University of Toronto Engineering Society - Skule Yearbook (Toronto, Ontario Canada)

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A WORD FROM THE DEAN Soon those of you in this year ' s graduating class will be leaving the lecture rooms and laboratories that have become so familiar over the past four years, and entering upon the practice of the profession for which you have been preparing yourselves. What will you take with you? You will take, of course, some knowledge of the particular branch of engineering you have been studying, and a realization that you have only begun to learn. You will take an appreciation of how to discern and characterize accurately the problems you will face, and how to try to solve them. You will take an appreciation of your fellow man learned in the free-and-easy give-and-take of student life, and in extra-curricular activities of many sorts, which constitute an essential part of academic life. You will take a love of learning for its own sake, and a taste for aspects of life and learning outside the strict confines of your profession. You will take many other things and, in addition, the very best wishes of the staff and our continued interest in your welfare. To those in the Junior Years I should like to quote from an editorial in the January 21st issue of Toike Oike . The other day a friend of ours, who will graduate this year, was telling us how glad he would be to get away from this place. In fact, he had counted the days left in the term. We asked him if he didn ' t think that about a year from now he would look back on Skule days and remember a few things that weren ' t so bad. ' Four years of sweat! ' was his reply. The conversation ended there. But as we went different ways, we couldn ' t help but feel sorry for this poor fellow. For if he had spent four years here, and that was all he had to show for it, he had been short-changed. And the saddest part about it is that this fellow, and those like him, have short-changed themselves. Those are true words, and not at all in conflict with the fact that your central purpose and endeavour must be to achieve academic excellence. As indicated in the remarks I have made to the graduating year, see that you take away when your turn comes something more than academic standing, critically important though that is. r. r. McLaughlin, DEAN FACULTY OF APPLIED SCIENCE AN ENGINEERING 9

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A WORD FROM OUR PRESIDENT Gentlemen of the Engineering Society: Here at Skule we have a model of Canadian Society itself. Functioning as a community of some 2000 persons we are faced to some degree, with most of the problems Canadian Society meets. We have our charity drives, our elections, and our volunteer activities for the enjoyment of the masses of our model of Society. We all enjoy equality of opportunity. We have the job of education to complete and our obligation as citizens of the community to fulfill. We have within our grasp, the opportunity to practice the democratic ideals under which our country exists. On my right you see the members of the Executive of the Engineering Society. They, acting as your elected executive, have devoted time and energy throughout the year to produce, for your enjoy- ment, all the Skule activities such as the Society social functions, general society meetings, club functions, noon hour speeches and films, chariot races, and so on. They are responsible for offering you supplies in our own buildings at reasonable prices; producing our publications — Toike Oike and the Yearbook; and all the things which make Skule life an enjoyable one. But, just as the head needs a body to do its bidding, your Executive is powerless to perform its power function without our Joes . To the Joes and those who have participated and partaken of the Society endeavours, many thanks. Apathy is a disease, deadly to the ideals of our way of life. Those of us who leave to enter a new Society leave you the embers of our efforts. They are yours to fan into greater service or to let cool into obscurity. It would be ironic, however, if the leaders of the freest nations of the world, failed their maiden test in democratic fundamentals. R. B. SCHAEFF, President. 11