Yeshiva University - Masmid Yearbook (New York, NY)

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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

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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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istory We are introduced to the three R ' s in ' Yukey ' and the three W ' s (what, when, where) in Civihzation ' . . , Quite-a-parodox-and-inconsistency that marks are in- versely proportional to studying . . . Isn ' t that so, Mr. Wolstein? . . , The class is lost in infinity while Gershinsky maintains a 90 degree angle . . . Matz lectures on adjacent angles and illustrates it by curves ... All is no! sweet in Jewish History as the Mesifta clique trips Hoenig in subversive ideas . . . We are sent ' down here to Hygiene or Memoirs of Doc Freed in the Army and to the hygienic gym, put on the spot (numbers) made to follow the Leaders and report to Doc Hurowitz . . . Gym becomes the hardest course in the school . . . but Danny boy knows what to do . . . We pool our talents for class nite and wind up be- hind the eight ball . . . Our basketball team emerges undefeated and we prove that we ' re hot shots after all . . . Sophs haze us and, paradox though it is, we ton their hides with black shoepolish . . . Danishefsky philoso- phizes . . . cops a philo prize . . . and turns to Science. End of Freshmen year! We ' ve now consumed our en- tree of our four year course dinner . . . We learn to like hash. What a summer . . . return of the bronzed westerners pales the East Side products . . . Speiser and Ben Wolstein take positions at the helm of our ship . . we blubbers cast off and drop anchor. Amidst gleeful cries, we cop honors as top basket- bawlers . . Fredman, now cognizant of political angles, ingratiates himself with Broun by means of the known Fredman gum . . . Tuchman, Pritzker, and Artie Cohen carry the torch . . . first issue of Flambeau finds itself pressed into obscurity . . . This year Braun talks and we sleep . . . Keller assists Goldberg in the library, walking arm in arm with a briefcase ... we learn Chemistry from original sources ... an atom ... in our efforts to break the atom we are stranded in lob . . . snifFing at unknowns . . . Prof. Bamberger and Wuerzburger discuss old times in the Reich . . . and lab technique . . . Birth of the Shocher-Bomberger hypothesis it-is-easy-to-solve-an-un- known-if-you know what-it-is. . . . Ski Skidelsky, D. Moseson and Tuchman are drafted into Pinky Churgin ' s brain trust . . . Mah tomor ol zeh. Mar Skidelsky? . . . We prepare for Logic in Po- litical Science, intrigued by Migratory Bird Case . . . eventually traced to the Coliseum . . . We lose our souls to Prof. Klein and Paradise is Lost . . . English exom- ' Give the English equivalents to 15 Greek deities in Milton . . . Shelley Appelbaum finds himself Brown- ing with Burns as a result of studying Keats . . . (our recitations of Psalms before Speech is of little avail) ... we participate in classnite and bring the house down . . . only a few of our cast seriously injured . . . The epitome of Synthesis is reached when Heisler M.C. ' s Parliamentary procedure employing Voice Articulation as a basic reference . . . Hirmes introduces idea of Speech cops (picture of Demosthenes or Wolf on bond) Twenty-five