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

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whuololr my heart away? The (lily College student i' a pro- found sceptic, but one U| crsti- lion that survives even Cohen and Nagel i- the firmly entrenched l-elief that no Romance Language instructor has a heart . . . when lie gives final grades . . . Standing at the head of the department in gray spatl-ed splendor is “Pupa Weill . . . When he is not directing the summer session, Professor Charles I pson Clark amuses his class with litanies of Romany in well chosen Knglish . . . There is a certain hoot shaped country in the Mediterranean whose ever living literature is expounded by Professor rbib-Costa . . . Not content with shedding his light in City College, Professor Knicker- liocker also enlightens high school students w ith his text in Elementary Trench . . Suave and contained, Professor Rergeron runs his « lass with machine-like precision, hut to speak to him outside is an intel- lectual exercise . . . Teaching his elementary « lass in li«|ui«l French, and his advanced classes with humane intelligence is Professor aillant . . . Together with Professor Bergeron, Messieurs l.e Ridois, l.uciani, ami Travers, constitute the Four Horsemen’’ of blessed lame . . . Although slightly emotional in his class teaching methods. Professor Waltman is one of the few R« mance Language instructors who has some consideration for his students mothers . . . I)r. Cille devastates the uninitiated with brilliant barbs . . . Other members nf the department are ullra-N ictorian Professor Muller, cosmo- l»olitan Professor Panaroni, ami Professors Rhodes, Holmes, and • Iross . . . au re voir. how to win friends and . . . High muck-a-mucks »f rhetoric and oratory, men who dream vowels, eat consonants and grumble vocules . . . the men of the Public Speaking department . , . Chief Clansman is Professor Schulz ... an older (though not much) edition of Kdmund Lowe . .. •■ompletely poised and always tlx gentleman . . . Master of the debate Dr. Thonssen . . . the man with the prominent laryngeal cartilage and «lark conservativi- clothing of a New Kngland minister . . . metaphysician, concerned with the elevation of the longue and lh«- salvation of th«- low s” rather than the Soul, i very affable Mr. Kleinfeld, patron saint « f the S|K cch Clinic . . . Saturninely be- moustaehed Mr. Meyer stands out as the undefeated “riiall«-«l” ehampion of the department . . . and as one of tin most iuter« stiiig men in the group . . . Tmkel . . . side-kick of th - Mcphistophelian Meyer ... a man, moustached, erudite, an«l tough on tin- hoys in his scientifically exact debating courses . . . Guardian of the AH Class and owner of a very broad shoulder for weeping Seniors is J. Hailey Harvey . . . tall, handsome, and jwissessor of a very deep barber shop (sic!) barytone voice . . . Somewhat different from the usual run « f Public Speaking educators i- that debonair cosmopolite Riclianl Ccougli ... is a little difli«ult ! » g«-t along with at first but students warm up about him by the end of the term . . . Francis J. Idiom pson . . . Sim 88 anil a connoisseur of tilings Irish, the Black and 'fan tangle among other things . . . Rase of departmental operati«»ns is the second floor south wing, a half pint room on the ground floor and two victrolas hid away in a garret on the top floor of T. II. 11. Romance Languages IN MEMORIAM Maurice P. Dciclicx Arnold J. Malkan 1881 — 1988 1905— 1988 15

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