Brookline High School - Murivian Yearbook (Brookline, MA)

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Wilfred H. Ringer Headmaster Today is a period of seeming confusion. If you and I follow the ordinary course, we shall permit ourselves to believe that all roads to advance have been closed to us. Such a conclusion can but make us untrue to our trust. Today is also a time of greatest optimism. Opportunities which are now ours may never come again. Your high school has kept one great ideal constantly before you — the teaching that there is always a place in life for the young man and young woman to whom education has been an experience in THINKING. Never has the world been so much in need of intelligent reasoning. If your training has given you the power to master new problems, it has also given you a firm hold on life itself. The test is in your ability to discriminate between the true and the false values. Thorough scholarship is a province in which one’s place is EARNED. Nothing worthwhile is to be had merely for the asking. Today the field of exploration lies in human endeavor. To wish for success and happiness is not to win them. Thorough scholarship means brains that are qualified to think beyond their present store of facts. Insist upon your knowledge assuring you of an opportunity. Then THINK, REASON and WORK your way to the top! My best wishes go to each of you. 10

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FACULTY TO FORM A MORE PERFECT N ON

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Miss Mary W. Sawyer Dean of Girls My cordial greetings to the Class of 1940! Life is made up of challenges. You had scarcely entered Brookline High School when you were challenged by the emergency of the Fire. Since then you have met countless challenges successfully. Now you are being graduated to take your places in a world which demands the best you have to offer. To keep that standard will not be easy in the conflicting currents of present day life; anything less than your best will not be enough. Certainly fateful days are ahead in which you must play your part — a part for which the Brookline High School has tried to give you training and inspi ration. In the words of the poet, After it, follow it, Follow the gleam,” of the best and finest that life can offer. It is what you have in your heart and what you see that counts. My best wishes go with you all as you go forth to answer the challenge of the days ahead! 11