Yeshiva University - Masmid Yearbook (New York, NY)

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JACK ZUCKER Philadelphia, Pa. One of our Lebanon boys, Jack came back to us thin and tired, but we fattened him up as purchasing manager of the Co-op. He was also a member of the Health Committee, the Placement Service, and on the circulation and business staff of Commie. A math major. Jack, no matter what his future, expects to learn more about figures. SOLOMON POUPKO Philadelphia, Pa. Sol, son of a rabbinical family, has made himself famous in Yeshiva with his hilarious imitations of rabbis and other such. A T.A. graduate, he attends Yeshiva and is an English major In College. He also learned at the Mirrer Yeshiva last summer. Sol intends to be a talmudic scholar and a teacher and critic of Charlie Bahn ' s poetry. CAMERA SHY

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GEORGE WOLF New York, N. Y. George, the older of +he Wolf brothers, is a complete product of Yeshlva University. He attended Talmudical Academy and is a grad- uate of Teachers Institute where he won the Bible and hHebrew Liter- ature prizes. Studious and diligent, he is a Sociology major but ex- pects to continue in the educational field. MORRIS WOLF New York, N. Y. Morris, the younger of the Wolves, is like a parallel to his brother George. Also a graduate of T.A., he expects to graduate from the Teachers Institute in June together with College. Studious and dili- gent, he is a Sociology major, but expects, in time, to go into the Educational field. JOSEPH J. YOSHOR Brooklyn, N. Y. Senor Yoshor, who studied for two summers in Mexico, has come a long way from New Hampshire, where he was born. He attended T.A. and became immersed in its politics. He wrote three plays for Yeshiva College Dramatics and is Managing Editor of Commie. A very deliberate and fluent speaker, Joe is a member of the Debating Team. He is also Treasurer of the Placement Service. At present, Joe resides in good old Brooklyn which has nothing at all to do with the fact that he is an English major. x SEYMOUR ZAHN Brooklyn, N. Y. Zeke ' s experience in the International Relations Society taught him that it ' s really a pity that he has no relations among the Roshe Haye- shiva, such as Rabbi Lifshitz. This aspirant to the Rabbinate is a Zionist among Agudists, and an Agudist among Zionists, a Williams- burger among Heightsers, and vice versa. He is an old admirer of Dr. Jung, and a student of the history of the Middle Ages.

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SUMMA CUM KIBBITZING or History of The Class of ' 49 The four years of college life may be compared to the four portions of the Shulchan Aruch. In fact, Rabbi Karo ' must have composed his great work with an eye on the future students of Yeshiva College.- Understanding the influence that his book would have on us, he judiciously divided it according to the four stages of life that a student reaches during his four year stay in college. Each year it is proper for us to learn the portion ' ' that applies to our college life. FREShHMAN YEAR. This is the year of DSB ' D Q ' n. We arrive ready to do our own work and to learn all we can. Everything is done according to Ui:i. n, no cutting classes, no coming late, etc. We expect to write compositions for Dr. Klein in the class, to actually do our History assignments, to attend classes religiously and not to use pK in our Chem classes. We come from the four corners of the earth, but mostly from Brooklyn, to learn about . . . well, just to learn. ' ' We inquire for Yeshiva University ■ ' and are directed to a Moorish ' ' ' looking building ' ' with a dome ' ' and two mosques on the side. That ' s Yeshiva? Yeh, I know it looks like an Arabian nightmare but wait until you get inside! It is a few minutes before twelve and we enter the quiet restaurant across the street for a cup of coffee. Suddenly, like a sandstorm sweeping across the desert, we behold myriads of boys running across the street. The door is pushed open violently and a dozen voices shout, Combinatsalad — eggslox — bakefish — larglassofchocmilk. The crowd pours in and fills every corner of the cafeteria. The restaurant re- sounds with the noise of eating, pushing, -talking and shouting. Why doesn ' t Brenner open? And eat rubber steaks again? Rosen ' s growing another beard. Rav has another svora. And above the medley of voices can be heard that of Harry ' s, Why don ' t you boys take your time? I ' m getting out of this business. You fellows can make a fellow sick. And the boys at the cashier form a long line and get Harry sick. V e are allowed to soak in fully the grandeur of Yeshiva University ' s walls as we wait four hours to register. We spend the rest of the day cooling our heels before the dormitory office. We get our first taste of Yeshiva officialdom. We can ' t Baer it. Having entered upon the heels of the numerous and mighty class of ' 48, we aren ' t too highly touted. Those of us who are wise enough to heed the warnings of countless alumni and suffering students choose German. But there are always a few suckers or scholars. So, Ignoring the dire heedings, a goodly number of us continue French with Dr. Braun. The Shapiros and Lamms do well. The Golds ' are able to talk themselves into a good mark even in French. The rest of us just suffer and work — and how we suffer! We discover It is better to A-gree with Dr. Klein than to D-isagree with him. When Ducoff receives a D on his first composition, he knows he is starting from the bottom of the ladder in college. It is with Dr. Klein that we learn to use the ten minute rule. Guards are posted on the ground floor to watch for the Grand Old Man, Hilchot Collegiot XXX, 3. • ibid., XXXXV 96. = Tractate Masmid, 107 c. Dr. M. Frankel. one of the later Commentators, believes that the use of the portion is a later addition by Yeshiva scholars. Josephus Yoshor says that, anyhow, it ' s good materia! for an historical drama. ■»PK is defined as the Phinagler ' s konstant. See the article On the History and Use of pk in Non-Laboratory Media by Lamn and Katz under the direction of Profs. Levine, Isaacs. Levine, Kisch, Levine, Joseph. Levine and Levine. Zeymour Zeke Zahn believes this to be superfluous. In his Zounds, p. 3411, he says that at- tending Poli-Sci classes is preferable to studying. Cf. Propaganda and the Yeshiva University by S. Hartstein, 1st ed., 2nd ed., 3rd ed.,— 0° ■ ■-■ ibid. ' ibid. •■■ ibid. O-O-O-pen ze door Whats a few years, more or less, to a good pun? ' See Joel J. Gold ' s Epicurus, Poincare, Voltaire. Woman and Bedford Ave., published in Le Flambeau, 1979.