Yeshiva University - Masmid Yearbook (New York, NY)

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DR. ALEXANDER BRODY J ' roiessor iii Hislory DR. BRUNO Z. KISCH Professor of (Jtrmistry DR. BERNARD FLOCH J ' rolessor ol Greek- and Latin DR. IRVIN(; LINN rialc I ' rufessvr of En ;li.sh CLASS HISTORY We were divided between two English classes: all those men with first names using the Nation and U.S.A. as their text books, and those boys with the last names being treated to the literary attempts of such sterling story-tellers as Brichto, Spivack, Mandel- korn and Homnick. Dr. Linn had his class blushing with tales from Dos Passos while Professor Klein ' s nose blushed without provocation. It was here that Artie Sorenstein recounted his adventures with the Green- wich Village Bohomians; Kagan found to his utter amazement that a New York Post editorial warranted only a C , v hile a chapter from Barnes and David is worth an A ; and Homnick nearly lost his smile and his nerve with his composition which rolled under the radiator after he had tried to sneak it into the pile of opera on Prof. Klein ' s desk, and for which he later faced the music. We were young then — some of us were even younger. Prof. Margalith had to dismiss fully one-tenth of the class before citing certain juridical experiences usually heard in cleared courtrooms. Youthful Doug Wilensky, having emigrated from Newfoundland to Yeshiva College at the awkward age of KVa, couldn ' t appreciate Prof. Freed ' s lectures on sex, either. First he tried to do his homework and ignore the lecture completely. As he turned more scarlet, he tried stuffing his ears with cotton, and finally achieved his goal by leaving the class to inhale the fresh air which then restored color to his pallid face. The fresh air was what we all needed to recuperate from the experiences of our first year in college, and so we gladly accepted the vacation that June proferred us, only to return once more for our SOPHOMORE YEAR With only one year of College under their yarm- ulkes, you couldn ' t expect the Class of ' 47 to do any better than elect Zeifman and Fredman as President and Vice President of their class. The year ' 44- ' 45 saw Dr. Fleischer perform the Faerie Queen for the English Lit. Class amidst the applause of those same fellows who were later to see an unsuccessful imitation of this same act by a certain tie salesman of dormitory fame. We switched tracks . . . those who hadn ' t taken science In their first year were now given their first Twenty -luv

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and aculL led DEBORA G. Vi lESENTHAL Registrar :HISTO]RY French classes were a good place not to be that year, with both Dr. Braun and class having a tough time keeping up with Leon Korngold and Charles Spirn, two French emigres. It took these two Frenchmen nearly a full year to discover that in a French class at Yeshiva College you must speak English, Hebrew, or even Yiddish, but never, never French. After all, think of the other 48 boys who can t understand what you ' re talking about.

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CL 4SS IIIVIOIV laslo of il, whllo lho ' ,0 who hnd nol Inkon .j who! ? worn rillowod to learn how hi ' .lory wo ' , mode. Fisch developed a fine lab technique ... his first deviation from Cohen ' s routine. Mendel started off on the wrong faucet ... All of us attached our bunsen- burner hoses to the gas jet, while Mendel, just to be different, attached his to the closely resembling water faucet whereupon a miniature flood quelled his fire for Chemistry. And that ' s how the Fisch learnt to swim ! ! ! We learnt that History repeats itself, that hiistory questions are repeated, but that the answers change each year. We meet the challenge of each exam and discover that we do learn more during the exam than during the classes. We find that our marks can vary, and that if there are 25 questions and if each question counts four points, one can still get a mark of — 16 . . . and that is why we took Mathematics. We functioned quite well invariably, with Dr. Gins- burg and his invisible circles both implicit-ly and ex- plicit-ly. We manufactured home works and when we got different-ial answers, Buddy Chernofsky always integrated them. After having taken Math I, we saw no need for taking Recreational Math . The T.A. graduates not having seen anything of Or, Safir in their High School Days signed up for Biology to see just who it is that supports Dr. Atlas . . . that leaning tower of Pisa, disguised as a Biology Instructor. At his early Friday morning class which started at the unearthly hour of 10:50 A.M., Dr. Hoenig was met by a group of deathly characters which made him feel right at home. The Class wasn ' t complete however. until 11:30 A.M. when Red Feuerstein showed op looking more other-wordly than a skeleton. We haven ' t yet discovered v hether Joe Mandel- korn took German to be more scientific or to under- stand what the Dean says ... Dr. Rosenberg, anyhow, thought enough of him to award him with a medal at the Beer Fast for proficiency. How could we have been but ethical as we gave back all to him who demanded it. Not to be outdone, we even gave back what our neighbors had to. We oscillated between the Sweed Midwestern tone of Prof. Thonnsen ' s voice and the resonant baritone of Prof. Ryan, who incidentally held the chair over us ... in the Parliamentary Procedure class. DK. SII)M: h. hokmg Assistant I ' rojcssor oj Jewish llisl( r DK. t;ERSHON CHURGIN. Assistant Proiessor oi Hehrcw DK. .lOSEPH NOBLE. Instructor in Hebreu IIEL L. . ' K Dean oi Men