Yeshiva University - Masmid Yearbook (New York, NY)

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cnlion lias Icfl iis slif lilly iiriijj Iml il liaTi I iufci led us with iiiiytiiiiiK iiKuralili ' as yet. P(Hlantry — Mama. Ii.iu ( .uih- |Ih .li.ln ' l , ,,n„- l,a.ky Wh.-r - ' s IJIi.,! KiM-iil.ach. what lia|)|iciic(l Id I ' clii LculiiMilin. |j|,|, VVi-is-. Ike Azosi-. clc.? I li ln ' l - ■.■ lh -(ii llii- i-iu: Did llir . . . ? — Hush, Imsli, llicy w ' ril away dti a lurj;. ' Iiip and lln woii ' l he hack. You w» ' they were Chemistry majors . . . —Oh . . . — And nii lindcisland. cnic uaiilid In ■ n In Vh-d Sihool. other- wrni hark home, and one liilchcd ulT lo Syracuse. - Docs Ihal mean that I can jn) loo? — No, you re stayin; licrc and finishing. ' . No« run ahmj. ' and major m something like a good little Junior. — Is it necessary to major? Can ' t one hmadin himself? Docs one have to restrict himself to one phas( of knowledge, one line of thought, one flimension of wisdom? (Literary, huh? I — No, you can always lea c colie ' e . . . Oh, have you heard? it ' s (juite the thing to he a Physics major in college. Nine out of every ten Hunter High School seniors jjrefer fellows who can integrate. Izzat- so? Gus Solomon. Bert Mond. Chile Wenger, Leon Levy, Phil KaLsman. Harry Weinstein, Paul Teicher and Fud Lieherman all storm the Physics front, as Dr. Arnold N. Lowan becomes a full-time full professor, head of the new full Physics Dep ' t. Three full year courses are given. Ah, what fulls these mortals be! Wwwwell! Anyone who doesn ' t know what e to the x is just doesn ' t deserve to live. H one is sufficiently mature, one just knows! You may have written exactly what the book has word for word BUTT I can read between the lines. The intoxicating Hydrogen Sulfide fumes lured four unsuspecting juniors, who joined Gerry Krakower. Wishy Wishnitzer and Wolf Helmreich in the Chem lab. Gil Shoham. Dave Rosenhan. Moish Kranzler, and our editor Hertzberg threw reason to the winds and for some obscure reason or other (Med School or lust for life) chose work. Jos h gives up Math, English and the Ghost and is heard from no longer until he — Well . . . The retreat, or shall we say the organized withdrawal of Editor-in-Chief Sol Blumenfeld and Associate Editor Lou Lauer from the college caused some changes in the Commie staff. Moish Stadtmauer becomes Ed.-in-Chief with Rakowitz and Leon Levy (back from Israel) as News Editors. Hilty Dryspiel in at the Sports line. Henry Keller is President of the Student Council this year. Now, perhaps, his resignation will accomplish something. Bob Kurtzman Veeps and Arkv Landes in as Sec ' y ( Nu, so you ' re mentioned. Big Deal ! ) . Dr. Luchins, who took a leave of absence, was replaced by Isaak Orleans. In this course you must analyze every event carefully. That ' s Psychology! If I do some- thing there ' s obviously- a reason. Now. why do you think I gave you this exam right now? What is tlie underlying factor? Ah. you hate your father. Bim. Bim! Brother Smiley, Director of Guidance at Yeshiva I where else — Young Israel? — Yeah, there too, he ' s a big man) was appointed lo instruct the newly instituted Freshman Orientation. The lab assistant to his course was often seen in the Dorm late at night serenading everyone with exquisite verbiage and scintillating phraseol- ogy-. Your majesty, may I interest you in this exquisite tie. this voluptuous yarmilke. this lascivious arba kanfos? Danny ogel is the new instructor in English replacing Mandelbaum. who as you recall replaced Miller, who as you may remem- ber replaced . . . What will happen? ho will replace whom and when? Lloyds of London refuses to insure his stay due to the prevailing high mortality rate. YL ' , according to the Juniors, has a tremendous Agriculture School. The Messers Twersky. Weitz. Vi ' ohl — all stalwarts of the Landsmenschaft ( IRS i — cul- tivated the fields of Political Science which in turn fertilized their patterns of thought. 19

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is in competition with International Retaliations Society which is in competition with the Irrational Aberrations Society, which isn ' t funny. Student Council does not define the most crucial word in Yeshiva history — guests. Students bring guests. . . . resort to individual interpretation rather than Lipshitzian Revelation. Henry Keller resigns but to no avail; he ' s not president yet. Bim. Hy Levine. Lamm, Feldblum and Frank take Dr. Kisch ' s philosophy course. I This is probably the third year but as we ' ve already started the sentence you ' ll have to bear the anachronism.) Weltaanschaaung iss ven vee look from one viewpoint out — zo, zere itt iss . . . Damon and Ryan become discolored as the boys accept a Reddisch tinge. If members of parliament could only sit in on Speech 4, they would learn some procedure. The class is divided into two factions — right and left, or up and down, or back and front, or. upper and lower, or any such political denominations. The Constitution Blockers consisted of Lamm, Rackovsky, Haber, Hertzberg. Lamm. Rashbaum. Bim. Lamm, Cohen. Lamm and Stadtmauer. (You know, the beauty of this history is that you can ' t tell who wrote it). The Constitu- tion Deformers consisted of Gus Solomon, Bill Solomon, A. Fredman, Jack Adier, G. Solomon, Natie Gordon, Gil Shoham, G. Solomon, S. Orenstejn, S. Aronson, G. Solomon, and S. Alpert. (You know, the beauty of this history is that you can ' t tell who wrote it. ) Wiszhy Wishnitzer is most efficient and Orenstejn greatest secretary. Krakower filibusters all day. Reddisch learns to smile ... he has to — Bim! The Moors, mmmmallted. izznat so, hellauh . . . our vocabulary is growing but the main cliches are yet to come. Wacholder learns the art of circumlocution and pontification. M ' Davidman v ' ad Twersky lo kom ke ' Wacholder. (Another salient example of someone ' s erudition.) Commie builds up Shtudt Stadtmauer. ( Shtudt is not a Sephardic pronounciation of another word.) Lutz is BASIC (watch this word). Barry Ginsburg hails from the town that contributed Phil Goldman and his brother-in-law to Yeshiva. (This seemingly innocent bit of irrelevance is due to Bury ' s bringing in a $25 ad. ) For those who are interested, the town still stands — we can ' t condemn a whole community simply because . . . Yeshiva ' s Busting Out All Over. Ginky Churgin thrives as we who are in the Yeshiva division flock to him. Rashbaum, Hertzberg. and Shoham represent Baltimoron cheenuch — Lamm repre- sents Williamsburg . . . and Krasna twins alternately represent each other in com- ing to class. Ginky evens the score at end of term and tells them to share A. Please hand in your compositions on ' Matzav Hayahadut B ' America. ' It ' s getting late. It ' s later than you think. All supersubgartelian krechtzers do not take Litman until their last year. What is medieval about medieval philosophy? Smokey-Stover (hyphenated) presented with over-sized cigar by Logic class. (This happened in last year. I don ' t know why we ' re writing about it here.) The new buildings already look old. From an air- plane view, the new buildings are shaped as if Yeshiva were Fordham. The resem- blance ceases there. Dr. Linn still hasn ' t uh, uh, found, uh, the right uh uh uh word, is it? Yes, the uh right word, that ' s it. Ben-Zion is pontificating uh uh uh again. Well raise my eyebrows, Aaron Sittner! Linn again relates to class the oft-told tale of purchase of his yarmilke. We summon remembrance from things past when, at Augenstein ' s wedding, a chassid, admiring the yarmilke, inquired of the professor philologist if he had a shteleh. Tristan Rosenberg, our zinging Cherman pro- fessor, gains backing from ze growing Verein. Pazz ze beer, mother, I have a final tomorrow. French professor still demands. Spanish Department under Sas grows daily. Eisenbach who was taking Chemistry to fulfill his Physics requirement drops Lowan and majors in Levine. A Physics professor cannot be wrong, ethically so . . . The Dean of Men is seen with a wistful look — he won ' t have most of us till senior year. There ' s the dean (Ed. ' s slip — supposed to be Dean) where ' s Levine? Hey, it rhymes. That won ' t be mentioned again — don ' t worry. The English Lit final turns out to be a near catastrophe. Quite unexpectedly, the students with insight did not make out so well. The halfway mark is here and we ' re still in the driver ' s seat. A Coiletch Hedge- 18

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Speaking of History of Education — that course was BASIC . . . The Class Menagerie. under the whip of Meyer Terkel. a Dewey man himself, contained all sorts of . There were the realistic Science majors who needed the TI diplomas and would stop at nothing to get them — not even Ed 11 or 12. This group — Gus Solomon. Phil Silverstein. Shimmy Hellerstein — did stop at nothing. Then the Hegelian Sophists, i.e. Nadelman. Fleischman. Twersky. Wohl and Weitz. whose concepts of society are all embracing, pragmatically reasoned — two credits is two credits. And last but not lost — the essentialist. classicist, reactionary school consisting of Red Finkelstein and Moish Lamm who were determined that they ' d go out knowing at least as much as they knew coming in. The point I want to make is — Orientation. One word for this movement? — Pragmatism. Thats it. One word for the Realistic approach? — Science. — Yep. One word for Hutchins and his colleagues? — One word for this course? — What is one word for this course. Red? Basic, roared the wrong answer.- — This course can ' t be given in one word. It ' s a three word course — History of Education. Oh yes, Dave Mogilner enters the school . . . gives up engineering and tries organic chemistry along with Jack Adler who admires English . . . And the Lord said. ' ' Let there be light. The Dorm Committee agrees but only till one A.M. The poor students must sleep, said Smiley as he sweetly tucked Mr. Baer into bed . . . Hilty Dryspiel urges the students to become better fans and pleads for more inter- mural intermurals. Aaron Mann outlives athletics. Yeshiva gets a fencing team and a good one. ' What epee-phenomenalism! That ' s Shimmy Hellerstein ' s . . . well I don ' t want it! A certain junior writes certain senior write-ups for Commie. Seniors aren ' t pleased. So what? — What time is it. 1 can ' t sleep. — Hold it . . . it ' s 3:30 O.K. I ' m going to sleep ... I can ' t read this page any more, anyhow — Turn off the lights. — I think they ' ve been off since one. — Oh. I knew they forgot to tuck me in. Hilty Dryspiel writes an impassioned plea for inter-class intermurals and berates our class for lack of spirit. Whatever happened to Purvis ' s dog? Oh — Victor Balowitz! The senior writeups are being written by that same person and we wish he ' d be more genteel . . . cut it out or we ' ll tell! Groans are being heard from the full Physics department. Harry Rashbaum, Steve Jaffe and others are getting a Broady education. Godwin Fleischer is pleased with his new batch of English majors— Al Solomon, Ruby Gross — they speak it. Bill Solomon is a sociology major whose background is obtained from acting in every college and TI play. Red Finkelstein and Al Solomon collaborate wdth Wordsworth and ode the siyum of one of Words- worth ' s pomes. He ventured, ' May I, too partake of life ' s effervescence? ' We gave him a glass of soda. Hilty writes a stirring piece in which he casts his lot proudly along with Stein. 1500 words of Stein, Stein, Stein, Stein . . . who carried on alone, sick, dejected, weary, a picture of sheer will power, struggling fiercely and successfully until forced to the sidelines by overpowering fatigue and Nathan Hale went down into history! It ' s probably anti-Semitism!!! The sudden passing of our beloved Dr. Klotz, Professor of Bible, on Thurs- day, December 22, 1949 shocked the Junior class greatly. Those who had the genuine good fortune to be his pupils mourned the loss of a friend and a teacher. A specimen of humanity that will remain as a symbol of Prophetic Judaism in our hearts forever . . . January 7, 1950 witnessed a mixed Music for YLl — remember that date well! What a term!! Here come the finals. TI in the morning and college in the afternoon. But don ' t worry . . . you ' ll live . . . there ' s always the GEM. I think I ' ll give the whole class in Mechanics incompletes. You really should have a note- book of problems. I should have told you in advance but . . . well, you should have read my mind . . . Oh yes, Jack Adler and Dave Mogilner — late of organic — decided to forego the rest of the Chem Dept. and forewent it. Josh is still in Chem and Barry still taking Physics and ... oh yes, Azriel Rosenfeld and Boris Rackovsky (Satisfied?). During final week the FIVE — Lane, Empress, Gem, Heights and RKO — report an increase in attendance . . . quite mystifying. 20