Milton Hershey School - Acropolis Yearbook (Hershey, PA)

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PUBLISHED BY THE SENIOR CLASS OF THE M. S. HERSHEY JUNIOR AND SENIOR H I G H S C H 0 O L HERSHEY . PENNSYLVANIA O RUTH CHRIST, Editor HAROLD GARDNER, Business Manager

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LMOST everyone is fascinated by the story of the origin of our present civilization and of the people who advanced this high standard of living. Of course you know that many of our modern ideas, customs, and styles are really not modern at all but date far back to the Roman Empire when people lived in as great luxury and were as highly cultivated as we are. Crime, unemployment, political mud- slinging, and all the other evils of our day existed then also, but, on the other hand, there were public baths, corresponding to our Community Building, public lectures, and laws governing practically the same things that ours do today. Many other examples could be found of a civilization on as high a scale as that which exists in most countries now. Many students have taken the opportunity to travel back to ancient Rome through the study of Latin, and have discovered that there is a tinge of Roman influence in almost every phase of our school-life. Therefore, through- out the book, the staff has attempted to set dovvn a comparison of the various divisions into which our school-life fallsea comparison between the customs of nearly 2000 years ago and those of today. We have done our best to set down a happy record of the happenings and events of the school year of 1935-36, and to give to you a book of pleasant memories.