Fieldston School - Fieldglass Yearbook (Bronx, NY)

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An idea. ls iT legal? IT mighT be. TALKING DAME EASY. . . Words, someTimes meaningTul, oTTen superTluous. were always presenT. SomeTimes, in The pracTice oT democ- racy. we could sense Their meaning, Their power and viTaliTy. For here responsibiliTy had To be as- sumed and Tullilled. l-lere The ineicliciencies oT democraTic procedure had To be grappled wiThq The choice oT eTTecTive acTion on The parT oT a Tew individuals or less eTTecTive acTion on The parT oT a larger group had To be made, The virTues oT each balanced aT every sTep. I-lere The lessons oT how To concenTraTe one's eTTorTs on a parTicular aspecT oT a larger problem, oT how To do a good iob insTead oT a big one, had To be learned. Here poliTics had To be reduced Trom The absTracT To The Tangible. l-lere words were TuncTional. AT oTher Times, while we wasTed Them, we recognized Their superTluiTy.

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THESE WEHE THE MUMENTS WHEN WE SENSEU THAT WE WEHE P!-XHT UE THE ENUHMUU5 WHULE -IVIINUTELY SMALL YET PUTENTIALLY SIGNIEIEANT.

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WUHH WAS A DIHTIEH JUB. These were flue lessons, learned on a lurnber pile or in a lwospilal ward, llrial soiled our bands. -llwese were louglner responsibililies, some assumed, nol all fulfilled. Maybe il was lwere llial some ol us began lo know Jrlie wonderful sense of being parl ol somellwing bigger llian ourselves - like a sclwool or a cily.