Yeshiva University - Masmid Yearbook (New York, NY)

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GERSHON WINER TORONTO, CANADA Here ' s a Canadian With Palestinian ties So strong — anyone Of his oponents he openly defies. BENJAMIN WOLSTEIN WOODBINE, N. J. Tall and blond this Woodbine lad Is a real man of the soil For Israel return to the Holy Land He loill eternally toil. 3it ii mnrmm VICTOR TEICHNER 1922-1941 JOSEPH BERKMAN 1923-1942 Twenty-three

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LOUIS M. TUCHMAN BRONX, N. Y. Commie ' s Business Manager is blond and thin Whose personality many friends will win Knows French and Latin — does honors i Greek His smile and features for him speak. SAMUEL WEISS BROOKLYN, N. Y. JACOB WEITZMAN BROOKLYN, N. Y. He stayed out of politics And became his class pride Masmid ' s literary editor Has Talmud and Philo as a guide. He ' s bespectacled And to no one inimical He sincerely hopes For a career rabbinical. Twenty-two

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CI dSS ' f». ' ti A coterie of eighty freshmen, iarge:t ever, precipitated in the Registrar ' s office, drained of their blood, pilfered of their cash, frus- trated by program procedure, ore promised o course ii. .Abnoroml Psychology to straighten them out ... a hetergeneous internotionale of culprits . . . the usual Boston mass, Baltimore drawls, Canada Drys Bronx twangs and a longhorn stray . . . in a corner, a group of diffident emigres from Williamsburg ' s Mesifta appearing sheepishly uncom- fortable in their right halos ... a few representatives from the Court of International Justice (The Hague, N. J.) . . . Speiser returns from slaughter to slaughter . . . Leo Auerbach takes up track and runs for Vice-Presidency . . . Wins out and becomes secretary . . . Gordon and Appelbaum are elected to student council without any effort , . . on the part of the class ... Eli Hirmes assumes role as social chair- man . class of ' 44 has its only social affair . . oo-la-la . . . We get the Willis — Frankel proclaims Revisionism — Liner com- mences to worry over Brooklines population . . . Finally corralled into class . . . introduced to Linn ' s Yormulke . . . pronounced men . . . and made to Earn our Heritage Stan Cohen asks his first question and Jerry Blass takes his first note . . . Jake Green (as yet minus mustache and inspiration) prepares speeches . . . We are overwhelmed by the Gothic architecture (also Mishi Gothic) but Moishe Klein concentrates on Dor(alic . . . Speigel disapproves of Linn ' s in- terpretation of Dante ... is recalled by Canada . . . We ore struck by an attack of acute French . . . situation is grave as misplaced accents make living Gallic ... His halo causing him slight con- cussion, Weiss quotes Rashi ' s Blaaz on the board and becomes a fallen angel . . . ( Mesifta — where art thou! ) . . . Pritzker demon- strates his brilliance in dates (not round ones) . . . In other words Sharfman completes his translation of Anatole France . . . into a Texan- Montana dialect. . . . M Twenty-four