YU reconstitutes itself as a non-sectarian school to get state money; students remember his shiur and classroom; his ‘keeping up’ with the students by switching from Yiddish to English; his opposition to mixed-seating synagogues; his belief that the Jewish community ought to present a unified stance vis-a-vis the world; his attempt to worth with Prof. Lieberman to create a joint Orthodox/Conservative bet din; his response to Vatican Council II.