Bolton High School - Bruin Yearbook (Alexandria, LA)

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During the past two years, our Federal Government has undergone a vast change under the administration of Franklin D. Roosevelt. After the inauguration, President Roosevelt launched into a fight to end permanently the state of economic chaos which enveloped this country. His first official act was to pass the N. R. A. (National Recovery Act) whose purpose was planned to create employment, regulate working hours, set wage standards, limit production, and fix prices on com- modities in practically every business today. To strengthen this policy, a number of lettered codes were authorized by Congress as the P. W. A., C. W. A.,C. C. C., etc., numbering over four hundred in all. These organizations have employed thousands of men and women throughout the United States in an effort to relieve a distressed people, and in many cases to relieve destitution. Government loans for state and private enterprises as well as a nation-wide program of public works were set up by the N. R. A. with economic recovery as the objective. The people who have been employed under these alphabetical codes are gradually being recognized by the letters of their organization, and the national government, for the first time in years, is entering into private business. Due to this rapid change as compared to the advancement of our school, it is altogether fitting that the motif of the ’35 Bruin be attuned to our “Men of Letters.” ' • 2

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From the little one-room school house of long ago has come our present highly developed school system. For the past three hundred years our high schools have been building, expanding, reaching out, and absorbing our nation’s youth. Mindful of the development of the American secondary school and observant of our present excellent system, we, the seniors of Bolton High School, desire to make memorable the school year 1934-35 as the three-hundredth anniversary of secondary education in America. In appreciation, therefore, of the contributions of secondary education down through these three hundred years, the present expansion of educational opportunity at the high school level, the potent influence of the secondary school of the future on social progress in the United States, we do gratefully dedicate this Bruin to the spirit of the American high school. 4