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

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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.

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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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Second Year E.E.-Top-G. Weiss, M. Yanowitcb, T. Trott, J. Lynch, J. Wolff, J. Poliksa. Bottom-M. Panzer J Herrera N Bernstein, A. E. Kelman, A. Hornung, H. Levenstein, D. Santigrossi. It is our fondest hope that, when we have acquired sufficient knowledge of the principles we are being taught to warrant our practicing them in the engineering field, we shall always be able to maintain with Civil, Mech- anical and Chemical Engineers such ideal relations as have been described. JUNIORS After a summer's absence, we returned to this our third year at C. U. with renewed hopes and ambitions. The havoc of June exams was evinced by the absence of several familiar faces and the addition of several new ones to the class. The partnership of Schachat and Hirsch was broken up, and the Goldin twins separated, with Julian Hirsch and Sam Goldin sticking with us. ' 'Faced with a light schedule, our hopes for an eight hour night fof sleepj were soon darkened, as the complexities of Differential Equations, A.C. Circuits, Mechanics of Materials, Heat Power and D.C. Machines began to penetrate our rusty brains. Never did we feel the depths of our ignorance more than when Professor Miller explained an uelementary problem in Diff. Eq., or when Professor Brumfield queried us on the matter of stresses and strains. And then there was E.81lVl.-again! It was with sadness that we discovered that a summer of aging had done little toward improving the mildness of lVlr. Tallman's problems, Heading the list of our class's'brighter luminaries, we find the name of Ed Herszkorn. Ed may customarily be located by spotting a group of vociferously arguing students. Generally Herszkorn will be in the center surrounded by and in vocal competition with Soroka, Halabi, or Grad. 7 1