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

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UQ DR. G. I. CHRISTIE

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H Qzaaewaacf The motto - FAMA SEMPER VIVAT - is indeed a timely theme for LIBRANNI. The renown of Canada is high. lt has been established by those who, for us, poured out the red sweet wine of youth . While we have a feeling of pride in our Country, we must also have a sense of duty to maintain and enhance its good report. We should not rest on the glories of the past. If we who survive would not betray the gallant men who took the Chalice in order to ensure that there should be an opportunity for us to build a world of decency and order, we must strive, without Wearying and without ceasing, to carry onward and upward their torch. Peace as well as war lays claim to our best in thought, word and deed. The military victory has been won. We must, however, gird ourselves to secure the peace. In duty bound, we will give of our best to translate into reality the ideals of individual liberty and individual self-discipline, as opposed to the concept of a nation or world of automatons shoved about by one man or by a group of men. We must be vigilant against the rise of new dictators at home or abroad. Herein is a special task of youth! As graduates of the Ontario Agricultural College and the University of Toronto, with training, talent and integrity, you can demonstrate that liberty and justice are not unattainable ideals thrown up from the infinity of man's dreams. By precept and by example, you can prove that the diversity of opportunities for the individual to develop his own personality is limited only by humanitarian principles founded in the rights of his fellow-men. In our blood-bought opportunity, your University gives to you this charge: Ring out false pride in place and blood, The civic slander and the spite, Ring Ring Ring Ring Ring Ring in the love of truth and right, in the common love of good. out old shapes of foul disease, out the narrowing lust of gold, out the thousand Wars of old. in the thousand years of peace. Page 9

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Meuage from Me paeeticfenll The graduating class of nineteen hundred and forty-six is the first in seven years to enter a world in which peace-time needs are predomin- ant. These needs present a challenge and an opportunity of the highest order. For the past six years many of our graduates have gone directly into the armed services or into other branches of war service. Many who would have graduated have interrupted or postponed college training to join the fighting forces. Some of these, we have welcomed back to com- plete their courses with your year. Some, whose names we shall always honour, will never return. To-day the war is won, and the post-war world is in the making. It is not going to be an easy world. Its problems are difficult and urgent. Its need for trained men is great. Canada's part in it should be an im- portant one. It will be if Canadians continue to show the ability, the courage, and the faith which they demonstrated during the war years. In agriculture, particularly, the problems are pressing and immediate. The demand for tanks and planes and guns has ended, but the need for food is greater than ever. As senior students and as leaders in various student activities, you have shared with the staff some of the problems of the transition period, and you have acquitted yourselves well of these responsibilities. You have seen the college restored to its peacetime quarters, you have seen these filled to overflowing and increasing in size to meet the needs of a new and larger student body. Now you are entering a new school in which you will be the freshman class. It will test your training, your ability to keep on learning, and above all, your character. The record of O.A.C. Alumni in it is a proud one. We trust you to maintain it. We wish you every success. 6.106112 ' Page l