George Washington High School - Hatchet Yearbook (New York, NY)

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AX A SCHOTTL ACTING PRINCIPAL

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gl W P ii ATC H E I JANUARYYKJUNE GEQRGE WXXSHINGTQN HIGH SCHQQU2 if cw OF NEW YQRK ii?-46

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A 'EE' we X PPROXIMATELY one hundred years ago Edgar Allen Poe comed the expressxon the glory that was Greece and the grandeur that was Rome and these words have become rmmortal because they so aptly express the two herrtages whrch modern crvrlrzatron recerved from the ancrent peoples along the Medrterranean from Greece the prmcrples of art and phrlosophy and of abstract scrence and from Rome the funda mental rdeas of law and jurisprudence together wrth a coordrnated mrlrtary and admmrstratrve form of government that can functron over a wrde drversxty of peoples Yet to us who are about to graduate from an Amerlcan hrgh school rn the year 1946 rt rs clear that rn the culture of modern youth something has been added to the body of knowledge and a preclatron whrch we rnherrted from ancxent times To Ike glory that um Greece and the gum dew that um Rfme bar been added the zmorz that I5 Amerzf 1 Thrs vrsron IS a dream that man kmd has chernshed for centurres the dream of a trme when the rndrvrdual and hrs needs and asprra trons shall take precedence over former concepts of rmperral glory and natronal grandeur We have come at last to realrze that the mdrvrdual rs an object of drgmty deservmg understandrng and sympathetrc consrderatron and wrth this realrza tion rn the forefront of our thrnkmg we have added much to the orxgrnal herrtages that we re cerved from Greece and Rome We seek to achreve an open mmdedness and a wrllmgness to revrse opmrons and conclusrons rn the lnght of new eu dence vwhnle at the same trme attemptlng to develop crrtncal power and a drsposrtron to seek causes to xx engh evidence carefully and to xuth hold judgments untrl sufficient evrdence IS avaxl able But the development of the xndrvndual rs not the entnre functron of a good educatron There must be also a group conscrousness and a realrza and responsrbrlrtres of leadershrp that they face rn the modern world As the world depended so much on us for the wrnnmg of the war so rt rs dependmg even more on us for the keeprng of the peace The opportunrtres and responsrbrlrtres into whrch the young people of America are mov mg today are the gravest that have ever been lard on any group of people It rs sard that the symbol of today ns the atomrc bomb what the symbol of tomorrow wnll be remams to be seen rt may be somethrng beautnful or rt may be somethmg hrdeous In any case rt wrll represent a vast new power world wrde m rts scope and rt rs our prrmary task to see that thrs power rs a benefxcent one For the full comprehensron of the grave new world mto whrch we are steppmg and the great responsrbrlrtres and opportumtres we wrll face vue know that we are much mdebted to our years m the George Washmgton Hngh School and we are grateful to the faculty and supervrsory staff that has made possrble thrs understandrng of our destmy We are mdebted to our prrncrpal Mr Arthur A Boylan and to Mr Max Schottland who as Acting Prrncrpal rn the Sprmg of 1946 gurded us rn the closrng days of our school careers We owe much also to the deans and grade ad vrsors whose technical knowledge of our currrcular problems drd so much to help us use our time efticrently and successfully And last but far from least we salute the teachers of dear old G W who through the years mth patrence and un flaggmg lndustry have done a great job rn brmg mg us not only the glory that was Greece and the grandeur that was Rome but also the vrsron that rs Amerrca May we carry that vrsron wrth us throughout our lrves YL-- ff cycyp Q' WW nj, 'llfl ll' 'gf I 4. ll L lu - X l n? EDITORIAL 'Y tion by all members of the group, of the problems