Adelphi Academy - Adelphic Yearbook (Brooklyn, NY)

Page 10 text:

GERTRUDE PULLMAN HYellow gold has its price, hut ct good teacher is priceless As a teacher You have taught us a proficiency in sports Both enjoyable and useful. As an understanding person You have shown us the importance Of team-work, cooperation, sportsmanship- The principles of fair play. As a friend 'You will always hold a warm place In our hearts. 8

Page 9 text:

essa -e of I-be eabwaasfer This year the Adelphic has as its central theme the Orient, and the influence which it has exerted upon our Western World. Too many people these days are prone to consider our western civilization as including everything worth while, and as responsible for all inventions and improvements. We forget that in the Tigris-Euphrates and the Nile valleys there was a high degree of civilization 6,000 years ago. VVe do not realize that the Chinese were busy inventing printing, and that there were 'Apenny-in-the-slot machines in Egypt when the inhabitants of Western Europe were still savages in the wilderness. ln addition to this we have the great heritage of art, architecture, literature, drama and philosophy which has had such a tremendous influence on our own civilization. The Oriental mind works in ways which are often strange to us, but these people have, through the centuries past, had the same hopes and fears, the same loves and hates, and the same yearning to reach out for something higher and better in spiritual things. Their ways of expressing these thoughts and emotions have been different from our own, but through them they have made great contributions to the onward march of civilization. If this volume does no more than lead its readers to an interest in things Oriental and a desire to learn more about the Far East, it will have served its purpose. MMF 7

Page 11 text:

NORMAN R. BRUWN gA load of books does not equal one good teacher? You placed a book before us And from it taught us many things Of scientifrc value. But now- W11i1e we remember well your teachings, Even more impressed upon us Is your. Wonderful philosophy of life and truth And though We think of you as an instructor, What is more important, - VVe know you as a friend.