Fairfax High School - Colonial Yearbook (Los Angeles, CA)

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foreword If the biologist is right that the blo- loglcal evolution of the human organ- ism i going on so slowly that man himself is not now endowed with capacities appreciably different from those which he brought with him into the perlod of recorded history, then, since, wlthln this period the forward strides that he has made ln his control over his environment, ln the develop- ment of hls civilization, have been stupendous and unquestionable, it fol- lows that this progress has been due, not to the betterment of his stock, but rather primarily to the passing on of the accumulated knowledge of the race to the generations following after. The great lnstruments of progress for mankind are then research, the dis- covery of new knowledge, and educa- tion, the passing on of the store of accumulated wisdom to our followers. This puts the immediate destinies of the race, or of our section of the race, or of our sectlon of our country, largely in our own hands. This splrlt and this conviction is the glft of modern science to the world. It ls then too much to say that modern sclence has remade phllos- ophy and rcvlvlfled rellglon 2 ROBERT A. MILLIKAN I 2 I

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4 ' Dedication Because he heads one of the finest educational institutions in the country, the California Institute of Technology, and be- cause he and his associates have done such wonderful research ln the scientific study of llght,- and because of his position as an honored and respected member of our own Southland community, we thought it appro- priate to take the honor of dedicating the 1930 COLONIAL to Dr. Robert A. Mllllkan. l3l