New York Medical College - Fleuroscope Yearbook (Valhalla, NY)

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univr N broad sunlit meadows at last, after two years of bewildered groping through dark, treacherous jungles! The never-ending pressure and worry of the first and second years gave way to a placid and care- free existence richly spiced with the variety of more than lebenty-leben clinics and some twenty-odd courses taught by an even greater number of instructors and professors who had apparently forgotten that most effec- tive stimulus to learning-the examination. Although quizzes were a rarity, conferences certainly were not, but, the self-indicting I don't know of previous years was replaced by deft evasion of the subject and substi- tution of almost revelant knowledge recalled from pre- vious years or casually gleaned from pharmaceutical blot- ters. We had become fairly conversant with medical terminology and could understand all the instructors most of the time, but some of the sophomoric confu- sion that still lingered was well demonstrated by the serious answer Dr, Freud received to his questions as to the etiology of meconium ileus in infants- XVhy, er, the baby gets it from eating meconium! Unscheduled study hours that cropped up before and after clinics, and during those not infrequent hours when instructors were too busy saving lives and mak- ing millions to come to lectures, were filled with the happy sounds of riflling bridge decks and slurping of tea room coffee. Interest in extra-curricular activities surged to a new high, whether from an actual desire to participate or whether from the less laudable desire to fill in the gap next to the yearbook pictures in the graduation issue. The midnight oil Hickered low dur- ing the social year and for many it brought a reawak- ening to the joys of feminine companionship and its questg while to others of us, already shackled, it re- vealed the gratifying fact that our wives had waited for us. DAVID PLOTKIN Prefidelzl