United College Collegiate - Tric Tics Yearbook (Winnipeg, Manitoba Canada)

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THE YEAR BOOK STAFF G. W. Thorn Geo. H. Lee, Business Manager Geo. Hanson R. F. Yule J. T. Whittaker Beth McKay P. C. Tees. Cartoonist J. O. McLenaghen H. R. Campbell Nellie L . Graham C. T. Thomas Fred D. Baragar, Editor-in-chief T. W. Lavvlor Page 101 mmmmk

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The community makes possible the University man. He is the product of his civilization. All that have ever been before contribute to him. All that constitute his environment support him. What he is he owes to his community. And his whole life spent in the service of the community cannot fully liquidate that debt. The University man is a man of knowledge, the University is a storehouse of the world’s knowledge, its library hoards the treasures of the world’s wisdom, its text books make this wisdom available. Its professors are the trained exponents of the world’s knowledge. Its students furnish the University man with the raw material for that which, after all, is the supreme study of man, namely mankind. Thus the University man acquires knowledge, and ,acquiring knowledge, becomes strong, for knowledge is power. And becoming strong, he assumes the obligations of the strong. The University is a training ground. More important than knowledge is discipline. The physical and mental and moral athletics furnished by University life serve to make a man master of his powers. By discipline he is enabled to bring his physical, mental and moral equip¬ ment to bear. His course in human gymnastics, his friction with his kind, discipline him till he adds to his debt of strength the element of efficiency. But the University is more than a gymnasium. It is a school of cul¬ ture. In the process of acquiring knowledge and efficiency the University man is coming to know himself and to know himself in relation to his world, to his kind. He begins to enquire into the purpose of his being, and he is forced to face the question that becomes sooner or later in¬ evitable to every strong and effective man, namely, “to what end shall I direct these disciplined powers of mine, to the service of self or to the service of others?” The University and University life become to the man an opportunity of culture, culture whose characteristic feature is a sensitiveness to all that is finest in the universe and responsiveness to the deepest needs of mankind. This culture expresses itself in devotion to the noblest ideals and in effort to translate these ideals into the actuali¬ ties of the world’s daily life. A man’s highest ideal is God and a man’s noblest purpose is to translate God into the life of humanity. Thus the University man adds to his debt of strength and efficiency that of culture in its finest and highest type, and culture means character. How can he pay this debt? Not to the Past, for it lies buried be¬ neath the dust of the ages. To the Present and even more to the Future can he pay what he owes. His world, his community stand desperately in need of him. No matter in what department his knowledge and training lie, the best he has is sorely needed. Has he passed through the labora¬ tories of medical science? The sicknesses, the diseases of mankind, with all their mysterious causes and their infinite variations in the individual, call for all that is best in his knowledge, in his discipline, in his character. Is the University man an engineer? His country’s problems of construc¬ tion demand his best. Has his field of study been that of agriculture? How vast is the scope of service that opens to him. And, no matter what the department in which he has specialized, he will find in his community opportunities many and varied to assume something of its burdens and to solve somewhat of its complicated problem of life The University man who decides to serve himself assumes the role of the ingrate son who, with deliberate and cruel selfishness, abandons his aged mother, to w T hose long and patient sacrifice he owes his success, to her poverty, her sorrow, her despair. The University man who holds himself as the debtor of his community and willingly and loyally seeks to serve his time and his world will find, not only that his rewards are rich and ample in the gratitude and love of his fellows, but that in himself, in his growing strength, in his more perfect discipline and in his nobler culture he is reaping man’s greatest reward.

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