Erasmus Hall High School - Arch Yearbook (Brooklyn, NY)

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qorewotd HIS year book has been edited with the idea in mind of Lest we forget, lest we forget . Therefore, whatever value it may possess is not for today but for that inevitable tomorrow, when the present will have faded into the dim past and the future will have become the living present. If, in that too soon tomorrow, these few pictures and pages can form echoes in your memory- echoes, perhaps, of a friend half forgotten, or of an incident half remembered, then this aggregation of ink and parchment will have served its purpose.

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-eeee,.W,.e ., . we SENIOR YEAR Booic. JANUARY 1935 TO THE SENIOR CLASS: YEAR and a half have passed since I gave up control of Erasmus Hall and it is pleasant to get your request for a few words and to realize that in spite of the whirl of life, I have not yet been forgotten. I shall never lose my memory of our days together and the interest I took in your development from callow Fresh- men to the maturity of Seniors. The Old Gray School is going on to higher things as the years pass and I cannot find words to express my satis- faction that Dr. McNeill was chosen to succeed me. He has so rare a combina- tion of high breeding and courage, of intellect and sympathy, that his inliuence is going to be felt in the best of all pos- l sible ways, without himself being con- i scious of it. You are very fortunate people to have him as your leader. When I left the school, the realization that he was to follow me eased my good-bye. I hated to give up my close association and my friendships with youg but the present age demands youth at the helm, and very rightly so. A thing a man learns as he grows older, is that he is never indispensable. I shall always keep my affection fort you and my memories. All the rest is in Dr. McNeill's able hands. Ave Atque Vale. J. HERBERT LOW Nine

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