Title

The Oracle, February 1941

Creator

Bangor High School (Bangor, Me.)

Date

February 1941

Description

Bangor A Culture Center: The American mind, today, seems primarily concerned with the war in Europe and with America's position in respect to it. In thinking of the war, however, we are prone to see only its dangers, the imminent possibility of an axis victory, the threat to our Western Hemisphere. What we are inclined to overlook, unfortunately, is the almost unlimited opportunities in certain directions that the war affords America and Americans. Not least important among these, perhaps, indeed, most important, is the definite cultural advantage. With scientists like Einstein and Freud, novelists like Thomas Mann, and very many other writers, scientists, artists, and musicians, with the cream of Europe's learned men and women fleeing here to be able to continue their work unhindered, and adding their numbers to our own, America is fast becoming the cultural center of the world. Indeed, with truth and culture virtually outlawed abroad, America is the last stronghold of learning.

Contents

Stories--Poems--Features--On the Bookshelf--Alumni--Editorials--Dots and Dashes--Spinning Reel--Spring Fashions--Outside the Classroom--Passing in Review--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--Richard Martin

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