United Colleges - Vox Yearbook (Winnipeg, Manitoba Canada)

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UNITED COLLEGE

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Our Constant Jlim — The Lowest Prices in Canada That is not an idle boast. We do try—always—to sell books as cheaply as can possibly be done. Long experience and sound policies enable us to supply books to students at incredibly low prices. All Required Textbooks Reference Books College Outline Books Bibles Dictionaries Loose Leaf Notebooks General Stationery Engineering Drawing Supplies Dissecting Sets Laboratory Supplies The Student ' s Store—owned and operated by the University, for the College Students of Winnipeg. CANADA ' S GREATEST COLLEGE STORE THE UNIVERSITY OF MANITOBA BOOK DEPARTMENT Three Stores: BROADWAY BLDG. 200 MEMORIAL BOULEVARD MEDICAL BLDG. BANNATYNE AVE. FORT GARRY BUS TERMINAL

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jC ocbhavt JH essacje William Faulkner, Nobel prize-winning novelist, recently expressed his confidence in humanity by affirming that out of every failure of the human drama, there arises “always a handful who decline to be convinced by failure, who believe still, that human problems can be solved.” These are not only encouraging words to hear at a time when the voices heard on every side warn us of impending doom. They are suggestive of where our hope lies for the future. Faulkner reminds us of the importance of the few who refuse to yield to despair; of the significance of the handful who do not succumb to failure and who will not admit defeat. He sees this minority as providing the core of resistance to those forces of hopelessness and cynicism which render man helpless. To him, as long as there are those who believe that the prob¬ lems of man can be resolved, the indomitable spirit in man will find a way to establish brother¬ hood and peace. The cynic replies with the retort that this bravado on the part of man is only the futile gesture of those who whistle in the dark to keep up their courage. Man, he says, is doomed to destroy himself by his own wilfulness and stupidity and no expression of confidence in his own ability to resolve his problems offer any real hope. With this we might agree if Faulkner means that man has within himself the resources that will enable him to master himself and his future. Certainly, there is little evidence, from the long record of man’s historic trek on this planet, to inspire confidence in man’s ability to resolve his problems. He has learned in large measure how to master nature. He appears, however, to have learned little about self-mastery, or how to establish a pattern of communal life that would ensure brotherhood and peace. But, if Faulkner means that we believe in man and his ability to yet resolve the problems that beset his common life because we believe that man has been created with a stamp of eternal purpose upon him, and, that he has been set in this world to share its bounties with his brethren, then we could say with Faulkner, that man will survive because it is God’s will and purpose that he should. He will survive and be enabled to establish his domain in brotherhood and peace on this earth because God created him to this end. God will not surrender him to his own self-destruction. God keeps alive in His children the dream of a nobler life and He continually nourishes and strengthens that dream into action by bolstering the purpose and faith of those who will not despair. My sincere hope and prayer is that United College may be the kind of place where you find intelligent grounds for that faith and that hope; the place where you may gain that kind of courage, that will enable you to prevail against all cynicism. May you be numbered among those who remain irreconciled with the prophets of despair and un¬ dismayed by the purveyors of hopelessness. —WILFRED LOCKHART 2