen Harold Dycke David Fried Henry Fuchs Seymour Goldman Louis Granich Herman G. Helpern Charles Hodes Henry D. Isakowitz Samuel Kaiser Benjamin Kaplan William Kober Israel Krowitz Isaac Nordan Isidore Novogrodsky Herbert Palitz Henry Potozky Benjamin Roth Stanley Surrey William Swire Seymour Trachtenberg Herbert Wechsler Robert Whitford Lester Barckman John B. Clark Frank Hynes William Halpern Benjamin Kaplan Edmund Bokat Stanley B. Frank Soph Skull 1929 Gerald J. McMahon Arthur Musicant Henry Rosner HeymAn Rothbart Arnold Shukotoff 1930 Samuel L. Kan Albert Maisel Louis Spindell Lester Barckman Bernard Bienstock George Bronz John B. Clark Jack G. Deutsch Lock and Key 1929 Irving A. Jacoby Benjamin Kaplan Gerald J. McMahon Arthur Musicant Jack B. Rosenberg Arnold Shukotoff 1930 Edmund Bokat Sylvan Elias Stanley B. Frank Samuel Heistein Oscar Lasdon Albert Maisel Delta Alpha Founded at the College of the City of New York in 185 5 Tzvo hundred eighteen FRATRES IN FACULTATE Prof. Lewis Freeman Mott ’S3 Prof. Livingston Burrill Morse ’89 Prof. Harry Cates Krowl ’95 Prof. Donald Whiteside ’97 Frederic Ernst ’02 Prof. Wm. Edwin Knickerbocker ’04 Clarence Eugene Minor ’06 Edward Walmsley Stitt ’13 Dr. Edwin Toal Hauser ’16 Edwin Van Berghane Edmond Albert Meras ’17 Donald Alfred Roberts ’19 Liba Harold Studley ’21 Varce Wood ’22 Harold E. Smith ’22 Howard Wm. Hint . ’25 Richard Monroe Haff '26 John K. Ackley ’28 Arthur O. White Knickerbocker FRATRES IN COLLEGIO 1929 Ernest Campbell Mossner Richard Connor 1930 Edward W. T. Young, Jr. Howard A. Knag Charles Westle Harry D. Russell Howard V. Coombs Kenneth Nelson Brown 1931 Gordon F. Rowan 1932 Robert Nielsen Hinds Henry J. Berger Franklyn G. Rothwell George B. Patterson Louis Philip Newbaker Archibald K. Bell Walter H. Ringwali. Edwin A. 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Cering Franz Letzloff Robert C. Cosgrave Frank Di: Philipps Gerard Oak Arthur Meronich Albert Solodar Emanuel Silk Harold Schwartz Jesse Sobel Frank Barnett Two hundred twenty-three Theta Delta Chi Founded at the College of the City of New York in 1881. ROLL OF CHAPTERS Alpha Union College Beta Cornell University Gamma Iowa State College Delta University of Michigan Epsilon University of California Zeta College of William and Mary Eta Brown University Iota McGill University Kappa Bowdoin College Lambda Stanford University Nu Massachusetts Institute of Technology Omicron Williams College Xi Tufts College Pi University of Illinois Rho University of Toronto Sigma Amherst College Tau University of Virginia Phi Lehigh University Chi Hobart College Psi University of Washington Om F.G y Dartmouth College Sigma Alpha College of the City of New York Sigma Beta Columbia University Sigma Gamma University of Wisconsin Sigma Epsilon University of Minnesota Sigma Zeta Lafayette College Sigma Eta University of Pennsylvania Sigma Theta University of Rochester Sigma Iota George Washington University Sigma Kappa Hamilton College FRATRES IN FACULTATE Nelson Prentiss Mead, Ph.D. '99 Herbert M. Holton, B.S. '99 David D. Driscoll '25 FRATRES IN COLLEGIO Herbert G. Elsinger 1929 Raymond T. Murray Frank J. Hynes Nicholas Stadtfeld John N. Meister 1930 Nicholas Tomasula Ralph E. Carlson 1931 Chester A. Dick Robert A. Reuss 1932 Walter Vogel Edwin H. Tietjen Two hundred twenty-five Phi Sigma Kappa Founded March 15, 1873, at Massachusetts Agricultural College Zeta Chapter Founded at the College of the City of New York December 19, 1896 Chi Psi Omega Alpha Deuteron Beta Deuteron Gamma Deuteron Delta Deuteron Epsilon Deuteron Zeta Deuteron Eta Deuteron Theta Deuteron Iota Deuteron Kappa Deuteron Lambda Deuteron Mu Deuteron Nu Deuteron Xi Deuteron Omicron Deuteron Pi Deuteron Rho Deuteron Sigma Deuteron Tau Deuteron Upsilon Deuteron Phi Deuteron Chi Deuteron Psi Deuteron Omega Deuteron ROLL OF CHAPTERS Alpha Massachusetts Agricultural College Beta Union University Gamma Cornell University Delta University of West Virginia Epsilon Yale University Zeta College of the City of New York Eta University of Maryland Theta Columbia University Iota Stevens Institute of Technology Kappa Pennsylvania State College Lambda George Washington University Mu University of Pennsylvania Nu Lehigh University Xi St. Lawrence University Omicron Massachusetts Institute of Technology Pi Franklin and Marshall College Sigma St. John’s College Tau Dartmouth College Upsilon Brown University Phi Swarthmorc College Williams College University of Virginia University of California University of Illinois University of Minnesota Iowa State College University of Michigan Worcester Polytechnic Institute University of Wisconsin University of Nevada Oregon Agricultural College Kansas State College Georgia School of Technology University of Washington University of Montana Leland Stanford University University of Tennessee University of Alabama Ohio State College Gettysburg College University of Nebraska Carnegie University of North Carolina University of Kentucky Washington State College University of Oregon University of Southern California D A A -j-i l� ti FRATRES IN FACULTATE Theodore A. Smits ’19 Arnold R. Broggi ’23 Alfred N. Appleby George G. Jones CHAPTER ADVISOR: Leo R. Ryan Joseph K. Hlavac Frederick A. Barton, Jr. CLASS OF 1929 1930 William E. Grady William A. McComb Charles V. Scheuermann Landus J. Smith Nelson B. Meadows John E. Salter B. Franklin Keller Raymond J. Vallen 1931 1932 Ralph A. Bruhn Francis E. Stearns William E. Kirkpatrick Norman O’Flynn Charles R. Force Two hundred twenty-seven ) Zeta 'Beta Tau Founded at the College of the City of New York in 1899. ROLL OF CHAPTERS Alpha The College of the City of New York Gamma New York University Delta Columbia University Theta University of Pennsylvania Kappa Cornell University Mu Boston University Lambda • Western Reserve University Zeta Case School of Applied Science Sigma Tulanc University Eta Union University Nu Ohio State University O.M ICRON Syracuse University Pi Louisiana State University Rho University of Illinois Tau Harvard University Phi University of Michigan Upsilon McGill University Chi University of Virginia Psi University of Alabama Omega University of Missouri Alpha Beta University of Chicago Alpha Gamma Vanderbilt University Alpha Delta University of Southern California Alpha Epsilon Washington and Lee University Alpha Eta University of California, So. Branch Alpha Theta University of Nebraska Alpha Kappa University of Wisconsin Alpha Mu University of Washington Alpha Xi Washington University Alpha Omicron University of Arizona Alpha Pi University of North Carolina Alpha Rho University of California Two hundred twenty-eight Two hundred twenty-nine Abraham J. Goldi arb FRATRES IN FACULTATI- Mark W. Zemansky Martin Meyi-r Seymour Q. Klein Clarence Dorman MALCOLM HAM M ERSCH LAG Bernard Jacoby Richard J. Levinson Alexander Schimnel FRATRES IN COLLEGIO 1929 1930 1931 Robert J. Cohn, Jr. 1932 Seymour L. Coblens Nathaniel Cooper Charles Hayman FIarold Weinstein Paul H. Riess Dudley D. Straus Delta Sigma Phi Founded at the College of the City of New York in 1899 ROLL OF CHAPTERS Alpha The College of City of New York Gamma New York University Epsilon Pennsylvania State College Eta University of Texas Theta Cornell University Iota University of Pennsylvania Kappa Alabama Polytechnic Institute Lambda Southern Methodist University Mu University of Chicago Nu Waynesburg College Rho North Carolina State College Sigma Thiel College Tau Hillsdale College Hilgard University of California Upsilon Franklin and Marshall College Phi St. Louis University Chi Tulanc University Psi Wofford College Omega University of Pittsburgh Alpha Alpha University of Illinois Alpha Beta Boston University Alpha Gamma Georgian School of Technology Alpha Delta University of North Carolina Alpha Epsilon Duke University Alpha Zeta Alfred University Alpha Eta Ohio Northern University Alpha Theta University of Michigan Alpha Iota Ohio State University Alpha Kappa University of Wisconsin Alpha Lambda James Millikin University Alpha Mu University of Virginia Alpha Nu Oglethorpe University Alpha Omicron McGill University Alpha Pi Michigan State College Alpha Rho University of Colorado Alpha Sigma University of Maryland Alpha Tau Albion College Alpha Upsilon Kansas City Agricultural College Alpha Phi University of Southern California Alpha Chi John B. Stetson University Alpha Psi University of Nebraska Alpha Omega University of Washington Beta Alpha Iowa State College Beta Beta University of Missouri Beta Gamma University of California Beta Delta Birmingham Southern California Beta Epsilon Oregon State College FRATRES IN FACULTATE Prof. William Ii. Guthrie Prof. Paul H. Linepan Prof. Geo. C. Autenrieth Prof. Joseph D. Babor Prof. Wm. L. Estabrooke Prof. Carl N. Kinkeldey George Bischof Christian Gerghof Richard Heynich Kurt Richter FRATRES IN COLLEGIO 1929 Joseph Bi.auvelt Herbert J. Briggs James F. Cooper Walter J. Degnan James Driscoll Thomas R. Clancey John F. Connor George H. Bullwinki.e George J. Clemens Richard E. Hildebrandt 1930 Edward J. Reilly 1931 Clyde W. Teter Dennis G. P. Freeman J. Albert Johnson Gerald J. McMahon Archibald Miller Thomas Murtagh Edward M. Goodwin Arthur J. Nolan Edward F. Keefe George Koehl Frederick G. Pfarrius 1932 Albert E. Burke, Jr. Louis C. Gutheil Ei.i.iott Rippere Frederick Jonas John C. Paul Omega Ti Alpha Founded at the College of the City of New York in 1901 ROLL OF CHAPTERS Alpha College of the City of New York Beta Columbia University Gamma New York University Delta Columbia University, College of Pharmacy Tvso hundred thirty-tiuo Albert S. Roistacher Aaron Addleston Bertram Kleinsinger FRATER IN FACULTATE Dr. Julius Chasnoff FRATRES IN COLLEGIO 1929 Charles E. Warshauer 1930 Harold K. Goldstein 1931 Raymond Lewis Pledgees Charles Trilling Irving Kirshfield Maxwell Wolfe Two hundred thirty-three 'Phi Spsilon 'Pi Founded at the College of The City of New York in 1904 ROLL OF CHAPTERS Alpha College of The City of New York Epsilon Cornell University Gamma Northwestern University Delta Washington and Lee University Eta University of Pennsylvania Theta Pennsylvania State College Zeta University of Pittsburgh Omicron Tufts College Lambda Rutgers University Iota Dickinson College Psi University of Illinois Chi Syracuse University Upsilon Connecticut State College Mu University of Georgia Nu University of Virginia Xi • Georgia Institute of Technology Omega University of Cincinnati Alpha Beta University of Iowa Alpha Gamma University of Michigan Alpha Delta University of Minnesota Alpha Zeta Harvard University Alpha Epsilon Johns Hopkins University Alpha Theta University of South Carolina Alpha Iota University of Miami Eastern Pennsylvania Alumni Association Western Pennsylvania Alumni Association Rhode Island Alumni Association Boston Alumni Association Atlanta Alumni Association New York Alumni Association South Jersey Alumni Association North Jersey Alumni Association Chicago Alumni Association Cincinnati Alumni Association Baltimore Alumni Association Connecticut Alumni Association Los Angeles Alumni Association FRATRES IN FACULTATE William Bradley Otis Sidney Liebgold Gerald Zacharias FRATRES IN COLLEGIO Nathan Birnbaum Albert V. Marcus 1929 Theodore M. Chester Alfred Markewich Seymour M. Schoenholz (Superior) 1930 Benjamin H. Brodf.r Quintin Rosenthal S. Milton Silver David I. Gitterman J. George Rudnick Stanley D. Waxberg 1931 Henry W. Alexander Harold N. Schwinger Ralph J. Tasch Julian S. Liberman Myron L. Steffen Martin N. Whyman 1932 Charles K. Munves Howard W. Woolf Two hundred thirty-five Sigma oAlpha JMu Founded at the College of the City of New York in 1909 ROLL OF CHAPTERS Alpha College of the City of New York Beta Cornell University Gamma Columbia University Delta Long Island Medical College Eta Syracuse University Theta University of Pennsylvania Kappa University of Minnesota Lambda Harvard University Nu Buffalo University Xi Massachusetts Institute of Technology Omicron University of Cincinnati Pi Yale University Rho University of Illinois Tau University of Alabama Epsilon University of Utah Phi Washington University Chi McGill University Psi Pittsburgh University Omega Toronto University Sigma Alpha University of Oklahoma Sigma Beta Ohio State University Sigma Gamma Tulanc University Sigma Delta Rutgers University Sigma Epsilon Armour Institute of Technology Sigma Zeta Indiana University Sigma Eta Parduc University Sigma Theta University of Texas Sigma Iota University of Michigan Sigma Kappa Lehigh University Sigma Lambda University of Kansas Sigma Nu University of Washington Sigma Xi University of Manitoba Sigma Omicron University of Nebraska Sigma Pi University of California Sigma Rho University of Missouri I RATRES IN FACULTATE Roy Plaut Julius Raskin FRATRES IN COLLEGIO Edmund W. Bokat 1929 David Friedman Lawrence Iger William Halpern Herbert Dietz Bernik Bienstock Seymour Buchalter 1930 Isidore Goldberg Jack Weinstein Arthur Abrams Charles Joblan Oscar Lasdon Julian Weiner 1931 Myron Milbouer Philip Sperling James Birnbaum 1932 Theodore Dietz Two hundred thirty-seven Tau T)elta Thi Founded at The College of The City of New York ROLL OF CHAPTERS Alpha College of the City of New York Gamma New York University Delta Columbia University Epsilon Boston University Eta M. I. T. Zeta Harvard University Iota University of Pennsylvania Kappa University of Cincinnati • Lambda University of Chicago Nu University of Michigan Pi University of Illinois Psi Northwestern University Omicron Ohio State University Rho University of Texas Sigma University of California Tau Lehigh University Phi University of Minnesota Upsilon North Dakota Chi University of California FRATER IN FACULTATE Dr. Leo Lehrman, Ph.D. Jess B. Messitte FRATRES IN COLLEGIO 1929 Benjamin Grauer Norman Maurice Orgel Harold Alexander Howard S. Bachenheimer Cecil Frank Joel Horowitz 1930 Abner Silverman 1931 Leonard Seliger 1932 Charles Edwin Wertheimer Joseph Kresh Steven Osterweis Jerome Steiner Elliot Ruskin Ellis Josephs Ira Lauscher Henry Mendel :o hundred forty a FRATRES IN FACULTATE Daniel Brophy Prof. Egbert M. Turner Avery C. Newton Christopher Martin James Flynn John Spagnoli Edward R. Yockel 1929 Victor J. Marina J. Francis Knipe Keith T. O’Keefe 1930 Edwin P. Avitin E. Scott Stanley 1931 Walter L. Schwartz Eugene F. H. Gilhuly 1932 Philip A. Robenau Two hundred forty-one Sigma Omega Psi Founded at The College of The City of New York in 1914 ROLL OF CHAPTERS Alpha College of the City of New York Beta Columbia University Gamma Bellevue Medical College Delta New York University Epsilon Syracuse University Zeta New York Dental College Eta Lowell Technology University Theta Worster Polytechnic Institute Iota Boston University Kappa Northwestern University Lambda New York Law School Mu Tufts College Nu New York Agricultural College Xi Massachusetts Institute of Technology Omicron College of Physicians and Surgeons Pi Harvard University Rho Alabama University Sigma Temple Tau St. John’s College FRATER IN FACULTATE Alexander Chaikelis FRATRES IN COLLEGIO 1929 Sam Kaiser 1930 Al Joltin ‘ Elliot Ornstein 1931 George Brown Lou Spindell Morty Targum Phil Weissman Monroe Huber 1932 Julius Wolkin Bob May Victor Wolkin Two hundred forty-three Kappa Founded at the College of the City of New York in 1914 ROLL OF CHAPTERS Alpha College of the City of New York Beta Harvard University Gamma Columbia University Delta Yale University Epsilon New York University FRATRES IN FACULTATE Arthur Taft '20 Irving Friedman ’29 FRATRES IN COLLEGIO Morris Drach 1929 Philip Levy Ben Efron Edward Goldstein 1930 Stanley Rapaport Jules Karpas 1931 Harold Roth Two hundred forty-five gg STSaiMZ gOS Phi Delta Pi Founded at the College of the City of New York in 1916 ROLL OF CHAPTERS Alpha Alumni Club Beta Cornell University Gamma The College of the City of Delta New York University Kappa Columbia University Eta Long Island Medical College Theta Lehigh University Eli M. Spark Abby Miller Barnet Rubin Max Schwartz Sylvan Elias Walter Judelson Irwin Smallbach I-RATRES IN COLLEGIO 1929 Milton Rosenblatt 1930 Lou Nemerson 1931 Harold Sweetman 1932 Philip Zimet Melville Tobias Albert Byron Harold Klipstein Delmore Brickman Leonard Lem pert Arnold Levy Z jj- —__________Tin� Two hundred forty-seven oAlpha JMu Sigma Founded at The College of the City of New York ROLL OF CHAPTERS Alpha Beta Gamma Delta Epsilon Zeta Eta Theta Iota Lambda Mu Nu Pi Chi Omicron Rho Tau Cooper Union College of the City of New York Brooklyn Polytechnic Institute Massachusetts Institute of Technology Columbia University New York University Harvard University Bellevue Hospital Medical College Yale University University of Pennsylvania University of Maryland University of Virginia Long Island Medical College Union College University of Southern California Alabama University Roanoke Iowa State College Two hundred forty-eight HteH Philip Levin FRATRES IN COLLEGIO 1929 Abraham Rosen Herman G. Hei.pern 1950 Samuel Liss Marshall Denenholz Julius Karachefsky Jack Hurwitz Bert Cotton 1931 Sol Winter Seymour J. Brick Jack G. Edelman Stanley B. Frank Murray Greenfeld Henry C. Lemle Milton Moroknek Irving Kaplan Abraham H. Raskin Walter Cron an Phi Delta Mu Founded at the College of The City of New York in 1920 ROLL OF CHAPTERS Alpha Columbia University Beta College of the City of New York Gam ma New York College of Dentistry Delta New York University Epsilon Fordham University Iota McGill University Theta St. John’s College Zeta Cornell University Two hundred fifty FRATRES IN FACULTATE Harry Sei.lin David Sessler FRATRES IN COLLEGIO Murray Funt 1929 M A RTIN LAZ A ROW IT . Philip Gordon Arthur B. Lipsky Arthur Laufer Maurice Wolinsky Barnett Berch 19)0 Louis Dlugatz Irving Berko witz Harry Mazer Leo Visotsky Arnold Singer 1931 Jack B. Zack Herman Miller 1932 Ivan Stern Two hundred fifty-one Tau Delta Mu Founded at the College of the City of New York in 1920 Alpha Beta Gamma Delta Epsilon ROLL OF CHAPTERS College of the City of New York Columbia University New York University Pratt Institute St. John’s College Two hundred fifty-three FRATER IN FACULTATE Abraham Sainer ’21 FRATRES IN COLLEGIO 1929 Jonas Deutsch Ben Goldin Harry Gerver Martin Strier Percy Londow 1930 Henry Goldman Jack Prutman Maurice Knepper Theodore J. Teitelbaum Morris Steinberg 1931 Harold Cohen Henry Krasnoff 1932 Julius Greenberg Tau Alpha Omega Founded at the College of the City of New York in 1921 ROLL OF CHAPTERS College of the City of New York Johns Hopkins University University of Maryland New York University George Washington University Georgetown University St. John’s Law School Two hundred fifty-four CHARLES LEVY FRATRES IN COLLEGIO 1929 Louis Rosen Philip Lieberman Louis Halperin Walter Warshow Daniel Blitz Robert Petluck Samuel Klar Theodore Harris 1930 Samuel Heistein Philip Chasin 1931 Leo Silverman George Timiansky Louis Adler 1932 Artie Preiss Morris Klein At� hundred fifty-seven Alpha Phi Delta Founded at the College of the City of New York in 1921 ROLL OF CHAPTERS Alpha Syracuse University Beta Columbia University Gamma Yale University Delta Brooklyn Polytechnic Institute Epsilon University of Buffalo Zeta Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute Eta College of the City of N. Y. Theta New York University Iota Union University Kappa Western Reserve University Lambda University of Pennsylvania Mu Cornell University Nu University of Pittsburgh Xi Ohio State University Omicron University of Michigan Pi University of West Virginia Rho Carnegie Institute of Technology Sigma Boston University Tau Massachusetts Institute of Technology Upsilon Harvard University Phi Alabama University Chi Pennsylvania State College Psi Duqucsnc University Prof. Ardib-Costa FRATRES IN FACULTATE Prof. Salvatore FRATRES IN COLLEGIO Louis Di Leo 1929 Anthony A. Mira Anthony Ferrerio Renato Sansone Thomas Adamo Eugene Quiricone 1930 Emilio Lewis Guerra Frank Brescia D. J. Zullo Gaston J. Babini 1931 Joseph U. Bonanno Jambda JM.ii Founded at the College of the City of New York in 1922 Two hundred sixty FRATRES IN FACULTATE Prof. Morris Raphael Cohen FRATRES IN COLLEGIO Abraham A. Birnbaum 1929 Benjamin Kaplan George Bronz Arnold Shukotoff Abraham Grossman Eugene Tuck Henry L. Lasker 1930 Irving Samuels Julius Weiss 1931 Louis Harrow 1932 Charles A. Ullmann Two hundred sixty isJ ■one Phi Kappa Delta Founded at the College of the City of New York in 1923 Alpha Phi Kappa Delta Club Beta New York University Gamma College of the City of New York Delta Brooklyn Polytechnic Institute Epsilon George Washington University Zeta University of Missouri Eta Cornell University Theta University of Maryland Iota Brooklyn Law School Two hundred sixty-two George Ii. Kenner Murray V. Konrad David Lefkowitz Saul Kramer Milton A. Barall Irving H. Berenson Abe Bernstein Albert Druckerman Meyer Brauer FRATRES IN COLLEGIO 1929 Maxwell R. Scheie George H. Markowitz David R. Michi.in Chester A. Pearlman 1930 Edward Weiss 1931 Jerome O. Glucksman Samuel Goldberg Hyman Goldstein George Rosenbi.oom Milton Rubinsohn 1932 Jack Sonkin Milton Solins mmmmm Two Theta Alpha Phi Founded at the College of the City of New York in 1922 ROLL OF CHAPTERS Alpha New York University Beta College of the City of New York Delta New Jersey Law Phi University of Pennsylvania Zeta New York Law School Charles H. Shapiro Louis C. Herzig Leo Epstein Cyrus Samuelson FRATRES IN COLLEGIO 1929 Sam Kan 1930 Leonard Rackmil Harry Millstone Daniel Eriedlander Ben Korad Arthur Hecht Jerry Sprung 1931 1932 Norman Friedman Sheldon Morgenstein Victor W. Cohen Upsilon Delta Sigma Founded at the College of the City of New York in 1922 ROLL OF CHAPTERS Alpha Brooklyn Polytechnic Institute Beta New York University Gamma St. Lawrence University Delta College of the City of New York Epsilon Boston University Zeta Northeastern University Eta New York Law School Theta Brown University Two hundred sixty-six FRATRES IN COLLEGIO Harold Kaplan 1929 Irving Post Leo Peiser Arthur Berger Samuel Kurtzman Irving Lederman 1930 Joseph Atkins Moses Richardson Leonard August Stanley Gluck Albert Agin Murray Kasday Nat Rothstein Irving Metz 1931 Leonard Lamchick Jack Brill Sol Tropp 1932 Jack Schlesinger Phi Gamma Kappa (Club of New York City) Founded at the College of the City of New York Alpha Beta Gamma Delta ROLL OF CHAPTERS Cooper Union Fordham University College of the City of New York New York University FRATRES IN COLLEGIO 1929 Julius D. Freilicher Murray Sheitelman 1930 Jack Strong 1931 Max Seelenfreund Leonard Cohen Naphtali Lipchitz Philip Goldman Irving Weiner Philip Postelneck Two hundred sixty-nine Phi Beta 'Delta Founded at the College of the City of New York in 1912 ROLL OF CHAPTERS Alpha Columbia University Beta Fordham University Gamma College of the City of New York Delta University of Florida Epsilon University of Chicago Zeta New York University Eta University of Pennsylvania Theta Massachusetts Institute of 1'cchnology Iota University of Oklahoma Kappa University of Southern California Lambda New York College of Dentistry Mu University of Cincinnati Nu Polytechnic Institute Xi Tufts College Omicron University of Michigan Pi Washington University Sigma Cornell University Tau University of California Upsilon University of California (Los Angeles) Phi University of Iowa Chi University of Wisconsin Psi Drake University Omega University of Pittsburgh Alpha Alpha University of Minnesota Alpha Beta University of Denver Alpha Gamma Lehigh University Alpha Delta Temple University Alpha Epsilon Ohio State University Alpha Zeta University of Southern California Alpha Eta University of Alabama Alpha Theta Indiana University tin at 1 La Herbert Brody Saul Markowitz FRATER IN FACULTATE Professor Prager FRATRES IN COLLEGIO 1929 1930 Victor Spevack Leo J. Friedman Al Sam wick 1931 Albert B. Doloff Bernard L. Goldberg Harry Greenberg Julius Geier Marvin V. Halpern Louis E. Rosenzweig Alpha PI Epsilon Founded at the College of the City of New York in 1924 ROLL OF CHAPTERS Alpha New York University Beta College of the City of New York Gamma St. John’s School of Law. Two hundred seventy-two Nathan Doscher Heyman Rothbart FRATRES IN COLLEGIO 1929 Alexander S. Joseph Murray Miller Herbert B. Barron 1930 Harry L. Omonitz Irving Shiffman Leon Kumish 1931 Seymour Glaser Aaron Dorsky 1932 Monroe Gall Sidney Tatarsky in Chi 'Delta %ho Founded at The College of the City of New York in 1924 ROLL OF CHAPTERS Alpha Omega College of the City of New York Alumni Chapter Two hundred seventy-four f I f f I I % ' I Milton Bracker Morris Gall Irving Gans Robert P. Altmann Hy Miller Moe M. Shapiro FRATRES IN COLLEGIO 1929 Paul Lindeman 1930 1931 Harry Bucholtz A. Richard Klein Irwin Olin I. George Kaplan Abe Rubin Irving Tasiiman 1932 Samuel Zlotopolsky Two hundred seventy-five Alpha Eta Phi Founded at the College of the City of New York in 1925 Gamma Delta Epsilon Zeta Sigma Alpha Beta ROLL OF CHAPTERS New York University College of the City of New York (Brooklyn center) College of the City of New York Brooklyn Law School St. John’s Law School National University Law School New York Alumni Association FRATRES IN COLLEGIO 1929 1930 1931 1932 Herbert F. Schwartz Frank Shapiro Rudolph Stein Karl Eisner Al Rumelt Sydney C. Stoloff Howard B. Charney Samuel B. Cohen Frederick Entman Louis H. Zieff Eugene Goodman Murray Feintuch Two hundred seventy-seven Xjzmbda c_Alpha Delta Founded at the College of the City of New York in 1924 ROLL OF CHAPTERS Alpha New York City Beta College of the City of New York Gamma Columbia University Delta New York University Epsilon St. John’s College Two hundred seventy-eight Phi Pi Chi Founded at the College of the City of Now York in 1924. ROLL OF CHAPTERS Alpha New York University Gamma Brooklyn Law School Delta College of the City of New York Omicron Harvard University Sigma Boston University Iota Iowa University Tiko hundred eighty , Ejngn£r a sat m M WrS 1! Harry Venit Abraham Kosman Irving Goldpman Jerry Malino FRATRES IN COLLEGIO 1929 1930 1931 1932 Lou Rosenshield Jack V. Entin Henry Hansburg Elias Jacobs Monroe North Cl Two hundred eighty-one Theta Kappa Phi Founded at the College of the City of New York in 1925 ROLL OF CHAPTERS Alpha Lehigh University Beta Pennsylvania State College Gamma Ohio State University Delta University of Illinois Epsilon New Hampshire State University Zeta Ohio Northern University Eta College of the City of New York Theta Cornell University V Two hundred eighty-two John V. Cleary Joseph B. Diamond Emil Di Mott a John T. Dolan Nicholas Knapp Lawrence Brennan Alfonse Ai.boi.ina Allan W. Denike Alex Caccia FRATRES IN COLLEGIO 1929 Francis J. McGarity Blaise Morrissey, M.A. Francis J. 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