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

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German llii good earth Small Imt compact . . . the Geology de- partment consists of om office . . . two recitation rooms . . . ami a couple of museum cases of assorted rocks . . . Probably the most exhausting course in the school . . . Mention (Geology to a lie.illlix-looking science major . . . ami you have a quivering weakling on your hands . . . reason: field trips . . . Professor Butler, the perennial lecturer, is on leave . . . so Dan O'Connell . . . Gary Coojier type . . . amazes the hoys with the geological Who’s Who of New York (lily . . . Brooklyn is dismissed with a casual, Just a terminal moraine, that’s all” . . . dams, the hard guy of the department . . . Ilis field trips! . . . always a hill ahead of the class, Ik is a living refutation of the decadence of man . . . Manhattan Island has some power- fully large parks . . . with some powerfully primitive spots . . . Kindle, Kosalsky . . . both easy going and as violently athletic as the rest. .. so-o-o-o much walking. sturni iiinl draug The German department . . . where culture reigns despite the propaganda of the Fatherland . . . where art, sculpture, history, sociology, music, philosophy, etc. are themes of classroom discussion and one doesn't worry loo much about final grades . . . as a matter of fact, one doesn't worry . . . The kind and learned Professor Roedder with his salt and pepper goalee, his high snow while collars, and his ever cheerful guten morgen characterizes the department . . . Dr. Selltur, a cynical sociologist turned German instructor, quite happy about it because it entails less work . . . The brotherhood of man is truly embodied in Doctor Peterson, soldnl dr Legion tFHonneur, no failures, no assign- ments, and generous marks are his outward manifestations of |K ace on earth and good will to men . . . Herr Susskind, a past Yeshiva student with a pachydermic memory expounds the true Nordic tongue with a Talmudic intonation .. . Herr Frazier clad in continental styles . . . The philologi-t of the department . . . Professor Dili will lecture in his typical soothing manner . . . Iiecomes lost in silent reverie for five minutes and tlu-n lock- up where he left oil . . . esiivius erupt-, wild hull- bellow, windows shake, students quake! Profes-or Kinkcldey lecture-. Imlli our houses The Government department . . . off- shoot of the G.O.P. . . . shelters the last of tlie rugged individuals ... a Phi Beta Kappa key hanging outside a rather large man belongs to Professor Guthrie, the booming czar of the Townsend Harris auditorium ... a supreme court decision is sanctus sanctorum to him . . . Professor Haley is still trying to figure out why Landon lost in the last election . . . keeps a copy of the Constitution under his pillow . . . adept in suggesting a heated discussion be shifted to another depart- ment in the college . . . Mr. Arm, Professor Guthrie’s man Kvery-Day , works on a seven day basis and looks as though he might carry about forty pounds more than he does . . . Mr. Buekvar, liny Beau Brummel, is foremost Defender of the Faith . . . Mr. Barlier keep- his chain gang moving double-time . . . they move at a brisk pace with little of the wrangling seen in Government 1 sections, but his extra-classroom iconclasm is often interesting . . . Mr. Bishop, late of KhoDisland, boasts of the fact that it’s worth a dollar to leave his class . . . the price goes up as the term progresses ... Mr. Fisher ... a new man II

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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

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like Robert laylor but acts like tin proverbial absent-minded pro- fessor . . . An you-all must know Hailey Y. Diflie, who hails from down Texas way . . . A oluble Milton OITutt dresses like Joe College in the 1890 ' . . . you can make him happy by admitting that the Germans really won the battle of Jutland . . . And this man Rosen drives a Buick that would delight a plutocrat, but according to docu- mentary evidence he has never worn any tie but that ancient rag he now sports . . . Two years ago an admiring class presented him with a new silk cravat, which he wore at the final exam—and never again . . . Baltimore’s Louis L. Snyder is the gentleman with the small black moustache which gives him a deceptively sinister appear- ance like that of the old-time nickelodeon villain . . . Towering A.C.F. Westphal, of the basso-prof undo, i' never more happy than when immersed in an incomprehensible muddle of diplomatic documents and official statements . . . Big Joe W isan, easy and affable outside of class, is also a demon on the handball court . . . Phil and Jack Loner, identical twins, have been the cause of a Comedy of Krrors among their innumerable NY workers . . . lucky they aren’t both uptown . . . That braw Scotsman, Gorham Sanderson, is glad lie is a doctor because his girl tells him about her operation. lar an's mates t the south end of the quadrangle stands the Hygiene building, inhabited by its own set of inimitablcs . . . Professor Woll, the chief, keeps to his office on the second floor . . . Near commencement time seniors get to know him well . . . he is chief marshal . . . Judge Williamson, who keeps a stern visage to insure smooth running of the difficult athletic program, is the most gentle personality in the department . . . Professor Dailey supervises the Hygiene majors ... is another man with an officious manner and a soft heart . . . On tin- gym floor Hygiene One classes sit back in awe gazing on Mr. Mendelis' human pretzel tricks on the bars and skeptically hear his Nothing to it! Now you do it! . . . With Mr. Khrlicb’s fencing proteges lunging about, it is not safe even in the corridors ... Mr. Djorup, a great guy, is a quiet little fellow . . . but he will tell you all about that new craze, s|K edball ... Mr. Lrankle bats little feathered balls across a net and calls it all Badminton. . . . promises to be the white hope of the department . . . Ogg Kay, that outmoded text for required government sections is their holy bible . . . the sociology appendage shelters the dynamic little Prof. Joseph, who raise’s missionary work to a humanitarian plane . . . Mr. Tomars is the diamond in the rough . . . supplies real brain-food for the profound sociologists-to-be. much ado about nothing little cubbyhole and a some- what larger place where bedlam is the rule house the offices of tin- History Department . . . 'fable- pounding Professor Mead . . . an unapologetic liberal . . . Young man, don’t ask me to explain the decisions of the Supreme Court on a logical basis. It can’t be done! . . . Shut-eye Professor Thomp- son . . . ’’Gentlemen, as I hope you are, the most important thing in the world is—harrrumph manners.” . . . knows something about everything, and wears that lovely cherubic smile, especially when sjK-aking of the successes of history men after graduation . . . Pro- fessor Schapiro modestly admits his own colossal ability . . . Likes to converse in French with the members of that department . . . Suave, punctilious Professor Janowsky . . . Perpetually hustling Professor Morris wastes less time in speech than Floyd Gibbons . . . brisk, brush, and cheerfully cynical . . . Professor Kraus, who looks Hygiene 12 Government