Yeshiva University - Masmid Yearbook (New York, NY)

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SOPHOMORES: PURPLE WITH SAGE ... a Royal Purple. For wo woro now oophomoreo — ruler; of the world and the robes well- filled our sophomoric forms. We turned purple with rage when mistaken for freshman. We were now men of experience, the world held nothing new for us. For hadn ' t we completed one fool year of college On the basis of our grammar we now took a course offered only fo sophomores, French 3 4. which was based on a 15th century manuscript purported to have been found by le doctor professor Brun while he was in France trying to pick up (dans une facon generale) material on courtezans. But, of couise, you know what that is Monsieur Cohen. No, what ' s a courtezan? street v alker , said Raphael in indignalion and fewer worlds. Please Mr. Levy, remember you ' re in a classroom. History as it should be taught i.ie. as a course in Logic; examinations as they should be given i.o. in the form of a maze through which only your own mistakes might lead (so why copy — isn ' t that so) was presented to our regal selves by Dick Tracy-Jawed Brody of the soft shoes, soft collars, soft ties, and soft pedal. Genius David arose every crack of dawn to prepare lectures fitting for a group of young princes who looked down from their high-chair of knowledge, smiled in kingly fashion at the poor freshmen, and philosopher-king-like, ruled the world with a mixture of supercilious condescension and understanding generosity. We were taught all about knights, cavaliers, lovers swooning at women ' s frailty, and how to live frugally. Myron kept pulling a 96 — but Asher beat him. Election time found Comet again president and Werner vice-president. Rabinowitz joined Reichel in the co-op — a huge room (4x4) just chock-full ... of students waiting for Commy. This year our class brightened up the Commy with the help of Charny, Gelier, Weisberg and Tennenbaum whose purple togas showed them to be scribes of notes.

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KUTNER SEYMOUR — Brooklyn, N. Y. PEARLSTEIN, MOSHEH — Brooklyn, N. Y. LEVY, RAPHAEL — Perth Amboy, N. J. PERLOW, IRVING New York, N. Y. LIFSHITZ, DAVID Bronx, N. Y. POMERANTZ, HYMAN — New York, N. Y. MARGOLIES, IRVING — Brooklyn, N. Y. PRESSMAN, DAVID - Far Rockaway, New York We used more Braun and brains in French I and 2 than Monsier S. B. on his Ph.d. In chem class we used a big text-book, and a little professor used us. Berger got 100 s and Reichel argued for an 80. Mike Senders first started wearing out the seat of his pants. Prof., ha ha, you flunk, asked the class what marks they expected. Rosen asked between A and A+ and got a ha ha D. To look at him you ' d never guess that Pressman was a dynamic speaker. Professor Matz introduced us to foncshuns and the meaning of von overr hex tarns von overr vie in life. Even then Asher, Alex and Yagod knew their math better than Cohen and Rubenstein. Yukie showed the boys that hesber didn ' t belong only to the Rebbis. Our English prof ' s Linnen yarmeike and his manner of addressing the class, mice and men — became proverbial. In our hygiene class we were Fried from worries about don dere. In Doc Hurwitz ' s gym we learned how to walk, run, jump off the ground with both feet, and once we even saw a basketball displayed on Doc ' s desk. In Hebrew we learned how to write Hebrew correctly, i.e. from right to left. We also brushed up on the rules of grammar as . . . after the hei hayedeeaw comes a ... uh ... a noun. It sure felt good to enter the coop-store and find one of our own boys, Terry, behind the counter. The grass green tinge petered out to a sickly yellow for the dramatic production, Yellow Jack, in v hich a few upperclassmen supported Geller, Reichel, Comet and Rosen in the four most important of the unimportant roles. The class early took an interest in Commy.Weisberg dictated, Tennenbaum typed, Carmi re- ported, Levy tried out. and Geller started work on a freshy and watched the green ink slowly turn into . . .

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RABINOWITZ, JACOB REICHEL, SOLOMON - New York, N. Y. SAFERN, WILLIAM — Bronx, N. Y. Brooklyn, N. Y. SCHWARTZ, GEORGE — Newark, N. J. ROSEN, MORTON — Camden, N. J. SENDERS, MYER - RUBENSTEIN, BERNARD — Brooklyn, N. Y. SHAPIRO, ALEX — Cleveland, Ohio Cleveland, Ohio In Speech 3, parliamentary procedure, the boys were Thonsen like mad when Rosen, the chair- man for the day came in in full formal attire and a top-hat. Here ' s one for Darwin • — • Rosen sat down on his tails which even a monkey can ' t do. In Speech 4 Mike S. delivered the most carefully worked out Speeches I ' ve ever heard in class, with the possible exception of the philo lectures. His talk on Advertisements was terrif but his talk on gum was so realistic we were glued to our seats. In Mirsky ' s exam for Bible 103 and 104 we couldn ' t get away with filling the paper with Tehillim cause that was the book we studied so we memorized Jeremiah. Dr. Churgin gave us an inspiring course in Medieval Jewish Literature, which we all enjoyed ■ — the text book cost only 85 . Many fellows relinquished their purple for khaki. Some just left us. Herbie Cohen, Vic Seller, Stan Kessler, Mai Schraeder, and Lennie Klapholtz volunteered for the army. Schraeder was wounded. We were all saddened when we received the news that Klapholtz had lost his life on the battlefield. Katzin, Hershberg, Ehrenfield, Fischer, and Meir, just packed up and left. Our ranks were swelled by Brichto and Spivak, the boys from Philadelphia who took their room in the dorm for one purpose, so that they might have some place to eat at 4 o ' clock in the morning. This year as sophs we felt more sure of ourselves on the stage, so we fouled up the Varsity jhow in a glorious burst of purple stage light. Charny sold Reichel Pepsi-Cola hair shampoo and Rosen slipped around the stage as usual. In time to come we ' ll look back on Y.C. ' s last production in which as usual M. R. acted and T. R. tore down the sets. The lights dimmed for the last time. Winnigradof smiled, the audience applauded and the idle purple robes of the idle monarchs were discarded for . . . RED-BLOODED JUNIORS . . . the Red of the executives. We are now men of action; knowledge is only the door leading to accomplishment. The warrior wears red, the modern progressive ' s outlook is tinged with red and v e, nov concentrating on our individual majors and nearing our goal, already feel the magic of creation and the world is a fiery red sunrise burst on our horizon. l6