Yeshiva University - Masmid Yearbook (New York, NY)

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50 young and hoppy ovon jor laughed wilh the closi. He couldn ' t bo ' Jem and commanding bofore such a group of youths who in the magic of green rebirth conquered every problem with a smile. But Sholem soon began to translate the words too, and Sar began to lose his hair. The dean of men becamo so upset he was advised to take a leave of absence and he finally sailed for France. Ai our senior-frosh smoker cigarettes were still available, so the seniors bought enough to give each freshman a puff. While waiting nervously for the cigarette to reach my end of the fable, I whiled away the time by imbibing in an overdose of the common man ' s language — this is real English! (Anglo-S.ixon) said the seniors. The smoker was tha only successful attempt yet made at synthesis in our institution . . . Such jokes . . . and in Yiddish. Half of us learned English comp. with the grand old mon of Y. C, Prof. Klein. He was frightened by Myron Kahn ' s grand eloquence at the very beginning of the year and has retained a healthy respect for him until this very day. Myron wrote a doctor ' s thesis in one class period. Not bad. Carmi Charney was once expelled from class but he met Balaban and borrowed his great coat, pulled his hat over his eyes, entered the class and sat down in the back. Klein was told that the stranger plumped on the chair looking for all the world like Atlas when he was a student, was a learned visitor, ' hereupon Balaban ' s coat received more attention from the good Dr. Klein than the rest of the class combined . . . which, of course, Balaban ' s coat dsserved since it was more attentive. It took us little time to learn that if we wrote poorly enough we would have to read our compositions and in so doing we could read quickly skipping commas, etc. and i ' we moved the prof, strongly enough by our acting we received A ' s. Oh, tomatoes? In Jewish History we found out with Dr. Hoenig ' s assistance that the secret of Jewish survival during periods of stress like examinations — is cooperation. And, tho none of us had yet taken Philo I or II, we instinctively went to the source rather than rely on our memories. f LITI?