Reading High School - Arxalma Yearbook (Reading, PA)

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FOR ONE HUNDRED AND FIFTY YEARS, THE EARTH'S HUDDLED MASSES YEARNING TO BREATHE FREE HAVE POURED INTO THIS PROMISED LAND THROUGH THE WELCOMING PORTALS OF OUR EASTERN SEABOARD. THEY CAME FIRST FROM NORTHWESTERN EUROPE IN COUNTLESS NUMBERS, AND WHEN THIS SOURCE FAILED, SOUTHEASTERN EUROPEANS REPLENISHED THE STREAM. THROUGH OUR GOL- DEN GATE ON THE PACIFIC, HUNDREDS OF ORIENTALS FLOCKED TO WORK ON THE RAILROADS AND LATER TO RECLAIM THE DESERT. EACH NATIONALITY BROUGHT GREAT CONTRIBUTIONS'TO AMERICA'S TRUTH, BEAUTY, AND HAPPINESS. THE NATIVE-BORN AMERICANS WERE THEN TOO BUSY EXPANDING TERRITORY, EXPLOITING RESOURCES, AND SOLVING THE PROBLEMS OF A BABY DEMOCRACY TO CONSIDER FOREIGN INFLUENCES. RECENTLY, HOWEVER, IT HAS BECOME VITAL FOR US TO DROP OUR POLICY OF ISOLATIONISM. THE REDUCTION OF TIME AND DISTANCE AS IMPORTANT FACTORS DOF COMMUNICATION HAS BROUGHT LITTLE FOLK OF ALL LANDS INTO CLOSER CONTACT. MODERN SOCIAL WORKERS AND STUDENTS OF ECO- NOMICS HAVE FOUND IT NECESSARY TO STUDY NOT ONLY DOMESTIC ISSUES BUT ASLO WORLD NEIGHBOR- HOOD RELATIONSHIPS. AS A MATTER OF FACT, THE AVERAGE CITIZEN TODAY FEELS A GREATER BOND OF FELLOWSHIP BETWEEN HIMSELF AND ALL HUMANITY. IN THIS BOOK, WE HAVE TRIED TO EMPHASIZE THOSE INFLUENCES THAT HAVE CONTRIBUTED TO THE BUILDING OF OUR HERITAGE AND TO CAPTURE THAT ONE FROM MANY SPIRIT THAT HAS PRODUCED THIS, OUR COUNTRY. 4

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WHILE THE OCCIDENTAL TRIBES STILL WANDERED ABOUT IN A PASTORAL AGE, THE ORIENTALS HAD DEVELOPED A HIGH PLANE OF CIVILIZATION, THE UNEDUCATED MASSES HAD A GREAT RESPECT FOR THE LEARNED MAN. THIS FEELING IS SO GREAT IN CHINA THAT IN BUSY SECTIONS OF CITIES THERE ARE SHRINES TO THE WRITTEN WORD, CONSISTING OF A CONTAINER INTO WHICH ANY SCRAP OF PAPER BEARING CHARACTERS IS DEPOSITED. OUT OF THE ORIEN- TAL WORLD WITH ITS REVERENCE FOR THE LEARNED MAN CAME THREE OF THE TEACHERS WHO HAVE HAD THE GREATEST INFLUENCE ON THE THINKING OF MANKIND: BUDDHA, CONFUCIUS, AND CHRIST. THESE MEN TAUGHT THE VIRTUES OF PEACE, OF BROTHERHOOD, OF THE GOOD LIFE. NO ONE EVER HOLDS A DOUBT THAT WITHOUT OUR TEACHERS, CIVILIZATION, AS WE KNOW IT, COULD NOT CONTINUE. WHAT IT IS HAS DEVELOPED FROM THE TEACHINGS OF THE PAST, WHAT IT WILL BE MUST JUST AS SURELY DEPEND ON THE TEACHERS OF THE PRESENT. 6