Yeshiva University - Masmid Yearbook (New York, NY)

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M A S M I D n ' n. Twenty-six

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M A S M I D DO YOU REMEMBER... September ' 33, and fifty awo-struck fresfiies rush to their first class. Forgotten are Higfi School commencement and summer vacations. ' 37? Oh, just a silly way of designating the greatest class ever! June ' 37, and fifty sedate seniors bowed with the weight of their dignity and their cap and gown march up the aisle at the close of commencement and out of Yeshiva ' s portals forever. College days are over . . . Pleasant days, weren ' t they? Do you remember . . . Freshman year . . . Gee, isn ' t college tough! . . . What IS a function, Dr. Sinsburg? . . . Say, do all college instructors have beards that vanish overnight like Dr. Johnson ' s ? . . . Duke Landman ' s hiistory Manor! And who ' s this teacher ' s pet — is Ribner the name ? . . . who continues to supply him ith ch ewmg gum . ' 3ntar ' . . . We ' re Introduced to Rahmin Sion — an interesting first snow! Interesting speech and a peculiarly pleasant talk on an Or accent, too. The Biology class! Remember the ten weeks with Dr. Safir on classifica- tion? And fhe Dodger-Giant feuds with Dr. littler? ... Dr. Rhodes? He finally smiled at the end of the year, but we didn ' t. What marks! College French must be tough! . . . Summer school . . . fifteen perspiring chaps trying to catch up to the sophomores . . . and did they perspire! A seven hour final with Dr. Lowan, and he must have thought he was still teaching Prof. Einstein. . . . He found it otherwise, though . . . what a slaughter! ... At least, P. T. was a snap. Free rowing and hiking every week . . . and that telegram collect to Dr. Horowitz? Ours was some class! With Karlin and F. Kolatch in the Student Council . . . and Levy on the Varsity in his first year we must have been good. ' 35 — Sixty of us, thanks to the summer school. What a mob in chem- istry! And the late Sunday lab. hours ... At least those stout hearts who dared brave Dr. Lowan and became the physics pioneers had a small class . . . they enjoyed it, too, what with Doc ' s black magic, and the off-key singing of Palestinian songs by Rosenfeld and Tenenbaum as they did their experiments . . . and even then, Lenny ' s ingenuity — he made Doc think that our religion commanded the yodeling! And do you recall how frightened we were when Dr. Home roared Beowulf at us in the original Anglo-Saxon? . . . Or were we more frightened when we came to class without having memorized four lines? . . . And French Lit., with George Sand ' s influence on Nietzsche, the years of Wisconsin, and our minds so pregnant with ideas, though we could only regurgitate? . . . And Eh, bien, dansez main+enant? . . . We did, too. eh Wolfe? And that Wise-guy Werfel, with his tirade against Moliere? And how did you like the prize Henkin won — Montaigne ' s essays in French! Remembe ' - the weekly lecture on Ike Hoover ' s book? . . . Excuse us, it was really a lecture on American history; but we did enjoy Dr. Margallth ' s anecdotes ... It was our toughest year, but we enjoyed it . . . There were plenty of bright spots: — Mike Karlin, despite his genius, allowing his interest in the scores to Interfere with his physics experiments . . . Rabbi Mazo and some of his cohorts doing the stride and straddle . . . the Ail-American baseball team . . , Our officers ? ... Si Kornfeld and Boris Rabinowitz . . . and Eieazer Goldman won a prize — our first classmate to participate in commencemen- .... were we jealous! But summer came, and when we returned — Twenty-seven