Trinity College School - Record Yearbook (Port Hope, Ontario Canada)

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12 TRINITY COLLEGE SCHOOL RECORD 'middling folk' for something better-a world more worthy of their children, a world more simple in its beliefs, nearer to earth and to God. I have heard it so often among soldiers in England and America, in trains, in factories in Chicago and in clubs in London, sometimes so poorly ex- pressed that one can hardly recognize it, but underlying it all there is that craving for a new life. This feeling is no less powerful or significant than the Renaissance was. and Will, I hope and pray, surge over the whole World in a tidal wave-that is the ideal for which we are fighting. Now let me try to express it in practical terms. First, there must be friendship between nations, for on the maintenance of peace all other things depend. This, I believe with fanatical zeal, depends entirely on the co- operation between the British Empire and the U.S.A. This, indeed, is my personal inspiration, something worth living for, something worth dying for. From it may arise un- told happiness, without it I regard the war as lost, re- gardless of the fate of Germany and Japan. I love the American people, for I truly know and understand them, and it is my lifelong ambition to spread that understand- ing. Secondly, we must try to improve the lot of the poor. No sacrifice is too great for the rich to make to ensure that the poor of England have decent houses, good educa- tion, social security and a chance to live a happy life. If we in England could set out to conquer not poverty, but its attendant and unnecessary miseries, as we set out to beat Hitler in 1940, the dream world would soon come to our hands. Lastly, and perhaps most important of all, let us return to God. These last forty years we have drifted away too far, led astray by 'realism' and 'practical living'. Let us return to the fold and guide our lives by His princi- ples and no others. To accomplish this task we have one great weapon- the inherent goodness of man. I love people. I am sure that the good far, far outweighs the bad. Simplicity is

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TRINITY COLLEGE SCHOOL ,RECORD 11 for several years, and yet one of his chief pleasures was to assemble young people and acquaint them with the habits of his feathered friends and their places in nature's design. Boys and girls who were fortunate enough to pro- fit from his generous gift of time, and they were numerous, found an interest in life which will remain with them. It is safe to say these pupils never added to the ranks of way- ward and mischief-making children. They had something wholesome to claim their attention in the love of nature instilled in them by the master teacher during his spare moments. While students of juvenile problems are search- ing for remedies, they might very profitably consider the work and example of Dr. Saunders. The aged Londoner who at 82 years still had the vision of youth belonged to a family which has done a great deal for science. The late Sir Charles Saunders, honoured be- cause of his contribution of Marquis wheat to the wealth of the Prairies, was a brother. Both found a field of ser- vice in Canada's great outdoors, where the opportunities seem endless for those willing to look and learn. fReprinted from the Globe and Mail, Toronto- A HOPE TO DIE FOR lThe following letter was written by a young English- man who was killed in his first battle in the North African campaign. Before the war he was an undergraduate at New College, Oxford. The letter was printed recently in the London Spectator.J .... I should like you to know what it is I died for, and for that reason I am going to try to express my feel- ings and hopes. There is, I feel, both in England and America a tremendous surge of feeling, a feeling which, for Want of a better word, I shall call 'goodness'. It is not expressed by the politicians or the newspapers, for it is far too deep for them. It is the heartfelt longing of all the

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TRINITY COLLEGE SCHOOL RECORD 13 stronger than cynicism and kindness than cruelty. Let the power of the world be in the hands not of the rich or of the poor, the old or the young, but the simple, the honest and the good. They are to be found in all classes, all creeds and all ages, but, and so often, their very good- ness holds them back. That is what I am fighting for ..... -G.v.M. ONLY BY SACRIFICE CAN WE ACHIEVEH Part of an Address to the 1943 Graduating Class of Queen's University Given by the Principal, Dr. R. C. Wallace You go out into a world that is asking, even demand- ing, that you give all that you have to meet a peril. It is not only a menace of guns and armed men that we face. It is an insidious and penetrating attack on the things that We believe to be true and honest and of good report. There is an assault from Within and from without. The enemy must be beaten, and decisively beaten. You will give your material aid on the battle front or in the factory. You will give your moral support through the strength of your convictions. The one is of little avail Without the other. If we are armed with strong purpose to see to it that decency and kindliness and respect for others must pre- vail in the World, our sword will be strong indeed. If we are filled with a high enthusiasm for righteousness, and put our wills and our strength to the task, right will win the day. You are fortunate in matching your qualities of mind and spirit with the needs of the hour. Already your comrades of yesteryear are achieving feats of heroism and endurance that shine like stars in the night. You are of the same breed. What they have done, you will do. Of that we are assured.