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

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THE ELCHANITE DR. REVEES MESSAGE To the Editor of the Elchanite, and to the 1935 graduating class: In my greeting in the second issue of the Elchanite, I said: I gladly comply with your request to address myself to the readers of the 'Elchanitef I consider the 'Elchanite' a valuable medium for the promotion of a healthy school spirit and I take great pride in its work. I am confident that the Editors are conscious of the importance of their trust and that, in time, the spirit and the ideals of the Yeshiva will find their full expression in, and will be furthered by the 'Elchanite,' and that the best literary effort of the student body will be sought out and attracted by' it. You ask for a message: Happy' are those who drink from the Well of Living Water. As our sages tell us, Water is the symbol of the Holy Torah. As water means life to the world, so is the Torah life unto the world. As water descends from the skies drop by drop, so is the Torah acquired step by step. Une lesson learned to- day, two on the morrow-until this acquired knowledge grows into an over- flowing stream of the knowledge of the Torah. This means that soul-culture, religious inspiration, moral self-realization, true knowledge of our Holy Torah, and, the understanding of our wonderful past and even more glorious future, come gradually, step by step, by daily earnest endeavors in the study of the Torah, and the following of its precepts. You, students of the Yeshiva, true children of the Torah, who prepare yourselves to be worthy of loving and loyal exponents of the Law of Light, are the pledge for the rejuvenation of Israel in our glorious country, until we become worthy of The Great Day. To this your i935 issue I am glad to send once again Warm greetings, in the thought that my hopes for the Elchanite have been fully justified. The Elchanite is steadily becoming a more valuable medium for the promotion of a healthy school spirit, and its successive editors have steadily been con- scious of the importance of their trust. From the small beginning of the Talmudical Academy there has come to fruition the Yeshiva College of liberal arts and science by design a small college, mainly for the graduates of the Talmudical Academy, with a high scholastic standard and record, already recognized as a dinstinct contribution to American higher education. I have little to add to my message then. ln the Torah, to which you are dedicating your best years and to the exalted service of which many of you will, I trust, in time be called, is our strength and hope. The Torah is our supreme contribution to the spiritual unfoldment of mankind and our only source of strength in our striving for spiritual survival. Happy are you, my dear young friends, who are privileged to receive this harmonious education. May you equip yourselves with knowledge, with intellectual and spiritual strength to be in the days to come, among the builders in this land of a creative lewish life drawing its inspiration from and guided by the eternal teachings of the Torah and lewish idealism, in harmonious union with the forward-looking forces of the age. May you go from strength to strength in the fulfilment of this holy task. B. REVEL 60

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THE ELCHANITE DEDICATIGN TCD YOU, DR. BERNARD REVEL, Whose turning from a material fortune is the good fortune of generations of sons of the Torah, Who have dedicated your whole being to an ideal and a dream, and have erected that dream into a beautiful structure of living truth, so that the ideal may grow into light and life through the work and ways of those that dwell in the House your dream has buildedg Who have been the guide and mainstay of the Yeshiva through these stormy years, Who have in its new home fashioned and sustained the Yeshiva College, so that we may harmoniously continue our academic course while devoting our- selves to intensive study of the Torah 5 To you, our inspiring leader and wise-counselling friend, now, near the completion of your fiftieth year, with heartfelt wishes for many more years of active service to us and to American lewry, years of wide worlc, and of joy with your loving family and friends,- We dedicate this issue of the Elchanite.

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ELCHANITE STAFF Editors-in-Chief HERZL FREED MILTON SI-IAPIRO Faculty Advisor NORMAN B. ABRAMS Business Manager IACOB ABRAMOWITZ Advertising Manager NATHAN ZELIKOW Advertising Staff FRED DOPPELT HERBERT FRIEDMAN MAX KAMPELMACHER Senior Editor BENIAMIN KRIETMAN