McMaster University - Marmor Yearbook (Hamilton, Ontario Canada)

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GEORGE PEEL GILMOUR M.A., B.D. Chancellor

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Z8 CA6LlfLC8K10l l'5 8555038 The old fairy tale of the people who were granted three wishes always ended with the cancelling of all gains because the wishes were trivial or made in bad temper. No character in this multiform story ever had the wisdom or the self-control to profit by golden opportunity. Perhaps the secret was that the opportunity was not earned and therefore not appreciated. We have all speculated as to what we would wish for should a fairy give us the privilege, usually paying ourselves the compli- ment of including in the dream certain large and effortless chari- ties, but knowing in our hearts that such unearned opportunities would do us and others little good and probably much harm. The only opportunities that are desirable and safe are of the earned variety. Undergraduates who have dealt honestly with time and talent have earned the right to opportunity, but are sufficiently dis- ciplined not to expect opportunity to come automatically. There is not so much happiness in capacity alone as there is in capacity plus opportunity, but capacity has its continuing rewards. lt is one of life's major satisfactions to feel ready, and to await oppor- tunity with quiet confidence. It may be that many members of '42 will have no opportunity to exercise their capacity in a chosen field for some time to come, because stern national service will monopolize them. But I bid you all keep your special capacity up to standard against the day of opportunity as l bid you God-speed with a full heart.