Yeshiva University - Masmid Yearbook (New York, NY)

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' I III- S|)riiii. ' si-imi-h|i-i I)ioii; ' IiI nulliiii;. ' ii(rw cxcr ' i)! ten junior HWt annfi they wiiiilil ili(i|) a iiil.iiii Ir.irlici ill Scplinil.ii. lifliifaliod II now hcroinf ' H 12 — llixtory (if K(l ! • iiiiw riiild 111 :, . We also know llir one nhout ihi; rye. of a n ■. ;rl|( Philo 11 liccdrnis 12. .S(i|iliisli V II lii ' coiiics SopliiMlry ii I I with n approaching infinity, Udsliidd liiiiviTHily |)iil)li.sli(-H nil ()i i.iilalor which announces iha! I ' .uhhirlo haft icicJM.I ihc Holy Law. Sliidcnls lifl out in Cod.- . . . d.-nionslralc violent approval. One of iIk- iHovisions .if lli.- 11., K l„iv i- llial -lii.li-iilv an- l.i he treated like mature, r.-s|.on.sdili ' lii.liviclNak iiiilil llii (..■-in 1.. .i. | a- such, al which time they will he licaled like lh( dirt the) aic. Sludcnl (iouiicil vole.s to spon.-or an open r-laHw nijiht with oulsid(! {;ucsls altendin;;. l5oh Kurl man is now president with you-know-who finally ficllin ; his .li.iiin- lo nwij n. SludentH vote for (lass ni;.dit in n-ferendum an 100 Hal. his p,r sinidia. Class night, Henry Keller and the Hundred Hahhis arc never heard of a aiii . . . Our class achieves douhlful fame as Hilty. in a doleful dirge, pens, Indillcrent .Juniors make tragic travesty of current intermurals . . . He ' s right Junior.s — wake up — get in lli.rc and fight — Please? Kslher Adier (Basic) le(-tun-s ii.fon- the Math Cluh on (ioedal ' s .S stem of Ax ' oms Sigma — nu, and vat else is new hy you? The Krasna Twins get their senior writeups. Look here Red, cut out those digs and slurs or . . . there I ' ve told! TI inaugurates Hchrew dohates with .Sue .ShifT representing Herzliah. As Pinky Churgin said when he heard of it. This will he the very last word in Hehrew dehating. — It was!!! Gee, Litman hasn ' t heen mentioned once this year. The Commie celehrates fifteen years of rahhie-rousing. More power to them! Fud Lieherman takes the French .Scientific Exam. He claims that French should first pass the strict Lieherman scientific test. No one. hut no one. agrees with him Student Council abstains from the Dean ' s Deception ami in this case an ah.stenlion amounts to a veto . . . Oh. here they go again. The ll[ misrepresents Uruguay (our former ally) at the Model UN. Twersky, Rakowilz. Weitz and Natie Gordon (all of whom should have known better I are on the Committee for Human Rights — such lack of experience! ! Rumor has it that a Basic Society is being formed. At the word ' s mention heads nod. mouths emit uh! and index fingers rap three times. The word is used everywhere . . . yes, even there. Speaking of there. Seymour .Aronson. There is the Chem lab. Ha, ha. Can it be that the Josh-Chem romance is dissolving? .As we intimated earlier — they had been united too late. Rubie Gross wants to know if the leaf in Paradise Lost stands too. Our sports scribe mourns the passing of the Mite Basketball season. He ends the memorable hoop campaign with a dis- cussion of the merits of Artie Stein. Say. who is this Stein, anyhow? Litman lectures on Freud and Aristotle at a Fireside Chat — there he ' s back! Yeshiva announces a raise in tuition . . . S15 per credit. We are now as expensive as Columbia. Who says we ' re not expanding? Somewhere along the line thev open the new dorm. Even the lights are opened. Time marches on. The term is coming to an end . . . Elections are held and Arky Landes. running unopposed, is swept into office. Some would rather be right — others would rather graduate. Artie Schnier becomes Vice. Leon Levy becomes Editor of Commie for our SINior vear. Will he survive the summer? is the popular question. Hilty Drvspiel signs off with the note that the summer will not thrill him. His is a dear old YU Edifice Complex. — Of course, now that the finals are coming up you ' ll no doubt want to impress me. The final, announces Dr. Lowan. will be on the whole term ' s work in English and in good hand vriting plus the two problem books that vou owe me. Hand your term papers in this week — announces everv prof of Social Sciences . and some otliers including Philo. Freshman Philo (Hygiene). English and Philo of Ed. Phil Silverstein in Ed takes the first five lines of the introduction to some book and gives it a mature, penetrating treatment in a stvle similar to what any rigorous math major would pen. If I get away with this Fll know that I can graduate college doing nothing. Needless to say three years of college had really taught him sometliing. Dr. Lisman shuffles his caaards and gives a Vector exam. Straighten tliese out 21

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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

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in order and vou pass. Advanced Calculus is given thus — Take any old caaard, explain it. read it and pronounce the Greek letters. The Physics crowd is seen limping through the halls mumbling Never again . . . again, again. A whole term ' s work. Two days before the end. they are heard vocalizing a little louder. Four topics to memorize plus an oral on everything — what a concession. The night before — certain students faint — a call is made at 11 P.M. Wenger and Solomon are shipped off to the Catskills . . . Lowan relents ... a sick class, head bowed, walks into the exam room the next day and comes out singing. Never again. they exclaim. Agmas Nefesh 12 is not for me. In Ed. the sentence is to be filled in with a word. Guess what word Im thinking of? Sorry. Mr. Finkelstein. however is not correct. The term is over but rumor has it that Hertzberg has left Chem for Baltimore. Others have left too. The summer catharsis is on. . . . Oh well, here comes the Senior year. University Education October of 1950 found one half of our original class back in YU preparing for the final spurt. The seniors returned with mixed emotions — ranging from extreme relief at the prospect of leaving, to utter joy at the hopes of graduating. With Bill Solomon and Gerry Krakower, our class prexy and veep, we, the Senior Class, officially welcome the Class of 1954. We can do this in cold blood with the learned knowledge that time healeth all wounds. Five new faculty members are added as the new term begins. Lainoff and Robinson in at English replacing no one. The school ' s just expanding — that ' s all. Dr. Halberstadt over to Advanced Finkelstein (oops Latin), Imerti in for Speech and Adler relieves Orleans at Psychology who needed relief. A psychology teacher is a transient ephemeral being (period). Academically speaking, there wasn ' t much to say. Last year ' s rather large group of Physics majors had been decimated with Bert Mond, Paul Teicher and Harry Weinstein exclaiming, Veil — ve ' ve had enough! Solomon, Katsman, Levy, Wenger and Lieberman still persisted in taking a variety of Physics courses — namely Electricity and Magnetism. These never again majors of last year ' s Self-Justification course attributed all this to Ayn Breirah (who blamed it on the Dean) and hoped for the best. Dr. Lowan announces that this would be a problem course. His prophecy comes true and solutions to this problem were arrived at as January 30, 1951 rolled around. They went that-a-way ! ! ! The Physics-Math majors along with some Juniors take Theory of Numbers with Yuki and find Arithmetic a very fascinating subject. Sheeye Hertzberg — our editor — returns to his first love. Mathematics, as predicted exclusively in this column. Remember, you read it here first. Despite this love, he takes Theory of Equations, Differential Equations, Theory of Numbers and Actuarial Statistics. There ' ll be no work this year, was his motto. This slogan, it seems, reflected very accurately the turn of the senior mind as sixty-five students, half of them seniors, registered for Psychology 11 with the new instructor, Mr. Adler. Finkelstein, Adler, Mann, Solomon, Borenstein, Twersky, Gross, and Heimowitz all attended occasionally. EPIPHENOMENALISM— epi- phenomenalism epiphenomenalism, rah, rah, rah!!! Scattered applause greeted the name of Freud. Havelock Ellis brought whistles with feet stamping. At Kinsey — Red, Jack and Gus stood up and cheered for five minutes — after which they left and didn ' t return until the final. Anything else after that, they felt, would be anti- climactic. The name of E. J. Wohlgelerenter must be engraved here as it was he, yes he, who, faced with the dilemma of boredom or non-attendance, met the chal- lenge squarely by bringing a radio to class — sat in back and listened to the Sym- phonic Matinee. In keeping with the concept of no work, Dave Scheinfeld has just informed us that he is president of the Economics Society. Ditto with Philo 11, under the 22