Abraham Lincoln High School - Landmark Yearbook (Brooklyn, NY)

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ARTHUR HIRSCHBERC-5 ADMINISTRATIVE ASST BERTHA COHEN JOSEPH R ORGEL DAVID TROSTEN C J STEINGART DEAN OF GIRLS DEAN OF BOYS SENIOR ADVISER LANDMARK

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GABRIEL R. MASON PRINCIPAL ABRAHAM LINCOLN H S BROOKLYN Dear SenIors The world we luve In Today preserITs a mosT gloomy pIcTure War economIc depressIon unemploymenT InTolerance and The FISG oT Tascssm oT all varIeTIes make The ouTlooIc Indeed dIsmal and Torebodmg IT IS easy To QIVC way To pessImIsm and acknowledge yourselves deTeaTed ThwarTed and overwhelmed even beTore you have really sTarTed on lITe s Iourney On The oTher hand you can Talse an unrealIsTIc VIGW oT The SIIUGIIOH and wITh The aTTITude oT Pollyanna gIve venT To opTImIsTIc declaraTIons sImIlar To LeIbn1z s ThIs IS The besT oT all possIble worlds or Browmng s All s rIghT wITh The world or Coue s Every day IH every way we are geTTIng beTTer and beTTer I-lowever GraduaTes oT June l94O l recommend To your aTTenTIon neITher sour and crushIng pessImIsm nor sweeT and empTy opTImIsm l would raTher challenge you wITh a more vIgorous phIlosophy oT IIIG called by FelIx Adler melIorIsm a name derIved Trom The LaTIn wo d melIor meanIng beTTer IT Teaches us ThaT we can do beTTer and musT do beTTer IT aslcs us To be pessImIsTIc only Tor The purposes oT realIzIng The evIls ThaT should be eradIcaTed IT also aslcs us To be opTImIsTs only ThaT we may see The dawn oT a beTTer day and The vIsIon oT a happIer world Towards ThaT goal leT us all melIorIsTIcally sTrIve wITh all our sTrengTh and all our zeal CordIally yours GABRIEL R MASON PrIncIpal l . ., - I I I I I . I I . I . I I I . . . .I II . . . II. . I I II I - - II I II - I - II I I I . . . . . II . II V' I I - I . I . ' I ' I

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