Carleton University - Raven Yearbook (Ottawa, Ontario Canada)

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DR. M. S. MACPHAH. ..5..

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4-S65-5' S0 62 flue reoiclc-:nt'o Qpeport' I wonder Whether you have seen what I have seen in this year of college life ? And I wonder what you have seen that I have missed 'P It is possible, indeed probable, that both of us have failed to note or to understand much that the future Will show to have been of importance. People come first, and Carleton College can again this year be grateful for the people who have laboured on her behalf - students, teachers, parents, and friends. High on the list of those who have served the college Well is the name of one who is no longer with us, the late Harry Stevenson Southam, C.lVI.G., LL.D., our Chancellor since 1952, and before that the Chairman of our Board of Governors. The acceptance by the Secretary-General of the United Nations, Dag I-Iammarskjold, of the first honorary doctorate of Carleton College struck a happy note. We are proud to have the Secretary-General as our first - and at present our only - honorary doctor. And I have his warm assurance that he is proud to be of our number. Dean Gibson has returned from his sabbatical year spent at Oxford and at Princeton. Professors Munn of Physics and Gordon of Economics have been granted sabbatical leave for the academic year 1954-55. Dr. Munn will study in Paris, Mr. Gordon at Cambridge. People come first, but considerations of money, buildings, and programmes press close behind. The success attending the Carleton College Expansion Programme, the freeing of our 130-acre Dow's Lake property for development of a univer- sity campus, the acquisition of a building on First Avenue to serve as headquarters for the new School of Public Administra- tion: all these good things have come to us this year, and augur well for the future of our college. To return to people: Best of all we have had you, and all that you have been able to accomplish. A college is judged by the quality of the men and women who are its members. You bear our hopes. DH. IVI. IVI. lVlacODRUlVI PRESIDENT or CARLETON COLLEGE ,5n-

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5565-3' S9 G2 flue ean'o eoocujfep I found recently in an old school reader a passage describ- ing the effects of geological erosion: how the continents are being continually worn down by the action of wind and water, and would at last be eroded away entirely, were they not at the same time being pushed up from below, by forces origi- nating deep within the earth. Then came the rhetorical con- clusion: As long as the continents exist there must be dela- pidation and disintegration: and should the time ever arrive when the elevatory agencies sleep within their profound depths to awake no more, every continent and island would at length disappear, and a shoreless ocean tumble round the globe. It seemed to me that this could be read as an allegory of human society, which is continually being eroded by the forces of ignorance, selfishness, and aggression. Were it not for the deep-lying powers that are lifting us, civilization would crumble away, and a sea of barbarism tumble round the globe. I think we can fairly claim Carleton College as an embo- diment of the upward forces. We may show some traces of erosion here and there, but for the most part the elevatory agencies are acting strongly. This can be realized by reading the pages of the Raven , and by recalling the stirring events of the past year. To you of the Graduating Class of 1954 I can wish nothing better than that you may go out and play your part in resisting the forces of erosion and in building up the fabric of our nation. DH. M. S. IVIACPHAIL ACTING DEAN or-' ARTS AND SCIENCE E, 5 H5991 -7,