Yeshiva University - Masmid Yearbook (New York, NY)

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CLASS . . . Gershinsky talks self into moneyless newspaper stimulating Surchin to announce a money making prop- osition Damon D plores crisis ... we are impeached . . . Marvin Goldman is delegated by class to insure all cut attendance at Swimming . . . class nite — we finish it up for good. We ' ve finished our soup — big lockshen with empty noodles and plenty of hot water. We see the light and wander in darkness ... In one mighty puff all our sophomoric sophistication is uncere- moniously evaporated . . . It ' s an ill wind that blows as Green and Tuchmon breeze into the presidency and vice presidency irrespectively . . . Jimmy Gordon, who knows what ' s what gets into ' who ' s who ' . . . through our tiring efforts varsity shows take place of class nite . . . escape from French monarchy but Plato s Republic is no cinch . . . the class learns that to know is to know that to know is not to know (ad infinitum) Boy are we in a nebula! . . . finally we ' re convinced ... at the end of the term . . . body-soul we are enthralled by our lessons in writing capitals . . . Dabbling in Physis concentrating on actualizing our potentialities . . . — my first class was 1-A . . . Surchin accepts pluralism . . . uses identical Biology report for Psychology, Phi- losophy, and Theology . . . Brody adopts assignment outlines to instill order in what he terms Chaos 35 ' . . . History repeats itself — especially in the read- ings ' . . . Read all questions carefully, make a trial answer on a reparate sheet of paper, answer either True or False (or both) and give your reasons in 5 words or less, omitting all persosnal pronouns — No, Mr. Speiser, you may not employ symbolic logic. . . . to improve international relations we exercise regularly in Doc Margie ' s haven . . . Jimmy Weitzman becomes mu:cle-bound . . . too much muscular language. Woe unto us , . . what a Job in Job . . . We study Hebrew, saturated with Arabic, Aramaic, Syriac, Ger- man, Lati n, Greek — and answer in English . . . Shel- ley Appelbaum finds setting in a class impossible . . . changes scenes after roll call . . . Boys go Greek — Clas:ical Society organized. End of Junior year. We get the main dish camou- flaged with vegetables, stuffing and dressing but very little meat. One of few survivors is Sherwood Green — now be-mustached and Vita-lized. As a rest cure we are relegated to the domains of Doc Luchins who analyzes our structural Gestalts in attempts to rid us of our behaviorism . . . (oops! forgot the capital) . . . Watson Weiss and Leon Mozeson experiment on Doc ' s Liver . . . the former spends shobossim with Doc convincing him that Gestalt and Behaviorism are identical . . . Doc prepares for the army . . . ' You ' re the second worst class I ' ve had One more year to go . . . wow is it cold in the Dorm ... no longer do we master(key) our destiny . . . An ' order-in-Counsel-lors announces a :eige sounding mighty bell-igerent . . . Reopparonce of the Minyan but only a number of freshmen wake up . . . Resuscitation procedure-Viva-vious Green (still Handicapped by V for T substitution) is on duty all nite . . . 5-18, to 4-15, to 2-22 to 2-24 to 2-14 . . . Danish- efsky is a rising counsellor . . . Six guys run for election . . . Sommers and Goldstein prove they have most sextet appeal and D. Moseson runs unopposed Twenty-six

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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

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HISTORY as secretary . . . Big men of ' 44 . . . Green, Steiman, Blass, begin their run on Student Council ... J. Shelley Appelboum shows . . . Dramatic Society . . . Artie Cohen leaves school and Gordon takes up where he left off . . . Gordon packing bogs now . . . Louis Tuchman elected anonymously president of French club for third time ... As far as basketball is con- cerned we become chumps losing to the lowly juniors by two points ... in our last gome . . . the first time in our career. This year our Friday mornings are free . . . class mathematicians devote these mornings to calculation of distance from Boro Park to Y. C. while Atkin pre- pares his lectures on Isaiah . . . Schuchalter and Abelow lecture on Case Histories in Social Psych . . . The Smicha committee is exhausted in 5 hour confer- ence with Tannenbaum . . . Rothman still puns his fun in History without a quiver . . . Bronznick and Litman prepare new edition of the first Mishneh in Chulin . . Lennie Goldstein provides Keys to Logical Inquiry . . . Dave Susskind ' s terpsichorean maneuvers don ' t ring so true to Doc Levin . . . Class is hypnotized by Levin ' s lectures . , . Particularly Speiser who acquires appreciation for Mrs, Wagner ' s apple pie . . . Levin ' d I.Q. tests for Pacsover . . . Professor Abraham Luchins returns on furlough to receive warmest appreciation of students and Award. Gershon (Gerald) Winer allows his Hamigdal to fly in the air choosing position of disciplinarian in Hebrew . . . Bulletin Board loses its innate ideas and becomes tabula rasa . . . Steiman learns quote if you start with nothing you get nothing — unquote . . . Committee applies it with Churgin and we get nothing ... no finals in Hebrew . . . instead we are invited by Prof. Mirsky to prepare encyclo- pedic articles on Isaiah for the quarterly — ' Tolpioth where Halacho at last becomes grammatical . . . Freddie Sommers rediscovers values of Saturday nites but finds it quite tedious to m ' lava malkc to the Bronx . . . Retrospectively we discover you kant debate with the Talmud and that Maimonides knew something too . . . (you might ' nt know it by the way WE try to defend him. Indoor fashion show held in Dorm Social Hall . . . Ellenberg and Raab find suitable garments for the Mahatmo-nits. Green, Steiman, Orentlicher, Appelboum, Tuchman, Artie Cohen and Abe Hortstein show American col- leges who ' s who . . . Joel Corn collaborates with Gene Tunney to write a piece about the effects of tobacco on growth . . . Masmid business manager, Murray Bell, rings one up for hmiself by being chosen class gentleman . . . Carl Einhorn studies Shakespeare and hears Prof. Klein in his first recital . . . verse- olile indeed . . . Harold Furst turns Co-op into Super Market . . . Auerbach makes debut over WNYC in Columbian debate . . . Simon Glustrom, the Georgia peach, likes his meat with a pear . . . shows that his good taste extends to sartorial fields as well . . . Commie editor Paul Orentlicher floats around with Helen. Twenty-seven