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

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Economics Education classical languages 'l l»- deadest of .ill language yet how (Iwii it manure to gel into one’ hair so! . . . the Department has the oldest average age of any in the college I around fifty-eight) . . . Professor Burke, venerable head of the Dept., has managed to teach practically every present staff member who studied l.ntin at City (pity them!) . . . Professor Ball remains one of the old school—clears hi throat at every other word and require hi student to stand . . . Professor Hallidav, humorist of the Dept., delights in driving his students frantic by advancing four wrong and only one right answer to his own questions . . . Professor Quaekenbos always smile when handing out low grade . . . i still wearing the same gray suit he wore twenty year ago lor perhaps he has two of them!) . . . Prof. Bridge has the distinction of being the only teacher of classical languages in the country who is also President of the college chapter of the Teacher's Union . . . .Mister VThcclock, though thirty-five years old, is the baby of the Department. education They taught iis how to teach—but never how to get a job . . . Professor Heckman . . . mainstay of the Ed. clinic . . . much more famous outside the college than in it . . . with a repertoire of amusing stories about children he's met . . . Professor Turner . . . takes first money in all Senior Polls . . . for the . . . biggest grind . . . always reading something . . . Professor Bell . .. can spot what section of Flatbush you come from after hear- ing you »peak for five minutes ... Professor Tuttle . .. after years of drudgery with iconoclastic student has banished idealism . . . Professor M.mkicwicz . . . intrigues intended instructors of foreign languages with those walrus mustachio . . . Professor Mosher . . . his first name is Esek . . . liberal in ideals and in . . . marks . . . Professor Mallon . . . facetious style of teaching has kept many a student rolling in his report . . . Professor Kivlin . . . makes edu- cation courses an inspiration . . . and the always pleusant and polite Dr. Weaver. economics l.ike the Martins and the Coys, the Economics anil History Departments are always a-feudin' . . . Pro- fessor Edwards head of the Eco. clan . . . must lie a big shot . . . gets his books reviewed in the N. Y. Times . . . Professor Snider .. . expert in foreign trade .. . Professor Sigsbce . . . his Eco. 4 class, the labor class where no one labors . . . Mr. Spero . . . swears by Thorstein Vcblen . . . Dr. Fowler . . . ha done more to ltoost the circulation of The Campus than all promotion scheme . . . student rather read about Student Council than listen to him lecture . . . Mr. Gcinmill . . . scourge of the hapless frosh . . . you take notes when he lecture , see? ... or else . . . Mr. TafTct (Editor’s Note: “Swell Guy!”) . . . punster extraordinaire . . . can quote Marx or Dick Tracy . . . prefer the latter . . . Jerry Cohen . . . advancing rapidly in the Social Science world . . . but still look like a fresh- man . . . Mr. Firestone ... one of the main reason why the statistics branch is increasing . . . Professor Hasting ... a walking com- pendium of rainfalls and altitude ... “I gif you now the figorre ” . . . on anything from the value of the produce of Punjab to the birthrate in Santa) Ho-lsz . . . Here is the “mop of Persia. 11

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art T lirer men anil tlicir reader» . . . Ari I . . . llie most |i«| ul.ir lecture course in the school . . . llie darkncs very conducive to sleep .. . biggest show of the year .. . tlic presentation of Goya » Nude Duel»--» ... all report» now being submitted liavc been traced to the first . . . that of a l hi Bcte Mudcut '09 . . . Professor I' cn . . . white shirt. white lie. white hair, and while mustache pointing: toward that great nebula Andromeda . . . -that'’ way about old ruin . . . Professor lla»kcll ... of the distinguished-looking chin and lip growth . . . hclh-nislie Hercules in lingers Peet tweed . . . ami Professor D'Andrca . . . formerly of Towusend llarri High School . . . disciple of lla-kcll . . . hut hi i a an Dyke . . . give» the only rour»r in Photography ... the first aesthete to lie bitten by the hug . . . the department i» centered around the only room in the college which is always well lit . . . if not through the sky-lights then through the gigantic chandelier with the strange and mys- terious inscription. biology Biology department, did you say? . . . why. Prof. Saylcs can cite chibs positions, hatting average, and home town of all players in the Major la-ague during the past twenty years! (The Germ of Knowledge?) . . . the department is also ingenious . . . I)r. Dawson ha found through longs year of ex- perience that by speaking in a low tone when relating important information, lie can keep his students on the edge of their seats Iso that' how it's done!) ... stock expression of Prof. Gohlfnrh is It's Chemistry hair-raising! ... of Dr. Elkin: It amazing (variety i the spice of life, it i claimed.) ... of all thing ! Dr. Argo eat Korpicfort cheese as an appetizer on botany field trips ... it seem that these men of Biology are capable of anything . . . Dr. Copeland actually achieved the stunt of filling 61 second into a minute, so help me . . . drop in on one of hi lecture anil ce for yourself . . . Prof. Browne i reputed to he a brilliant conversationalist, hut not lent- phatically not!) over the telephone . . . either the blank mouth- piece hypnotizes him or he is a horn “yes man for the only word he speaks over the instrument— Yop . . . yop . . . yop . . . yop. I Monotonous, isn't it?)- however his classes seem to enjoy him. chemistry House of indelicate odor , explosions, and unpro- nounceable name . . . the College gives thanks that they isolated the GIlClll. Building . . . Professor Prager . . . pre- cipitated into the front office by the new democratic reaction . . . inject a joke into his lectures every third week (shocked? we were almost ionized!) . . . Professor ”l 'ncle Joe ' Buhor . . . keeps the doors of Ddremus open when he lecture . . . claim he had to replace them too often . . . Professor Kstahrooke ... of Bahor to Kstahrookc to Uehrtnaii combination . . . always ready to talk . . . always talking . . . Professor Stevenson . . . doesn't mind people sleeping in lectures, hut doesn't want llu-m to look a though they hail fainted . . . Professor la hrman . . . the third of the above com- bination . . . easily distinguished by that green eye-shield and pipe . . . Professor Curlmaii . . . doesn't believe the longue i a good indicator of the element . . . especially arsenic . . . Professor Curtis . . . gently remonstrating, after calling the roll, Now. gentlemen, I have forty name marked present, and there are only fifteen stu- dent in this room.

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Geology cnglish Swell elective . sleepy sessions bzz . . . bzzzx . . . I runi|tli . . . Imint| li . . . Knsy-going, newly elected head . . . Compto......informed llic “Mike” editor he never nee the member of hi department who hihernate in Harris llh floor . . . never learned a thing from Otis Init some dandy hot-stuff stories . . . was hypnotized hv Home's Goatee-wag as he referred to Cleopatra a “quite a hot piece” . . . and Tynan with his saxo- phone hriar a pullin' and a Mowin' through the Hall of Patriots . . . and the elder Dickson spouting Dan Chaucer and quite a whiz at Anglo-Saxon . . . fascinating how he slicked that pencil or stuck it in his ear . . . and then there was Thespian Goodman, chopper- upper of huddiug writers . . . “Init I tell you the story is HKAL— it happened to me! ' . . . Fred Shipley of the Yankee twang . . . that same blue suit . . . that same blue wool cravat and the same “damned spot out-out-out . . . Sedate Stair, Knglish teacher. Kng- lish clothes and Knglish thoughts of the aristocracy of intellectuals . . . “Ah. yes hoys (with a crook of the linger and a lean of the head ' . . . ah. there's real intellectual! . . . the bible for the other Knglish profs. geology Intrusions upon sedimentary memories . . . ('-amhrian, Miocene. Permian, and Koeene. . . Pegmatite, Olivine. Itiolite. and Travertine . . . Preparation for those final praclicum h learning some such silly rimes . . . G.unhiding among the sync-lines and anticlines of Inwood, the Palisades, and Bronx Park . . . Professor Butler, the department chef doeuvre. specializes in beautifully colored blackboard diagrams . . . paints landscape as a hobby . . . wants perfect attention in his lectures and get it . . . sometimes . . . Dr. Dan O'Connell . . . minerologist . . . famous or infamous for his long and very quickly moving logs . . . was just a poppa ... is married to the sister of . . . Dr. Kindle - - - trilohitc expert and amateur photographer . . . the only bachelor in the department . . . gets a kick if you call him “Doc . . . Mr. Adams . . . run the hoys ragged on field trips . . . must have been horn under Capricorn . . . skip down alone and leaves the hoys stranded at the top of a mountain . . . Mr. Hosalsky . . . babyfaec • • • giggles girlishly . . . loves statistics and can rattle olT the highest spot in any state without hatting an eye. german The department which shows the world that an im- mortal language is mightier than the acts of mortal mail . . . Professor Kocdder. the only department head to wear a bow-tie . . . also wears hi pants above his ankles . . . specializes in shady jokes told in German which no one understands . . . everyone laughs (why?) . . . Professor von Brudisch . . . wastes a week showing off his collection of World War pictures . . . threaten everyone with a blacklist which ha never hecn produced . . . Dr. Frazur . . . holds mock trials on the can; of Wilhelm Tell . . . quiet, sedate Professor Dili ... is said to have a sense of humor . . . Professor Kinklcdcy . . . whose loud voice ha made many a Fresh- man shudder . . . spend the semester teaching six rule of grammar . . . Professor Waldman . . . always has a few flunk in hi class . . . teaches German slang . . . Professor Peterson .. . brotherly love and such . . . Professor l.iedke . . . spend whole morning teaching songs - should play the tuba) . . . Dr. Susskind . . . uses a ponv to trans- late the Bible . . . prolific, poetic Professor Liptzin, cynical Dr. Selluir complete the department. German