Yeshiva University - Masmid Yearbook (New York, NY)

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to be a moral man is to obey the traditional maxims of your community without hesitation or discussion. — Charles s. pierce the clash of differing religious beliefs often marked the yeshiva scene, an ongoing battle existed between the frummie and the secularists , the frummies were the guardians of the values of a traditional yeshiva. they made certain that unyeshivish activities, such as beer blasts, never got off the ground, the secularists, on the other hand, maintained a more liberal religious outlook and thus promoted such social activities as blind-date parties, the two groups tended to tolerate each other and their differences did prompt many reli- gious discussions, a novelty for most members of both sides, consequently, campus life at yeshiva was unequally structured, any activity sponsored by a college organization or club was always constrained by consideration: this was not just any college but yeshiva college. it is peevish infirmity for a man to think himself so funny grounded that the contrary may not be believed. — michel de montaigne

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liberal education, viewed in itself, is simply the culturation of intellect as such, and its object is nothing more or less than intellectual excellence. — John henry newman college is supposedly an educational experi- ence, ideally, a liberal arts education should provide an individual with the knowledge and skills necessary to become a useful member of society, the educational process at yeshiva college left much to be desired in terms of reaching this ideal, most courses involved nothing more than an endless flow of facts from the instructor to the students, all that was needed to excel was the ability to memorize; critical analysis and original thought were often unsolicited, intellectuaiism was a phenomenon that was virtually non-existent, few students engaged in outside reading or in observing and learning from the world around them, for the most part, knowledge was confined to formal lectures and the assignments found in a printed syllabus. what we call education and culture is for the most part nothing but the substitution of reading for experience, of literature for life...... of absolute fiction for contemporary experience. — george bernard shaw

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a large degree of an entering student ' s acadefriic success is based on lucl . the basic problem facing the yeshiva student is not the studying or hard work, it is simply: will joe freshie be lucky enough to get the key teachers, thereby enabling him to ace out and get into einstein with a 3.9: or will he meet disaster at the outset of his educational journey, and get ambushed with the killer professors? the most important aspect of orientation is that it enables the entering freshman to speak to sagacious seniors who give the straight facts about certain teachers. . . .to bear away upon their backs a burden of hook ... bodmin register ' not one amongst the doctors, as you ' ll see. Philemon The vanity of teaching oft tempts a man to forget he is a blockhead. lord halifax of course, we always managed to get the wrong english comp teacher or the bad news hebrew lit. professor while the other guy always ends up with the y.u. grad, a real fella.