Carleton University - Raven Yearbook (Ottawa, Ontario Canada)

Page 17 text:

S Carleton College Year Book 1944-45 15 To The Students I am very glad to write a few words of introduction for the 1944-45 Year Book. It is a distinct sign of progress when the Student body launches out on an enterprise of such ditnensions. No one realizes more than I do the difficulties under which you labour in getting a co-operative spirit developed to the point of definite action in a student body where over 95'Z, work during the day and attend classes only in the evening. It calls for the greatest loyalty and devotion, more than is usually found in an ordinary college. I should like to say to the students as a whole, and in this I speak for the Ottawa Association for the Advancement of Learning and their Board of Governors as well, that we have been more than pleased at the spirit of helpfulness and intellectual sincerity which has characterized from the beginning all who have been associated with us. To me per- sonally it has been one of the most delightful experiences of my life. With regard to our growth, I am sure I am justified in saying that it has been quite abnormal. When we began we anticipated a possible 150 students, and would have felt, if such had been the case, that our effort was quite worthwhile. That in three years our numbers in the College and Institute, includ- ing the newly registered class of returned men, would be 990 not only exceeded all expectations but is a great source of gratifi- cation. As you know, the College was founded to serve the young people of our city and dis- trict. It is under the auspices of the Ottawa Association for the Advancement of Learn- ing, a body of citizens who have undertaken to support its work. Our future depends on public sympathy and support. I am happy to say that the attitude of our public towards us seems to be wholly favourable. The College aims to maintain standards in the subjects taught equal to any in older institutions of the country. Its promoters believe that nothing better can be done for the new generation now getting ready to enter upon life's responsibilities than to see that opportunities for self-development are placed within their reach. We now know that our institution is meeting a long-felt need. Our success has been so great that we look forward in the very near future to securing a permanent home and having classes through- out the day as well as in the evening. It is possible we may be in a position to begin these classes in September, 1945. We seem now to be nearing the con- clusion of the European part of the war. The work of reconstructing our lives to meet the new emergencies will soon be upon us. To meet them honestly and sincerely, looking to the general good, as distinct from personal advantage, will require trained intelligence, tolerance springing from a spiritual appre- hension of the meaning of life, and sacrifice of effort and material advantages on the part of all of us. We sincerely hope that when in the near future you find yourselves facing the difficulties presented in the days of readjustment you will be able to think of your experiences in the College as having been helpful in the direction suggested. If we who profess,and indeed in some measure possess, trained minds, do not measure up to the responsibilities of the hour, what can we expect from those who have not had such advantages? Never forget that the great creative forces in the world and the Universe are the unseen ones, the intangible forces of mind and spirit. The future of the world will be determined by them. If we aspire to the best that is in us we may surprise not only our friends in what we can accomplish but most of all ourselves. Sincerely yours, H. M. TORY. COVER DESIGN We are much indebted to R. W. Walker for the art work on the cover. Mr. Walker, Instructor of Art, Ottawa Technical High School, is taking English, physics and mathe- matics at Carleton as prerequisite for his Vocational Art Specialist. 73 The artist's interpretation is as follows: In the cover design I was striving to create an effect of dignity and development. An air of expanse-freedom for growth- is contributed by the generous areas of white. The idea of development is suggested also by the involutions of the abstract or convention- alized pattern composed of curving lines, along which the eye travels without ever departing from the design, this alludes to the ever- combining process we call education. Dignity is enhanced, furthermore, by the symmetry of the design, and by the lettering, which, while it does not conform strictly to any standard style, suggests the late mediaeval period, when learning was once again coming into prominence. THANKS We wish to acknowledge a substantial con- tribution from a well-wisher who prefers to remain anonymous.

Page 16 text:

.sig 5523 'gp' :ucv E5-5-Ez .3513 Uk.: :ik-I Q +2 ,fam -go .cn Pix! .Zio O :emu 23532 nizmg 2. 3 3.15 E2 CU ...O nigga C s. :sg an ffl Tory, Mrs. Nor T. R. Montgo Southam, Dr. Robbi 52 HS, an :fi .if 2 2:12 5 s: Q u-1 Q C 2 . s.. Cl ' ui UD Dr. rner, Tu GJ i .CI as 'E'-u L4 - E140 555' oi - U-E' www OS.. UI E uf C -ga OE KD QE r: mbers the their monthly of aa V1 F-S E. Easson, Qu 265 cGregor V3 ra E53 Eno o WB' Q: mo. USB Em .. E Q' . Q5 5 Ug I SLS E neg '- SO E on-4 C O59- Um'-CF-H S-B0 Sf 562

Page 18 text:

16 Carleton College Year Book 1944-45 Our President by Dr. M. M. MGCOdIuH1 You' will remember the reply of Themi- stocles to the Seriphian who tauntingly told him that his reputation was due not to him- self but to his country: - I should not have become famous if I had been a native of Seriphus, neither would you, if you had been an Athenian. It is true that the President of our Ottawa Association for the Advancement of Learn- ing, our Carleton College and our Institute of Public Administration might not have be- come famous had he remained in the Nova Scotia village of Guysborough, where he was born, but those who know him would, I suspect, be inclined to give him the benefit of the doubt even in so unlikely a contin- gency. At any rate, leaving Nova Scotia he did become famous not in Ottawa alone, not in one city, but in many cities. As with Homer's catalogue of the ships, even the bare recital of his achievements in the wars of knowledge against ignorance, light against darkness, and honesty against fraud, would tax the intellectual grasp of most of us, though exact and true in every particular. Weight of years, with Henry Marshall Tory, is not a burden but rather a reinforce- ment of the startling variety of forces ema- nating from his personality for the con- tinuing pursuit and accomplishment of the good. If you remind him that in the year of his birth Gettysburg was fought, that Lincoln was assassinated only in the following year, that the French armies of Napoleon III were in Mexico, you will be rewarded by a merry twinkle in eyes as blue as the summer skies of his native Guysborough. In that natal year Palmerston was approaching the close of his Premiership, and there were still many giants in the land of 1864: Thomas Carlyle, 69 John Stuart Mill, 58 Charles Dickens, 52 Benjamin Disraeli, 60 Alfred Tennyson, 55 Michael Faraday, 70 Sir James Simpson, 53 Victor Hugo, 62 Richard Wagner, 51 Jenny Lind, 44 But ifyou call Henry Marshall Tory's at- tention to all this, you will elicit only the happy chuckle which is the delight of his friends, and a source of never-ending won- der, for it unmistakeably proclaims the co- existence of the irrepressible, fun-loving, Guysborough farm lad with the tolerant and kindly spirit who is old only in the wisdom that comes with the distillation of the Years. The 1938-39 edition of the Canadian Who's Who lists: Tory, Henry Marshall, educational- ist, retired . The italics, of course, are ours, for, like another famous report, this one is much exaggerated, -unless work without pay is acceptable as a definition of retire- ment, which is unlikely. A more recent ac- count of the matter is on record in the Historical Statement which prefaces our College Calendar: During the Fall and Win- ter of 1938-39 a committee of the Ottawa Y.M.C.A., with Dr. H. L. Keenleyside as Chairman, held periodical meetings to discuss the matter of facilities for higher education in the City of Ottawa. While the Roman Catholic population was served by the Uni- versity of Ottawa and St. Patrick's College, the somewhat larger non-Catholic population had no institution conducting college work, and it appeared that in no other Canadian city was there a group of equal size not served by at least a junior college. Several possibilities for improving the situation were considered and some were tentatively ex- plored. With the outbreak of war in 1939 the committee discontinued its work, but by 1941 it had become apparent that circumstances brought about by the war had increased the need of facilities for higher education in the Capital. Thousands of young people had come to work in Government offices, many of them having interrupted their education in doing so. Many others in the Armed Services were to be expected on demobilization, since the Civil Service would be a preferred occu- pation for them. The problem consequently was taken up again by a group, mainly the same as the earlier committee in personnel, under the chairmanship of Dr. H. M. Tory. As Lawrence Earl has written in White Collar College: Then the hard work started. At first the Doctor's tasks were manifold. Tn his late seventies at the time, he nimbly hopped from one job to another without drop- ping his dignity on the way. One of the first students to enrol recalls the hectic days with a smile. 'I called at the Registrar's Office,' he relates. 'There Dr. Tory asked me for my educational qualifications and what classes I would be interested in. Then he said to drop down the hall to see the Bursar about paying my fees. Well, I got there as quickly as I could. but Dr. Tory beat me to it. He was the Bursar, too, you see. And then he wel- comed me as a student to Carleton College in K role, as President! It was all very con- ing. That was in September, 1942, when Carle- ton College first swung open its gates of learning. The only change to be recorded in the session 1944-45 is that Dr. Tory is busier than ever.