Yeshiva University - Masmid Yearbook (New York, NY)

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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

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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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erbs ; we DO know more than his bebby Our Freshman rear Whnlta life, tchal joys. But hold on-il ' s only The beginning, boys! . . , SOPHOMORE YEAR In Fate ' s hands If e ' re all nom tools Half tcise men And half fools . . . Commy sees red as two Sophs break all prece- dents by joining the governing board, tulfilling our motto, if we can ' t bend em, we break them . . . Rosenthal is news-editor, Karp, sports-editor . . . Morrie Epstein and Joe Sokolow go to the head of the class . . . the Executive Committee issues an Emancipation Proclamation from their suite of tables at Harry s — no classes after 7:30 — P.M. for sane people, and A.M. for science majors . . . Linn acquires a Sophomore English class, and takes a wife to help with the themes . . . We have our first real smoker with Sid Reiss doing a take off on the Gypsy, Oscar Reichel dispensing risque stories and Menachem Mendel uncovering his famous Muchacha . . . Dramatic Society revived by some of the ' 42 Men . . . Muni and Tracy get the jitters . . . Prof. Robert Calvin Whitford flops florry for a six dollar joke . . . We learn English doing cross- word puzzles . . . Oscar Reichel tries to find his place in the world as he takes over the Lost and Found Dept. . . . P.O.N, takes over the Publicity Bureau and holds the fort until Sherman returns from Georgia . . . Hesh leaves the Varsity, and by coincidence we cop the basketball intramurals . . . Progressive Articularization is the keyword as we learn that we can toss wisecracks while becoming scientific politicians and political scien- tists . . . we get the weekly History exams that Prof. Brody is noted for, but they prove easy once we dis- cover that they ' re in the bag . . . The Spry Sophs take over the Minyan one bright morning, with Rabbis Kramer, Miller, Seiden and Reichel officiating . . . All agree it was a huge success, and should be repeated — every four years ... so dere I was at the Class Nite . . . what was I doing at Class Nite? . . . cheering squad is formed, and Samson, Fisher and Reiss yell their brains out in adulation of Sadie — Sadie the Tuenty-tujo