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MIDDLESEX SCHooL CONCORIQ, MASS. W VALEDICTORY ADDRESS We are gathered here to mark the graduation of another class, again from what it has known into that which lies ahead. This time it is ourselves. But for us it is more than the mere passage into uncertainty, or the severance of the bonds of personal contact. Others before us have done this, and those who follow after will do the same. For many of us this is more than just a mere change: it is the end of part of our life. That sooner or later one should undergo the physical transition into manhood is not in itself important. What matters is the matureness that must be a part of our youth. Ours is not an easy lot. We, our generation, have been caught in the great maelstrom that is the work of others, yet is ours to make peaceful once again. We shall be swept up and hurled whither we know not, with a fury that is of our own making. We shall lose our individuality, we shall become senseless atoms in the terrible machine of war. Even worse, in de- fending ourselves, we shall become as those against whom we fight: we shall be lowered to the very level we are fighting against. We shall never quite fully recover from what we go through in these next few years. We have had advantages, but what good are advantages, if they come to naught? We have started life on a higher plane. ls it only that the fall shall be the greater? We must realize that we are still in the malleable stage. What we do in the next few years will determine what we shall later be able to do. lf, under the excruciating extremes of boredom and actual combat, we fall into the mental stagnation of a materialistic cynicism, there will be no turning back. We shall have lost our youth, lost our better selves-we shall be real casualties of the war, whatever the actual outcome. Granted that our worlds around us will never be the same, yet that is no reason to throw away what can never be replaced. lf we do not preserve what little we already have, a whole phase of our life will be forever closed to us, be- cause we lost the means of entering upon it. The resolving of this seeming paradox is not simple. To save youth we must acquire matureness. Yet this is not the youth of skylarking days at col- lege: it is the resiliency of taking defeat without disillusionment, and disappoint- ment without defeat. In the trying days that are to come, we must put to one side this unhewn grain of our youth, protecting it with successive coatings of trial, until, at last, when we are free again to open again into our true selves, instead of the rough particle, we now have a jewel, and our life is rewarded by what we have gone through. Let us hope that we will be able to do so. LANDON CLAY Page Thirty-one
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