Yeshiva University - Masmid Yearbook (New York, NY)

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The claim has been made that Rosen grew his beard so that he could kiss the Agudah girls. He denies it strongly and feels quite hurt that a three month ' s growth should cause such a rumpus. After All, Gabby Sussman wore a moustache when we were all still Charny-cheeked, and he kept it for three years during which time he didn ' t incur Riess ' wrath, nor, (since he was a T.I. boys till this year) did his Rebbi get jealous. George Schwartz, the Newark Talmudist, who speaks French with a Greco-Latin accent, enjoys Fleisher ' s courses . . . they are about the only opportunity he has to hear Snow and Weisberg harmonize. After four years of stagnation, progress has at last been shown — Dr. Litman, in philo class, withoul administrative compulsion has exchanged his hat for a yarmelke. Now the halo can be clearly seen. And with this symbolical progressive act, the final term reached its conclusion. Pressman closed his philo book for the last time and couldn ' t conceive that this was his last philosophy lecture. Goodman shut his psych book and took quite a while to realize thai this was the end. LIfshitz turned off the bunsen burner for the last time and Danny Block erased his last math p oblem from the board. Snow conjugated his firs I and last Greek verb and Weisberg corrected his last Commie proof at Engiewood. Geller blotted hi; last drop of green ink and Garfiel got his last ad for Masmid. Weller got his last suit from his unci 2 and Senders patched the seat of his last pair of pants. Tennenbaum smoked his last hierbert Tareyton and Pomerantz mooched his last cigarette. Levy contradicted Prof. Klein (as Shakespeare turned over for the last time) and the Latin class handed in Schwartz ' s answers for the last time. Zion cut his last class and Singer exercised his fore-arm for the last time. Comet turned off the lights in the gym for the last time, and Perlow started his last . . . oh, oh, I ' m down to my last drop of paint. Werner issued his last presidential statement while Rosen nodded his last assent and Rabinowitz took his last notes. And . . . ulp . . . Reichel . . . ulp . . . ate up the last piece of candy in the co-op store. It ' s all over-with now. The job ' s done. Finished! The paint ' s dry. The colors are symbolistic, the figures realistic, and some of the heads are cubistic (blocked in with pencil). Only one color is prime — the rest are complimentary. I hope this painting suits your palette as it did mine. This painting is being purchased for the class by a special fund being amassed by Weller (the fellow whose uncle keeps him well dressed) and Morton Masmid Garfiel. Well, now we ' ve completed four years of time. Each of us is now the counterpart of the proverbial gentleman and scholar. We ' ve spent four of the best years of our life at Y.C. Tell me fellows, can you C.Y.?

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WELLER, SEYMOUR Newark N. J. YAGOD, LEON WERNER, ABRAHAM — Providence, Rhode Island Montreal, Canada ZION, LEONARD — Reading, Penn. 3u mpmnrtum Leonard Klapholtz Killed in Action August, 1944 Notice to all seniors: In order to get your key, you ' ve got to see Mickey. Some of us got really active on Commentator — Weisberg became editor-in-chief; Werner bought a new pencil and Geller became a four-year man; Comet featured a few articles and because he ghost wrote the Meet the Seniors he is the only one graduating without a friend; and the seniors appointed Vogel to read the paper. Safern went to Cleveland to organize and lead a Shomer Hadati group; Perlow was too lazy so he led a group In Washington hfeights. M. Goldberg took over the Chanukah Chagigah. Miscellaneous items . . . ENGAGEMENTS — Rubenstein, Weisberg, Berger. MARRIAGES — Kutner. Bloom, Coopersmith, and Kutner couldn ' t wait, so the dean permitted them to graduate in January. The few kindred spirits who found their way to the Latin and Greek classes proved that birds of a feather Fioch together. Bloom and Weller took Latin and Schwartz took French, which gave George 9 credits in Language a term. Prof. Lowan, who produced the atomic bomb almost single-handedly, made a mistake. He taught the government research workers elementary physics and instructed his Physics I and 2 classes in atomic research. By the time we reached Junior Bible we could read Hebrew fluently . . . with nelTudoth, so Doctor Klotz was forced to admit to us that the poor Hebrew in Daniel was really Aramaic. In spite of Dr. Rosenberg ' s germanis for giving exams, Prof. Braun was forced to serve wine at the meetings of the French club to attract students who might otherwise take German only be- cause the beer served at the German beer-feasts was 100 proof . . . that German is superior to French.

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DR. SAIvIUEL BELKIN President of Yeshiva University Admrnistratiom aed Faemlties DR. AARON MARGALITH, Librarian MISS BOORSTIEN and MISS MELLIN Secretaries DR. MOSES L. ISAACS Dean, and Professor of Chemistry