Queens University - Tricolour Yearbook (Kingston, Ontario Canada)

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The best of good wishes to the Graduates of 1933. Education means, by derivation, “'nourishment . I hope you are leaving Queen’s not forcibly fed with undesired and undigested knowledge, but well nourished in mind and character and spirit. Our job is to supply the diet. If you feel regret that you have not taken such liberal helpings as you might have done, the supply —or at any rate the most nutritious part of it—is still at your service, for the Librarian will do his best to satisfy your appetite with the loan of books. Wherever you are and whatever you do. I hope that appetite will never be sated. Few of you will find it easy to get the employment you want. Of all the disasters of “depression that is the most deplorable. And yet there is a compensating advantage. The claims of the troubled world into which you are emerging are a challenge to your intelligence and vigour, a challenge which I hope Queen's graduates will not refuse. It does not call to comfort or wealth or easy pleasure. It may bring you to difficulty, disappointment and derision. But it is unmistakably the old, fine call to heroism which healthy youth has answered all through the ages. Somehow you have got to establish in human society three things that have been hitherto in history incompatible: economic efficiency, social justice and individual liberty. However you may earn your living, and whatever success you may win in your profession, you must in large measure devote your intelligence and sympathy to that end or else fail in patriotism. As Queen’s graduates I hope you will pay that rent for your room in the world. When in later life you recall your College friends with affec- tion and your teachers with amusement, remember that the Uni- versity needs your support, both spiritual and financial, and that its good name rests on the reputation of each one of you. Principal.