Dallastown Area High School - Spectator Yearbook (Dallastown, PA)

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After much due consideration and deliberation, the title of the year book is selected. It is to be called “The Dyne.” mean- ing force. '1 he word dyne is derived from the (ireek word dy- namics.” meaning power. The dyne, as defined in Physics, is that force that will impart to a gram mass a velocity of one cen- timeter per second. This force is insignificant when compared with the forces of nature, for examples, the earthquake, which de- stroys cities, the floods that devastate the valleys and the waves of the sea that crush the huge ships that sail upon them. These great forces are made up of small forces acting together. We hope that our unit. “The Dyne. will become as powerful as the small molecule of water that freezes and erodes mountains. All life is a series of changes from the lowest to the highest, from the weakest to the strongest, from the crude to the in- telligent. and from the simple to the complex. Looking toward the future we expect to have the year book pass through the same successive stages of the element as the insect passes from the egg to the larva stage, from the larva to the chrysalis, and thence to the beautiful adult butterfly. As each stage in the metamorphosis of the insect has added materially to the com- pletion of the ideal, so may each succeeding staff of the year book benefit by the achievements we have attained and profit In our mistakes. May we strive to make “The Dyne.” as the butter- fly—a completed ideal. Page three