Cooper Union College - Cable Yearbook (New York, NY)

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narrate one of his ugoodl' jokes very quietly. Before long the whole udormn was straining their ears to hear. This finally brought about peace and quiet. Most of us did not take all the talk about hard work and long hours of homework seriously until Professor Hope whizzed through his first few lectures and told us that we were responsible for everything that he said. He derived numerous formulae while we raced to get the maze of symbols into our notes. The one thing that every freshman always looked forward to was Pro- fessor Ball's lectures. With Mr. Bossert,s help he always set up some spec- tacular experiments that made us sit back and just look in amazement. It is not an uncommon sight to see upper termers coming to our freshman lec- tures only to watch Professor Ball perform his experiments. Our Monday mornings were always brightened by Professor Lynch's witty and enlightening lectures. In introducing us to the Humanities Depart- ment and its course he told us that we do not take them in order that awe may glibly quote from the classics at a cocktail party given after some suc- cessful engineering venture, while the boss's daughter looks on in admiration -don't misquote me, thatis not why we take themf' Many of us freshmen took the physical exams at the Christadora House. This was a bit of wishful thinking on our part for the majority of us have never seen the place since. Time is, we find, that valuable. Among the very few that have made the sacrifice of studies for the sake of a little exercise are the members of the freshman basketball team which finished third in the intramural competition. The labs were to most of us something new, and, as such, they were at first found to be fascinating. This fascination soon disappeared when the tedious reports had to be written. All admit, however, that this is one place Top R Braun, J. Brown, B. Janofsky, D. Hyman, S. Levander, H. Katz, H. Daneman, R. Leif, J. Budas, Casazza B Levine, B. Edelstein, R. Bloom. 2nd Row-I. Granet, A. Letiler, I. Gottesman, G. Kaplan, H. Flegen heimer C Gllvarge, A. Leonard, M. Kanter, T. Callahan, J. Barth, K. Baczewski. Bottom-G. Bernstein, R. Lawitt 9 Corner H Goldberg, P. Galidas, F. Koniges, S. Kasper, K. Keljo, B. Klayman, J. Berezow.

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Fif-95 Yea' Day TCCI1- 0f7iC6fS First Year Night Tech. Officers P- Pistfacky SCCL, R- Mallfredi, -Seated-R. F. Peterson, H. D. Pres-, H- Pines, Vifle-PICS-, 5- Ohori. Standing-J. Schmid. Schatz, Treas. FRESHMAN After going through one year with this gang of Freshmen, we feel that wehave fully graded and candled its members, and may pronounce them despite their failings to be good eggs. From the impression given by the very diflicult entrance exams we expected our fellow students to be of very high type intellectually. They are this, though not however cut and dried bookworms, but all regular fellows out to work, and always on hand for a good laugh. We may claim the distinction of being the first Freshman class in The Cooper Union to have its beginning at Green Engineering Camp .... The purpose of the Camp as expressed by Prof. Watson was to give the Fresh- men a chance to become acquainted with their fellow students and future instructors in an informal and easy atmosphere of play and good fellowship. In this respect it was a tremendous success. We all came to know each other in a way that could never have been possible under the usual conditions of admission. The main part of the program was a closely contested sports tourna- ment, won by the men of Professor lVlacDonald's group. After witnessing the tournament we have come to the conclusion that The Cooper Union athlete may be defined as uone who walks. ln the evening we listened to some very enlightening talks about the engineering profession and the hard work we were expected to do. i The first night we all stayed awake until pretty late and thought nothing of it. But when on the second night, after a strenuous clay, we all wanted to go to sleep, some fellows decided to exchange some of their choice anec- dotes. Chaos ruled until one genius hit on a bright idea. He started to

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where you learn the subject. lt's drilled in of necessity. As for the separate sections, there are four in the day school and six in the night school. The day school roll begins with a Jersey boy formerly of Brooklyn Poly, one Herman Amster. When anyone wants to know some- thing about New Jersey, Amster is the person to ask. We suspect Tom Calla- han is an Irishman. His attempts to outdo Amster in the humor department are a positive proof of this fact. His subtle remarks in every period are nu- merous. Long will be remembered his outburst in engineering drawing of HI hate every last one of you fellows for disturbing me. It is you who are to blame for this messy plate. i It's amazing, says Davis when he learns something interesting. He will probably say it many more times before he learns all that The Cooper Union has to offer. Daneman was a supporter of the Chinese even before the war broke out. We don't know why, unless that mustache of his is hiding his yellow ancestry. And to those who don't know how to pronounce Klem Baczewski's last name he is known as that fellow in section one who always has his hair slicked down. It is quite generally agreed although not yet proven that Diamond is the wizard of section one. The class, approval was shown when they elected him as section one's representative to the Math Club. The greatest surprise to the class occurred when they discovered Bernd was born in New York. His almost perfect English contains an accent which marks him as a foreigner. Of the rest of the four sections that arose from this aggregation it has, in the last months, become our definite opinion that section three represents the greatest and most peculiar variety of brains and exuberance of the lot, which is, in such a class, quite an achievement. T op-- S. Scheim, H. Wald, A. Zigas, S. Schatz, B. Loveman, I. Schieber, E. Reichenthal, R Sachere A Peranio, S. Tanne, D. Sokolowsky, M. Manes, S. Levy, R. Manfredi. Middle- I. Newman, W. Oshinsky H Rostoker, T. Shwartz, L. Phillips, R. White, H. Mirles, J. Schwartz, A. Solnick, S. Shein, S. Londoner E Thater T Tashpian. Bottom-R. Safier, S. Zubkotf, R. Riskin, H. Picorini, H. Pines. P. Pistrack, T. Lonergan W Pepper, M. Lewis, M. Mollick, P. Missina.