McMaster University - Marmor Yearbook (Hamilton, Ontario Canada)

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Th President' essage A rggqgnt Story is oi' gr yollllg' Wrllllilll who attended a discussion group on in- ternational trade, and whose grateful comment afterwards was, Of course. l'm still confused, but on a much higher plane. l suppose one effect ol' a college education is just this elevation of confusion to a higher plane. We all have to learn that we are dealing with insoluble problems, which are to be ameliorated rather than given neat and final solutions, with incomplete knowl- edge in areas where research has not brought all the truth to light, and with the ultimate mystery in the presence of which we tread softly and walk by faith rather than by sight. We are more concerned to clarify the questions than to learn dictated answersg but that is not always what the under- graduate expects or what the world demands. In the realm of social questions, in- cluding economics, politics, education, sociology and psychology, we deal with conditions that are constantly chang- ing, not only because new circum- stances arise but because new people are forever growing up to face them. So the problems cannot be solved, but they can be ameliorated. ln science and history we deal with incomplete evidence, even though what we seek is evidence and not immediate practical application. ln literature, philosophy and religion, we deal with ultimate mysteries. To these our answer may be an unsympathetic dogmatism, a ready cynicism, than which nothing comes more cheaply, or a patient faith, that is not unexamined optimism but conviction born of agony and trust. These are things to which no exam- ination marks can be assigned, but they are the things that divide the basically educated from the expensively unedu- cated. My hope is that McMaster has added both to your high confusion and to your deep faith. G. P. GILMOUR.

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