Robert E Lee Institute - Rebel Yearbook (Thomaston, GA)

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MR MOORE'S MESSAGE TO THE SENIORS The poet Shelley an the nlneteenth century wrote an elegy to the young Keats who had died probably before the full flowering of hls ablllty He called the poem Adonals and In nt he stated that early death had saved Keats from the contaglon of the world s slow stain This expression has meaning for young people facing the world Youth IS or at least should be a time of ldeallsm expenment and the questnonnng of old values Rughtfully young people want to shape the world after thenr own desures But oftentimes the years brlng duscouragement drsllluslonment and despalr worlds are not conquered or remade lnlustlce as not ellmnnated The young person funds In all dlrectlons the lnevltable pressures to conform to yleld and Of course all that IS new IS not good nor rs the past necessarlly applicable to the present Your education should have prepared you to exerclse value ludge ments and to apply a klnd of eclectlcnsm ln your affairs We llve In a mediocre age of conformity In our polltlcs our social llfe and our rellglons our schools teach social adlustment without reallzlng the umplucatlons of the term the adlustment and conformity were the creeds of Hltler and are the same for Communism We had better declde what It ns to which we are to conform' We cannot In Serlousness advocate that moraluty be determined by referendum or that Integrity be determlned by popular sovereignty Let us not forget that most human advances have been the toll and sorrow of the nconoclasts and non conformers Luther Elnsteln Jefferson and Chrnst humself ln the degree that the world does not leave its staun on you and you do not compromlse your Ideals you wlll be a worthy alumnus and a good American I I ll ' Il ' ' l ll ' 1 I ' II , . . Y . . I . . . . Z . I . . . I . . I V . to accept. This is the contagion of the world's slow stain. I I I ' I I - H I . . I I . . l

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