Boys High School - Red and Black Yearbook (Brooklyn, NY)

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We Respechfully Dedicale. . Two This Term we respecflully declicale our yearbook lo Jrhe ou+s+ancling graclua+e of lhe Class of June I949. JOHN S. NCRRIS, alumnus, Teacher, and friend of B.l-l.S. is leaving alrer a quarler of a cenlury of hard worlc ancl conscienlious service lo Boys l-liqh. Thanlc you, Mr. Norris, for a iolo well done. Alma Mafer will noi be The same wilhoul you.

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EDITCRIAL H Tis education forms the common mind: lust as the Twig is bent The Treeis inclined. -Pope-lworal Essays The graduaTing class OT June, l949, has now Tilled in The lcey boxes in ThaT crossword puzzle, ThaT is liTe. There is no Time, however. To block OuT in bold relieT The inTerpreTaTions OT 'liTe,' so common, so sTereoTyped, worn Threadbare wiTh use and misuse. The world is enTering The criTical phase in iTs hisTory: iT will improve or iT will degeneraTe inTo noThing. We are leaving behind us aT Alma MaTer a luxurious securiTy, wherein The only exTernally caused aTTaclcs On our menTal processes were noThing more Than coniugaTion OT LaTin verbs. applicaTiOns OT sine and cosine, and The second acT OT lvlacbeTh. We go inTo a world ThaT is revolving in an aTmosphere OT cold war Though s+ill scarred Trom recenT biTTer sTriTe. We go anxious To assume our share OT The burden OT The problems OT civilizaTion. The earTh's inhabiTanTs aTTribuTe To Themselves high infelligence in masTering The laws OT physics when They are barely beyond The STone Age in social relaTions wiTh Their Tellow men. WiTh Their maTerial and elecTrical implemenTs They have girdled The globe, COr1quered The ArcTic and The Tropics, They have harnessed lighT- ning, uTilized The power OT caTaracTg They have measured and analyzed disTanT heavenly bodies. They admiT noThing To be impossible in The maTerial world. The spiriTual world, The docTrines OT moraliTy, are neglecTed. BUT The Time measure OT a peoples greaTness depends solely upon iTs loyalTy To iTs naTive ideals, The ideals based solidly upon Truly human values and The digniTy OT man. lT is in The power OT yOuTh, and yOuTh alone, To Turnish The TaiTh necessary To resTore The moral check upon our Technological advances. And so we deparT Trom Boys l-ligh, The lceysTone OT TaiTh careTully cemenTed inTo our minds wiTh The mOrTar OT broTherhood. cooperaTiOn, and The sense OT righT and wrong. We have been TaughT The essence OT world peace. IT is now our Taslc TO bring iT To realiTy and preserve iT Tor eTerniTy. LR Th ree