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

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fessor Sigsbcc . . . insiders swear he omr apologized for flunking a student ... Cemmill .. . Ivan the Terrible . .. fearful and fearsome . . . midwestern farmer boy who made good in the big Lily . . . Mr. Spero promises two pots for every chicken with his money juggling plan . . . Fin-stone, TalTelt, and Cohen . . . dignified and austere”, but young yet . . . they will learn. tin children. Cod Ides» ’em ‘Ihe Kdueation department, like all Caul, is divided into three parts . . . Lincoln Corridor, room four-ten, and a den on the second floor which no student has ever been able to crash . . . Professor Heckman is a shining light from top to bottom, especially at the top . . . Professors Rivlin and Mankiewicz are among the most gracious men on the staff . . . Advocatus diabolis . . . Hr. Mallon . . . drips with derisory quips about the problematical student mind . . . Mixture of the old and tin- new . . . Professor Bell seasons his brand new education theories with good old exams, frequently . . . Professor Tuttle . . . an altruistic gentleman grown weary of applying idealism to the unbelieving souls of his students . . . Pleasant and surprising .. . Dr. Weaver ... pleasant the whole term ... surprising with his grades . . . Department’s greatest achievement ... its super- Classical Languages menlary chem lectures in vaudeville fashion . . . Rabor divides his time between puzzled lab-coalers and I Ik Student Council . . . Tough- est department . . . Physical Chemistry . . . Cod” Stevenson bowls them over in lectures . . . and Marlies is his prophet . . . the real lough guy in the department... has blighted more potential chemists than Jim Louis heavyweights . . . but the suckers keep coming . . . and going . . . Physiological Chem . . . F.dible Blood . . . and Harrow . . . and famous Knglish accent . . . but away on leave ... so the sex hormones are taking a rest for a while . . . but he will In- back. brave new world Dust-shrouded bookshelves and students anxiously reviewing the pony” before class . . . Professor Newton, fatherly and genial, is head of the department . . . Adept at undermining foundations . . . Professor Jones . . . an archeologist, you see . . . Professor Quackcnbos, whose students can name the «lav, hour, and minute of their next ordeal . . . Professor Ball, nice old chap . . . sample of sartorial elegance for the Nineties . . . Professor Bridge gives evidence that the department is concerned with things closer than the age of Horace . . . Popular Dr. Wheelock, who does not want to In- addressed as Doctor” . . . No need to memorize the pony” for his sessions . . . Professor Brown, wlu has the most brilliantly polished skull ever . . . and who caresses it tenderly . . . with an air of wistful remembrance . . . Professor Burke . . . Bulldog Burke” . . . gives ’em the horrors during exams ... as though one Mars were not enough . . . Oh, Latin is a rather nice language, but ... so many professors ... so much grammar ... so many quotations . . . so-o-o-o much Latin . . . too much. old incdonuld had u farm Land of cotton and business cy- cles . . . the Kconumics depart- ment . . . presided over by Professor Edwards, a big shot in this ticker ta|K- crazy world . . . foretold the ‘recession’ in ’37 but does not run around yelling “I told you so! . . . Snider, expert in foreign trade . . . awes bewildered and bankrupt collegians with astronomical totals of foreign trade and such ... Picturesque, Dutch, and esoteric: Professor Hastings and his maps ... a walking compendium of rain- falls and altitudes . . . Labor i taken care of, more or less, by Pro- •)

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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

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colossal filing system . . . pink cards, blue-green cards, tea-rose yellow cards ... a rogues’ gallery of pros|»eclive |M dagogucs and secret character vouchers . . . all are safely stowed away with the prospective teacher for the strawherries-with-sweel- cream post-revolutionary era. Il dec over the hronx The faculty of Technology, many of whom an doing some sort of research at Columbia, is largely not appre- ciated insofar as their activities outside tin- college are con- cerned . . . I pon entering his class the first day, the head of the Mechanical Knginecring department. Professor K. B. Smith makes certain to impress the importance of remembering his name. ”in case I should become famous” . . . his awed, humble hearers not suspecting that he designed the ten million pound testing machine used by the Bureau of Standards in Washington . . . the largest «if it' kind in the country. Professor Mien always recommends elegant solutions to the student who has spent hours vainly trying to w«irk out a problem . . . Pro- fessor Willig executed the steel designs for the Pulaski Skyway . . . Dr. Manstein is working with a cyclotron . . . Professors Henry ami Baum an busy building Queens College . . . I)r. Seely delights in befuddling his students with intricate nuclear physics . . . Professor Creenshi« lds was once a traffic «lirector . . . that is. he was employed as research traffic «- |H-rl f«ir the Ohio State Highway Department . . . Mr. Weiss’ knowledge of chemistry causes untold suffering and severe cerebellar contortions to many (h. K.’s . . . Dr. Carbone of the difficult yet interesting Drafting department not only possesses engineering degrees but is the department aesthete with an M.A. . . . and many still remember the gassing lie re- «rived while making artificial diamonds . . . Professor Marlies. the stumbling block of Ch. K.’s ... Mr. Pope who relies on telepathy for the transmission of ideas—assuming the latter . . . Mr. Hartman, whose roster of brothers-in-law causes students much pain ... so much engineering ... so many engineers . . . the landed gentry Behind the lectures and reading that comprise many a college Knglish course lurk the profs and their associates, some gray-haired, some vibrant, some less so . . . Professor Horne first, of the kindly face and downy white goatee, a master histrionic, of roles ranging from Shakespeare’s swaggering Kalstaff to the villainous lago . . . “Father ’ Dickson, at home in Chaucerian Kngland yet happily striding the centuries to play paternal host to Bowker ’38 . . . That mcrican goodfellow, Professor W illiam Bradley Otis, who plays a mean game of golf and will probably never grow old . . . also “gives” the meriean lit course . . . Whilst the scholarly, genial, and gentb-manly Pro- fessor Bird Stair, fluid, never gauche, stays strictly on the Bight . . . 'The mighty mite. Goodman, monarchizes over a narrative course that is less a course and more a Weltanschauung . . . but beware, thou aesthete! . . . Bather seek out the tender scholar-poet Gordon, who knows a dactylic ihromhaic from a hcdripicular trithyramb, ami yet can roll a not too sly eye at some bawdy Bcsloration play . . . Big names include the tone sonorous, the voice ventricular, Mr. Roberts, droning Paradise Lost , and mumbling occasional comments on same . . . nd the very white-haired Professor Tynan, part « f whose notes on the drama, ancient and modern, have been declaimed by said prof to many an Knglish major . . . for many a year . . . For the under-prof lesl-we-forgcts, here are some fingerbows . . . Checked shirt, natty suit, and polish for “Young Dickson ... a bishopric for the Thirlwall scion . . . permanent seat up- town for Doc I.effort . . . and to the lessor lights, Johnson, Shipley, Burl, Copslcin, el al., here’s for a place in the professorial sun. 10 Knglish