University of Alberta - Evergreen and Gold Yearbook (Edmonton, Alberta Canada)

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5 DR. W. A. R. KERR, M.A., PH.D., LL.D., CHEV. LEG. D,H., o.1.P: President of the University of Alberta ERITAS Veritas te liberabit Quaecumque sunt vera These are the mottoes of three universitfes known throughout the world. One word is common to them all, one of the noblest words in a tongue that was for centuries the othcial speech of civilized mankind. Since their foundation seven hundred yCl1S ago all universitiees worthy of the name have devoted their scholarship to the quest for the truth. They have gone boldly and conhdently forward, head high, wherever this ideal may have led them, but nevertheless believing courageously that the search for truth can only lead man to an ever enlarging control over nature, to larger freedom of action and to larger tranquility of mind. The immense advancement of learning since the day of Roger Bacon is proof of the onward and up- ward march of man in his efforts to liberate himself from the moral and physical shackles into which, untold ages ago, our race was so mysteriously born. A generation since no one would have gugssed that in our time the whole body of doctrine, demo- cratic, economic and Christian, on which our world has so long and aspiringly revolved was to be ignorantly challenged and savagely attacked. In the place of truth as an ultimate goal we are offered lies and treacheryg instead of mercy and compassion, we are offered Cru elty and cynicismg in lieu of honor we are offered dis- honor. These are the hideous crudities that have forced the English speaking nations to throw themselves once more into the breach, grimly determined to destroy root and branch the bestial cult of Naziism, which, if human life is to be worth living in the long future, must at whatever cost be stamped upon and finally burnt out. This is the hard and relentless task of the youth of today, as it was that of the youth of yesterday. It must be so for miracles are ceas'dg And therefore we must needs admit the means How things are perfected. Shakespeare-King Henry the Fifth.