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

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The turbulent state of the world has been reflected on a small scale by a stirring series of events at the college. Free of the stultifying atmosphere of many scholastic institutions, eagerly aware of the external environment the students of City College have, through their | crsistenl efforts for reform both within and without the College, demonstrated the truth of the dictum that knowledge com| els to action. And yet this class has preserved the collegiate tradition. We have had our polities, our fun. our functions. The first half of the class entered the College in February of 1934. We went through hectic days that all freshmen must endure. Nervous and naked, we coughed and bent ten times, had our chests tapped and our blood-pressu re taken. We underwent a psychological test that asked us to fill in without thinking the space after “My stomach—.” W e waited in a long line to present our prayerfully marie programs to supercilious Phi 1 fetes who, their foreheads bulging with erudition, hojied to stun us with deliberately intoned “two triple epsilon” and “one double delta.” nd at last our college careers began. Hut events of far greater importance were occurring. That spring term saw the feverish activity of the first anti-war strike. On pril 13, eight hundred students gathered at a flagpole meeting, which w as led by the passionate, deep-voiced Kddie Alexander. The College authorities had previously declared such a meeting to lie illegal. The meeting was broken up by the intervention of aeling-Dean Morton I). Gottschall, who was aided by the fists of Sergeant Huccarelli of the Military Science Department and the police. s an aftermath of the flare-up, Alexander was drop| ed for an overcut in French. The athletic fortunes of the College took a decided upturn with the installation of the great Benny Friedman as football coach. A com- mittee, headed by the late Maurice Deiches, member of the Board of Trustees, guaranteed Friedman’s salary. AA cigliing in 8