Jamaica High School - Folio Yearbook (Jamaica, NY)

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THE AMAICA H IG!-'I SCHOOL JAMAICA - NllW YORK 'T L 1

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THE ORACLE T0 THE JUNE GRADUATES 1929 ln these semi-annual letters to graduates, it becomes difficult after a time, to say the same thing, in a different way. l might give you loads of advice, but I am afraid that young people these days do not take kindly to the preaching of older people. Experience is the surest, though perhaps the most expensive teacher. l hope you have enjoyed your days in jamaica High School - enjoyed them enough to feel reluctant to leave. Some of my most pleasant hours are spent with the boys and girls who visit us after graduation, and who are good enough to call on me in my office. Perhaps you will keep up the custom. A few days ago l ran across a few lines which I should like to pass on to you as a philosophy of lite. To be glad of life because it gives you the chance to love and to work and to play and to look up at the stars: to be satisfied with your possessions, but not contented with yourself until you have made the best of them: to despise nothing in the world except falsehood and meanness and to fear nothing except cowardiceg to be governed by your admirations rather than by your disgustsg to think seldom of your enemies, often of your friends, and spend as much time as you can with body and with spirit in God's out-of-doors. Cordially yours, l5l