Ingersoll District Collegiate Institute - Volt Yearbook (Ingersoll, Ontario Canada)

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A Sixty Year Graduate Speaks A 60 year graduate of I.D.C.I. reports on what he has learned in 60 years of teaching young people. Education is always a better preparation for life's work. The more education you have and can use, the better are your chances of living the way you want to live. What can you do with yourself? Almost anything you want to do if you work and use your head. But work - steady and continuous work - is necessary. The Lord provides the fishing, you have to dig the bait. Poverty is no real handicap, while wealth and social position may be. The latter may get you soft or dead-end jobs. Of these be- ware! They beget idleness and idleness in a young person is a sin, if not a crime. Be careful about early marriage. lt may trap you. Two cannot live as cheaply as one and certainly not as four or five. A good rule is to get your education before you marry. Don't neglect the sciences - chemistry, physics, mathematics, biology. Canada is de- veloping fast and there is a great demand for those with scientific training. The sciences may look harder than some other subiects, but once you get into them they are not so hard as they seem. And girls too, since nowadays all profes- sional positions are open to women, you have the chance if you want it. Probably you expect to marry, which is as it should be, but marriage need not interfere greatly with a career. It is harder to have both, but many women do have both. You may not choose to marry, but if you do marry and lose your husband, you may have to support yourself and children. You should be prepared in any case to make a satisfactory living. ln my young day a high school education was considered a sufficient preparation for a life work. It is not so any longer. College or professional school training now takes its place. Through postgraduate or research work you may add to human knowledge. This sounds big, but it is within the reach of many of you. The abilities are of the same order as those of the I3 year old small town or farm boy who figures out how to get his chores done so that he can go to the ball game. Of course you must have ambition and desire. The development of personality is essen- tial. You must get along with people and with the world you live in. People who like you, will help you. People you antagonize are likely to work against you, or at least do nothing to help. Rugged individualism doesn't work. There is no hurry. One forward step at a time is good progress, but keep moving. Aim for the best in man or places. The big man and the big places are generally more approachable and reasonable than the little ones. Walter R. Bloor. Dr. Walter R. Bloor, the first Professor of Biochemistry and Associate Dean of the Uni- versity of Rochester School of Medicine and Dentistry, now retired, is a l897 graduate of the Ingersoll Collegiate. Special Terms for tuclents ' fTf 'E c-lllll llill lllll' lNllll f 3 Who Wants A Brand New fo' Us We Us - A H, Lie' tr I ,Bl .EAT ll.llIii.iiw l.i..... ix Q, .,....,.t.ttff . I . Z1 5 I v ss. ,ru du'-H' 1,1-Jrif 5 K ' ,L ffi i t l 4, l I T , --e i I 1 g-Z I1 - ' - ' .1 G 5 I ' , .n A Q 9 ' ' 'C an S ,,.4ag,::L'.:gw .lI,. Y '- ROYAL PORTABLE 2 00 A tllt I worlds No. 1 Portable ' WEEK I- and I- 5UTHERlAND 425 Dundas St. - Woodstock Coyle Cr Greer Jewellers DIAMONDS, WATCHES, JEWELLERY, CHINA SKYWAY LUGGAGE - SAMPSONITE LUGGAGE Phone 459 I46 Thames St. S., Ingersoll THE VOLT Page 1 I

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