Columbia University College of Pharmacy - Apothekan Yearbook (New York, NY)

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Science From cats we progressed to humans, the only exception being Doc Redden insisted we couldn ' t cut up anyone. Physiology reminds us of the engineer who asked his tty lass, If I start at a given point on a given figure and travel the entire distance t, what will I get? To which she hastily replied, Slapped, sir! We did learn thiftg$lthough. For MMance, did you know that the temperature of the fourth spring. in back § xhe tsffifh ijountain under the Red Cross Unit in Yellowstone Park rose 10 vedden arrived. (Or was it 20 degrees?) chat j Wl a person, we found out a few of the things that th Professor Hart and Doc Blumberg; it was a t kind of organism is a blank? fegrees wn After we were tau o wrong with him n darned interesting coursed But, ho Vi| tly fellows Materia Metlica with ever ami more factual knowledge than any nd a little arithmetic hashed in with pharm not to mention materia medica. on exams. Thi person and a great fellow]. ( How can we fa And last, but by no means J«ast, came Taub, a little late as usual rt this time h count of a blonde lat 3 4fil- the night bef text we needed was Jsreie ' s Joke book. erations so we ju4t ?t back and enjoye probably held us responsible for hbined. Hence, it was no surprise to physiology, bacteriology and botany, .Lord the Dean is an understanding with more ' entert comedy yii the 1 fifteen years.) four vears. Cou plitting mentor, Professor Harry d a good excuse. He was taking a blood nd forgot to stop counting. The only notes handed down from past gen- s stories and gags. We were supplied rom a condensation of every Broadway g some, isn ' t it? Let ' s just say the past nly one course in our entire I is of this department we come mess, there must M ' 4 JSs I M ■ il i 1 ■ 4 Dr. R. Halsey

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Charles W. Ballard, Ph.Cl Phar.D., A.M., Ph.D. Chairman Prof. H. Taub, Mr. F. Pokorny Sicfacjiccd After you get through there. Doe. can I get a haircut and shave please? Now when the leaves from the sycamore trees in the across the way begin to appear — when you see those i caterpillar-like structures lying on the ground in Centi when the sap begins to flow from the maple . . . etc.. No, we ' re not announcing the arrival of spring or giJ sertation on botany (God forbid!), but we are entrance of our own Frank Pokorny. It was in our sophomore year we first met Fr meeting it was, too. Of course, some of us did exceed an insignificant ten or so, but could we help it if all mothers happened to get sick at the same time each w« After tearing apart a few hundred leaves and dr we really went to town in Zoology. Everything cats were thrown at us, and butchers that them with such vim and vigor, that normal, bv the way — honest — we as! Professor, by careful crtfotJhreeding ana cultivation. I think I finaftyjtfii ' c gotten stitutc for the Stink Weed •fsfi Dr. B. Blumberg, Prof. F. Ha

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CketnUttif Andrew W. Thomas. A.M., Ph.D. Chairman there ' s an explosion, it is definitely a mistake — or a Grossly faulty ap- paratus set-up. hizrlnu Whegf§!$e class came, wide eyed and curious, iijto its fitet chemif8§F class, most of us were realizing the cherished ambition offa lifetime. Here we saw SS|ence. Here we were following in the footsteps of Lavoisier, Scheele and others. Here we first smelled ,.- - Hydrogen Sulfide. It wfl| shortly thereafter — that is shortly after a few minor explosi s. that we re- alized that there-was so ' nfefhilig ore--te-xhemistry than just mixing .ingredients and curiously, watching the results. .Mr. Anzelmi warned us. hut after all. Could we help it if we were inquisiti ' e? v -» --o i« .» Our ingenuity took on new meaning the following term. Mr. Liberman whole- heartedly agreed with us; that is. that chemistry Was a bit beyond 7 us. Mr. Liberman tried, give him credit for that — but the boys insisted on stirring the solutions with their pencils and getting lead precipitates. The only man who was reallv laboratory conscious % 0F HO »r ' 8FP 5.