East Brunswick High School - Emerald Yearbook (East Brunswick, NJ)

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A rejection of the routine Out of a desire to live life in a way that humanity is evident all through the day instead of just after hours, many of us scorned the routine or what we felt was spiritually stifling. With this, we shunned competitiveness and were not especially concerned about excelling in a personally ambitious way, because we saw in the traditional success a certain hypocrisy. It meant beating out the other guy and we preferred to be his brother. Furthermore, traditionally success has meant making money, a materialistic value which we believed has held too much sway in society and has too often been an erroneous measure of a man's real worth. Ironically this somewhat romantic idea has been fed by our affluence. Doing one's thing often costs money. As one student remarked, I'd like to be a freak but I can't afford it. One had to wonder what would happen to this idealism when the allowance ended after graduation. It was not without merit and hopefully it would endure even if chill penury — as Thomas Cray put it - froze the genial current of the soul.