Yeshiva University - Masmid Yearbook (New York, NY)

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' ' ...The Days That Are No More September 1936, .in,! .-.(i l„u ild.iv,! ri-,,sii ,vlru ,ir il ;;:,is ..f lii r|, s.-luml (■oTniiuiicniirnls ;ui(l siiniiiur . ' UmI ions Id llic ri-.-ilin nl ' |j|rasaiil incmcirics . Ii)tO? Jiisl an awrsDMif innnln r riprcscnlinn- a yrar nl ' unknown |iirfi ' cti( ii which we doiiht we ' ll n, rr iva.li. June 1940 I ' ' iH-|y ])laiiil s(ni(n- Imwcd Kiu willi llic ' wciuhl of years march in solemn pvoi ' ession oul of llie Laniporl .•nidiloriurn willi a eollcfriati ' career behind llieni and a hard world ahead. . . . tears from the dejilhs of some di ine des|iair rise ami lo.ik upon the days that ari ' no more? - no miire ? . . . f(n-i;-otteii , ' . . . Impossilile- On! of the treasure d ' fond nuinories that erowd our tlioiii; ' hts ina?i - ol these monKiits will iM-r live on. I low can we forncl . ' 1936 — . . eosniopolitaii bunch of rowcly hut scholarly freshmen fjcl their first look at Ycshiva . . . Ycshiva, a place where students Ic.irn lotimatiks throiij li the parabolic dips of the profcs.sor . . . That ' s the course where our class first begins to function . . . ' hcrc Robins migrate North instead of South — Jerry and Leo from Cleveland and Pittsburgh respectively . . . ' here young men go I ' .ast to seek I)an ' on fortune leaving the Hollywood atmosjihcrc behind — that ' s Maimon and Newman from (he West coast . . . Where Hinchin beats the Theatre CJiiild to it ,is he brings the first act of A Philadelphia Story (o N.Y. for a Y.C. opening . . . Hartford contributes Meyer Shapiro lo this eon-glamour-ation. He is a fairv nice fellow . . . Where Sid Merrin mak( s Mihatma (ihandis loincloth look like a full dress suit as he unveils his gym unifm-m in Doe Hurwitz ' s class . . . he almost un- eils himself, to(i . . . This is Yeshixa . . . ' liere the Class of 10 becomes a euphemism w h;U with the administratiim ' s ideas of making college a life career . . . An extra year of schooling, they claim, will give us more time for study, so we end lip pl.iying ball Tuesday afternoons . . . At least two of us, Dlugaez and Povzca. leel at home with this five year plan . . . Somewhere and someplace there was an election ami we find Krutman our president and Blachowitz the vice . . . Yeshira. where a Rhodes scholar teaches French, a French scholar teaches German and a man of the world (handsome hobo R ' laaz ) teaches Knglish . . . February, and twenty more conscripts choose the paths of glory that Icadetli but to Yiras Sho- maim . . . (u ' llcr gives us all a thrill one fine dawn ' s early light when lie invites Us .all to witness his first snowfall. Sho ' niitl ' you all don ' t see seeh things do vn ' I ' exas way where ah comes from . . . Freshmen come Trupin onto the varsitv as Koslowe tops the scorers, Avrech stars, and ]5ob Schwartz coaches the class team Ttcenty-five 19 4

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CO on o Z LU LO MASMID Twenty-four

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MASMID Iroiii liis |)l;u ' i- on tin- ;irsity luiuli . . . ' i ' woiulrr wliy w r ilun t h;i f two iiuire men on Ilk- xarsity. as Kri sky ;uul Mli ' I ' Iii almost l)rin ; ' us an int i-arnural cliam- l)ionslii|) . . . 15uililin!;s lo tlir rij lit of ns. buildings to the k-ft of us. anil now huild- inii ' s iio u]) in front of us as the rivets volley aiul thunder . . . Satir earries on for tile dormant Dramatic Society with his vivid Hio lectures . . . Mr. Sar (he teaches ]?iMe. you knowe) uses totalitarian methods liy liquidating- (51.1 111 ' J of the class as he mis-lays his liijih marks . . . Koslnwe is still Koslovsky . . . I5ut don ' t get us wrong, we love Yeshiva. 1937— I5aek from our first vacation as full-Hedged collegians to that same Ycsliiva with tlie Harlem view blocked out by Venetian I)linds . . . Jilachow it , has by now talked himself into the class presidency while Goldman starts u]) the poli- tical ladder as V.P. . . . K idently !iot acquainted with Yeshiva bottlonim, Shipley endeavors to teacii us the art and science of wasting time. ' hat a course! A diarrhea of words and a constipation of thought, to quote the ])rof . . . YESHIVA, where Biblical confusion reigns: Chem prof gives way to atom and .Jacob gives way to Isaac(s) as the clamoring for a dean produces results — ; but he prefers to be called Assistant to the President . . . Goldman becomes Business Manager of Com- mie and a fortunate Burro Park lassie sees all the leading Broadway shows . . . Hinehin is startled by Doc Frecd ' s revelations on sex . . . Our stage debut at the first Class Xite is a success but our screen test in Damon ' s roof garden class remains in the negative . . . like ' Abromowitz shows us that a sneeze is not always a sym]3tom of a cold . . . He redeems himself by flashing light on the sub.ject in Dr. ISrody ' s class . . . an iineiita, no less . . . Written reviews are what they now call term exams . . . A rech joins the Levin bandwagon and gets himself elected Athletic Manager in the landslide . . . Oh yes, Kos is still known as Kosloxsky. . . . But don ' t get us wrong, we love Yeshiva. 1938— YESHIVA, a place where Alexaiuler the Great teaches Philosophy and history is made by another Alexander . . . where kings will be ijhilosophers and philosophers would be on the Semicha committee . . . Where the Sar and a Ger- man caterer beat the Hitler-Stalin non-aggression pact by a year . . . where soup pots become rat traps . . . !Merrin and Klaperman, at a loss for amusement in the evenings, sit in on Levin ' s Council . . . where the Psych class storms the Bastille .-.nd bombards the Sells with chalk ... A psychological experiment in self-analysis reveals the startling fact that Schechter ' s emotions are more easily stimulateil by a pencil than by a KISS . . . Sclmall covers his head with a Yarmulke antl himself with glory as he keeps the class team in the intra-mural running . . . We lose our dignity and Bronstein his pants in the Junior-Freshman blitzkrieg . . . America votes a dummy its top entertainer and Yeshiva follows suit with top class nite honors going to Sliikey Bard ileCarthy . . . Organic Chemistry is one small night- mare. Wait till next year for the big one . . . The fellows begin to meet major catastrophes . . .Three of us get a preview of things to come as they aisle it at the 1939 commencement . . . Povzea cops the Junior medal, Bronstein gets the Matli award, and Goldman receives the Fishel Essay prize . . . The latter becomes a fifth columnist by writing On the Sidelines while breaking onto the faculty via the Physics laboratory . . . Bobby Schwartz spends quiet evenings at home picking out splinters from his basketball uniform . . . Irv (yes, sir, still Koslovsky)- captains and irtually coaches the basketball team . . . The 1939 class leaves us a Shaer and the bad debts of Sol Aber . . . That ' s Yeshiva, but don ' t get us wrong. We love it! Twenty-six .