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THE VOYAGE UR 19 VOYAGEUR STAFF BACK ROW-Mr. Widdrington l0ld Boysb, Clarke 4AdvertisingD. Moore lPhotofzrHDhyb. Buchanan lFirth Housej. FRONT ROW-Pollard fAthleticsj, B. A. VVallace fljterary Editory. Mr. Perry tliditorb, Kyle 4School Activitiesj. ABSENT-Mr. Mcfulley Uleadnlasterb, Rennie lAd-fertisingb. Edit0l'i2ll . . B. A. Vtfalltice THESE BRICKS and wood, this steel and glass, these grounds and fields and wooled lands, this school? The huilding, comhination of its materials according to the architects conception, has stood for twentyfseven years: the grounds and trees have existed through the always of time: hut the school itself has seen only eight winters since its rehirth in 1927. Yet these material things are known as Pickering College and indeed they are the part of the school that the passing, stranger would carry away in memory. But we, who live within, know that these buildings are not the school hecause of their structure and their materials, hut hecause their corridors and their rooms are pervaded hy some intangihle thing left there hy the passions and desires, the laughter and the cries, the sorrow and joy of the youth that has lived here during the past eight years, We know these houses to he more than residences hecause they are haunted with the spirit of friendships past and present: hecause, too, they are the concrete part of an educaf tional scheme hased on ideals and the working of that scheme fills them with some' thing of the spirit of the ideals themselves. This school, then, is not merely the sum total of the suhstances that go to make up its physical appearance, hut, in its eight years, an association of ideas and personal feelings that creates in the minds of its students an impression of tolerance and idealism already strong and destined to gain vitality as the time and place that contrived it cloud into the mists of memory.
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20 'TH E VOYAGE UR The Higher Patriotism Jos. McCulley IN YEARS PAST it has been my custom to contribute to The Voyageur an article dealing with some phase of current educational thought. In view, however, of the fact that 1935 is the twentyffifth anniversary of the accession of Their Majesties, King George V, and Queen Mary to the Throne, it seems appropriate to diverge from this custom and to offer a few comments inspired by this occasion. A few days ago I had a letter from one of our students who happens to be having the privilege of travelling in the British Isles this spring. He was fortunate enough to witness the jubilee Procession. Throughout his letter, descriptive of the details of that event, runs a thread of pride in his heritage as a Britisherf' One is moved to ask, What is this heritage in which all of us feel this same pride? ' While we still use the term British Empire, it should be pointed out that the aggregation of nations referred to in that term is more properly described as the British Commonwealth of Nations, a group of autonomous states in no way subordinate to each other. We have witnessed the development of an entirely new conception of empire. In the past, empires have been built on fear. Superior force has commanded allegiance. This was true of the Roman Empire, it was true of the Napoleonic Empire. These, however, have passed away and left in their wake hatreds and enmities which still color man's thinking. An empire may be built on self interest. The German Empire of prefwar days had its origin in the Zollverein or Customs Union, and even that materialf istic basis necessitated superior force to bring it to a completion. The idea of a Commonwealth as the basis of empire is essentially the concepf tion of sharing, based on mutual regard by each part for the other. The concepf tion is not yet fully understood even by ourselves. This is evidenced by the prob' lem created on the matter of India selffgovernment. It is also evidenced in the difficulty that we are having in working out any agreed policy of defence within the Empire. The outside world understands it even less than we do. Many nations are fearful of the preponderate influence that may be exercised by the British Empire in the League of Nations, in view of the independent membership of the selffgoverning dominions. In spite of such difficulties and misunderstandings, how' ever, we rejoice in the conception which is the present basis of our Empire. At such a time we may well pause to give expression to that rejoicing at those things which have come to pass but we should also consider the responsibilities that are thereby thrown upon us and pray that they may be nobly discharged. The King is a symbol of the unity of this Commonwealth-a focus for the hopes and aspirations of the individual units which comprise it. He is also a symbol of the historical continuity of which the Empire is the result. We take a natural, human and legitimate pride in the fact that through the centuries old customs and institutions have been infused with new meaning throughout succesf sive generations. Our pride at this time, however, is more than merely pride in a symbol. We can be justifiably proud of the personal character of the present occupant of the Throne. His character is of a sort that is more resplendent than
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