Yeshiva University - Masmid Yearbook (New York, NY)

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UJaze of wT tr uJeav ' S Education i.- liti ' . jay.- John Dewey and What a Life! sigh forty-five harassed Freshman as the hiirsar tries to take the shirts of! our hack hut it is too late . . . the medical exam had already done so . . . And so into Our Freshmae Year Among the neophytes are Charley Shoulson who tries to control The Wave of the Future with his fingers . . . Maurice J. Wohlgelernter who speaks English . . . Gelbart, just one of the boys, who seems very sane . . .Joe Adler, our only major in Health Education, goes into a four year coma . . . We begin the process of becoming erudite fools by considering the welfare of The ' Nation, MEANWHILE stringing a beautiful Linn . . . In Speech, we are given the opportunity to Damonstrate that our pronunciation is ng . . . also d for th . . . Chanover and Isaacson begin a bad habit by taking over the Presiden- tial and Vice-presidential posts respectively . . . Hy gets the ' governing urge when he receives the Feuerstein Award . . . We are introduced to Machiavelli in the form of A. Lion with a black moustache . . . By the way, wasn ' t Gersh Appel supposed to be President of the Student Council? . . . Finding the extra year of college which is planned for us an opportunity for further studv, we institute Universitv Extension courses on Lane-181 but we get no credit for our enthusiasm . . . Much fanfare attends Yeshiva ' s one million dollar drive but after the cork is removed from the floors, they come down to earth with a bang . . . There are no women at Ycshiva so Ludwig Lewisohn accepts an invitation to address the school . . . The problem of will and ac- tion is solved successfully by the Seniors who score a perfect mark in the first Wasserman Test given at Yeshiva . . . Some of us see that not all dirt is concentrated in our dormitories, as we see Erskine CaldwelFs Journeyman . . . The Registrar ' s psychological complexes grow more complex as he records the IQ results of the class . . . We decide not to hog all the glories and cop only the Intramural Baseball Championship, leaving a victorious Class Night stili a thing to be accomplished but WAIT TILL NEXT YEAR!!! ... In We notice that the class has been K-0 d as Pit Kolman, Benny Karp, Marv Karp and Mike Kramer desert the ranks . . . We are privileged to watch the collapse of a dynasty of restau-RAT-eurs . . . Chanover and Isaacson rocket into office; the five year plan rockets out ... A few stalwarts take a dare and sign for Physics . . . Wohlgelernter begins to revive the glories of the eighties and nineties (need we explain?) . . . Flies are caught in the History classes . . . Blossoming proletarians revolt as they survey an English survey course M A S M I D • • ■ Damon-sthenes leeringly waxes eloquent (from the other side of the door) as the boys longingly peer through the window panes . . . We turn the tables on Doc Houdini Hurwitz by doing a disappearing act after the role is taken Eig iteen

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SENIORS SAMUEL F. MEYER, President ABRAHAM N. ZUROFF, Vice-President JEROME H. ROSEXBLUM. Secretary PHILIP M. GELLIS, Treasurer GABRIEL SCHONFELD, Athletic Mgr.

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. . . Olli ' I ' i ' ciirli I ' hiHH JH iinylliiii) Itiit ;i ' -IikIn in ltt;iiiii . . . Sluili ' iitb )£ iifi iriiliiil jr|ilil(iNrs ()( ' llnir iiiHlriK ' lorv :it iIh- (ir-l Slmliril l:iiiilly Mixer (ihi- rrviBcd cill My.slciii vviiw iniiii iiriitrd iil llii ' Ixfiiiiiiiiif. ' i lli Icnn i . . . Mr. I, -viin- iiiHlructH ihc ciifTH of Siiiii l{ccr Iroii ' rr-. mi ilii -iilij.ci i,| .ii imi-pliiric in- Icrl ' rrf-rKcs . . . Slloiilsoii MliU |-(»i|.iii(r for lii- M;ir illr . . . I.. .n;ir l l).viiif i al)!iiiil(iiis iIk ' iiiiiiilcr .m lirii li in favor of tin- Fuller Hrii li . . . Kli Sar i- -till relieenl on llie Mihjec ' l of ' Ileliol . . . Tlie line. ' |{rrm I, .m-. I . , . aroii and Vloisli jio Two-in-Oiie li(ie |loli ■ll one lieller . . . Our li;il- a):ain haek Twilehv l aeluini s pileliin iIiii.k driving; our opponent- lialt . Tlie re-ull? Aiiollier sofll.all eliani|.ionslii|. team . . . Clai- Nile Oli. y- ' . Well, y.,- -till have two more Irie.s. ir Jeeioir Year ( ' alapultic convulsions and revulsions over -onie us ;i- ue lind that nothing is hut l.ilinan . . . The fjood professor hypostatizcs his own alui ' uhen he exclaims. Onolc. there is hut one Litnian, llncpiote (But this is not for puh- lieationl . . . Hartstein waxes Wilds as we ohject to heing hooked up for a i ' ourse in education . . . TIk- cold .Aseh of Psyeholofiv flares up in the lee- lures of Dr. Luchins . . . 7 ' ie ' It ' inpi ' st turns iur trip to Uoe Klein ' s home into a Comedy of Errors, hut we finally fjet there. And the moral of thif- If iiih ' r ' s Tall ' is that Lovi ' s Lithoiir is r( warded Measure for Measure ... In oui- philo class we dis ' over that the onlv orthodox Je« ha- moved in — next door to G-d . . . The flood professor is loyal to the Mo-aic law. Iiul his hetter half invokes the Monroe do -lrine . . . Our registrar sees ' ' Sweet Nellie Home — also Ruth. Augusta, etc. . . . ( .ommentators remark upon the justice of the ] roceediiigs . . . Dachowitz tries to mix j ersonaI with International Relations hut gets the Air-on . . . Moishe hecomes a zadik and finds it doesn ' t pav . . . Lack of space on the fourth floor causes the Executive-Committee lo annex Harry ' s Luncheonette . . . Moses the Law-Giver, inserihes his judge- ments on a Pincns while Samuel stands hy ready to aniioint a new king . . . Silent Saul Gopin was ] rcsident of our class, in ease you ' ve forgotten . . . Daehowitz a])plied the sound eflfocts . . . How high is Hy ? Commentator editor at least . . . The howl of the Wolves penetrates the inner sanctum oi the first floor . . . Doc Litman speaks ahout more than one kind of Peace at a Peace Day Asscmhly . . . The Exec-Connnittee introduces a five-dollar fee — .students ohj ct . . . INo live-dollar fee . . . Moe einherg is Cast in the Dee]) of the Blue when he hecomes an egg in the eyes of his classmates . . . The Wizard of .Az does a vanishing act on his name . . . Need we add that we had no competition in hasehall and haskethall . . . NO. we didn ' t win at Class Nite. but we fi nished third . . . (Ed. Note — The cla. ' s of ' 40 did not ]iartici])ate) . iiir Seeior Year Seniors at eshiva — a place where directors sing a Stein song of ap- l)easement . . . here philosophers call Psychology an airy monster and ahnormal psychologists relegate Hegel lo the realm of the demented . . . The invasion commences as Brooklyn College hlitzkriegs the Quints and LIU sends ])ara-chutists into our English Department . . . Lieutenant Colonel Freed Nineteen 19 4 1