Yeshiva University - Masmid Yearbook (New York, NY)

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Twelve MASMID JULIUS WASHER Los Angeles, Cal. ' 31 , if you please . . California, here I come ISRAEL UPBIN Bronx, N. Y. that a Phi Beta Kappa key? Oh, I beg your pardon!

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ASM II; JOSHUA MATZ Bronx, N. Y. Sign tliis check, please ALEX. W. NISSENBAUM Jersey City, N. J. Our gift to Jersey ' s Educational System. Good work MORRIS S. PEXKOWER Brooklyn. N. . — Oh, yes. we have our es- men , too . . . Uh-huh. right! '

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M A S M I I ) I hirlcen To the First Graduating Class oJ Yeshiva College From Dh. Bi.knard Rkvel Conceived in the spirit of Israel ' s stead fastnes- to the spiritual certainties and supreme moral ideals of Judaism, which, in a world of shirting stand- ards and changing values, in ages of transition, stand torch-like, immutable and eternal, Yeshiva College was founded, the only college of liberal arts and sciences under Jewish auspices in this land, yet a link in the long and glorious chain of lighthouses of learning, uniting mankind in com- mon undestanding and spiritual striving. Yeshiva College is, by design, a small college. It has set itself the task of training a select group of young men, who combine zeal for knowledge with a large ability for learning, to attain intellec- tual and spiritual integrity ; it endeavors to recog- nize the aptitude of its individual students and to help create the conditions for their growth and development. It is the conviction of Yeshiva College that Jewish studies, in the widest connotations, are an integral phase of the humanistic disciplines, that the cultural resources, traditions and heritage of Judaism, in its millennial history, and its inter- history, are essential for the full understanding of the unfoldment of mankind and of man ' s history. eshiva College is dedicated to the transforma- tion of these aspects and values of Judaism, its teachings concerning God, man and nature, fused and harmoniously blent with the scholarship of the ages, with the other currents of creative cul- ture and the humanizing forces of the age, into living and creative reality in the hearts and minds of its children, for the enrichment of the life of the Jewish community and the advancement of our beloved country. Moreover, Jewish learning has been studied until now as an isolated field, a sort of Jewish antiquities , almost .1 ., (orrn.-r culture; in Ye- shiva College, the aspects of Jewish culture and the Jewish contribution to the life and thought of the ages assume a living shape and a continuous significance. Jewish contributions to math- 1 for example, are no longer ignored or studied as a special, abstruse subject, but become part of the study of the history and development of that science. The influence of the Bible upon Eng- lish literature and the English language, its dic- tion, its images, its subjects, becomes an integral part of the College work in English. The Greek of the Septuagint is a phase in the field of Greek studies. The judgments and misjudgments, the understandings and misunderstandings, the general interaction of Hellenistic and Jewish thought and history are to be surveyed as a part of Jewish and classical culture, so that the whole becomes, beyond mere archeological interest, subject for the Yeshiva College student with significance ap- plicable to life and thought today — so that in time Jewish studies will come to be, not the isolated survey of statistically presented activities and atti- tudes, but the consideration of a spirit and a point of view in the various fields of human understand- ing. eshiva College hopes to bring into Ameri- can cultural life the best of the Jewish spirit, of its cultural ideals, as its contribution to the best in the spirit of our country. The College recog- nizes the difficulties in its way and the limitations at present imposed upon it. The full realization of its vision is still in the distant future, but we have the present opportunity for growth along the hoped for line. No understanding friend of the true and abid- ing values of humanity could view with anything but great apprehension the possibility of the sub-