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

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Barry Sllclnknpf Nlnrlc Steiner Editors-In-Chief .Xlyrun Pulolltr .Incl Cinlnwmlcy Business' Managers jeffrey llicnenlcld lfrrn fiundlnnn Managing Editors l-11wrcm'e Levitt slurry luxcnlterg Harvey lfuld Max l'q,lSClllDL'I'g Bnrrv Fine D Assistant Business Managers Daniel Kapusrin 1 Literary Editor Raplmel Posner Humor Editor Nlnrris flnlalwasser Milton Adesnik Allen Becber George Subclmzm Assistant Literary Editors Hnwnrd Orcnsrein Harvex' Hecht 'Sports Editors jay Miller Marc Lcwv Coby Editors SlIllCl11l. Fass Art Editor jordan PL-nkuwcr Stanley' NUSSll:lllIll I Photography Editors Martin Perlmurter Lenny Hirschfield Paul Girelman Miles Kuttler Typing Editors Mr. Fmanuel Leiltcl Faculty Advisor

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The school building' has a peculiar vitality. Walking down the hall, one can feel a certain throbbing. Knowl- edge flows from teacher to pupil. A human being is learn- ing, in the 1nost wondrous of living transmissions. In each classroom education bursts forth. On each floor, in each building, in each city the processof educating .the human race goes on incessantly, insuring the advance of civiliza- tion. Peer into a room. See hands raised, her questions, answers, sense minds struggling to understand. See heads bent over books, pencils Hitting over endless scraps of paper, puzzled expressions, satisfied smiles, all absorbing, brains soaking up the fruithof thousands of years of human labor. Knowledge is being given over from teacher to pupil, and the Socratic image of learning shimmers over yet another enactment of the highest achievement of man. I Hear a bell. See young people streaming from their classrooms, elevated by their own small meeting with wis- dom, carrying their tools of learning in their hands. See animation,psee life, see the light of intelligence in their eyes. Then ponder ba moment, and know intuitively that this is worthwhile. Man is forging for himself his greatest monument-that of ideas-in this place. Here human beings are being shown how to utilize their God-given insight to add upon theawe-inspiring pyramid of truth a few more stones., Walk further. See a stately man with his finger on a page of a thick book, a large class with their chairs grouped in a semi-circle around him, straining to catch every word. This is the Torah, living in a classroom, expounded by the master, a chain of tradition back to Sinai, the word of God as understood by men. Walk from this place of learning into the streets. See a child examining his little toy, see there a vendor selling hot chestnuts to a young couple. See in their eyes another sort of knowledge. These, too, comprise the education of man. Walk by a park. See two old men playing an endless game of checkers beneath the trees, see children on the swings. Walk into a field. See a poet wander through the grass. Learning is everywhere. Education, lifting man above the animal, making ofhim what only he can be, bringing man to God, teaching him toknow the universe, to understand his fellow man, to abstract him from the world of the senses, to free his mind. To education, to learning, to the spread of human intel- lectual values, we of ELCHANITE '60 dedicate this book, for who, indeed, is fit to deliver a paean to learning more than we? We are. learning youth, at the peak of our .intel- ligence, but far away from the.achievement of our true potential. We are graduates. We have learned. We will learn-on past these walls, past these times, and into the ever- enlightening future. 5