Tower Hill School - Evergreen Yearbook (Wilmington, DE)

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Tower qfill 5611001 4 CHRISTMAS 1 933 LOSE to two milleniums ago on Christ- mas Day there began the making of a doctrine which in turn was to make a new era of history. The basic ideal of this beautiful dogma was the love of our comrade men. A God was sent to dwell with us clay giants and interpret and expand this doctrine to us so that we too might come into a state of perfect union with the universal scheme into which we stumbled countless ages be- fore. He manifested the glory of such an ideal by His own life and death. He left with us His words and the memory of His perfect fortitude and beauty of being. With this glimmering of light from the Master-poet begimiing to seep through the darkness of our intellects, We continued our blundering, unsteady march toward an un- certain goal. Brave men propounded this ideal over the face of the earth, and some- qs times their courage was rewarded by death and sometimes by the conversion of multi- tudes to the faith of a doctrine of love. The original words of the N azerene were warped, blasphemed and used to narrow, worldly ends until we became uncertain of the veracity of any one version in the shriek- ing maze of creeds. Forgetting the underly- ing ideal of love, men continued to claw at each other as their Cro-Magnon forbears had done before His coming. It was, and is, in- deed a mad thing to claw at each other like primitives over a slight difference of inter- pretation of dogma, and indeed disregard our mission of love altogether, while the ideal of love stands above and beyond the reeking fray, perfect and untainted. Needless to say, we-acting as the great nations and masses of mankind-have failed miserably in manifesting the ideal which our

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X , ,,...1l.. s , ,R 'YI 'Twas the night before Christmas, And in yonder blue sky, Was a miniature sleighg Who could doubt it? Not I! f . ' U 'J' SE ff-7 3 Yi I in. Nl 'M Jgwh I sueh e fat little driver, ' Whose laugh was so jolly, - . To believe him unreal Would have been naught but feuy. A r ' II 'gulf' 1 With a shrill piercing whistle, il Ill- Q He dove down the chimney, i -'. , 1' ,,,m,,,,,y1lI W Bringing toys and good cheer, r 2.1, And departing so nimbly. K xl' . 'J s Q mxyllllun 1 p Then a call to his reindeer, ' - W . And a snap of his iingerg WWII!! To his sleigh, and awayg He had no time to linger. 111 A lf' 1 As he sped through the air, r I . : .. ' ' A And across the new moon, Could I question the sound, Of his sleigh-bells' glad tune? DAVID BRYAN, '37. ft all I fa I ul l W f' 1 ,, fl' l Q f Q e fl gt fl 1' 1 l f I Q ' 1 A Q Il' , l r l X' . f , far D Vital ff I 1 f '.f M 1 x ff ', l X w ,H It a. v T , A ' in , ' Zi Wx 5,3 ati I f .4 X '41 r gi ff'f1'-19:1 ,si 0 GL I 'f-'1-fwigglsll gr- 1- J 41 Qyilld I L f-ii! L- 'D- 'm!:'g'n '- f ,Ny- -!w J . I I ,-ff f ga ,-, - ' ' - ' , fault-fy. . X -hi ' K e 1 - s I ti' zigfntvxwx fha. I -44 , jigs!! , :A L- V Ifriwa ,47 . ,viii ', ' - 3 I, ' ff ,,, , xx . 165-x .,-.e xy .. Us ,.:. 7'j2yL: 1-.E-6 X' Q2 - 1 . , .,, , . . . . ...... . - L 'g,,f,,' Q' r JD lf'-Q5 ,ff',O,,Vf,g4xqn , e ,-1 ,ref ,jig , 4- 1 1 A., V ,flflil ' pf,.,,,., .,iZv'.ifA.L U-:Ex 'rx- ' -ak fi - -1-' F- - ' M ',','e-ns, r-,S--s ' -.- 2 --V,-ltfrfsfs Q ' X' fa . J-f 1. is 4 'ff .. - - f :Y ,4 if li V , -.en Al- vm-A 1 - ' f 1 - 1. 4 , . ..--- V -2 - X.. ,ijgvk , -, Us I - X ' ,

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he Tower CDial Ruler endeavored to ingrain from His form into our clay forms. Of course, We have in varying extents brought its beauty and music into our individual lives, and lived and died. more fully for this reason. However, plainly it is not too late to enrich our entire scheme of existence with the harmonies of this song. Never before, in the whole ridiculous course of our blunderings, has the futility of our petty hates and nationalisms been thrown into our faces as in the past four years of world-wide upheaval. For once all mankind has been thrown into chaos together by a universal, imperfect, economic and political machine-and not by the slashings of a few warriors in one tiny corner of the globe. We can blame nothing but our past stupidity for the condition into which We were precipitated in the latter part of 1929. After considerable floundering about, and whimsical, sentimental philosophizing, and prayers for new life for our sadly smashed machine, we unconsciously began to fall back on the fundamental ideal of the universe for aid in our degradation. The occurrences of the past four years have made us acutely conscious of the unity and comradeship of all mankind. We are, in some infinitesimal measure, beginning to point our efforts toward action as a world, and not as an insane hodgepodge of tiny na- tions and tiny, petty national actions. On this Christmas of 1933, we face a higher possibility of the fulfillment of the ideals set for us before we were conceived, than ever before. The light of our capabil- ities, our past insanities, and above all, the true feasibility of the heavenly ideal, is surely dawning upon us. If we are the creatures who are masterpieces of creation that we pretend to be, we will not hesitate to bring' about the unlimited universal good to our fellows, so easily obtainable by the embrac- ing of this ever-present ideal which stands before our very eyes and shouts forth its untapped, endless possibilities. Doing so, we shall greatly aid our fortitude in our search for beauty, and in union with our Sender. J. S. G., '34 HEALTH C 4 EALTH IS WEALTH. The origin- ator of that phrase put a world of wisdom into those three short words. First of all, physical health makes us agile and happy. A healthy person is more likely to throw off the covers in the morning and jump out of bed, whereas a sickly per- son crawls reluctantly forth With a shiver and a groan at the slightest contact with air. Such a one comes down to breakfact with a gloomy, tired expression and proceeds to find fault with everything he eats. Thus all those with whom he associates that morning are put into an equally pleasant humor for the day. However, the individual who comes trip- ping gaily down the stairs and eats his break- fast heartily, the healthy person, that is, cheers up his fellow beings and indirectly in- spires them. But one can't be happy and cheerful mentally if physically We are feeling low . The healthy person is not easily daunted. A temporary failure, either in athletics, studies, or in his social group does not kill his initiative. In many cases, it merely spurs him on to do better the next time, to succeed. 619'