United Colleges - Vox Yearbook (Winnipeg, Manitoba Canada)

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taken on as Assistant Professor at Dartmouth College in New England. Ten ' j ears after my Oxford days, while watch¬ ing the working of the Austrian imperial system, I began to see what my tutor had been driving at when setting me the essay subjects he did on the Roman Empire. At the time I had tried, without much success, to find the answers in books—now I was to get them, at least in part, from actual life. Another ten years, set to teach the History of Civilisation to third year Dart¬ mouth men, I found myself forced to make them see that the roots of all their ideas and institu¬ tions lay deep in the past. No easy matter for men who didn’t want to believe that anything of importance had happened before Lincoln’s day, or at best Washington’s. I learned far more than they did. It was a case of getting beneath the surface; of coming to grips with the “causes of things”—Vergil’s immortal phrase. Only on this level can we have knowledge. As Socrates saw long ago everything else is only “opinions”—not worth much in the clinch. By dine of effort I got at Dartmouth some historical background for what the years in Europe had been as an experience. This was now to be of priceless value when, in 1935. I was asked to come to the University of London for Polish Studies. For this narrower field the whole of what I had been doing through the years was to prove an indispensable framework. At fifty I was to begin my real job, and my fitness for it even at that age was very shaky. I was just coming to grips with things when, four years later, the Second War broke out, and upset everything. The more so as in September, 1939, I had to take over the Direction of the School of Slavonic Studies, an administrative job from which I did not get free until 1947. This left me three quiet years to enjoy teaching before retiring on the age limit in 1950. That meant coming home. In review, it looks as though I had always been about ten years behind the times. In Oxford I was just ready to begin when I had to leave. In London I was just getting hold of my field when it was time to retire. Does that make sense? Is not the whole picture one of bits and pieces? In a way yes, but such is life. The only decision that I could really call my own during these years was that of 1912. From then on my wife and I were in a real sense the creatures of fate—we did the thing that seemed to be thrust upon us; we had no choice. But I want to draw two lessons from it all: i. For all worth-while work time is of the essence. What’s done in a hurry is of the devil!, says a Polish proverb. It is worth nothing. Im¬ patience will ruin everything. Eagerness and enthusiasm—-yes; but coupled with a realisation that while mushrooms mature in a night, oak trees take a hundred years. ii. A corollary of the above. It is true that we must think our way into our living if the latter is to be of any value, if it is to last the course. But it is also true that we must live our way into our thinking. Experience is a precious part of all knowledge, a condition of all true under¬ standing. Unless he is a moron, any man can become learned: only those who face life over many years can become wise. All this looks like an admission of cultural determinism. So be it! Only let us not think that this means in any way a denial of person¬ ality. In the past it is people that have counted: the future will not be different. —WILLIAM J. ROSE. ’05. A helpful hint. . . Call by Number You save time on out-of-town calls when you give the Long Distance operator the number you want. Write down the out-of-town numbers you already know. If there ' s a new number you don ' t have—or an old one you ' ve forgotten—be sure to add it to your list when the operator gives it to you. Manitoba Telephone System 10

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