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

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I GRIC TURAL COLLEGE R 0 I 9 EDITORS PAGE U GAIN the silent wheels of Time. their annual round have driven, and once more graduating classes are about to turn their backs on college halls and lecture rooms, and their faces to the world. For all of us, graduation day marks a new dawn on the horizonefrom laughing, carefree youth to the responsibilities of manhood and xvomanhood. We are setting sail into the years. tl many are the things that are out in the years: Thtre are visions of joy, bright hopes and dark fearsg There are gleamings of smiles, and cloud-mists of tears: There are beautiful things far out in the years. Too soon we shall scatter to the four winds, and forget perhaps, little by little, year by year, until our time here will seem like a day rather than years. By the publication of a volume such as this, we hope to forge a li11k between the happy college yesterdays, and the uncertain tomorroxvs. To this end we have laboured in the creation of this. the Year Book of l5J2Et. Since the publication of the last volume, a change has come in the presidency of the College. Dr. Reynolds. after many years of service to the Institution. has retired from a busy executive life to one useful but less st1'enuous. Dr. G. I. Christie. a graduate of '02, who in the twenty-five years since his graduation, has become one of the outstanding agriculturists of the l'nited States, has succeeded Dr, Reynolds in this very important position. The Degree of Iloctor of Science has been conferred by the University of Western Ontario upon one of our Senior Faculty. in the person ot' Dr. Harcourt. We all rejoice with him in this manifestation of esteem. The past year has marked the passing to the Great Beyond of Miss Jean C. Bradley of the Macdonald Institute staff, and Professor G. H. l'uwin of the Department of English. We regret very deeply tl1e loss of these members of the staff. who have always given so unstintingly of their knowledge and experience, to help make our paths easier. The Editor wishes especially to thank the Associate Editor for her very valuable assistance, and also the members of the Committee. To those who have supplied mamiscripts and rendered other assistance. the Committee is much indebted. This loyal support and assistance have alone made possible the production of this volume. - THE EDITOR. imwl I-.ight

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RK? GRJCQQTUR LCXN1EGE 1 9 DR.L B REY OLDS IIIRTY years of his life have been spent 'by Dr, Reynolds in the service of the Ontario Agricultural College. Over twenty years of that time was spent as a member of the teaching faculty in developing tl mst, the Department of Physics and later that of English. For eight years after his return to ns from Manitoba he guided thc :lestinies of the College as President. As Professor of Physics. Dr..Reynolds not only created that de- 1,'3l1'flll6lli as such, but he instituted some of the most worth-while work that is still being carried on. As Piofessor of English, he gave to generations of students an appreciation of good literature und of the choice of the written and spoken word. As President, llr. Reynolds brought to the position real svliolarship and an appreciation of true academic standaards. Under his direction the College has made marked advances along academic lines. It is no exaggeration to say that during his eight years of office, the College has completely changed in its academic outlook and standing. What the Ontario Agricultural College is today academically, it owes to the scholarly guidance of J. B. Reynolds. As a man, Dr. Reynolds has few peers. To have known him has been an inspiration, to have worked with him, an honour. To him in his well-earned rest from academic life and to Mrs. Reynolds go the love and best wishes of staff and student and of a host of alumni. Pngif X n