Yeshiva University High School For Boys - Elchanite Yearbook (New York, NY)

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.N inf THE ELCHANITE R. LEBOWITZ'S MESSAGE To the Boys of the Talinudical,Aca'd'emy:i :wschoolg to do those things that will raise It is indeed a pleasure to me to extend to you now, ,at the end of my iirst semester as your faculty adviser, my thanks for your cooperation in, our joint eiforts to make our institution as line ag place for living and learning as can,be found in the world. The physical facilities are here? a building,-beautiful, of classic architec- turefrooms,-light, well ventilated, clean -furnishings,-comfortable, complete- laboratories, libraries, gymnasium. What more can one ask of material things? Im' provement, then, must come in things of the spirit, in our utilization of these adf mirable tools that are placed in our hands. Those of you who will remain with us, I know, will continue to seek ways for further progress and to provide the means for realizing it. You all know that stagnaf tion is really retrogression, that unless we move forward we are falling back, that, in the present state of the world there is no standing still. But-what is progress? Does it consist of the accumulation of wealth? of knowledge? No, for accumulaf tion is merely repetitiong it does not move forward. Progress lies in the improvement of that which we have, not only by adding to it from the store of others but by inf creasing its worth thru interpretation and improved usefulness. Unless you are dof ing this, unless you are contributing in this manner, your school cannot hope to become a better and a liner institution. Because of this fact, I invite you all to think earnestly of the welfare of, your its position, to conduct yourselves in such a way that its reputation will be enhanced, and to remember, when time and distance will have dimmed the sharp outlines of your youthful impressions, to remember then those precepts that were taught you here,-those precepts thru which this in- stitution will endure when its buildings have sunk to dust, and when we ourselves, will, as individuals, have disappeared from the earth. Those of you who are about to be gradf uated look at your home of four years, and see in it only a passing phase, a mere trifle in a long and honorable life time. To you, progress means passage. You have gone thru the elementary school! the high schoolfnext? next? next? But such progress is a progress of the individual only. Its worth is limited to your present comparatively unimportant selves. NVith it, we can never hope to get further than our predecessors. Real progress, that for which you should and. I hope, will strive, lies in seeing to it that each of these steps in your individual lives shall carry with it some contribution to the progress of your group-your classw your schoolfyour nationef-your race. In this, lies the hope of mankind, and for this, you will be worthy of the blessings of our God. Sincerely yours, SQMUEL H. LEBONVITZ

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Eight THE ELCHANITE DR. REVEL' WE are living in one of the most fateful hours of our history. An ominous cloud of darkness and danger has settled over our people. The jewish people, for millennia preyed upon by the evil passions of mankind, are once again the victims of a crusade of hatred, of man's inhuman' ity to man, by the rulers of a people not long ago representative of civilization. Bar' barous in their wanton ferocity and rancor, selffdebasing in their pretexts for inhuf manities, the present day German rulers are breaking down the forces of humanity and mankindis aspirations and efforts to' ward understanding and fellowship, up' rooting vital human values and instilling into the political body the poison of a religious and racial hatred. The collective conscience of enlightened mankind must speak out fearlessly and un- equivocally, in the cause of humanity and in the name and spirit of civilization, ag' ainst the heinous crimes of the German ru' lers and their high treason against the very foundations of humanity. Especially can there be no peace, no un' derstanding between these apostles of darkness, of intolerance and hatred, and the democracy of our land, conceived in the spirit of the Bible and rooted in an unquenchable passion for freedom of con- science, human dignity and liberty. Am' erica was first to proclaim that intoler' ance based upon ignorance and bigotry, expressed in brutality' must be banished MESSAGE from the world. This high resolve is our immortal national heritage, the very es' sence of our national being, the priceless legacy bequeathed to us by the great founf ders of this nation. The hands outstretched to destroy these true values of humanity, to make bigotry and cruelty the public law of the land must be stayed. The revulsion of humanity against the recent tragic march of events in Germany, its horror at the blood flowing at the feet of brutality enthroned, at the destruction of much that humanity for countless gen' erations has fought and bled for, is the one ray of light in the nightmare of Gere man reality. Germany stands convicted in the high court of the collective conscience of mankind. Let us proclaim to the princes of dark' ness that they are foredoomed to fail, that humanity will noi' be swerved from its course, however slow and halting, toward human understanding and fellowship. Is- rael, the spiritual gulf stream of mankind, who in the words of President Eliot. Gave the world the highest conceptions of God, man and nature, sublime religious idealism and moral monotheismf' will continue as the advance guard of humanityis triumph' ant march onward and forward, onward to the freedom of the human spirit, and forward to a greater unfoldment of man' kinds moral destiny.

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Ten THE ELCHANITE SENIORS-a word so inspiring and yet so revolting. When we were mere freshf men we looked with longing eyes to the hour when we would become-SENIORS. Cur hopes, ambitions, and aspirations were riveted to that one word. The years flew by-years of toil and hardship. We have seen students come and students go. For four years we labored incessently, vigor' ously, and then we were-SENIORS. We had had illusions that we could look down upon the school, torment the smaller fellows and be-SENIORS. But when we reached the height of our dreams, instead of untold frivolity, we were met by a pang of sorrow. We had slaved and labored and now we could not be joyous, for deep down in our hearts, surging to the fore every now and then, was the knowledge that soon we must leave our School-leave the four walls that had blessed us with their teachings and knowledge, that had raised us from childhood to adolescence, that had equipped us the better for venf turing into the outer world. We fully realize that our School had tried to better our characters and our intellectual abilities so that we might venture beyond the walls of the School, carrying on our lips its sacred precepts. How great a debt we owe to our School, greater is the debt we owe to the Senior Class. We were raised and nourished on the milk of brotherhood in the Senior Class. Characters were molded from so' cial relations between the members of the class and ties of friendships were cemented everlastingly. It is that love, that brother' hood, and that friendship that we must endeavor to keep alive and burning, lest that flame die out and cast an ominous shadow of loneliness and soltitude upon us. Let us always remember the trials and tribulations that the Seniors withstood with courage and bravery. Let us hope that the loyalty, cooperation, and unsevered unity prominent among the Seniors ref main undiminished and unblemished throughout the ages. '-1 ' - L 70' 7 ff! see ffllzaiwzs' wif, 9- v 41:-1, .-I-N ,f f ' a'f'5gsw?svah'f- :L ,ff 7,Af .19 ,Jigs -.f-s..w4c.g g f g 4 :rr ur n.. ....... H ' f Q'97.'wg. Eh f :-5335 S T, 2 ,, sL5f 2 Za-'Z -9- is-' ,- if '- ' W If Jr- f- r -- - -' g .wi .L .. xii-fi,