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Analecta ' 50 Vol. 35. June, 1950. No. 1. Published by the Students of Central Collegiate Institute CALGARY, ALBERTA, CANADA
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fyateutabd = W HEN your editor asked me to write a VV message I had no trouble deciding what I would say. There is one thing above all others that with all my heart I wish to say to you, a truth that comes right out of my ex¬ perience with life. If I could start again where you are there is one ability, one vir¬ tue, beyond ail others which I would try to cultivate. Looking back my great regret is where it has been omitted: my greatest pleas¬ ure where it has been practised. JL here is a virtue which will give you ment¬ al health, develop your personality, increase your appreciation of the good and beautitui things of life, make you a host of friends— popular wherever you are, and bring more happiness into your life than any other pos¬ session. It will mean more to you than hav¬ ing a million dollars or being prime minister. n people can have it: very, very few do. T his talisman is the grace ot gratitude. How few of us think of writing a note next day when we have enjoyed a party, heard a fine lecture, read a good book, found a job by means of a letter of reference, or in some other way been befriended? i knew an old man who at some sacrifice presented every graduating student in a certain college class right across Canada with a fine book. Out of over five hundred such presen¬ tations he only received twenty letters of appreciation! I know some young people who start out in life saying, “I’m going to look after myself. I come first ' . They take everything with greedy, gluttonous fists and neither give themselves nor appreciate the gifts of others. They are boorish and contemptible people who destroy their own happiness. I agree with Shakespeare that ingratitude is the ugliest vice: “I hate ingratitude more in a man Than lying, vainness, babbling drunkenness. Or any taint of vice whose strong corruption Inhabits our frail blood.” A gift, you see, is a real character test. If something comes to you that you have done nothing to deserve, given to you by love, friendship, or sheer generosity, if that undeserved gift does not crack your shell of egotism and self¬ centredness, then you are thrust back into the dungeon of darkness which is selfishness. To be grateful for the help of parents, teachers and friends, to appreciate the effort of someone to be kind to you, to be grateful for the work of men and women who gave their devotion to this nation, to its schools and institutions, to see about you the multitudinous kindnesses of men and women in social life, this makes a truly great person. Gratitude is the virtue of an informed mind. One must know in order to be grateful. It is the possession of the generous, the clear-eyed, the intelligent, and the big-hearted. Gratitude connotes so many other sparkling virtues like good taste, kindness, sensitivity, and courtesy. Gratitude is the virtue of nature’s true aristocrat. So I am grateful that I know some gracious, charming young people who have a great future both in character and career if they can retain that lovely virtue of genuine gratitude. 4 —FRANK S. MORLEY.
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