Yeshiva University - Masmid Yearbook (New York, NY)

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For insronce, we hove school on Chonuko. Shiur and Jewish studies on Chonuko is one rhing; bur it ' s crazy rhor we hove ro sir through lectures on Vic- torian poetry ond Quantum mechanics when our minds ore filled with Mocobees and twirling dreydls. Be that as it may, every nighr for o week we trudge bock to class to light Chonuko candles in the holls. With our heovy books and our shoes wet from the snow, we shiep out choirs, overturned garbage cons, little tables, ond we light the menoroh. This yeor, the members of one floor in Morg started singing Chonuko zmirot after hodlokot nerot. Maybe It was the spirit of the day, maybe it was the spirited music someone was ploying on his saxophone, but all of a sudden they started to donee. Soon the dancers ran wild through all the rooms, pulling people owoy from the telephone, grobbing them out of bed. Cramming into the elevator, they came to the next floor, song ond danced and recruited more people. They visited every floor, they shanghaied every guy they met to donee with them. Finally they reached the lobby; tired as they were from the long school day, they found the strength to whirl for half on hour in a circle Ground the confused security guards. They sang louder ond louder. Thot, my friend, is Toroh U ' mado. Lit • ! ] I

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No college campus is complere wirhour o dromoric society, and YC is forrunore to hove the exciremenr of the Yeshivo College Dromoric Society. The excellence of YCD5 producrions ore lorgely due ro the dedicorion of the ocrors and rhe exrroordinory omounr of rime rhey spend rehearsing. Recently, o group of students hod o strong, burning desire to act. However, they could not put in the time YCDS demanded, because rhey hod previous commitments in the form of night seders and rhe like. So rhe Yeshivo College Jewish Theotre was formed. In the spirit of Judy Gorlond ond Mickey Rooney, they decided to put on o show for the Spring Festival of the Arts at Yeshivo. I con get the fourth floor of rhe library, one of them said. I con get o local butcher store to donote the props we need, said another. The students built the sets, direcred rhe ploy, acted, and organized musicol accomponiment. They didn ' t socrifice any of their time set aside for learning at night. The crowds loved their ploy; and the critics roved. Toroh U ' moda.