Beverly Hills High School - Watchtower Yearbook (Beverly Hills, CA)

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EMERALD LAKE LELAND CURTIS Presented to Beverly Hills High School by MVS. I. A. Zublin, mothev of Sonia Ivanovslqa, S30

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F OREWORD In writing a foreword for a high school annual, ,one almost always reaches for a rubber stamp and produces a short treatise on moral philosophy, filled with solemn advice and recommending all the particularly dull virtues. Consequently nobody reads it. That being the case Fd like to avoid the usual maxims, scorn all ejfort to advise you, and just unburden myself of a few practical opinions in regard to high school students. Tou, being superbly young and independent, probably will not agree with opinions coming from one as bowed -down with years and cynicism as I. But for bet' ter or worse this is what I think about you. First of all I think you are to be congratulated on the new styles I see in your school-not styles in dress and speech fthey are of no importancej, but styles in character. The oldfstyle resistance to intellectual distinction is rapidly going out of vogue. The smart thing among you now is to be intelligent. In every school and col' lege in the land, dumbness, like cornmonness, has become bad form. Intelligence is the ideal, and not the disdain for it. Ten years ago, to be smart a high school student must ridicule all application to his academic work, resent instruction, belittle cultural influences and those who pretended to culture. Today such people are just nuisances and deadweights. They are worse than that. They are insufferable bores.