Yeshiva University - Masmid Yearbook (New York, NY)

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Have You Forgotten Yet ? 1935 — I ' ()l-Iy l r liai i ' I ' l-cslinicri iniiii ' I ' rciiii mII ihii- hi llic iiriiqiii ' institution Miul i ' lud IlicinscUcs mM iiM-r llic liiiildinn nuisl r. ' il inn i :i . . . ' i ' lii- iritclli(;cn :i; cxain is l;ilvrii .■iiid uc .-irr (lisilliisidiiid cxin uillimil iidiii;; lliri)iif;li four years of cnllcj c , . . ' I ' lii ' |iiilil ii;il |i(il liiyiiis 1(1 iiiiil; i- :u-i lir;iiiil((l witii Vcsliiva fire . . . I.cviu tnki ' S a (hep wliill of tiic stew (ind liccoiucs iiiflaird . . . Vc arc the last link witli tlic old j;ani - of IV ' tcgorsky, T ' cuiTstcin, and Siinsovit ,. Inc. . . . W ' c run a ])rivati ' imitation of school cNclions iti uliicli I5cii Krritniaii l)cconu-s pn sidciil and I ifsliitz and his glasses c()|i I he vice iircsidciiry . . . { ' lasses start . . . ' I ' ln- math class funclioii on , . , An ellipse is a eii-ele dot you step oTi - or what .lukic wears on his head . . . History willi f ' inkelslei!! liecomes an extra eiirrieular activity as the boys discuss world |)rol)lcms in the local coffee stores . . . W ' c f;et assijfn- mcnls to find hooks — and the library . . . We find Dickson ' s phi]oso])]iy of life all wet . . . Doe Rosenberg- demonstrates his knowlege of German in the French class and of French in Iiis German class . . . Wc go through P.S. elickedy click . . . Comes the revolution, Poupie will liquidate the Th . . . The language profs go into a huddle before each class and couir out in time to make the last bell ... Mr. Sar, you know him? — also a teacher . . . Miuskott hits the ceiling and gits sore wlicn Gellman ribs him about it — literally . . . Rothstein writes the alma mater song — sounds suspiciously like I ' ve Hccn Working on the Railroad . . . The Commentator takes to quoting the jirophets and l.eo takes the Fcuerstein Award . . . Our dean becomes ex . . . The boys take a ride up the H idson ; chaperoned by the So)ihs . . . Oh. yes, Phil Kaplan is our seeret.iry . . . 1936 — In spite of one year in college, we come back for a second dose of learn- ing . . . To our surprise, the millenium has already taken place at Yesliiva . . . Sta- tistics have proved it, it seems, that Y.C. men are getting out too short . . . Five years in the sunshine will make bigger saps of us, it is predicted . . . And so, the alma mater goes completely Red and adopts a five-year plan . . . Our class is not yet ripe for the Ideal Society . . . With telegrams of condolenee and confidence and with mass emigration imminent, a counter-revolution is suecessfuUy staged . . . I ' .verything is in flux . . . Wolf changes glasses; we change vice-presidents . . . Kreitman retains his post witli I,e in as (vice-)president . . . Miller finds himself without a Latin class and is forced to give competition to a vociferous Mintz . . . •Icrry Siegel lectures to us on the difference between sublimity and beauty after due researeli with his trusty opera glasses . . . Poupie becomes an animated cherry tree which pleads with George Washington ' Freed not to chop him off . . . Prof. Damon takes moving pictures of the class; plastic surgery is contemplated by The Boys as a possible career . . . Dr. Isaacs insists on lending fire to his le ctures even if he must start an explosion . . . Doc Liptzin introduces class caps to guard against giluy rosh ' . . . Sexual Hygiene is introduced with Dr. Freed teaching down dcre . . . A liO is a passing mark. so he passes everyone . . . Bike riding becomes a curricnlar activity. Aye. tliere ' s the rub . . . We feel as much at home in the water as an asjiirin when the gym class begins to frequent down-town swimming Ticenty-three 1 )

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I U O CO MASMID Twenty-two

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MASMID i-stablislimeiits . . . Di-illiiii; .uid Imililitiu ' an-.ss tlic stnrt prcnidc icrlilr nn.uml for tlie feature rivalry hilwciu Ariiii ' .MilUr and Misli l.andcs . . . Abranis is laki -.i for a ride in the Irish sweepstakes as the iacidly awards iniii a lu-i e . . , Mr. Sar takes it the hard way . . . Miller repla ves Ai)pel as News Kilitor of The Coin meiitati r . . . Murray Lieberman ' s TaLcnts beeome outstanding as exam period nears . . . Sie mi darf; sie mi darf nit; we ; ct Simon in the dormitory . . . Yeshiva has ils own numbers racket as math is brought lioiiu- on a more praetieal scale with each iliH-mitory resident attached to a card and a luimlur . . . Yeshiva night-watch- man discovers that the institution is ompose.l entirely of Cohens and Smiths . . . Oh, yes, Kaplan is our secretary. . . . 1937 — Summer time is over; huge Yeshiva towers above . . . The unique insti- tution has become a true demoeraey, we find . . . No dean — Just an ofliee wherein women have equal duties with men . . . Upperclassmen at last and big shots to boot . . . .Juniors rule the Commentator as the Governing Board includes Levin, Miller. Landes. and Freed . . . The IJoys spend sleepless nights at Patterson as tliey put the Commie to bed — then rush back to make classes next morning . . . P.T. is over — Gerbcr loses his will to live . . . We meet a real orthodox Jew for the first lime as we stride through Plato and Aristotle with the encouragement of Da Good Dr. Litman . . . Amanation ' is added to our vocabulary while the meaning of ton polikos legitae is made intelligible through graphic illustrations . . . With philo- sophic calm, we learn that t!ie answer to the question Which came first, the chicken or the egg} is Both. . . . Murray Lieberman finds that the process of TeLeology is an old story and that the price of reports on the open market is rising ... A will for unit} ' and a will for dispute clash to leave us with a problem; What is the course all about? . . . Another problem is wliy some of the men get A ' s . . . Chem with Eli becomes a search for unknowns which are never unknown . . . Eli plans to get his samples from the Bureau of Standards in Washington next time . . . Dr. Shipley visits his class periodically to watch its progress . . . The registrar seems to be in dire need of English lessons . . . We learn the history of education — like a book . . . We watch the birdies while a photographer cruises around the music room taking pictures of our antics for posterity, The Jewish Forward, The Collegiate Digest, and The Masmid . . . Art for a credit ' s sake . . . We leave Mr. Renov in the dark as the mute walls resound to his stentorian overtones ... A revel-ution- arv step is taken as Prof. Moses Lawgi cr Isaacs becomes Assistant to the Prexy with the blessings of students and alumni . . . With the aid of an Elefant or two, we march through all opposition like a caxalry charge to knock the intramural bas- ketball title for a loop . . . JMustaches begin to sprout after The Boys discover the need for proper straining of Tennenbaum ' s elixir soups . . . Mish-U-Gas becomes a printed excuse for a joke . . . Wachtfogel and Sklarin are delegated to fill seats in Council . . . The Concert Bureau wakes up: We find Western Waters too dirty. Many Mansions, a picture of life in a theological seminar} ' , is pronounced as fitting Yeshiva to a T.L astly comes The Journeyman with its lay preacher who moves us to nothing but disgust for tl.is art for filth ' s sake . . . The Commie Boys with their passes evoke our jealousy until Mish takes a flame to see a Fire- man ' s Flame — and gets burnt . . . The apartment buildings are up — Science stu- dents complain of eye-strain . . . Arkie conceives of the ' 39 Men ... A humid night for our boat-ride turns out all right with us entertaining the entertainers . , , Poliz- cotf has enough hair to do his dictator impersonations . . . Fleishaker, Shaer, Cooper, and Poupko unite to win the first Class-Xite Banner for us. Denk you . , , The year draws to a close with Miller awarded the Alumni Junior Medal and Big Ben Tiv ' ent)i-f(iur