Germantown Academy - Ye Primer Yearbook (Fort Washington, PA)

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VALEDICTORY OR nearly two c nturles some graduates of Germantown Academy have gone forth feellng reasonably confident of what the future mlght hold for thems ves Equipped with a good education and made hopeful by the prosperlty of thelr natlon thelr con hdence seemed Justxhed However there have been classes graduatlng ln tlmes of natlonal and lnternatlonal stress whose confidence and future securlty seemed challenged We constltute such a group Faced with dlfferent ldeologles of government and various theorxes of economlcs today s graduate may not feel certaln about the future War always horrible and crlmlnal brought about through selfishness and greed faces us both abroad where It IS takmg place and at home where preparatlons are belng made to meet lt Aggresslon and might have taken the place of peace and rlght whlle thoughts of polltlcal and economlc democracy and of soclal reforms are forgotten Rellglon IS belng abused and discarded at a time when nts prlnclples and thelr appllcatlon are most needed Man s lnhumanlty to man was never more fully ln evidence than now when havlng reached hls highest development ID varlous pursults he chooses to fight It may seem then almost useless and certalnly stupid for today s students to con tlnue educatlon ln the unlversltles or to apply present learnlng to the world at large Yet this IS not so for these are the tasks that we must do ln a better manner than others have done them ever before We resolve that the learnlng we have recelved and the phllosophles and prmclples we have consldered are not golng to dle because of temporary evll They have wlthstood man s abuse for thousands of years and now IH contrast to those thlngs whlch they oppose seem stronger and wlser than ever They are the llghts by whlch manklnd may be guided to a more perfect form of llfe they are ensurers of peace they are truth and wlsdom and urtue To the school we are about to leave we have glven little but from lt we have recexved much May we be guided dlvlnely IH maklng use of lts contributions to our development and spreading these prlnclples among manklnd for the prosperlty of the entlre race ROBERT W SAFRIN ul Q V c ol - y Y , . . . . , . . . . . , 1 v v - , . - V Q , . . . , . . ' - . , . . , - 1 1 f . -

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