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

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Philosophy hut . . . you've gotta laugh at his joke» . . . always seen» to he digging out from under the snow . . . devote» hi spare time to the glee cluh and orchestra ... in constant conflict for future chair- manship of department with . . . Professor Wilson . . . veddy Knglish . . . and veddy jolly . . . entertains rather than teaches classes . . . ha been studying the intricacies of counterpoint for twenty-two year . . . say lie's hardly scratched the surface . . . good gentleman's gentleman type . . . calls student hy their first name in advanced courses . . . pel peeve is lack of teaching forces to handle wide range of courses. philosophy Laboring without legendary Morris Raphael Cohen . . . Harry Allen Overstreet . . . mainstay of the Town Hall Meeting of the Air . . . write best sellers on the Dale Carnegie style . . . still the hoy wonder . . . Edel . . . heir to the mantle of Cod Cohen . . . gently brilliant . . . read thoughts into the void of students' jumbled word . . . threatens to become the white-haired hoy of the student movement . . . Campus adviser . . . Aronson . . . hisymmetrical moustachios . . . doesn't be- lieve in logic, scientific method. Marx . . . considered hy Dean Turner to be making the biggest reputation of any College man . • • i‘ Managing Editor of the Journal of Social Philosophy . . . Krikorian . . . required course are hell; elective heaven . . . Hroustein . . . plays logical tennis . . . Psychology division . . . rumored to contain more College alumni than any other department . . . headed hy the venerable Marsb . . . you can do anything or nothing . . . until it's too late, and the marks are in . . . quack . . . Peatman . . . most competent . . . Smith . . . droughty sense of humor . . . makes life worth while in dull Philo 5 lectures . . . Cliein . . . the Freudian. Music ITIUSIC Ihrec professors, two piano , a viclrola. ami an organ comprise the Music Department . . . now swinging the baton is ... Professor Heiuroth . . . one of the world's best organists . . . small, grey haired, gentle, and. most important, a good marker . . . noted for his few faint damns ami devotion to Bach . . . hi third cousin is . . . Professor Neidliugcr . . . the man who repeats parrot-fashion what lie's been taught” . . . white haired, jovial. Mathematics mathematics From Euclid to Einstein and half way hack. the Mathematics Department send most of it students sliding down a hy pcrhnla . . . highest exponent of this un- manly art . . . Professor Reynolds . . . he of that much publicized while fringed vest and head . . . Professor l.inchau . . . talk to a student as though he thought him worth a fellowship ami then gives him a .. . “D .. . Professor Cill . . . ever popular, ever patient . . . gently dispel the fog of calculus from about the head of each perspiring undergraduate . . . Professor Pedersen . . . oldest Col- lege alumnus on the Faculty . . . ran off with all the prize in his day . . . Professor irtli . . . give exam on Monday morning to catch those who spend the week-end dissipating . . . weakness is gaily colored silk shirt . . . Dr. Ilockcr . . . explain the intricacies of calculus to Tech freshmen . .. they soon change to social sciences . . . Professor I timer who always look on the verge of greeting the sandman . . . hut thoroughly wide awake . . . and that patron saint of the freshmen . . . Dr. FagcrMrom . . . this, the only pure science, ha the largest mortality rale in the college. II

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Government History Hygiene government For a long lime would-be-lawyers, embryo so- ciologist ami clan politician» have majored in a colorful and unique department—Government. It i unique in that it head Professor William B. Guthrie i a whole department himself. He i supported by genial. Professor Owen A. Haley, whose actions belie a keen understanding of the student anil hi problems . . . Mr. Arm . . . competent instructor, despite the Board of Higher Education . . . Mr. Barber ... of the flunkin' Barlter . . . the College'» contribution to the State Department . . . Both Fishers . . . young . . . eager . . . coming. . . Mr. Buckvar . . . Mr. Bishop . . . the Sociology division . . . soon to be ripped asunder . . . with Professor Joseph assuming the chairmanship . . . ably aided by Mr. Tontars. whose class bought him an alarm clock . . . with no results . . . he still comes late . . . Mr. Paige . . . boxing champion from Illinois . .. and tick-tack-toe expert . .. hili . history The march of time ... in which . . . the presence of Professor Mead, clear voiced, liberal. is missed ... he has climbed to higher quarters . . . Acting Chairman, Professor Thompson, inventor of “er” ... is he asleep or awake, hi students often wonder . . . Professor Schapiro, philosopher and liberal . . . hut don’t ask me anything about finance” . . . Dr. Kniltle. who can tell you who wore the pants when, in every British royal family . . . with him it’s the little thing in history that count . . . true or false . . . soft spoken, absent minded Professor Kraus . . . Professor Janowsky . . . the Jewish history expert ... a shrewd punctilious scholar . . . and a gentleman . . . Dr. Wisan’s . . . bin, hold that question a minute, we'll get to it later on . . . the Medieval Division: may the future shine as bright as Professor Brandts pate . . . the machine-gun fire speech of Professor Morris is missed . . . he is on leave . . . Phil Foner . . . will quote a dozen sources on any topic . . . pulling away at that pipe is Dr. Hosen, a man of diversified talents . . . believes that the position of women in Greece was horizontal . . . Dr. Snyder . . . suave and dclsonair . . . Dr. Diflic . . . claims South Americans are Americans loo . . . Dr. Megaro ... lie of the photographic mind. hygiene Three hour a week . . . rush . . . change . . . exercise . . . late for the next class . . . all for one credit. Base of activities in Hygiene Building . . . classes in more modern Tech gym . . . indoor baseball in Jasper Oval (the dust howl) . . . foot- ball in Ia-wisohu (the sun howl) . . . leading the mighty mites i- . . . Prof. Woll . . . Columbia say lie’s been giving the same exam for fifteen years . . . wish he did that here . . . Alton Richards . . . voice belie hi stature . . . and makes you take notice (and so do his marks) . . . Dave Nyqnist . . . the reason for the popularity of the hygiene gym . . . he’ in Tech . . . our own Jimmy Peace . . . City College's Big Brother . . . father of Intra-Murals anil former Director of the House Plan . . . Teach 'em if you kill ’em Mrndcli . . . affectionately called killer . . . Gerald Khrlich . . . I.otli.irio of the Department . . . personality plus ... a pair of foil» . . . Abe Sperling ... of the photographic memory . . . bouncy . . . bouncy . . . Harold Djorup . . . delightfully democratic Dane, genial anil polite (even to student ) . . . Bonccrushcr Joe Sapora . . . coach of the “eateh-as-catcli-can-ers . . . and Badminton Bill Frankcl. 13

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physics Covering the entire field from tlic unimaginable hugeness of stellar space to tlic infinitesimal orbits of electrons, the Physics Department still terrorizes the students .. . headed by Prof. Sonkin who started teaching here a year before graduating . . . can bring anything down to the level of the average student . . . specializes in electronics . . . Prof. Marcus, genial guardian of the labs . . . skillfully extracts the last bit of knowledge from any student . . . Prof. Corcoran, ex-chairman of the depart- ment . . , still wows the freshman with his perennial jokes . . . Prof. Zemansky . . . well liked but explodes like a nova . . . his book on Thermodynamics is rated as one of the best in the field . . . Prof. WoKT, our heavenly authority . . . gives his day classes one fleeting glimpse of the telescope in the tower . . . Prof. Semat . . . invites classroom discussion with his friendly manner . . . dis- courages it with his “any more simple questions . . . I)r. Shea . . . includes a discussion of boats in all his courses . . . chief physics librarian . . . Mr. Williams, tall and dark . . . shocks the freshman with his amazing expletives . . . Dr. Wills, shy and unimpressive . . . looks and acts like the traditional absent minded prof. public speaking Tlic mortals who perform the Herculean task of correcting the City (xdlcgc accent . .. Zeus of the department is Professor Schulz, gentlemanly anil scholarly . . . has something original to say about every famous orator . . . from Demosthenes to Hitler . . . Issss, and its not sibilant) . . . Dr. Tlionnsen . . . guiding voice of the debating team . . . can convince the Board that the team should go on the road but can not persuade it to let them . . . Mr. Fields tne Kleinfeld) . . . good Samaritan to all stammerers and stutterers...in the clinic . . . J. Bailey Harvey . . . nemesis of the “I weiit-to-my-grand- mother s-funeral boys . . . Mr. Finklc . . . logic, 1-ogic, LOGIC . . . his debate students can argue themselves out of everything hut a defense of Hitler . . . (sss, op. eil.) .. . Mr. .Sonkin . . . City’s gift to the Department . . . can’t see the importance of marks . . . that is—high ones . . . Kernel Frank Davidson ... (so help u from Kaintucky) now director of House Plan . . . still trying to pul Dramsoc on Broadway . . . Mr. Fleishman . . . direct to City from Dale Carnegie . . . also teaching at Hunter . . . Variety??? Mr. Ccough . . . determines grades by “normal’ curve . . . from C” to “FF . . . and watch the click on those final “ng's ’. romance The most misnamed department in the school . . . for the members haven’t any heart . . . flunk at least one out of five is the motto . . . headed by Professor Knickerbocker . . . meticulous . . . makes sure you don’t use an interlinear by walking around the room daily and checking up . . . Professor Clark . . . fascinates his students with reminiscences of Kuropcan trips . . . Professor Weill . . . meek but given to sudden explosive outbursts . . . Professor Arhib-Costa . . . broke into Ken as an out- standing example of Fascist propagandists in this country . . . Professor Mueller . . . horn in Switzerland, studied in France ad- mires the Germans and alas! . . . has to teach in America . . . Dr. Luciani ... in class . . . out ...“???”... Dr. Levy . . . THE best instructor in the department . . . his system is reminiscent of high school day . . . but it works . . . Dr. Sass . . . cracks the whip at registration . . . anil in class . . . but a nice guy. 15