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

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Fzrst Year Nzght Tech Students action which should occur to every thinking person in one form or another. At any rate everyone has been made to feel it now that summer sessions have been announced. Whether we like it or not-whether We had had some lucrative position in prospect or had planned an enjoyable four months -it has now been decided that we're going to go to school this summer and more than likely during the rest of the summers of the years we spend in Cooper. Everyone of us is wondering whether we,ll be able to get through the hot summer or just give up and go to the beach and recuperate. The re- exams have been abolished, the time between terms being somewhat abbre- viated. Everything said and done, we expect a future of hard work and sleepless nights, but we shall, face it with confidence and pride in the con- tribution that we shall make to the strength and worth of our country. First Year Nzght Tech Students

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The most peculiar individual in the whole freshman class is without question Flores. He does more things wrong in one day than the rest of the class does in a week. Karlo Keljo is always complaining about his sleep. He sleeps four hours a day, two in school and two at home. The witty team of Hyman and Levander is always good for a laugh. Hal Goldberg is aiming to outdo them and become the class wit. So far he has advanced half way in that direction. Bob Lawit- was the most surprised boy in the freshman class the day Mr. Halsey actually answered one of his questions. Stan Kasperis life has been made miserable by the terrible ribbing he took in class about his relations with a certain young Art School student. The three musketeers of that southeast window, Lawit, Fornason, and Corner have been doing all right in matters amatory. ln case you don't know them, Fornason is the walking Esquire, Corner the handsome fellow with the curly black hair, and Lawit that wolf with the lisp and glasses. The spirit of levity was not entirely absent: specifically, Herbert Sekuler's efforts at facetiousness, and Art Zigas' monumental ability to top without fail a joke of any order. Speaking of consistency, the whole section was deeply shocked when Sol Tanne slipped down to a 98 on a Physics test. Tanne never divulged the secret of his downfall, but wethink a girl may have had something to do with it, although it isn't much to her credit to cause a fall of only two points. ln spite of Harry Williams, protestations, the general conclusion was that the bane of his doleful existence must have been something he kept hidden away in his heart. On the whole the section was one of many facets. Meyer Steinberg contributing naivete, Seymour Weismann, Flatbush, Harry Tashjian mushy English themes, and Thomas Schwartz unadulterated Thomas Schwartz. In the night school we have fellows that really deserve some credit. They did not begin with a pleasant weekend in New Jersey. ln fact we imagine that they have very few pleasant weekends. Working days, attend- ing classes at night and studying between times is pretty tough. Nor does it leave much time for social life or extra-curricular activities. It is for their ability to endure in spite of the lack of these things which we find so neces- sary that we commend them, particularly the freshmen. The news of December 7 came as something of a shock to everyone. It was not a shock in the respect that no one was able to foresee it-we have more respect for the freshmen than that-but a shock in that we had now actually come face to face with that previously distant abstraction, that bad dream which we chased from our minds by throwing the paper aside or turning off the radio, that horror, the practice of which we had been born just too late to witness in its last great exhibition. It was now here in all its glory-or lack of it. To present such a reaction may seem to be over- doing it a little. Perhaps it is in some cases but it is, nevertheless, a re-

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it r 1 1 Z -: ! 7'- if 1 731 uv' .2 ,ii a -4 fiff 4 -f .4 3 .41 W4 wi The sophomore Electrical Engineering class consists of an average of about twenty students, the very flower of last yearis one hundred Fresh- men. An average membership of students, rather than a precise one, is given by reason of the somewhat discomforting fact that some of us flowers have yet to master sundry first year profundities, the mastery of which is pre- requisite to our full bloom as regular sophomores. And thus it happens that as the section migrates from class to class its numerical magnitude varies, for the second year subject waiteth, giving place to the first year one. How- ever, on the basis of the fact that we breathe the same air as the regulars, and speak the same language, and have taken many of the same courses fsometimes more than oncej, and are all members of the human race, we feel we are all of the same group. Except for our unquestionable intellectual superiority, our lightning wits, and magnetic personalities, we of the sophomore Electrical Engineering section are pretty much the same kind of students as are those of the other sophomore sections. As a matter of fact, several of our lectures are attended by various other sections in full force, and we think our section is to be congratulated upon its consistently humane conduct toward these lesser beings. It is our practice never to discuss any of the more involved problems of Electrical Engineering in the presence of these pitiable fellows, and we have always been careful to pretend interest in their pathetic little affairs. ln return for our magnanimity, we ask of them only that we be shown the respect that is naturally due us. And so, largely as a result of these efforts on the part of our section, there exists a complete harmony and remarkable unity throughout the entire sophomore student body.