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

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Ill 'till fy'SC'L-'Eli litcizaturc TO THE GRADUATES OF 1937 HAT period in your life which marks your transition from ado- lescence to manhood is sometimes called graduation, but more often com- mencement. Though synonymous, these terms should, in my opinion, convey to you distinct messages. The term graduation aptly des- cribes your leaving the Yeshiva. Here you have found, both in the Hebrew and the High School Departments, friends who were willing to help you along, to coax you along, friends who were willing to put up with much non- sense, to overlook many faults, and more than willing to sing your praise. Here, in this institution, from which you are about to graduate, you have found friends and comradeship and sympathy on all sides. You have been grounded in the lore of the past gen- erations of Israel. You have been a.mply supplied with the necessary ma- terials for the long road ahead of you. You are about to leave this institu- tion, you are about to graduate from some of these experiences. You are about to commence a new life, and hence the appropriate term of com- me'n.cemant. You students, who are about to enter a new and strange world: Either at some College, where you will expect to continue with your education, or in some business, where you will begin to serve a long ap- prenticeship, you will find a world not quite so sympathetic as the one you are leaving behind. In either place you will be expected to stand on your own feet, to fight your own battles, to win your own victories. If you enter the business World you will meet merciless competition. You will find it to be a case of the survival of the fittest and the fleetest. In this world you will find that people are not as ready as have been your teachers to accept badly done assignments. Though it will not give you zeros for your failures, its disapprobation will leave a greater stigma upon your life. You will not find many who will be willing to give you a helping hand when you bungle your effort to get somewhere. The business world is cold and heartless, it has no soul that will Warm to your appeal to reconsider, to give you a conditional. If, on the other hand, you are going to College to round out your education or to enter a profession, there, too, you will be confronted with different problems and with different circum- stances. Your professors will not know your special difficulties and will not be ready listeners if you attempt to fill their ears with your woes. To him you are just another Frosh who has to be shown his place. You will not find him as ready as your high school teachers to assist you personally in your task, to tell you that you are falling down in your work. He will expect you to be ready to stand on your own feet, to accomplish your assigned work entirely through your own efforts. Whichever road you take, the road of business or of further education, the education and habits that you have acquired in Yeshiva will stand you in good stead. The habits of steady ap- CCont. on Page 335

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