Yeshiva University - Masmid Yearbook (New York, NY)

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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

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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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To further Impress us wiih the importanco of action, a blue tie holding together a threadbare blue suit which almost held together 128 pounds of Alexander Litmon explained to us that our future life depended on the quality of the existence led here, and that, Bulman, tho the Lord can cause the. disintegrated body to retake its original form, we Jews believe that the future world is a world of souls, not bodies, you renegade. The exhilirating feeling of strength slowly gathering within us, the powerful feeling of con- querable might swelling our chests to normal size, the sweeping arc of blinding scarlet which we felt was us, grew in intensity as floods and whirlwinds of tempestuous fire sprang forth from Milton, and Paradise Lost consumed our hearts, leaving us in adamantine chain ' , slaves to the awful might of words. We felt big and young and unafraid, and in keeping with the general brilliance, to set off the Cjloiing red we elected two pinkies , Werner as president and Weller as vice-president. Gaifiel grew his mustache to keep warm in t!i3 V.C. reading room which he took care of for a cjr. Reiss took over the Yeshiva library and Zion presided over the chess club. Sohn. a quiet boy, had an explosive personality in chem lab. On Commentator, Weisberg became sports editor (and learned for the first time that there was such a game called basketball), Lloyd and Carmi were co-news editors, but Carmi relinquished his position to become editor of Niv. Levy took up his pen again and joined th staff. Werner started wiii-ing and Geller ' s ink kept on flowing. Success beckoned early to Asher who received the award for the best junior and the math award. Alex interrupted his discourse with Pressman and Pressman ' s lieutenant, the Arch-Angel Gabriel, to mount the steps of the stage to receive his prize for excellence in mussar.