University of Toronto - Torontonensis Yearbook (Toronto, Ontario Canada)

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To the Graduating Classes of 1921: ,ugvm AM told that the keynote for Torontonensis in the year 1921 is to be Progress, and, therefore, in my 9337, , idea in the forefront. You are going out into a world -- A which has been disillusioned in regard to many of its ideals. One of the most prominent of these was Progress. Up till the War our Western civilization assumed that humanity was bound to progress towards a goal in which mankind would have reached a high measure of perfection. To-day, many voices are raised to question whether there is such a goal in sight. The idea of Progress is a modern one, but it was often interpreted in terms of material advancement indicated by the vast industrial develop- ment based upon the extension of scientific knowledge. Such advancement, however, does not in any sense give a complete definition of Progress. If we are to hold to the idea after all that we have gone through and are going through at present, we must interpret Progress in terms of man's control of himself and of the diffusion of those virtues which will make human society happier and more reasonable. ln spite of the darkness of the present and the suffering of the immediate past, we should not abandon hope in a brighter future, especially we who have had the advantages of a University education. It is upon you who are graduating, and students of Universities the world over, that the higher hopes of a better humanity depend. May you go out with strong optimism and high courage, believing that although Progress is slow, although wisdom lingers while knowledge grows, illumination is gradually spreading throughout the worldg may you continue to have high hopes to the end of your career and to be among those who will help to realize the dreams of the good and true who have gone before us. 'ii . . . Q4 message to the graduating classes I wish to put this v. 4 iiilfjf' . M President, University of Toronto December 17th, 1920. 4

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