Yeshiva University - Masmid Yearbook (New York, NY)

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M A S M I D LOUIS HENKIN, Editor In Chief ELEAZER GOLDMAN Asst. Editor BORIS RABINOWITZ Assoc Editor LEONARD ROSEN FELD Asst. Editor ABRAHAM NOVICK , Sports Editor Vv CLFE CHARNEY Associate Editor LESTER SILVERMAN Bus. Manager ED. M. TENENBAUM Asst. Bus. Mgr. A 5 5 I s t a n t s ISADORE MILLER NATHAN LEVINSON JEROME WiLLIG HERZL FREED ISAAC B. ROSE HERBERT RIBNER LOUIS WERFEL The Editors express their sincerest gratitude to Mr. I. Renov of the Faculty for executing the artistic designs for the Masmid. Eight

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M A S M I D EDITORIALS For many years the Editorial Board ' -, of the Mosmid have been striving to enlarge this publication. Every year the annual has grown In size and wid- ened in scope. Yet the Editors continued to aspire to greater achievements. Last year, indeed, the Board expressed the sincere hope that 1937 would see not one but two publica+ions. Moreover, this hope gave pronnise of being realized when the presenl Editorial Staff expressed their desire and repeatedly promised to issue a literary supplement to the yearbook. Wo have failed. There was no literary publication issued at mid-year as had been hoped, planned and promised by the Editorial Board. We have found it expedient and necessary to compromise — - o combine the good features of the 1936 yearbook wi+h the valuable characteristics of previous Masmids. We hope we issued a gocd publication but nevertheless it is only one publication. Ours was not the fortune to blaze this new trail, to advance Ihe literary frontier. It was not done; we regret it. We do not, however, come to apologize, nor to confess and seek atone- ment and forgiveness. Nor do we seek to rebuke or blame any of the groups upon whom may justly be laid the responsibility for the frustration of our hopes. Whether we raise the perennial plaint of non-cooperation and lack of interest on the part of the student body, or whether we concentrate the blame on the Editorial Staff is no longer Important. It is to 1938 rather than on 1937 that we must turn our eyes. In bringing forth this issue, the Editorial Staff wants it understood that this is not the Masmld we had hoped for. The Editors desire to set up as a model for the futu-e, not tho publication that we have actualized, but a po- tentiality which ' s far superior to anything that we have done. We express a sincere hope ihat the future will profit by any errors in policy and procedure that we may have made. We hope that the Masmld of 1938 will realize at least our aspirations for a literary supplement to the annual, and thus realize the ardent hope of all the past Editorial Boards and create an important landmark in Masmld history. ( III yc ' ihtliit); this •.ttilnvial jiom the Cumnifnutoi . the il.iff uishei to institute j fiolic) .jf i)i L-rliii} III (■ Aliimiii the hen liiJenl eJilriri.il oj the yejr). IN RETROSPECT As we review the past year at Yeshlva College, we find it difficult to refrain from voicing our keen disappointment at the lack of any improvement. With the removal, at the end of ' ast year, of what we had considered to be the greatest obstacle to the progress of the institution and the chief cause of student- administration fricton, we had hoped to embark upon a new era of de- velopment and cooperation. We had hoped to attain a true community of pur- pose, a united effort towards a common goal. It was expected that there would be a sincere exchange of ideas between faculty and students concerning their mutual problems. A considerate administration, an active faculty, a wide-awake student body — all these seemed certain to follow. Instead, we have had nothing bul a repetition cf the old evils. Measures are administered with the same hiah-handed arbitrariness. The administration shows the same lack of consideration for the needs of the students. The faculty is as passive as ever, ready to accept whatever the administration may dictate, and unwilling to exert Itself against measures it knows to be unwise and unjust or to propose any changes which might not m.eet with +he full approval cf Nine ' n. ' r •D3K