Title

The Oracle, December 1940

Creator

Bangor High School (Bangor, Me.)

Date

December 1940

Description

The American Way: During the last few months, a great change has taken place in our nation and in our school. Our national anthem has found a new place in American hearts. Irving Berlin's "God Bless America" has come into its own. Our flag is being regarded in America with greater respect, and, what is far more important, with greater thoughtfulness. Never, in our experience, have the people of America shown such intense patriotism. What is behind this outward exhibition of patriot-ism? What do these external signs indicate? They indicate, first, that the American people, startled out of their complacence by the war, have been looking abroad at Nazism and Facism, and examining our American way of living in the light of other doctrines; that, as a result of this scrutiny, they have come to cherish their democracy as never before; that they have become keenly aware of its blessings and advantages--economic, social, moral, religious; that they have ceased to take that democracy for granted, as before they were perhaps prone to do; and, finally, that they have come to realize that hand in hand with democracy go sacrifice and responsibility.

Contents

Stories--Poems--Features--Alumni--On the Bookshelf--Movies--Dots and Dashes--Editorials--Passing in Review--Winter Fashions--Outside the Classroom--Hokum--Record of Rams--Girls' Athletics

Subject

Bangor High School (Bangor, Me.)--Alumni and alumnae

Bangor High School (Bangor, Me.)--History

Bangor High School (Bangor, Me.)--Periodicals

High school students--Maine--Bangor

High school students' writings

Student publications

Type

Periodicals

Spatial Coverage

Bangor (Me.)

Temporal Coverage

Nineteen forties

Twentieth century

Language

English

Source

Bangor Public Library Special Collections

Note

Published five times a year by the students of Bangor High School, Bangor, Maine.

Cover--Esther Smith

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