Benjamin School for Girls - Tusitala Yearbook (New York, NY)

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TUSITALA Fort 1928 your cares, enter into the world of fancy, and digest the products of youth's mentality. Who knows but that you may benefit tenfold from their views on life, and who knows but that in reading these works you are viewing the childhood endeavors of those who in future years may take their places in the ranks of America's greatest authors? ART FRANCES KRE1sMAN Art is the power of performing perfectly certain actions acquired' by experience, study, and observation. This application of skill and taste is applied to Production. It is the occupation having to do with the theory of practice of taste in the expression of beauty in form, color, sound, speech, or movement. To produce something beautiful is the hrst impulse of the artist. In it we see the charm of the artist, his power of impressions, and his ability to attract. MY AMERICAN HERO HoRTENsE FELDMAN Who is my real American hero? Is he a living man like our Lindbergh, or is he perhaps a fictitious person patterned from my fanciful dreams? My hero must have a soul that is noble, and vibrant with love for his fellow-men. He has the all-important courage to back his worthy convictions. V A Why, surely, Abraham Lincoln embodies all of the qualities which I have so fully eulogized. How happy it makes me to know that God has given His children an American who is the human example of the right kind of a human being. Father Abraham, with his homely face which was lighted by the radiance of kindliness, of tender feelings, of love for his fellow-men, Lincoln with his size thirteen foot, and his sweet angelic faith in God to uphold him through his stormy hours of heart-tending worry and travail, is my exalted hero. How humble hero sounds when applied to such a great man, Within his soul there was the best, and he gave that best freely. Honest Abe is that great American whose words with malice toward none, with charity for all should preach a message that should serve to purge us from bigoted intolerance, hatred, and egoism. We cannot call ourselves Americans unless we conscientiously adhere to the ideals of that greatest of Americans, Abraham Lincoln. The halo that illumines his soul, heart, and deeds casts a shadow over the majority of other heroes. Since Abraham Lincoln occupies one of the most conspicuous positions on the great battlefield, where the struggle for the benefit of humanity is fought, l humblyechoose this master of men to be the noblest example of my American hero. Though he rests in peace, his life shall serve through all ages as an incentive for a higher development of a super-race of people, who shall rightfully call themselves Americans. Page Eight

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TUSITALA FOR 1928 R CHARLOTTE ARONAUER NEW YORK CITY There if o gezrden in her fore, Where 7'0.T6J' and while lilies blow. French Club '28 A Spanish Club '28 Petticoat Lane , Windmills of HollQd '28 Spanish Play '28. R RUTH BACK, H A NEW YORK CITY 0h! She ir good or :he if fair. President Home Girls '28 President German Club '28 Secretary German Club '27 Tusitalisman Staff '27, '28 Tusirala Staff '27, '28 French Club '27, '28 German Play '27, '28 junior French Play '27 English Club '27 She Stoops to Conquer '27 The Toy Tragedy '28 Dramatic Art Play '28 Honor Roll '27 JEANETTE BERGER NEW YORK CITY ' A face with glodfgerr o11e1'Jp1'eoo?. German Club '27 , Vice-President German Club '28 French Club '27, '28 German Play '27, '28 French Play '28 Windmills of Holland , Petticoat Lane '28 Page Ten