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

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eclipses him almost completely-he was first at attempting to titrate IM, instead of .IM N aO1-Ig Prof. Hope seemed to think he should have stopped after running in five burette-fulls. By the time your first two years are Finished, you become accustomed to the delieate odors drifting through the fifth floor halls. The sound of expensive equipment crashing to the floor leaves you emotionless and you are a stranger at home with the acid scars on your arms and the acid stains on your fingers. The grind has begun to tell-you get a little weaker, things become blurred and you may even lapse into a coma just as Henry Schwartzberg. Perhaps, you even become a poet, and write this: should you ask 1ne where these stones where these legends and traditions with the odors of the chem lab with the smoke of burning messes with the smash of breaking glassware with their frequent repetitions and their wild reverberations as of thunder on the fifth floor i should answer i should tell you from the wilds of jersey city from the fastness of kings county from the mountains of the bronx from the jungles of manhattan come these burette Waving warriors to the fifth floor laboratories i repeat them as i heard them from the lips of wise old sherman as their mentors lay about them with black snake whip and book in hand who are these warriors brave and mighty listen and i shall tell you len naphtali who swiftly cometh to enter late at every session hockstadt marksman of the shutter aimeth his camera at helpless victims luberolf of the irrelevant question who driveth teachers mad with anger brody innocent of knowledge asketh oft stupid questions chaboty sweet singer of the chem lab crooneth quote i love you as i never loved before unquote

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h mi al ngineering The best place to meet the Chemical Engineering class of 1950 is the chemistry laboratory on Tuesday afternoons. Professor Hope, who IHLISL meet these, his dearly beloved children, four times a week, is in charge. May I perform the introductions? On your right is Mr. Chajson ol the perfect Hope method copper analysis, who played such a realistic part in the class contribution to the Freshman Reception .... Next, Mr. Davis, speed demon of the class, racing between the five simultaneous determinations, and the balance room, every few seconds .... XfVe have now reached Mr. Dolgon, by lar the best known in the class, who, with Al Dworetzky, is responsible lor all songs, stories, witticisms, and most remarks hailing from the group. To them we owe the class pledge: 1'Ve pledge allegiance to the Periodic Table of the Department of Chemical Engineering, and to the confusion for which it standsg one molecule, indivisible, with 0,1 normality and milli-equivalents for all. . . . A1 is now qualified to deliver a lecture on How not to remove a thistle tube from a rubber stopper. . . . .lack Feder's back may at any time be anointed with splatters of a silicon evaporation, or molten bisulfate particles, courtesy Mr. Schaeffer . . . in Public Speaking, I think the speech was all about dreams followed a ten-minute oration in which dreams were mentioned every ten seconds .... Dick Keates, one-man Port Jefferson Chamber of Commerce, is at con- stant odds with the L.I.R.R. over punctual train arrivals. . . . On the other side ol t11e table, meet Elizabeth Reiman, holder ol' the dubious title of prettiest girl in the class, and expert at diluting GN HC1 to O.1N HNO3 .... Gene Runes still has failed to clarify why students should rather take a Physics exam than go to a dance .... We all hope that Marvin Schaeffer has been able to teach his girl how to play Bridge . . . we would have given up long ago .... Messrs. Sobel and Tischler, track men, keep the Math class in order from the back of 111 .... Marvin Turken, after enough exams, will have a real curl in that forelock of his that gets twisted constantly .... I-Iis neighbor, Sol Zaromb,

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on the shores olf 50ll of the shining chem dept stood the sachem prol' peterson pointing with his linger northward to the fragrance ol' the brewery makers ol the ruppert beer to the shores of north new jersey go this band ol' brave titraters to visit ealeo ealeo chem eo subsidiary ol' the american eyanamid Co as we Crouch around the burners singing of the days ol' old of the wise men of the tribe peterson bassemir hoehstadt o driscoll sly rottman and Cunning k square plot their fiendish freshman reception marder and his chess board seeketh a mate at every move horn salty denizen of the deep sends his canoe against the sea silent williams counsellor pearlman deep voiced kaufman taeiturn weil shed their luster on the tribe and shall we sing of herb wagner professor hopeless of bygone era henry schwartxberg and countless relatives who are unique among their tribe manes mounted on his studebaker dashes oll' to pittsheld mass and we can sing ol' many others who to this story add their share but they have sunk beneath the waters sunk beneath the test tubes waters and we best had lelt them there