Yeshiva University - Masmid Yearbook (New York, NY)

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FRESHMAN YEAR remember. I remember One September morn We filed from the Bursar ' s den And the ' 42 Men irere born ... The powers that be take one look at us — and a three-man Executive Committee Is rushed Into being . . . Drs. Isaacs, Churgin and Belkin . . . Mrs. Levltan meets us with outstretched palm, and we go -forth to be stripped of our shirts and pants by the good Doc Swick . . . statistics reveal that we ' re a cosmopolitan iot hailing from Egypt, Winnipeg, Danzig, Denver, Cleveland, Cincinnati, Philadelphia, Connecticut, and the Bronx . . . and of course our Baltlmorons . . . We are welcomed by a smoker screen laid by the Poe! Hamlzrachi . . . Our difficulties with the faculty begin . . . Prof. GInsburg ' s famous: And what was your father ' s name, Esterson? . . . we ' re finally stumped by a problem . . . no, not math, but which is the front and which is the back of Yukey ' s fabulous headgear ... Eli Levine, the mighty atom, redistributes atoms and presto — one baby girl . . . we can ' t decide whether to call her Ethyl or Ester ... we are presented with empirical evidence that acetone Is explosive even under the carefully controlled conditions under which I will perform this experiment. Don ' t worry, Gutman, nothing will happen. B-O-O-M! . . . hlls theme song: I didn ' t know what time it was. As the hall clock takes a cue and speeds up . . . Those with more intes- tinal fortitude take physics and Lo an ' behold It takes them . . . with true poetic fervor Prof. Shelley Sa-fires the boys with an appreciation of Galen ... we learn that it ' s cricket to picket as Mickey Mouse ' s big brother makes a personal appearance opposite the Social hHall . . . Reuben Siegel has a slight Southern accent . . . Mr. Irving Linn makes us fellows earn our heritage by the sweat of our notes . . . We spend an uneasy year in occupied France, done up Braun . . . although some have the pleasure of discovering that not all German Rosenbergs are Aryan philosophers . . . V is for Victoria as we trip the light fantastic and break the Loan Fund and Mirsky ' s allowance for the next three years . . . His creditors see to it that his z V) z 1942 Twenty

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HISTORY YE5HIVH COLLEGE Mineteen

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depleted financial condition does not deprive him of entertainment . . . Margy Margolis and Moish Ep- stein counsel the Council . . . We de-pantserize the jittery juniors as the dorm supervisor tries hopefully to tear his hair out . . . Doc hlurwitz mechanizes our gym class with bikes, rubber tires and all, pre-prloritles you know . . . Our speech, which we thought would click, did, but is stamped n. g. by Prof. Damon . . . Hesh Esterson, Irv Jaret, and Sam Rosenblum start a four year major on the basketball team as they pop in some long shots for good old Y. C. . . . Our first Class Nite presentation — with Menachem Mendel ' Fischer and Itzik Jaret going Into the Shadchan business . . . We get up the creek at Tlbbet ' s Brook as we proclaim Fares for the Fair ' s sake . . . Class Nite II, featuring an hilarious pot-pourri of song, dance, and snappy chatter by the Furious Fresh makes us an A- 1 artistic success; yet by virtue of mere intellect, the subtle seniors win again. But onward, onward through muck and mire. Hy a Muck! . . . Writing heads for Commy gives us sleepless nights, and Yus Rosenthal fifteen bucks via the Feuerstein Award (boy. was he happy until h ' s creditors formed a double line) . . . Mickey exhumes the humor from the exchange papers to ghost write a ' Jest in Fun ' colyum for Jerry Kestenbaum s by-line. But who are we to talk! Hy a Mire! . . . Koolyk is also a member of the class . . . The ' 42 Men earn the name as Rabbi Reguer begets Gabriel and we listen to a speech on ' Today I am A Father . . . Another old proverb is changed when the people who live in Glass Houses plead with us not to throw — cigar butts at the usherettes . . . One night is all we need to convince our teacher, an Ish Sar, that we have not mislayed ' our Prov- z B 1942