Yeshiva University - Masmid Yearbook (New York, NY)

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MASMID PHILIP KAPLAN Albert Hans Eugene Michaly Jacob Heisler Zev Goldstein MASMID STAFF MORRIS A. LANDES, Editor-in-Chief ALLAN MIRVIS, Business Manager ASSOCIATES HYMAN J. WACHTFOGEL ASSISTANTS Bernard A. Poupko Sidney Reiss Joseph Sokolow David Miller Milton Cooper Ephralm Mandelcorn Zach Gellman Milton Kramer Maurice Wohlgelernter The Editors express their siiicerest gratitude to Seymour Nulman for executiiifj the cover design and arranginrj the pages of candid camera shots and the Com- mentator picture.

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TO Dr. Samuel Belkin SCHOLAR, TEACHER, FRIEND lllio .si mholizcs tlic idciil of Vcsliivd. a sjiiillusis af Ihc wisdom of Hclld.s nid Ihc iiiiiiiorhil I nil lis nf J iidmii. tcho iiiVdridhl i iiislills tcilhiii us a ( riiiiiiic love of learning ind Jioncsli of purpose, xi-ho slioics a sincere and active inleresi in llie xcelfure of tiie individual student as icell as in the proyress of llie iiislilution. THIS MASMID IS RESPECTFULLY DEDICATED 19 3 9

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Over Our Shoulder Four iDiii;- yc-irs for iiiic sin;ill di rcc. Iwd lilll,- Icllivsl Wli, n hi- r.ji li lliis .stage, wc begin Ui wonder wlietliei- it «as all wortli wliile. uIkIIiit wi- lia i- not been guiltj ' of a horrible waste of youthful tiiergy. Those long, weary lectures — what w re liny worth! ' Could wi- have obtained more from reading than from lisUninn? Were tliry just a |iuni.shnient for an in- nate indolence which does not pc riiiil us to sil loo long o er a book . Yes, we have been polished with a little veneer of eullurr. the ])omponsness to overawe sopho- mores. We are good charlatans. Are wi ' good scholars? ' Tis an unsolvable enigma. However, the friendships we formed in college are worth every second of those four years. We have met our Levins, our Millers, our Kaplans, our Reises, our I ' oupkos, even our Klirenthals. We have come in more or less close contact with onr Litmans, our Belkins, our Churgins. our Isaacs, our Krauses, and our Finkel- steins. We have known warm hearts and sympathetic souls. ' e have made fast friendships with the men of the faculty. We have worked hand in hand with them. In our collegiate life-time, we have seen a great menace to faculty and student democracy removed. We have seen a lesser obtacle brushed aside. Working together, striving for a common goal, has united the faculty and student-body. However, these facts do not signify that the two bodies do not criti- cize each other. Only of the dead must we speak n ithing but good. The student- body and the faculty must be every bit alive. The present faculty administration is the very one the students would have elected, had they the franchise in such matters. We have been gratified to watch the Executive Committee continue cooperating with student leaders when in office as they had done when out of it. Some tongues, however, must wag. Rumor would have it that there are indications of a cleavage between students and administra- tion. There is no foundation to these rumors even though there ma - have been oversights on the part of the Executive Committee. Still, we must never again allow such oversights, never again help open the mouths of potential back-biters. This coordination of faculty and students has been instrumental in liberaliz- ing one of the great bugaboos of the Ycshiva system — the cuts. Some of the seniors have had occasion because of this to smile upon the grumblings of some of our pro- fessors. Some of us have realized, perhaps for the first time, that professors too are human. They hate work just like the rest of us. They hate to have the interest which their lectures evoke as the criterion for attendance. It demands too much work. Seven