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

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Q To the Graduating Classes of the University of Toronto O the members of the Graduating Classes of 1931 I send my greetings. May you discover as the years pass that the time you have spent at the University will have been pregnant with good for you, and that what these years have given you will increase in value. It is trite to remark that you will have ups and downs, sometimes success, again reversals of fortune, but in the varying experiences your real possession will, I hope, grow in value. In spite of misfortune and the dangerous undermining which great prosperity often brings, you will always have your mind and character, whatever they may be. You look out upon life from your own life within. I do not say that you are likely to become so philosophical as to be independent of external goods. But I do say that this inner room of your life, the sanctum where you are at home, is by far the most important place of abode for you. And it is this inner room that you have begun to furnish while you have been at the Univer- sity. The possession of a competent mind, an established character, and serene wisdom comes at the end of a long career. But to have made a beginning in these requirements and to keep on adding to them throughout the years is at once a supreme satisfaction and a realizable hope. All this I wish for you.

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BC UK U SENICRS When an ordinary young man receives his degree from the University . . . l do not believe his heart is in any way filled with gratitude. Un the contrary. ll suspect that the average graduate, being young, and therefore not always using a polisheel expression. says to himself something like this: 'These oltl beggars have set me all the posers they ean and they have not been able to plough HIC., -The Right Honuurnlzle the lviSl'0Ill1I IJIIIIPIHII.

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