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

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OCQNTAFLIQ AGiLlcu,i1gugrz.AL - QLOLLEGE QQ Emma? To the Graduating Classes of l9Z8 F ORTY years ago the Degree of Bachelor of Science in Agriculture was conferred at the University of Toronto for the first time. Five men received the Degree in 1888. Two of the class, J. J. Fee and B. E. Patterson, went into lusiness. Three of that class followed professional agriculture. J. A, Craig became a noted live stock authority in the United States: G. C. Creelman was former President of this College from 1904 to 1920: C. A. Zavitz, as Experimentalist in Field Crops and Professor of Field Husbandry, has been identified with crop improvement in Ontario for all these forty years, and retired but a few months ago. The first graduating class set the example in choice of occupation. Whether in so doing they have fulfilled the function of the College or not may be a matter of opinion, but the fact is that few of the Graduates have become farmers. Some have gone into manufacture and commerce, but the most of those who are not farming have entered the public service in some branch of technical agriculture, and not a few have made notable contributions to agricultural progress. J -if W-Mao Pune Ten

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mp 10:- hoo NTARAO -OQAGRICULTUFLAL - co LLEGE 00. 5 PROFESSOR EVANS HE announcement of Professor Evans' decision to retire from active duty at the College was received with sincere regret by his many friends on the Stall' and in the Student Body. Professor Evans was born on the Island of Amroth, oft' South Wales, and as this island is con- sidered to be in Pembroke and Carmarthon, he may claim to having been born in two Counties. He attended the Public and Grammar Schools at St Clears, in South Wales, and completed his academic training at King's College, London, and at the Uni- versity of Nottingham. The growth ot' the Sloyd system in Sweden was at this time attracting' the attention of educators the world over, and after a technical course at the City and Guilds Institute in London, Professor Evans went to Nazis. in Sweden, where he studied under Otto Salamon, thc founder ot' the system. The work done in hand and eye training through the medium of wood in Sweden was being carried out through the use of metal in Germany and it was not long until Professor Evans went to Leipzig. Shortly after his return from Leipzig, we tind him holding the responsible position ot' Organizer of Technical Education in Leicester- shire and Carnarvonshirc, and it was while he was engaged in this Work that he was invited to come to Canada to assist in the introduction of Manual Training in Ontario. He was first stationed in Ottawa, but in Janu- ary, ol' 1903, he was sent to the Ontario Agricultural College, where he not only taught the regular course students, l,ut was also responsible t'or the training of teachers in Manual Training. This work was car- ried on tor about 20 years, when the growing de- lU2lllflS of the College induced him to request the Department to relieve him ot' the duty of training teachers. From that time on, his llepartment has devoted its attention to Farm Mechanics. Professor Evans' cheerful presence is missed at the College, but it is sincerly hoped that the rest he is now enjoying will be the means ot' sparing him to his friends for many years to come. l'ni:c Nint-

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hc,ONTAR,lO -2AGlLICU,t.YTUR.AL - COLLEGE Q0 5 OUTWARD BOUND! HE termination of a College course brings mingled feelings to the graduates: relief from the long task, remembered pleasure from happy times spent within these walls, and a certain glow of satisfaction at something carried through successfully. To those of us who can look back upon our graduation, this period in our lives appears as a port of call from which we set sail for wider seas and new countries. There was a glamour about the time which was distinctive, a thrill and expectancy unlike anything felt since: and though there were anxieties and questionings a-plenty, the paramount feeling, as one remembers it, was one of eagerness, a desire to match our wits and measure our strength with the forces of life. To the Graduates of 1928. the present time is full of promise. Farming depends more and more on science, and the need for leaders in Agriculture and Domestic Science, for skilled workers in research, for men who can cope successfully with the intricate problems of marketing, is growing ever more insistent. Whether you go to the farm or take up professional work, whether you organize Short Courses or look down a microscope, whether you teach Household Science or pursue the wily gipsy moth to his lair, you are part of a great forward swing that is gathering speed every moment. After all, there is something very stimulating in the mere fact ot' being alive in this twentieth century, with its extra- ordinary advances in svience-advances certainly never paralleled in any previous age. The miracle ol' one day is the commonplace ofthe next. To be starting out at this time is a privilege of which any young man or woman may he ,iustilialzly proud. Bliss was it in that dawn to be alive But to be young was very Heaven, . Robert Louis Stevenson says very finely: An inspiration is a joy forever, a posession as solid as a landed estate, a fortune which we can never exhaust and which gives us year by year a revenue of pleasurable activity. The best suggestion I can give to a Graduating Class is that they should look forward and rejoice in their opportunity. You are outward bound, and your real adventure is to come. You have heard the call of the off-shore wind, And the voice of the deep-sea rain: You have heard the song-how long! how long? Pull out on the trail again! G. H. UNWIN. Page l-ilu-ren