Yeshiva University High School For Boys - Elchanite Yearbook (New York, NY)

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.- mat - new ii?-' 1 ..5:l's'. I L I 1 Our first collective experience was the Freshman Assembly. We filed into Lam- port Auditorium and sat down, taking up only the first six rows. We wondered if we were an exceptionally small class. But no, there was Mr. Abrams assuring us that we were the largest Freshman class ever to enter this institution. While explaining the difference between T.A., T.I., and Yeshiva, he mentioned that T.I. students would carry one less major. A groan arose from those boys whose Rebbis had persuaded them to go to Yeshiva. But, said Mr. Abrams, we have engaged a very line Hebrew teacher, recently graduated from the Sorbonne, Dr. Menachem Brayer. He will teach you 'Prophets' in connection with recent ar- chaeological discoveriesf' The boys from Yeshiva smiled in eager anticipation. The first half-day of classes came. On the third floor in the T.I. office, Dr. Grin- stein hopefully approached a group of freshmen. Ha-im atem m'dabrim Ivrit? Nobody answered. As Dr. Grinstein closed one eye and opened the other, a huge tear rolled down his left cheek. Freshman Year Then a freshman raised his hand and said, in English, l read your book on the history of the jews in New York. Dr. Grinstein smiled, and a rainbow ap- peared in the tear. The boy had passed his bechinot hagemerf' The hapless Yeshiva candidates strag- glcd into their Gemorah classes sulfused with a mixture of feelings. They were sorry that they must take an extra course, even if given by such an expert on archaeology as Dr. Brayer, afraid of see- ing their respective Roshei Hayeshiva, and imbued with a pioneering spirit to dedicate themselves to a dauntless attack on the fortress of the Talmud. They were informed that they were under the benevolent despotism of Mister Abrams, to whom they would have to come for admits, and who would see them on all matters of misconduct. The freshman, hearing the word admit cheered up. The word itself was a re- freshing one: ta admit, to let in. They assumed that admits were a right, not a privilege. Disillusionment came swiftly. The first tardy ones sent down to the oflice emerged white and shaking, clutching the blue passports of freedom as drowning men clutch at straws. There