Brighter times are coming, the average City College senior finds, according to the results of a poll by the Microcosm. Last year, in reply to the question, "How much do you expect to earn five years after graduation?" the senior class expected an average salary of $2,750. This year, however, the average has risen to $4,425. Nevertheless, they would marry for money–and for a dowry of $75,000, as compared with one of $50,000 last year. One senior offers as an explanation for the seeming inconsistancy, "There’s a depression on, and we’ve got to live."
It the senior class’s choice of a "dream girl" is realized, the boys need that dowry, for they pick a Ziegfeldian beauty whose upkeep would probably execed their means. She is eighteen years and ten months old, five feet three and onehalf inches in height, and weighs 118 pounds. She has chestnut hair and dark eyes, and smokes, drinks, and necks. She is both clever and beautiful and attends college. Her outstanding characteristic, described in one word (with a variety of inflections), is "A-a-a-h!"
The average City College senior, on the other hand, is twenty years and six months old, and aspires mainly to intellectual success. In the past, graduating classes were interested only in financial success. The present senior is independent in politics, does not gamble, but smokes and drinks. He has been in love twice.
GREATEST MEN
They regard President Roosevelt as the greatest. American in history, and Einstein as the greatest living man. The five greatest men of all time, they believe, are Aristotle, Leonardo da Vinci, Jesus, Einstein, and Karl Marx.
In the class elections, Moe Spahn, president of the senior class last term and former basketball captain, was voted the most popular senior. Harry Weinstein, editor of The Microcosm, was elected the one who did most for City College, the most capable and the most respected senior. Among the other class celebrities are Hy Redisch, business manager of The Microcosm, who did most for ’34 class; Jack Blume, president of the Student Council, most likely to succeed; Morton S. Goldstein, former editor of The Mercury, best poet and wittiest; Max Beresofsky, most brilliant; Dunbar Roman, best artist; Leonard Silverman, best actor; Solomon Cohen, best writer, and Mike Kupperberg, former captain of the football team, best athlete.
In the faculty President Frederick B. Robinson was elected the one who did most for City College; Professor William Bradley Otis of the English Department, most popular, and Dean Morton Gottschall, most capable.
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