Presbyterian Hospital School of Nursing - Stripes Yearbook (New York, NY)

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THE OUTLOOK Graduating this year, we are met by a world in travail and despair. One with more problems than we have ever faced before, with problems greater than our most active imag- inations could picture. Mostly now we are over that first feeling We experienced last December when inside we crumbled and whispered that we couldn't do it. B ut that emotion has disappeared and has been replaced by the knowledge that we must put first things first, and lay aside our own high plans until we finish up the problem of the moment. It is all well and good to think of it all so logically, but the fact remains we still Wonder. Wondering if the dreams We dreamed before this year can ever come true now. Wondering what we can do to hurry it along, wondering where our duty lies, and how we can best fulfill it. Nor are the answers to all our queries plainly shown. In the winter months that passed since the beginning of the war several things have surely occured to us. First the conviction that there is work of infinite value Waiting to be done, and that it is the job of all of us to see, understand, and to do it. For all belong to the com- munity and must share the ordeal through which it must pass. We as a group are more fortunate than most, for we have had a head start. Our work is always indispensable and of lasting importance. We are already especially equip- ped for our job. Universally new people are dying in Want of kindness and mercy, as well as in want of food and shelter. Can we not then accept a greater task quiet- ly, realize it's importance and with our own tools attack our work, as our part in the battle? It little matters whence we begin for everywhere We are neededsthe important thing is to begin. Our small part may seem of little value. Perhaps its results will never be knmfn to the world nor make apparent change. Gradually though, will be seen the fruit of our labors, and we can be sure victory will be ours. Knowing that, we can go on when the Work is hard and painful, remain steadfast in

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nUS WAS--US ISN Us was weary - us was worn Us for three years now has born The trial and woes: us no how shirk The hopeless task of student work. Don't it awful? Us is working just the same, Us is at the same old game, Us is happy, us is gay, Us 15 sporting pins today. Don't it lovely? Annette Fitch

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danger, find consolation in sorrow, and in the end find victory. For awhile then we must give up our search for security, our anticipation of joys, and the pleasures we desire. As Thackeray has said, WBravery is never out of fashionP. with a clear head, a stout heart, triumphant spirit and, above all, a sense of pence in our own personal lives we will soon find where we want to go, and finding the way, will proceed with speed and power. Mhrtha Pearson