Yeshiva University High School For Girls - Elchanet Yearbook (New York, NY)

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THE SALUTATION OF THE DAW N Listen to the Exhortation of the Dawn! Look to this Day! For it is Life, the very Life of Life. In its brief course lie all the Verities and realities of your Existence: The Bliss of Growth, The Glory of Action, The Splendor of Beauty. For Yesterday is but a Dream And To-morrow is only a Vision To-day well-lived makes every H esterday a dream of Happiness And every To-morrow a Vision of Hope Look well therefore to this Day' Such is the Salutation of the Daysn

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The GiTTs of Dawn The propheTs oT doom are many. Their voices sound The lcnell oT desTrucTion. ThroughouT long cenTuries ravaged by sTriTe and conTlicTing passions, They have presaged The exTincTion oT hu- maniTy. Since The beginning oT his exisTence, man has been The un- willing vicTim oT naTure's Torces, Torever baTTling The capricious elemenTs which seelc To dominaTe and desTroy him. l-le has sTrug- gled againsT oppressive environmenTs, and ToughT his Tellow man in a ceaseless search Tor power and immorTaliTy, seeking To quench The springs oT ambiTion ThaT Tlow in his soul. The greaTesT duel, however, has been beTween man and The Torces wiThin himselT. l-le has perpeTually soughT To rule over his will, To be masTer oT his TaTe and auThor of his desTiny. These sTruggles are The essence oT man, They are The signs oT ruin To The propheTs oT disasTer. T-lumaniTy, however, has repudiaTed These Talse seers, Tor iT has emerged TriumphanT Trom The baTTleTield oT liTe's eTernal wars. The symbol oT man's sTruggles and his ulTimaTe vicTory is The morning Dawn. The rising sun brings wiTh iT warmTh, lighT, and an end To The darlcness oT The nighT: buT iT also carries wiThin iTs shimmering rays a message To mankind-The Twin concepTs oT creaTion and eTerniTy. Each day There is a new Dawn, a phenome- non oT naTure, which, paradoxically, is as old as The world iTselT, and which will conTinue To exisT unTil The end of ThaT universe. Man, Too, represenTs This concepT. l-lumaniTy has Taced The same chal- lenges and ToughT The same baTTles since The beginning oT Time. The baTTles againsT naTure, Tellow man, and himselT have never ceased nor Tailed To occupy men's ThoughTs or direcT Their acTions.