Bordentown Military Institute High School - BMI Yearbook (Bordentown, NJ)

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TO THE CLASS OF '56: You are the seventy-fourth class to leave the Bordentown Military Institute since it opened in 1881. If you were asked to sum up in a single word the greatest charac- teristic of those years with respect to conditions in the world, you might exclaim with one voice, Change! That is so true of national geography, so true of transportation and communication, so startlingly true of the gadgets we live with, that it takes a wise man, indeed, to realize that human attitudes, personal traits, and, in short, character qualities in men have for the most part changed not at all. The same basic teacher-pupil attitudes and principles of instruction which worked so successfully when Socrates taught Plato two thousand years ago, have been at work this very year when your teachers here have succeeded in teaching you. Historians believe that the United States Constitution might never have been adopted had not a George Washington in 1789 been available as first president. Yet in 1956 has it not been much the same recognition of the priceless quality of personal integrity that has made the health and well-being of our present national leader the object of the anxious solicitude of our people? Thus good character is never old-fashioned for it is the eternal need of all generations. S Ignorance can be corrected by instruction. But immorality, dishonesty, that scheming selfishness displayed by the intention to get mine while the getting's good -these attitudes when dominant in the citizens of our nation are like termites eating away in darkness at those foundations laid long ago by our fathers in the hope that government by the people might not perish from the earth. You are graduates of a school which in its standards, training, and discipline has sought to give you an appreciation of the unchangeable qualities of good character and of the best in American citizenship. How far you will make these qualities and ideals your own must be up to you! We are thankful that so many of you are already showing the type of manhood that makes us confidently willing to trust the future in your hands. ' Our best wishes for the years ahead. J. Harold Lucas Harold Morrison Smith Class of 1956

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Foreword As we Seniors go out into the world, not knowingywhat lies ahead of us, we feel that our main objective should be world peace. In our humble way, WC will try to extend peace throughout the world. With unity our chief aim, we must include the whole world and not just a part of it. We cannot attain this ,goal without full ,cooper-ation. In our minds and in the .minds of others the road toward world peace is a long and hard road which must be traveled with care. We are proud to have a chance to extend our ideas on peaceful living to others. We cannot say that we go out into the world with our eyes closed, for to do so would be an untruthg but rather we will do our best. We leave this school with only one great reminder of our deeds. So come with us now while we go back through the pages for one lingering glance at familiar scenes and faces. Farewell, B. M. I., you have taught us well. The Editor

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