Queens University - Tricolour Yearbook (Kingston, Ontario Canada)

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For young men and women preparing to take an active part in the world’s work, the outlook this year is a challenging one. Problems are pressing upon us which vitally affect the welfare of every Canadian, and test sharply the ability and the courage of civic leaders everywhere. For their solution an intelligent and informed public opinion is essential. Here the university man, having been more or less encouraged to use his brains on questions of general interest, is expected, and is usually ready, to assume some special responsibility. Although in the play and counter- play of world forces personal influence may seem at best infinitesi- mal. the normal man cannot resign himself to drifting. He must, wisely or unwisely, grasp at some lever in the machinery of events and endeavor to guide its action. It is as well, then, to have some knowledge of where the controls are and how they work. The university may supply the rudiments of this knowledge: the graduate must develop it, broaden it. and make use of it as best he can. To the students of Queen’s University, and especially to those about to leave her halls. I send cordial greetings and good wishes for the life before them. O. D. SKELTON, Rector.