Lafayette High School - Legend Yearbook (Brooklyn, NY)

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revelation of the protean forces at work within that have transformed him, irrevocably, beyond all help. And once done, he can go nowhere, that is la malcxdie du temps. But the bold who do not shudder at the grotesque harleguinade they have been told is renascence, who are not crushed under the moral thumb of society, they, who are the silent, are alone the ransomed. Still further they searched, pounding down what had remained standing and spreading the dust upon their palms. And they were puzzled to learn what they did: P.T.A. Broadcasts on Voice of Americag All Extra-Curricular Work Stopped. Ginsburg, Valedictorian, Takes Honorsg Rubin Awarded N.R.0.T.C. Scholarship. How to Keep 0rderly Cafeteria? Teachers Demand Wage Increase. Lafayette Plays Host to Third Tri-School Danceg Sheerin, Former Phil Star, New Baseball Coach. And finished with what they had come to, slowly, regularly, they turned to start the lonely hegira across the dead and barren swamps to the crumbling towers they had left, comforted that they would be as before, shelter and retreat. No longer the smug and dispassionate, some were astonished and frightened of the drama they had played, the wiser with cautious intuition had seen a great truth, the warm and still living among them had under- stood. And if the feral men who had once stalked among the buildings of dust were to ask: Did we and for what purpose existg they had only to know that they had caused their children, gloomy men of science, to wonder at their own fallibility, and the rightness of their system, only this to find mean- ing in their lives. Through the brumal sleep it would suffice. Twelve x

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Where is the significance of this, they cried. Where are the exertions of the great men that led them all. But they never asked or knew to ask: Was it their destiny to mean something to those who follow them. Was theirs the rigid life of action and consequence-three reasons why and for. They never knew, or thought to know, that: school is transition, school is turmoilg school is change. And turmoil and change are not poetry. Yes, they mean. But no, they are not anything in themselves-neither music nor disorder, not gracious, but never impassive. They throw off the cold luminescence of the death's heady and at the same time the coruscations of a vivid growth. They are the imperceptible ash from which arise strength and beauty and perhaps weak- ness and decay. And so they splintered the doors of the second chamber and carefully probed the remants and they were sad to find what they did: Fabulous Football Fever Festival Fridayg Teachers' 0ctet Sings at School Concert. Alumni Night of Stars Called Great g Pocai, Buda in Special Trip to Paris. M. Kahn, French Envoy, Visits School During Tenth Anniversaryg Ardizone Becomes First Student to Gain Pulitzer Scholarship. English, Gym Teachers Clash over Sports Theoryg Darienzo Crashes All-City Team as Left llalfback. Granted, they said. There are no decisive achievements open yet before us. But in what lies the conflict of the tortured race. Where are the fierce denials and treacherous self-abasements of the pained and stumbling evolu- tion. To the cold and juiceless eye these are not apparent. But that criterion is not enough to negate the violence of their existence, these were, again and again, these were. For it is only to understand that to save oneself in darkness is to clear from the mind the illusion of having ever been in the light. Lost is the seething nature that once despairs and looks to the calm and subtler life he knewg and so doing exposes to an unwilling temper only another drifting collision of outlook and ideal. lt is he who must suffer the Eleven

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Zflliill WM, AXNIID ifiillltliltflik Old Father Time is creeping near And We are getting old. That memories Won't disappear, We'll let our thoughts untold. We've gathered a collection rare Of tokens oi past days, Which now We find are fun to share 'Ere starting lile's next phase. Bc wales lf ou ran I fake il zvillz you! Oswald A student body eager to learn, anxious to cooperate and striving to become good citizens. Brenner Our deepest appreciation for his sincere efforts Grady The Four Freedoms: Freedom from girls wearing slacks, Freedom from black suit Wisecraclcs, Freedom from assemblies unruly, Freedom from even yours truly.