Trinity College School - Record Yearbook (Port Hope, Ontario Canada)

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A MESSAGE FROM THE HEADMASTER TO THE OLD BOYS, MOTHERS OF BOYS AND GOVERNORS: Mrs. Ketchum and I wish we could write to each one of you to try to express the depth of our gratitude to you for your great kindness to us. We have never imagined that so many of our T.C.S. friends would mark our twenty-five years at the School and therefore we have been quite over- whelmed by your thoughtfulness and generosity, and also we have been at a loss to say how deeply your kindness has touched us. My wife did say what was in her heart to a large gathering of the Ladies ' Guild and I did my best at the dinner the Governors gave me and at the meeting of the T.C.S. Association bu t it is no exaggeration to say that every day since those very pleasant gatherings we have thought of your kindness and we have revelled in your gifts to us. Our years here have been full and happy ones because of the delightful associations with Boys, Staff, Governors, Parents and Old Boys; you are the ones who should be honoured for rescuing the School from the slough of debt and setting it on the highroad of achievement. We shall never be able to tell you how much your many kindnesses have meant to us personally, and the messages from well over a thousand believers in T.C.S. will always lie next to our hearts. Thank you most truly, Philip Ketchum.

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TRINITY COLLEGE SCHOOL RECORD 3 cause the human characteristics involved, namely, curiosity, and desire to improve our lot on earth, do not influence in any way our relations with our fellow man. Not only does this high standard of living play no part in the real problem of human relations, but it provides us with a whole new series of pitfalls by which we may unwittingly render our- selves less effective to the point of being useless. For instance, according to figures compiled by the Department of Vital Statistics, a higher stan- dard of living has been accompanied by a proportionate increase in alcoholism, crime, and lack of moral fibre in Canada. The importance of a system of education which provides a solid foundation of intelligent people who are capable of leading democracy cannot be over emphasized. Eugene Youngert has recently pointed out quite bluntly in his article in the Atlantic Monthly, that college athletics in the United States have become so professionalized that they have reduced the entrance require- ments of a large percentage of the nation ' s colleges to an extent that they may be termed dishonest and farcical. It is important that our colleges produce good football teams but this importance is negligible in relation to the importance of producing the life blood of our democracy — intelligent leadership. For some reason which is probably deeply em- bedded in the roots of man ' s basic nature, an increase in living standards has also prompted a decrease in a sense of values. This can be exem- plified by a quick look around us. Never has life been so closely geared to materialism and never have the important elements of human society been so blatantly ignored. A group of commonly used words — social register, tailfins, snob, and class distinction, speak for themselves. What they reveal is not encouraging. Most of the nation ' s most popular churches have recently made mention of the fact that their attendance has been increasing noticeably lately. On first glance, this appears to be a shining light in a dark gloom; how- ever, facts and history will point out that this occurrence was noticed before both world wars and at any time when world tension builds up. Had this sudden increase in religious adherence made a noticeable de- crease in materialism and increase in toleration, neither of the world wars would have occurred. This obviously belies any optimistic hopes that the nation is suddenly becoming more virtuous. The work of scientists and mathematicians lately has opened bold new horizons, bringing with it such terrors as the H-Bomb and I.C.B.M. threats. The scientists them- selves have realized the folly of pursuing these ends and on several occasions have given public warning of the consequences and thus far have been entirely overridden by the loud voice of politics. The most out- standing of these warnings came from a group of scientists, headed by Bertrand Russel and the late Albert Einstein, two of the world ' s most rational and brilliant men, and it has been ignored in its entirety, despite the fact that it predicted the worst disaster the world has ever known if the present course is pursued much farther.