of an inevitable treachery; rather, it lies within the positive man's power to receive whatever sur-prises life hurls at him with an open breast, be they surprises of good or of ill, and to shape them, knowingly, to his desire, and to press them into bondage to his wishes...

And why should we not pass beyond individuals to peoples and nations, when the massive volumes of our history offer us the clear-est testimony? Are the superior nations those which treat their problems in a spirit of shortsighted negativity, or those whose sup-pleness, seasoned judgment, and long views are the surest check against rashness, haste, and the closing of roads at their very start? And the tragedy of Palestine, whose blood still seethes in our breasts, and which develops from day to day, from the grievous to the more grievous — has our negativity, I wonder, no share in bringing it about? Is it true that the blame, the whole blame, falls upon the high politics whose sinful fingers wove the chapters of this appalling tragedy?

Events have proven that negativity is weakness and positiveness is strength, and I fear that the breast of this age no longer has room for the weak and submissive, and that the positive man alone has hope of winning and prevailing. Never yet have I seen a weeper and complainer rise in the ranks — how should he make out his road through his tears and his grumblings?

The distinction of the cultivated, balanced person is that he can, once resolved, erase the traces of negativity, even those rooted deep in his soul, once it is proven to him that they drag him toward woe upon woe. And here is the point of departure toward a life more richly endowed with success. And it is my conviction that if the Arab peoples could curb their negativity — who knows what their affairs might come to? Who knows — “the face of history might be changed!” “Nothing comes to pass unless it be a wonder!”

The new generation that such lofty institutes as this send forth is the generation that understands life in the spirit of the positive, construc-

tive character, and goes out into the world with a soul full of con-fidence that it will surely succeed and arrive at the fulfillment of its hopes — if not today or tomorrow, then in a year or in ten years. These are they into whose hearts faintness and despair find no path; these do not speak of their failure and of their vanished resolve of old — that season of their lives which leafed and bore fruit and then withered away. These look back only for a lesson to be felt, a moral to be heeded, and an error to be ascertained and never repeated — these have in their present and their future a broad open field

where their free imaginations soar, lifting a hand only to set a new stone in the great human edifice.

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It has been said: “In the ending of school is the beginning of life” — so all good lies in a life we begin today, whose pillar is an optimistic positiveness that cannot be conquered, whose joints no cowardice or hesitation can shake, and from whose core shine the ideals of faith, resolve, and diligence — our lighthouse to the shore of the longed-for triumph.

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