Yeshiva University - Masmid Yearbook (New York, NY)

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ucliv(r liit ;lunc of I ' rof. Liliiiaii. inlisicd in il« rank) 55 winior arul I (J nil-inn of iIk; Mulh-l ' hyHicM vari -ty. The ..iji-c in Modftrn Philo covcrwl Spinoza very ,i,|,;,(iial ' ly ... if only lln- ' l ss li.iJ lioilntiil lo n-ad him, what lh«ry itiiKht have learned!! I.iliiiari s|MrHl- ami levnlr. ilu.r |,(ii.,ds a wm k to an impartial .l«jc :tive discusHioii tif our Soiilli Arncrriean neinhlior: with their Latin iojiic and Dominican manners . . . isli Ccilien shows his true colorH . . . your pajier haH that Brazilian I, null |,„, iiiiiili ili lliiii . ' irid M(j friiisii-. . . . [■.niiUfih of thi» Gaiizian Kreehtzeiden yon (cilainK ina iiol a; rrc vsilli rni- . . . ev(!ryorie ha.- a ri ' hl to In: ViTDllfl. Hicli, t?iving me a ( if;ur. iven a luenly-fivc cent one, eannot expiate that crime of Imd thinking, l-nsl week Irri .ciil cigar was a shocking exhibition of slip-shod logic ihinking thai I smoke dime stogies! ' I ' lie liasic S()ciel ol lasi year announ (s ihe as-nniplion of ifie ZKS (juite eaiU in liie term and declares the Senior year, IJasic Year. The hoard of permanent Zes m( inhcrs, consisting of Gus, lied. I,ulz, Leon Zes Levy and Huhkins immediately get lo work organizing Peoples ' Movements and evaluating lertain items as Ztrs or Unbasic. A Hasic of the Month Cluh was inslitiiled All Ahout Eve receives the Zes rating. Certain Chem courses were declared iinZrs and Organic was jjuI on the Index. Peoples ' Palace, . ' LS, 302. 424 Zes!! Arky Landes, a distinguished senior, our Prexy. just back from a restful summer at Massad (Zes I, gets to work early. The first Dean ' s Reception takes place, unboycotted and uneventful. The Math Club this year holds its meetings weekly and the Mites take their beatings meekly. I That last line is terrible — P ditor or not, either that line goes or I go . . .) Red Finkelslein. our former literary editor. ex-Ed. of Nir and President of Eranos, resigns himself to the task of graduating and resigns from everything else. Paul Teicher. a Physics major, lowan behold, takes psych with statistics. He just loves numbers. Paul embraces Dianeties and is practically a full-fledged auditor. Dianeties ... is that people with a lot of sugar? In a way. honey. It ' s a science of people who have a lot of sugar and don t care if they spend it. The mind, you know . . . His Registrarship begins to interview the seniors to finrl out who ' s graduating and to get to know us better. It looks like 8 Summas. 9 Magnas and 12 Cums. The January term is coming to a close. Gil Shoham. Dave Rosenhan and Moish Kranzler are still taking Chem . . . Leon Levy, Bury Ginsburg are yet in Physics ... the bird is on the wing ... the exams are in the safe . . . Avrum is sharpening his knives . . . and Fantasia is at the Heights (Zes! I. The week of the finals wit- nesses nothing momentous except that the old. established records for attendance at the Empress and Heights are broken. Leslie Kimmel — EI Mustachio — studies with Barney Koenigsberg, heap big chess man, for exams. Barney figures that the scenery at Llnion City will be much more conducive. Machlaka Vov is declared Basic Zes when it walks out of a certain History exam given by a teacher whose name will not be mentioned. Dr. Pinkos Churgin. (This line is through the cour- tesy of Dr. Litman. whose influence is being felt more and more every day on the land, in the air and especially at sea.) The term ends with the number of summas hahed. the magnas thirded and the cums — well, cum now, your majesty. ' hen the programs are handed in for the February term, the birds are still on the wing but the picture at the Heights has changed. Barry Ginsburg. who despite all warnings took Mechanics 11. decides to dispense with 12 and keeps his A anyw-ay. A quite remarkable achievement. The first social event of the term takes place with the announcement of the new Basic list, as Lennie Aronson is declared Zes! Shimmy Hellerstein is voted a full krechtzer by a peoples tribunal and debasicized . . . Sheeye Hertzberg accepts the assumption in public and gets himself a piece of Zes!! Prof. Litman still pulls them in. Ed Psych has a registra- tion of seventy-five — fifty to Mr. Adler I what, still with us?) and t venty-five to Mr. Terkel (still a Dewey man and still making some points K Twersky. Moish Stadt. Steve Jaffe. G.S. keep the ball rolling as each one gives over his experiences . . . in the field of ed. of course. Dave Steinberg majors in Chem — what, still with us? Babe Lobel still s■earing 23

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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

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the same hat as in first year. Ira Albeck, the Bard of Staten Island, has writ some pomes for the Masmid. This was done while not engaged in the Great Debate with Gersh Sadowsky in Blackie ' s shiur. How does that song go? Anything you can krechtz. I can krechtz better. . . . Yukie, in his nos. course learns Metallurgy, with Louis Cooper becoming Silver, Silverstein becoming Cooper and Mond becoming Borenstein. ( How did that get in here?) Pushie Lieberman emerges from his shell in the TI office — becomes titled Mr. Lieberman and calls Dr. Brody. Pushy. ( We didn ' t get that one either.) Work on the Masmid is progressing with Izzy Moseson of Commie s Business giving Willy the Wheel the benefits of his rich experience — Rob a bank. Moshe Salman . . . Leonard Estra . . . Joseph Schultz . . . Litman delivers explosive lecture . . . Gootkind cries . . . writes. Litman cries . . . Commie WTites . . . Dean cries . . . Senior class picnic planned for some Sunday in Sphira — oops, Central Park. Turns out to be Rosh Chodesh who is basic . . . Some seniors ask to make sure it doesn ' t fall on May Day . . . something about impossibility of being in two places at the same time . . . Impresario Bill Solomon, who has now activated himself up to a peak of high dramatic intensity, directs all the plays given this year. Every one of them. Aaron ' s Krauss and Mann reach the pinnacle of success ... or its bridge. Leonard Estra . . . Joseph Schultz . . . Moshe Salman . . . BIM Feldman. the three ring circus clown — TI, RIETS and YC — philosophizes and concludes that Bim is inconsistent with Feldman and drops it. Botnick, however, no mean philosopher himself, is kind enough to pick it up and keep it. Incidentally, Bim ' s si-x brothers and sisters move in from California; Goldie Feldman is working in the Scripta office for Dr. Ginsberg. Attention Creditors! Student Council breaks diplomatic relations with Faculty-Student Committee, headed by Dr. Lisman, Bernstein, Freed, Grinstein. etc. Dean ' s Reception in gym this term. Orchestra withdraws! Acoustics terrible . . . they claim. Spear writes famous letter to Commie . . . Fleischer acclaims writing talent; Truman also writes letter about music . . . Spear acclaims writing talent; Acoustics withdraws from gym . . . claim orchestra is terrible. Joseph Schultz — Moishe Salman — Leonard Estra — Willie Slomowich takes Theory of Functions. Marcia Leibner becomes engaged (Ruby Heisler ' s name won ' t be mentioned here if we can help it — Imagine printing finals for the other side, and not letting us take a peek! ). Dr. Fleischer publishes his book on Godwin in Jolly old England. Linn reviews for Commie . . . Commie publishes Administrator . . . Lispman becomes S. C. Prexy as students vote as one man, gets 21 gun salute aimed at office. Stein (remember him!), still an entering Freshman, and Hershkowitz win 2nd and 3rd positions on All-City Basketball team. Hilty (remember him!) sends out 1500 cards alone. Ah, publicity! I hear you calling. Steve Katz gets the Hart- stein Public Relations Award. What ' s Yeshiva? asks Bert Lee and Marty Glickman. Natie Gordon becomes key man as Bill Solomon works for Senior dinner. Pesach comes as Moishe Sanders announces 2.5 more school days until libera- tion. Arky Landes asks to be sure to be mentioned. Seniors ask to be excused from finals. It ' s not the work, it ' s the principle behind it . . . Principal decrees that students work. No excuses! and that ' s final! Senior Class awards plaque of gratitude to Prof. Litman in recognition of his service to the school and in particular to our class. We assume that the Class of ' 51 will be graduated on schedule, intact. Rumor has it that this will be the ONLY Class of ' 51 to be graduated from the ONLY Jewish University in the Diaspora located on 186th St. Amsterdam Ave. But we just can ' t be too sure! ! And now we must finally come to the end of this little idyll. Our four years at Yeshiva College are rapidly drawing to a close and will be culminated on June 19 when we are officially bestowed with the title GRADUATE. GOOD LUCK SENIORS, AND SMOOTH SAILING. 24