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

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ivie Atrt6 In order to fill the gap created by the extension of the course in Pharmacy from 3 to 4 years, the Dept. of Fine Arts was cre- ated. This was made to in- clude the subjects of Math., Contemporary Civ- ilization, German and Physics. It was the inten- tion of the Board of Re- gents to initiate the bud- ding Pharmacist into some of the cultural aspects of our world, and also make him eligible for a B.S. degree. There have been rumors by the Republican Party that this was a bit of Pork Barrel legislation intended to create posi- tions for indigent instruc- tors and Democratic Party wh eel horses. Mr. Luthin did his best to dis- pel this notion, but his Economic Interpretation of History merely added to its support. It was his contention that had Tammany Hall existed dur- ing her time, it would have been impossible for the Good Queen Eliz- abeth to remain such. Yes, Contemporary Civilization was a blase ex- position of Roman orgies and Isolationist inanity. Mr. Levi offered more tangible, though hypothetical, material for our consumption. His expositions in the realm of mathematics left us breathless. (And not from running up 3 flights of stairs to mak e the 9 o ' clock bell either.) He finally managed to teach us that the square root was not the portion of the plant offered for identification. Mr. Ingenhuett was the keeper of the Shtickshtoff. and his ram-

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idi eaica for we were all so busy signing each other ' s names to the attendance sheet that half the period was over before we even realized it had begun. . . . Next came Bacteriology and our introductions to Professor Hart and Dr. Blumberg in that order. . . . Those three afternoons a week were all too much for us sometimes especially if the Paramount had a change in program. . . . The Dean came next and with him the toughest course we had as vet encountered. . . . Did I sav course? Rather it was a compilation of all the courses we had to date and more. The worst part of it was that there were never two answers to a question, just the Dean ' s and the wrong one, and as more than often turned out, ours happened to be the latter. . . . Dr. Harry Taub was saved until our last year. Why, we ' ll never know. . . . There were times in our Junior and going back still farther, our Sophomore year, we cotdd have used him, and how. . . . We never knew whether or not he ' d be able to make class and if his friends in the department would finally catch up with him! We never minded his eating in class, after all he taught us on his lunch hour, but the things he would pull out of his pockets to this day remain a constant wonder to us: stuff like dehydrated potatoes, Kerr ' s Butterscotch and all sorts of odds and ends the detail men might throw his way. . . . But believe it or not we learned our tox, and with it a special type of mathematics we and Professor Taub have chosen to call Taub ' s mathematics. . . . The best part of it was that it worked for everyone. ... If the small number didn ' t divide evenly into the large one all you had to do was reverse the order, and the funny part of it was that it really worked. . . . And so after four years we are able to look back on some pretty grand fellows that have come to mean individually, something particular to each of us. And so we take our leave, the class that was tagged by the Dean, the worst one since the class of ' 86 that first day of the first year of these past four. . . . Dr. R. Halsev

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blings into the confusion of Scientific German was really Ausgaschla- eerdiker. We studied the use of carbon in the German language and also the most efficient method of turning pages of a book nonies. i.e.. sans mane. On entering the house of Far-well, his butler Ralph made certain that our hats and shoes were left at the door. Then, pressing a button, we were all fluoroscoped for the presence of concealed weapons or other destructive material. Pressing a second button the doors were all double locked and barred, as were the windows. By the mere threat of pressing that mysterious 13lh button he held us in complete obedience and subjugation. Mr. Harlan was the custodian of run-on sentences and split infini- tives. With his Texas drawl, which was invariably tangled in the acous- tics of room 31, he guided us in the ways of good English. His formula for making Pharmacists literate was to subject them to the writing of multi-thousand word compositions in class each Monday morning. Need more be said? Is this then Fine Arts as we Pharmacists knew- it? No. It would be unfair indeed to leave one with the foregoing impression of this de- partment. There were more serious moments when we learned much that would stand us well in our later years. To Mr. Luthin. Mr. Levi, Mr. Ingenhuett. Mr. Harlan and even Prof. Farwell we owe a measure of gratitude and appreciation. Their job was difficult. Time and facil- ities were short and we as science students took too lightly these sub- jects that were strange to most of us. In all. a good job was done. Mr, R. H. Lulhin, Mr. J. .. Harlan, Mr. A. H. Ingenhuett, Mr. H. Levi