Carleton University - Raven Yearbook (Ottawa, Ontario Canada)

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I I i v ! U 5 ! 1 I I V ! flue gpreoiclentfo eooage As each autumn rolls around, your President gropes for an answer to the question, Why do you not put a stop to these idiotic antics of Initiation Week? They are a disgrace to the College! The mild answer is said to turn away wrath, so I try to find it. Now that the Class of '55 is about to be graduated, I can tell you that as I selected and framed my answer for this year I was haunted by the refrain of a merry song I used to know: Look at Isabella, get another fellah! I say, Bella, don't you go too far! And by another chorus of the same vintage: l'll whip you! I'l1 beat you! If you do it any more. ' The idea of bringing all these boys around the door! I see that you've been romping Your hair's all out of curl, Whatever will the neighbours say? You naughty, naughty girl! The fact is that I enjoy having all these boys around the door . And I am happy that we have girls who attract them. A welcome innovation this year was the high-spirited help given to the Community Chest's Campaign by the Frosh wind-shield wiping. The Frosh Revue was a good thing, too, even if I was kept busy for the next month or so assuring members of the public that we had not wined and dined two student emissaries from the banks of the Volga. What shines brightest in my memory, though, 'is the torchlight procession which wound its way up the heights of the skiing hill on the Dow's Lake campus, and the great bon-fire's glow in which the rites of our 1955 Frosh Week were concluded. As you receive your degrees on Convocation Day, I will be thinking many good things about you. I cannot mention them all, but two things I should like to say now. The first is that I admire and am grateful for the way you have measured up to the College's demand for honest and strong intellectual perform- ance. Carleton College has her task eternal , and you have laboured faithfully and well side by side with us who were your officers and teachers. My second comment has to do with the generous spirit in which you have in your sports, games, and all extra-curricular activities triumphed over the phys- ical and financial limitations of our present-day college setting. You have made do with what you had, and made do magnificently. The day is, I hope, not far distant when Carleton College will possess vastly improved athletic and recreational facilities. But I shall always remember with greatest pride the high spirits of our teams, our clubs, and our societies in the days when facilities were meagre or non-existent, and money scarce. Have you not learned a lesson here? I have. Man's problems are, and always will be, spiritual rather than physical. Let us welcome automation but refuse to become automata. I cannot believe that you who are going out from Carleton College in the Class of '55 will ever be robots, intellectually or socially. As the youngsters say, Go! Go! at that task eternal! 45.2. PRESIDENT OF CARLETON COLLEGE March 22, 1955. -7-

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DR. M. M. MACODRUM -5-

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