Hughes High School - Hughes Yearbook (Cincinnati, OH)

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Charles lvl. M Principal The greaTesT curse ThaT has come upon us is a Theory ThaT we are all vicTims oT someThing or oTher. A long-Taced economisT Tells you ThaT you are a vicTim oT a sysTem and ThaT you are doomed To Tailure and misery unless The sysTem is changed. l-lis colleague Tells you ThaT we musT Take all The risks ouT oT life and see ThaT some- body else is going To help Care Tor you in old age or in any sorT of Trouble: your se- c:uriTy, he says, musT be a social and noT a personal responsibiliTy. AnoTher reminds you ThaT The one Thing ThaT you musT keep in mind is ThaT you are always enTiTled To a subsidy Tor living .... CpporTuniTy disappeared Trom America in l89O when The TronTier line was shoved ohf inTo The PaciTic, buT we have iusT Tound iT ouT.

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511 flue Cfau of 1940.- I-IAVE been Iurning over and over in my mind wnal Io say Io you aboul' 'llie American Way, and I slumbled on an excerpl from a speech Presidenl Dixon Ryan Fox, ol Union College, made. II so adegualely says wlial I wanl Io say Inal I am reproducing luis slalemenl. AnyII1ing Ilial saps Ine sense ol individual responsibilily will rol Ilie American clwar- acler. Wiln rare exceplions your individual Iulure is in your own I'iands, and any- one wno Iells you Ilial you are II'ie crealure ol circumslances is doing you no favor. Tlwe Iypical American in limes pasl has mannandled circumslances, and you Iiave gol' Io do il now.

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Dear Class of l94O: F, in a world ol Turmoil, you can learn lo abnor lwalred, and respecl reasonableness, you can juslly feel llwal you are Taking your places as lib- eral conrribulors lo lrlfme im- provemenl ol llwe American Way of Lile. ELMA R. ROBINSON. Girls' Adviser