Midwood High School - Epilog Yearbook (Brooklyn, NY)

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IESQIFSQQQE TOOK SWEET COUNSEL 5 TQTQGETHER fPsalm iv. 61 LQ fy' and one-half years that have passed we have 7 watched Midwood change. I gg The concept of the City of Midwood could ,E- A - s have existed onl in a hi h school whose fac- mQ Cf V4 ulty and studenfl body hid a sincere love of democracy. We know the course most student governments run. They are born of liberal constitutions, obtained from cynical facul- ties, by a group of aggressive, vitally-interested students. The novelty of the new-found liberty soon wears off and liberty degen- erates into license. We knew this, and were determined that it would not happen to our student government. Accordingly, a constitution was drawn up, and one day we found ourselves Citizens of the City of Midwood. Some laughed. Liberty was new to them and they wanted no part of it. Most of the students, and virtually all of the faculty, took their citizenship in the line spirit in which it was offered to them. Our G.O. dues were taxes. A new precedent was set in student government when, independent of the faculty, we had control of our tax money. It was at the beginning of the third term of its existence that a major flaw was found in our governmental system. Too few people knew its inner workings. Interest was aroused, and the entire student body cooperated as never before. What has the City of Midwood taught us? We may all feel justly proud that, in a world in which gunmen are claiming supremacy over idealists, we have had the courage and ability to produce a student government firmly based on the ideals of liberty and democracy. In short, we have learned through prac- tical experience what Americanism really means, and all that we have learned through our City of Midwood will serve to make us worthy of citizenship in the better world that is to come. BERNARD KORMAN - In February 1941 we came. And in the two 9

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AS A DREAM WHEN H ONE AWAKETH Q ,,, 1,1 K lPsalm XXIII. 201 f T A ff ,-, ,- The Dead Sea of Heaven was split in two While the sheen of grey-blue velvet Shimmered and swam, The timid stars turned and fled With the moon far up ahead. And then all was in readiness- Even the cricket held its breath Even the breeze stopped its chatter and waited. And the earth below and the earth around Raised its head like a little child- With parted lips and crystal eyes-expectant. Then it came- First it popped about, only specks in the sky. Then with a roar and a blast And a challenge of color it was born. The purple flush of dawn, Queenly and radiant had risen. FLORENCE INSLICHT - A-M 0 V2 7 S.

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