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

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VIRGI L BORN-MANTUA-B.C. 70 HONORED ALL OVER THE WORLD A.D. 1930 ALWielder of the stateliest measure ever moulded by the lips of man. A TENNYsoN-1830. 'W Drama, sculpture, pottery, painting, music, poetry, philosophy and historical prose all acknowledge their debt to the art forms of Greece established more than two thousand years ago. The destructive Roman, lacking the liner appreciations, wasted much of the Greek culture that all our commissions cannot restore to us. The constructive Roman, appreciating the high forms of art, is to be praised for what he treasured and handed on to us. The poet Virgil whose two thousandth anniversary the whole world celebrates has conserved for us and embellished with his own ine touch much of what is most lovely in the gift of the Greeks and thus deservedly in this issue of the Watchtower which is devoted to all the finest of the Fine Arts, an honored place is found for Virgil. ff W, .f M St Qlt Nl ', 7 lill' T 'Cllll l, lil 'l r 'md X, X fy? fll f we if ll Isis- gg, E.. pmzmg

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It is the same with your manners. They have vastly improved, again because the style has changed. Ten years ago it was smart to be tough, surly, discourteous. Now such manners are utterly passe. Today among the best high school society, c-ourtesy, generosity, fine sportsmanship, are the qualities that distinguish gentlepeople from the goats. And I congratulate you on becoming less and less provincial. 'Your horizons have broadened amazingly in recent years. You are realizing that there is truth and beauty and power outsi-de your own little worldg that in many ways you are superior to the foreigner, but that in many ways the foreigner is superior to you. To be smugly content with your environment and blissfully unaware of any other, is one of the darkest forms of ignorance. A provincial person who knows nothing and cares nothf ing about any state other than his own is like the deep sea fish who has seen nothing but darkness and water from the day of birth. This fsh doesn't know it's dark. He doesn't know it's water. He doesn't even know he is a fish. He must go 'traveling to the surface of the sea where there is land and light and sky to become aware that his country is dark and watery-aware of his -own shape and value and significance. More an-d more you American students, like this ish, are becoming conscious of the rest of the world, conscious that you are not the human race but only a small part of it. 'You are finding 'Out that to this world you can give some enlightenment and some service, but that from it you can receive infinitely more of both. I I think it is a splendid sign of progress among students that you are learning to express yourselves, to be yourselves. For years students have been afraid to be differf ent. Now you are afraid not to be. Individuality is no longer just tolerated-it's encouraged, 'You can write poetry or play music or sing songs, excell in the arts, help yourself to eccentricities, be as mad as you like, and nobody cares. A little madness, once considered so distressing in youth, is now recognized as the nrst prerequisite to genius. Without this touch-call it imagination, temperament, spirit, inspiration-no one of you will rise above the common level of mediocrity. The completely sane boy or girl, the consistent and infallible ones, will be the bread and the machinery of the coming generation, But the young heretics, the rebels, the dreamers, are likely to be the emeralds and the immortals. And so if you are considered a little bit crazy, just thank God for it. 'You have the advantage. Last of all, I think you are to be congratulated on being the most enviable class of human beings in the world, 'You have everything-youth, health, good looks, en' thusiasm, dreams to bring to pass, new worlds to conquer. 'You are living in the most liberated age in history, in one of the happiest cities in the world. Poverty, represf sion, fear, as they have been known to students from the beginning, are unknown to you. The earth is yours to be wrecked or redeemed according to your character and your vision. That it will be redeemed is my firm faith. RICHARD HALLIBURTON. . xg- .a ' 1 -al:-Q If -,,:,--- f ., 0. gh... -W -215415:-'-K A-em.

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