Pickering College - Voyageur Yearbook (Newmarket, Ontario Canada)

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The Voyageur it s at r VOL. 18 1945 PUBLISHED BY THE STAFF AND STUDENTS OF PICKERING COLLEGE, NEXN'5IARKET, ONTARIO, CANADA 748 M3 fulian Tudor-Hart Ye mountains of Gilboa, Let there be no dew, neither let there be rain upon you, nor fields of offerings: For there the shield of the mighty is vilely cast awayf' David's Lament, the Second Book of Samuel. ODAY, the world pauses to lick its wounds. It can look back on this year with some grim satisfaction, for a while, it has bought its way back into Cod's good graces, and the bill appears to be paid. For our failure to look ourselves squarely in the eyes, graves stretch across the world as our blood-money, from Tsalin to Addis-Ababa, the Ebro to Dachau, Vienna to Prague, Rotterdam to Chateaubriant, Coventry to the tractor works in Stalingrad, the earth reeks with Lord Baldwin's apologies and Mr. Chamber- lainls honourable eyewash. Blood has lapped on the shores of Boston and Vancouver, and the screams of the Warsaw ghetto have invaded the gentle sanctity of homes in Montreal and Chicago. We are told that the peace will endure through the same powers that led us to Victory, some of us even take time to think about why we have peace anyway. The designers and technicians of war will tell us that Vickers-Arnr strongs make better guns than Krupp or Skoda, Gerald L. K. Smith will say that it was because America was hoodwinked by Russian Jewsg the divines will show that uGott mit unsi' sounds much the same in any language for any chosen people: Mr. Amery will say it was because he jailed the leaders of the Congressg and Lord Halifax will say it was because we had a world monopoly on peace with honour. Fortunately they will all be wrong, at least we hope so. The heart of the Victory lay in no extra millimetre of bore or inherent virtue of any given race. lt lay in a dynamic that our enemies could never use, be- cause it was the very essence of the things they were fighting. lt was courage, 11

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The following pages will indicate something of the on-going life of the school. lt records also additional names of those who have joined the services during the past year, bringing our roll of service to a total of almost -150 about whom we are informed. Our Honour Roll lists the names of -12, hve of whom are still, unfortunately, recorded among the missing. lt is, perhaps, not too much to express the hope that this list will not be further extended. I should extend my congratulations to the Matriculation Class of 1911-4 who. though not reaching quite the record achievement of the previous year, nevertheless passed 2355? of all papers written and SIQQ with first or second class honours. I conclude, as I have more than ever obligation to do, with a word of thanks to all the members of this year's school community, both staff and students, and specifically to the Chairman of our Board of Management, whose interest in the welfare of the school is a constant source of encour- agement. We are at the beginning of a new era in the history of our country and of the school. That Pickering College may in some worthy measure contribute to this era is my very sincere wish. QQ' Mb L 10

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The Voyageur in the fullest and greatest sense of the word. It was the basis of all that was strongest in our armies, and other factors being more or less equal, inevitably prevailed against armies which fought on a basis of fear. A courage that was strengthened by every truth and reality could not help but prevail against a fear that was able to be maintained only by falsehood and ignorance. But many battles were lost, and invariably they were lost on that same ground on which our enemies lie today. That lesson must not be forgotten. San Francisco is hardly an example of the best in our struggle, it savours little of the spirit of Nijmegen or Guadalajara. Rather it looks like the opening skirmishes of a Sedan or a Singapore. It, too, is pervaded with fears, the United States and the South American republics have little confidence in either their own better natures or the intentions of their allies, Britain demonstrates the same distrust of her own subject races and her European neighbours, the U.S.S.R. lacks confidence in the intentions of the rest of the world to the point where she has virtually abandoned the con- ference as a basis for the peace settlement. Fear pervades the press, which appears almost invariably to assume eventual war between the allies as the only basis for realistic judgment. Fear pervades those intolerant of racial and religious minority, fear per- vades politicians of self-imposed mediocrity, who fear an excess even of truth and thought. Men still have enough in common to find some basis for agreement, if they will only see each other shorn of the barriers of privilege and property, race and religion. Fear is the outcome only of possessiveness and ignorance, the bargain has been driven too hard for us to adopt its philosophies again. The set- backs of the past year are out of all proportion to political necessity, or to the real temper of the peoples in whose name they have allegedly been made. Now is the time to believe with redoubled confidence and sincerity in the future, and to nourish that belief by tugging at the load with yet fuller fury. There is no lack of faith today, but that faith must be shouted for the world to hear and be heartened, and, if need be, fought for with a sacrifice worthy of those of the past ten years. '6One equal temper of heroic hearts, Made weak by time and fate, but strong in will, To strive, to seek, to find, and not to yield. -x--1--ef-r After five years at Pickering the writer of this editorial, Julian Tudor-Hart, has recently left Canada to continue his studies at llnirersity in England. 12