Yeshiva University - Masmid Yearbook (New York, NY)

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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

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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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CLASS HISTORY Dave Skopp thinks Shakespeare has a lot of punch . . . William thinks Dave has a lot of paunch too . . . Dave breaks into Dramatic Society as he plays Monsieur Pichon — vi ' hich he certainly did Vi ' onder- fully . . . Sy Eckstein doing a wonderful job with the E. T. F. by put- ting all his Begs in cne Askit . . .Rabbi Shatzkes likes him too . . . Nehemiah Gellman who learns in lhe Beth Medrash and does his bot- tling in Chem lab is one calm fellow who never gets his test tubes in an uproar . . . Prof. Hartstein tells Tekuzener he hasn ' t enough points for graduation . . . the bulletin board changes and Tek becomes a creditor . . . Hyman Fishman, phoJcg editor of Mosmid, is also a flash in the pan in Shomer Hadatti. The meal is over ... we finally get our just dessert — applesauce. Twenty-eight