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In times of war. disease, starvation, and death, people feel the insecurity of their world, and though pessimistic about the vague and distant future, they settle down with grim deter- mination to the business of defeating the enemy. It is an old story that if the energies expended in battle were applied to the post-victory era, the results might be much more satisfac- tory. The few voices shouting this fact to the world are drowned out by the thunder of the battle. Intervals of relative peace and prosperity bring a return of planning and construction as man tries to turn his dreams to realities. Such was the birth of the College in the aftermath of the Mexican War and the European Revolutions of 1848 which had their intellectual repercussions here. Such was the back- ground to the formation of a common bond between some two hundred communities, exactly 50 years ago. for the purpose of making a better future through the establishment of Greater Now York. Today we are in a unique situation. As has been the case so many times in the past, we are looking for men to plan clear- headedly for a peaceful future in a timo filled with the sense of imminence. What makes our crisis different and distinct from all the others is that more is threatened than useless warfare again. Our failuro to adjust socially to our technological ad- vance has led us to the point where we havo discovered the weapon capable of making us commit species-suicide, without the corresponding ability to eradicate it, or, as yet. the ability to live comfortably with it. The only David available to fight this newost and greatest of Goliaths, is education. We have been introduced, in our classrooms, to the concentrated distilla- tion of the methods and conclusions of more than 5000 years of thinking among that part of mankind which has loft its mark for us to decipher. In this, we have been more fortunate than most as wo have the privilege of knowing that the largest com- munity in the world is our campus and our area of research and our library. Wo live at the crossroads and in the capital of the world. If our being at the center of things has the dis- advantage of costing us the loss of perspective, we can balance it with the quality and quantity of material and information available to us and the ability to compare all the ideas which have been presented — a handicap not granted to many. Some of us have even had our perspective changod in military serv- ice. It remains for us, then, to search in our intellectual heritage and in ourselves for the solutions to the problems we have inherited, the answers that may bring the realization of man's dreams—to share tho fruits of peace through understanding social relation- ships. It is with this frame of reference and in this sot of mind, that we dedicate our- selves and our yearbook to the survival of mankind.
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Democratic ends demand demo- cratic method lor their realixation. and it ix not by blind submUtion that men can attain lurther truth . . . we have faith and wo have intelligence, and theie two will determine our luture. JOHN RANDALL. JR. MICROCOSM table of contents Dedication Senior History School of Arts School of Science School of Social Science School of Education School of Technology Studont Organizations Publications Evoning Session Administration Sports Camera-Shy Seniors MICROCOSM Credits
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