Niles Township High School West - Spectrum Yearbook (Skokie, IL)

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How history makes one shudder and laugh by turns! -Wulpok Social Studies The pageant of social studies is a parade of red-cloaked Roman legions, tricolored French revolutionaries, gray Nazi soldiers, and frontiersmen dressed in buckskin. Not only history, but such diverse studies as economics, psychology, and sociology contri- bute to the student ' s understanding of himself and his world. These subjects aid the student in his necessary search for identity. Nothing can be more relentlessly vital or topical, for social studies is the measure of man himself.

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Great lilerature is simply language charged with meaning to the utmost possible degree. Eva Pound Books are not absolutely dead things, but do contain a progeny of hfe in tliem to be as active as tliat soul whose progeny they are; nay, tiiey do preserve as in a vial die purest etVicacv and extraction of dial living intellect diat bred diem. -Millim

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R. Woldman Let us treat men and women well; treat them as if they were real; perhaps they are. -Emerson . . . The wise man looks into space, and does not re- gard the small as too httle, nor the great as too big; for he knows that llierc is no limit to dimensions. Imo-Lsc A. Burlcy, R. Karj). C. Muruwski J. TJlomps Parable of the Isms: Capitalism: If you have two cows you sell one and buy a bull. Sociahsm: If you have two cows you give one to your neighbor. Communism: If you have two cows you givelhcni to the government and the governmail gives you some milk. 19