William Cullen Bryant High School - Postscript Yearbook (Long Island City, NY)

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Posfscripf Six GLADYS McCLAlN You mapped Hfme four year roure we sailed Your undersranding never failed, Through sformy seas and sad remorse Your wisdom puf us back on course. Grade Adviser

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June, I939 corner in The Flushing Meadows. BoTh oT These evenTs are symbolic oT BryanT. The beauTiTul new building in which BryanT will be housed in The Fall oT I939 marks an epoch in The hisTory oT BryanT'High School. The TaciliTies, The archiTecTure and The equipmenT are up To The splif second oT Time. NaTurally This new palace oT educaTion suggesTs a world Tor beTTer and Tiner Things. The World's Fair, Too, is symbolic because The perisphere and The Trylon Torce us To reTlecT on The moTTo oT The Fair, THE WORLD OF TOMORROW. Finally, The spiriT oT William Cullen BryanT, The paTron OT our school, dominaTes The TuTure. In his life and wriTings, he poinTed The way. HealTh ForemosT among his ideals is HealTh. BryanT, only a puny boy aT birTh, Through daily exercise, Through proper Tood and Thorough care- Tul habiTs oT liTe, buil+ up an enviable physique. He died aT The ripe old age OT 83. Scholarship His inTeresT in scholarship began aT an early daTe. DevoTion To sTudies made him ouTsTanding during his liTe. CharacTer ' CharacTer. Too, is shown in an unblemished career during a period OT hisTory when many were TempTed To sTep aside Trom The paTh oT virTue. Americanism BuT Through all and above all, he was an American. His poems are sTricTly American in Their subiecT, imagery and spiriT. His arTicles in magazines breaThe Americanism and in one poem, THE AGES, he cried ouT, BuT Thou, My CounTry, Thou shall never Tall, eTc. In conclusion, ThereTore, leT us pursue, in THE WORLD OF TO- MORROW The ideals which William Cullen BryanT seT TorTh:-HealTh, Scholarship, CharacTer and PaTrioTism. These ideals breaThe The spiriT oT BryanT High School. JAMES P. WARREN, Principal. Five

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June, I939 Social Adviser NELLIE BINGHAM You saw fo I+ 'rhaf school was gay Thai life was pleasanf day by day, And Tha? we never lacked for fun. We don'1' forgelr ine Things you've done. Seven