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

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Morton («ottsrliall Dean of the Faculty John K. Turner Dean of Men

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Frcdrrick li. Koiiiiison V resident

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T II E i O O K O F drawling ami fainting in coils I II E I) E A I) Biolog} Four-sixteen . . . studio, workshop, ami depart- mental office of our rt department . . . den of the trinity, Eggers, dWndrra, and Haskell . . . masters of line, form, and color . . . Professor Eggers of the inevitable white cravat and the dichotomous moustache presides over a newly revised art curriculum . . . how to ply the lithographic crayon, sponge and ink the stone, ami roll the press . . . Little, dark, dynamic d Andrea rules a class in the techni«|ue of the woodcut . . . Students on high stools, with conti and charcoal, beneath the fourth (lour skylight . . . under the shelved scrutiny of white plaster casts, St. Jerry and the Slave . . . Professor Haskell in gentlemanly brown tweeds, in and out among the palettes, daubing an occasional canvas . . . and oh! that handsome white comb of a moustache and van dyke over the portly frame . . . and oils and turpentine . . . and art. and adam begat cain Turn left at the third floor and you are in the Biology department . . . Known best for his color photography and lowdown on the king's English is Professor Melander . . . also head of the department . . . Smack in the middle of the floor. Comparative Anatomy lah . . . Professor Sayles is king . . . he of the New England twang and ‘caalilage’ fame . . . Next, to Histology anil Kendall . . . most good- natured instructor in the school and a D.Se. from, of all places, Bulgaria ... He takes a sadistic delight in taunting cluss big •mouths during practicums . . . From this citadel of the microsco| e into ‘Little Caesar Coldforb's office . . . Coldforh illustrates his iconoclasm with choice hits like Man makes a wheel go around maybe a bundled times a second . . . but a little fly flaps his wings three hundred fifty times a second, and without a B.S. degree . . . Then impresario Johnson's Embryology course given in the approved Barnum style . . . voted the most popular course by tin Bio men . . . Bacteriology proclaims its virtues through Professor Browne . . . stout, gray, and candid . . . who warns the boys of the germs insidiously lurking in cake and milk. liquids and gussiug The Chemistry Building always shocks you with its variety of smells as you enter . . . you may get perfume or horses . . . sometimes both . . . Prof. Moody, like isolated heavy hydrogen, sits at the front office . . . Professor Prager's lectures are famous for textbook completeness and invariability ... lie amazes and astounds students by his speed and accuracy in drawing benzene hexagons . . . usually two boards ahead of the class . . . The Quantitative Department . . . not recom- mended for nervous individuals . . . students walking around on tip-toe . . . reason: the quantitative balances . . . the latter turn the steel-nerved into psychiatric eases wliencver someone slams the door or sneezes . . . Professor Curtis, the sound effects man, s|ieaks very, very slowly and monotonously . . . but some of his lectures . . . Oh boy! . . . Receptionist Estabrook . . . Woodsman . . . gives ele- Cliemistn