Torrance High School - Torch Yearbook (Torrance, CA)

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Your hour has struck Qas some would have you believej when con- ditions and all of society are leagued against you, to make your efforts for existence in a complex world most difficult This is tommy rot. Your hour has struck when society l has reached its first real sanity in a process of slow evolution. More thought is being given today, and more constructive action is being tak- en, to make life more liveable for each one of us, than in any other period of history. For you to find your place, and with it happiness, you will have to believe in yourself. You will have to close your ears to the calamity hovvlers. You will need courage. You will have to love your fellow man and be patient with his mistakes. You will need a quality we call honor. You will have to get a vision of what a better world may be. You will have to find a recognized way of doing some of the world's work, and a way of enjoying simple pleasures. The opportunities re multiplying. You are endowed with intelligence. You only need to use it. ' J X 'A sea-1f.,s,-5,1 :rg A ' -veffsf2??i - .-.ati i fi 1

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To Theodore Raofevelr, twenty-sixth President of the United States, Whose birthday has been Httingly chosen as Navy Day, we dedicate the Administration chapter of the 1934 Torch. It was he who, as Assistant Secretary of the Navy, had our fleet thoroughly prepared for the Spanish-American War. His intense interest and whole-hearted sup- port during his two administrations are re- sponsible for the ascension of the United States to the rank of second greatest sea power in the world. He is remembered as the great American, an intense, vigilant, uncompro- mising patriot, eager to serve his nation in peace or war, who throughout his life was first and always an American.

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Perhaps there is no better time than during this quiet period between ac- complishment and nevvendeavors, for our Seniors to determine what influ- ence the past few years have had in shaping the ideals which will in the future unify all their knowledge and give a larger meaning to even the most transitory of their human ex- periences. It would seem that if the years have been wisely spent, there should come permanently to remain with these gtadu arcs adeepened appreciation of beauty whether If is found in literature art, or human characterg a more sympathetic understanding of others, and a greater ability to be of ser vice to them. Indeed these understanding beautv loving boys and girls are the best equipped to live life graciously-are the truly educated ones