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

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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.

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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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— he shall herein be nameless — was so appreciated that he was kept for several encores. Then came the Great Awakening. With the course in Quantitative Analysis, we slowly realized that scales were more than machines which dropped out cards with for- tunes on them. Now we were taught the proper use of the micro-balance. We learned that when the weights, carefully calibrated according to a notebook banded down since 1935, were dropped on the floor, they must be picked up with the eye brow tweezers reserved for that purpose. We learned that the little platinum whatchamacallit on that black thingamajig costs about three bucks (or rather the guy next to us learned it — the hard way). We learned that if you averaged all the results in the class, you couldn ' t get worse than a C. It was in this class that we learned most. Q.E.D. Then came Organic with Dr. Di Somma and. remote from arithmetic and calcula- tions (except those copied from Rand), we settled down to a life of peace and quiet, disturbed, now and then, by Gross ' periodic eruptions, both chemical and psychological, and by tests. All in all, a period of refreshing rest. This was followed by Profesor Taub ' s course. Here we applied our knowledge of statistics to such an extent that our results were amaz- ingly uniform and Silbergleit had to mark us on the basis of Micro- the mean. Another rest period. - ' : ?rtP?fiy te8| il to evaluate our Chemistry Depart- TTrf JLe mrf?e to ' tfu ' ani.umg collusion that through osmosis, tele- §¥m ' P pi§£Sg| S|ii w-e know some chemistry. The problem now is — is it because of or in spite of the department? Votes, Ladies and Gentlemen? Mr. S. Liberman, Prof. . . Taub, Mr. A. Silbergleit So you see. gentlemen, it is statistically impossible for the entire Senior Class to get the same quantitative result to the fourth place — on three different samples. But they did! Abraham Taub, Ph.G., Ph.Ch., B.S.. M.A. Associate Professor