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

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%« As one can plainly sec. the log of the integral of the gerun- dive of Shtickshioff gefun- den is a relic of the feudal system and a zuhindung from the Lake Poets of the second half of the Cosine Law. Mr. R. H. Lulhin, Mr. J. L. Harlan, Mr. A. H. Ingenhuett, Mr. H Levi The College of Pharmacy is probably the only school in the world where the English. German, Math, History, and Physics instructors are lumped (thrown?) into one De- partment. Well ! There ' s nothing like a little English or Math to break up the time between Chem and Pharmacy lectures. And there ' s nothing like a C.C. lecture to break up the freshmen class into many sections — those taking the course seriously ( a limited and very select group) ; those taking the course somnifaciently ; those taking the course in the Men ' s lounge; and those taking it only when a Hedy Lamarr picture isn ' t playing within 20 miles of West 68th Street. Don ' t get us wrong. We loved every minute we were there, Mr. Luthin. During our Freshman year, we had one unfailing assignment every night — Mathe- matics. Luckily, however, the answers were in the back of the book — so we learned our math backwards, so to speak. What we can ' t understand is how Dr. Levi got his Doctorate, kept order in the class, and corrected the homework and frequent exams — all at the same time. A real genius. Dr. Fialkow is carrying on the great tradition, since Dr. Levi left for war work. The year we entered school, Mr. Boner resigned himself to the fact that he would have to teach us Grammar and Exposition come Hell and High Water. It came, but we learnt. Orchids to a brilliant and inspiring man who was just as bored with the con- jugation of to be as we were, but he stuck manfully to his guns. Mr. Harlan has stepped into his boots and. judging from the reduced rate of illiteracy here, is suceed- ing too.

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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

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fru German was the subject that came just before Prof. Farwell ' s lectures — fortunately for our Physics homework. We shall always remember German as the hour during which we solved the most abstruse physical problems that Farwell could think up. Mr. Ingenhuett tried valiantly to stem the rising tide, but we were too busy watching that Physics distribution curve go up, and German as a major scientific language go down. There are three things we remember about Physics 1 and 2. Prof. Farwell was the lecturer. Ralph was his assistant, and the classes were held in Pupin. The rest is vague, just as vague as Webster. Farwell. Drew, and the class were on sundry points in General Physics. Long may there be a 68th Street crowd to carry the proud traditions of Pharmacy to the still prouder Campus. Prof, h ' anvdl .Mr. Boner