Ontario Agricultural College - OAC Bulletin Yearbook (Guelph, Ontario Canada)

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OUR HONORARY PRESIDENT Thanks to the human heart by which we live. Thanks to its tenderness, its joys, and tears, To me the meanest flower that blows can givt 'l'houg'hts that do often lic too deep for tears RCM thc. W,-yl,t.gining1hx U- J. gtm.0,,SOn and Tx,-Cmy had High School and Toronto University, but by travelling in Europe Unu thing in Common: they wma. t-l.L,Shm,,n tUm,th,,,.- and America an I in volumes obtainable from library and publishing: While it might have been due to this fact that Dr. house. Stevenson assumed such a kindly. unseltish interest in the class His py,,f'0SSi0,ml tif.. has Men as mlviwi in Qxlu.,-iL.,m. as his who hilll Chllsltll him l'Ul'thUil' h0ll0l'lU'Y lTl'H'Sitll'l1f, NUI. after tour student life. He has taught in Public Schools. Ilitlh Schools. years association with him we know that it was not alone a sympathetic understanding, but the very nature ol' the Professor oi' English, Throughout the entire period which we have spent at College, the interests f-t' Twenty, their successes and failures, class work and College functions, their individual talents and foibles have concerned him equally as much as the members oi' the year. Indeed, the term, Hon- orary President, cannot be justly applied to Dr. Stevenson, if taken in the usual sense, tor he has in no way occupied a mere honorary pos- ition: he has been the iirst member of the year. Moreover this mav be extended to inclu le Mrs Stevenson h t .. . . Dr Stevenson is an educationist of wide and deep experience. Horn in a manse, he has always seized every o pportu nity of trav- elling beyond the arch where thro' gleams that untravelld world. Not only did he secure his wide knowledge ol' l monks and things in continue to remain Follcgiate Institutes, in two Ontario Univer- sities, in Normal School, anal since September, lillti, at thc 0.A.t7. As well he has been editor ot' a journal, a public lecturer, a Provin- cial examiner, and the author ot' such books as texts in literature, grannn:u', co npositioa, nature study and supplementary readinpz. A lecturer ot' high ideals. he is most en- thusiastic in his work and strives to impart his enthusiasm to his classes, not only in English but in general culture. Ready at all times to advise, he has been a loyal and gener- ous friend ot' Twenty, whose interests will his. And, although many new experiences and friends will focus the attention of past and present members ot' the year, they will never fail to remember the true friends they have possessed in Dr. and Mrs. Stevenson. I-il it-it

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Year '20 Old men forget: yet all shall be forgot, Hut he'll remember with advantages What Yeats he did that day. Then shall our names, Familiar in his mouth as household words, lle in their tlowing cups freshly remembered. Shakespeare, King Henry V. Y ICAII '20 has had probably a more chequered history than any other year in the College. It began with seventy-one students. The following year only thirty-four returned. When the Third year was reached, the number ol original meinbers ol the class had dwindled to eight, and in the Fourth year only tive ofthe old guard are lel't. The one great cause for this thinning ol' the ranks from year to year has been, of course, the war. In '16 and '17 we were begin- ning to feel the real seriousness of the war, and within two years most of the young boys who had come in '16 fresh from High School and the farm. had heard the call and in the face of danger had suddenly grown to be men. By the end of the second year only those few who, owing to personal disability or for some other equally definite reason, had found it impossible to go. Then to Year '20, as to other Years, there came the anxious days when the casualty lists contained familiar names oi' students who were either in training or had already gone overseas-Scott, Williamson, Maynard, Weber. lnthe toll which the war took, all the Years suffered, but Year '20 will always hold in memory with deepest aliection the names of those of their number who gave up their lives forthe great cause. Ilut although there are only tire ot' the the originals left in this class, still Year '20 has recruited its strength and has come in strong at the tinish. At the opening of the term in the fall of '18 there was a flurry of excitement in the ranks of the 'told guard. Thirteen new members appeared as reintorcenu-nts for the Year. Three or tour of these were returned men. Three or four were stalwarts from the Maritime Provinces,-and one was a girl! Who says that the number 13 is unlucky? Was she conscious of the air of suppressed excitement that D0l'V2lfl9fl th? Ul21SS'l'00m 011 UW flllt' of NPI' first ill1P0H1'HnC07 And did she know that Mr. -, but no, l cannot, I will not, betray con- tidences. lt is suflicient to say that Miss Chase was welcomed as a member ol' the class, anfl th:-re was not a member who was not genuinely sorry when it was learned that she was not to graduate with '20, lu- lu'