Galt Collegiate Institute and Vocational School - Specula Galtonia Yearbook (Galt, Ontario Canada)

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SPECULA GALTONIA MWUARINCIPAL T. H. WHOLTON, M.A. S

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SPECULA GALTONIA Cgiorcword N describing the typical English education, an American observer has said that it can turn out, and does turn out, shoals of careless youngsters who know little or nothing of science, mathematics, philosophy, of the human- ities even, but who give always, the impression of having been well brought up , and who have a wise way of' doing practical things, and who, somehow or other, manage to play no mean part in the governance of the world. It is a consummation devoutly to be wished that your School may do as much for you. If, in from three to five years, you are given a start along the road towards the state of being informed, you 'have done well. For the rest, it depends chiefly upon yourselves whether your School trains the character, and exercises the mind. Use your School. Use it in all its phases, on the time-table and off, within the walls and without. Know your fellows. Enter into their projects, and by so doing learn your capabilities and your weaknesses. The fear of making' mistakes should never prevent you taking your part in those activities which are carried on in your School, but outside school hours. Never again will you have the opportunity of making mistakes as cheaply as now. Where will you ever find an audience as kindly critical as your school fellows, and yet how few of you seize the chance of conquering self-consciousness in an atmosphere where embarrassment is not a serious drawback. When you leave school do not cease to do things for the sheer love of doing them. You will be well equipped for the race for prosperity, and in the natural course of events some of you will become atiiuent. Beware lest, when you have suiiicient for your needs, you are compelled to go on making money because it is the only thing that you understand. Get a hobby. An outdoor game is an excellent hobby, but not if you take it up with the object of Winning a cup, or as a physical necessity, or because, in it, you make valuable connections with pe-ople Whose acquaintanceship and influence you desire, for the furtherance of business or social ambitions. A garden may be an excellent hobbv, but not if the gardener's aim is to produce a lily having a flower an eighth of an inch greater in diameter than the next largest lily. Competition may be the life of trade, but it is the death of much that is most worth while. It will dominate your working hours, Whether you will or no. You must not suffer it to en- croach upon your leisure. Next to health, leisure is your most precious posses- sion, and like health, it must be guarded vigilantly. Mr. Ramsay MacDonald, on the occasion of his receiving the degree of Doctor of Laws, at the University of Toronto, said, The problem of leisure, or how to use leisure, is the problem of human life and there is nothing that a university can do that you will bless it for in later years more than this-it will give you an opportunity of appre- ciating things for yourself. It will give you an ,opportunity of being your own companion! May your leisure be enriched with books- If you approach them they are not asleep, if investigating you interrogate them, they conceal nothing, if you mistake them they never grumble, if you are ignorant they never laugh at you. Above all else may your leisure be blessed with countless dear memories and with youthful enthusiasm born of your years at the School. f HILLIARD WHOLTON.