Carteret Academy - Carteret Yearbook (Orange, NJ)

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DEDICATED TO THE A ERICAN CCDLLEGES A D UNIVERSITIES When one reaches The Senior Class of high school or preparaTory school, iT is noT un- naTural ThaT his ThoughTs should TrequenTly Turn To colleges and whaT They have in sTore Tor him and Tor Thousands of oThers abouT To enTer Them. NoThing is more perTinenT To our immediaTe TuTuro. The presenT Trend Tor high school sTudenTs To conTinue Their educaTion by going To college is comparaTively new. NoT so many years ago even elemenTary school was noT compulsory. Today, secondary school is. NoT so many years ago a very limiTed number were privileged To enTer college. Today, even wiTh The rapid esTab- lishmenT of colleges everywhere, These higher schools of learning are conTronTed by The problem of Tinding ways and means To Take care oT The hordes enTering Them each year. Today's PreparaTory School is The Tore- runner oT The public High School. NOT long ago, if parenTs wanTed Their son To geT a college edu- caTion, iT was only naTural ThaT he TirsT be senT To one oT The English LaTin Schools which are now our modern PreparaTory Schools. Such schools were organized primarily To Train boys for college. College enTrance requiremenTs have broadened and wiTh The esTablishmenT oT The presenT day high school, a Tar greaTer opTion is offered high school sTudenTs in preparing Tor college. Every inspired American youTh aspires To enTer college. ParenTs, as well as sons and daughTers, recognize ThaT wiTh a college educa- Tion as a background, a successTuI TuTure, if noT assured. is deTiniTely much more likely. BuT This, one will say, is a selfish moTive. IT may be, buT iT may also be The incenTive which gives youTh The ambiTion To sTudy an addiTional Tour years, and ThaT, in Turn, beneTiTs noT only The individual who puTs TorTh This eTTorT, buT also The naTion as a whole Tor iT raises The level of inTellecT. We dedicaTe These pages To colleges ThroughouT The land, noT because oT The close Tie now exisTing beTween secondary school and college, buT because iT is The colleges on which we depend Tor The Teaching of underraTed Amer- icanism and loyalTy To a Torm of governmenT esTablished by our ToreTaThers nearly Two-hundred years ago. Only if These Teachings are absorbed by The college sTudenTs and Thus allowed To seep down Through The masses has This Republic any hope oT warding oTF The conTagion of Toreign influence and an un-American social order . . . We dedicaTe The l952 l-lillTopper To colleges Tor Their alerTness To rid Themselves of subversive elemenTs: Their deTerminaTion To keep American Colleges Truly American. Only Through whaT our colleges do Today can we hope Tor peace Tomor- row.