Pickering College - Voyageur Yearbook (Newmarket, Ontario Canada)

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The Voyageur is 8 SWE SQ Setting for Closing Chapel Serzrice, june 7th, 1942. A CHAPEL T HAS BECOME CUSTOMARY that each member of the stay? arrange the service and give the address at one of the Sunday evening chapel services during the school year. While it is impossible to make this selection all- inclusive, the magazine is proua' to print here signibhcant selections fro-nt some of these services. ICKERING DAYS are busy days. Our lives are full of crowding and bustle and hurry. It is easy for us to let important experiences be crowded out by non-essentials. It is easy for us to miss great opportunities, to lose sight of Christ in the crowd. ' All those who would achieve must be workers. I do not mean necessar- ily the super-workers like Edisong but the great host of average men who have done the Worldls work throughout the agesg men who when faced with a task could clear the decks of unimportant things and get the job done. A At the recent Queenls centenary, many great men of our time were honoured, and as l watched them march to the platform to be laureated' I saw the determined faces of men who knew how to work when work had to be done. l wish that l could impress upon all of you tonight that Pickering offers you an opportunity to work, and that you must not let that chance be jostled out of your lives by a crowd of trivialities. It is necessary that each one of us learns to do a job. What you do it on doesn't much matter, so long as you do it on some worthy task. 44There Being a Crea! Crowd in the Place. ' R. E. K. ROURKE. T FIRST GLANCE, the purpose of a school is education. By education., I do not understand merely the accumulation of facts and a little practice in the art of thinkingg education is much broader than thisg it includes 22

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The Voyageur That the foregoing ideas derive from a philosophy of education capable of successful practical application is demonstrated by the progress of the school during the past fifteen years. The enrolment of about one hundred and twenty-seven students in 1941-342 is double the number of upioneersv registered in the autumn of 1927. After four years of operation, the build- ing appropriately known as Firth House was constructed, originally intended for younger boys in the lower high school grades, now the home of the flourishing new Preparatory Department. The corner-stone of Firth House was laid by Sir William Mulock, longstanding friend and regular visitor, who had performed the same ceremony a quarter of a century before when the main school was built. This growth has been matched and must in part be explained by a continuously improving academic standardg in 1941, for example, ninety percent of all honour matriculation papers written by students of the school were passed, sixty-seven percent with first and second class honours. Pickering College to-day, in spite of war and the far-reaching effects of war, is conscious of its strength and optimistic of its future. lt represents the achievement not only of those industrious and idealistic men and women who have worked in its classrooms and ofiices through the years, but also of those loyal and interested members of the College Board, who in a very real sense have Hmade everything possiblef, Dr. Dorland has demonstrated in his paper ua certain continuity both in fthe? theory and practicev of the school for the past hundred years. Of equal interest is the part played by the Rogers family for the last sixty years in the development of the school. It will suffice to note that the present Chairman and Treasurer of the school. lt will suffice to note that the present Chairman and Treasurer of the Board, Samuel Rogers, K.C., is the grandson of that Mr. Samuel Rogers whose name we have noted in connection with the first Pickering College and its re-opening in 1891. This continuity of personnel has doubt- less helped to keep unbroken the continuity of philosophy mentioned, and has been of inestimable value. A remark current in the school this past term has been, '6We,re through the first hundred years,', and history justifies the implication. No better conclusion to these notes could be found than the school motto: Bene provisa principia ponantur. MA new soul wakes with each awakened year. The valiant soul is still the same, the sarne The strength, the art, the inevitable grace. The thirst unquenched for fame . . . The long obedience, and the knightly flame Of loyalty to honour and a name. --SANTAYANA 21

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The Voyageur activity on the rugby field and in the gymnasium, on the hills and rinks, -on the stage and in the shop, in the dining-room and in the Headmasteris kitchen, learning from contemporaries and from those older and those younger. But education is not an end in itself, even in this larger defini- tion. The education of a young man should enable him to take his place as a citizen of Canada. If that seems a commonplace idea, it is because you have not thought deeply enough about just what Canada is, that land in which you have a stake by reason of your presence here. It is half of a vast continent containing many millions of people, containing mountains and rivers and lakes and plains the grandeur and glory of which are some- thing which at best you can only imagine. ln Canada is your home, in Canada is your favourite place of trees and blue water, the river you like best to paddle, the gleaming white hill on which you have lik-ed best to ski, the woods which in younger days you liked to explore, the familiar street, the fields which you have watched in springtime and again in August and October, your friends and your family. A citizen of Canada will know these things, and appreciate them to their full. But there is a bigger con- cept of citizenship than the national. I am fond of the phrase ua citizen of the worldw. By that I mean a man who is aware of his kinship with all humanity, who recognizes that his fate is bound up with that of all human beings, who knows that a starving child in France is part of our common shame just as the heroism of a mother in London is part of our common glory. That is the ultimate in sense of community and citizenship. uDem0cracy and the Individual. F. D. L. SEWART. HAT YOU ARE CAPABLE of time alone will show, providing you make the best use of that time in growing. But at the end of your days let it be said of you that you have grown so completely that to your life may be applied that fine standard of classic Greece: sito this nothing can be added, nor from it anything taken away without destroying the perfect unity of the whole. I Let your growth not be stunted by sloth or withered by the eating blight of boredom, may it not be emaciated by too little of living or bloated by too much of sensual pleasure, let it not nourish the parasitic fungae of greed and fraud and ignorance, may it not bring forth the bitter fruit of mockery and cynicism, for cheap mockery and hollow cynicism are the last resort and ultimate futility of the mediocre mind striving for false recog- nition. Rather may your growth be positive and purposeful. May your body be straight and your eye clear, may both your heart and your hand be warm, your anger just, your mercy swift, and your passion full-flowered. Having eyes to see, may you see, and ears to hear, may you hear, with a heart to feel andia mind to know and a soul to serve, may you feel and know and serve, and always may you grow-until, in the fullness of time, you reach your true stature and full fruition under God's heaven. uWhat is the Measure of a Man?v B. A. W. JACKSON. 23