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

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Qi 1 we A D O To the Graduating Classes of the University of Toronto T IS with a twinge of regret that I write for TORONTONENSIS my final words of greeting to a graduating year in the University of Toronto. But it is of you that I am thinking, not of myself, and my message must, in the nature of the case, be similar to the many that have gone before. Happy am l to see you in your companies make ready for the world that lies in front of you. The thought of your health, intelligence, character, and initiative refreshes me. Faith, hope and not least, charity are needed to meet the old world-cynical, pessimistic and very often selfish as it has been and still is. You will grapple with and l believe worst its dominating spirit of evil if you only make up your mind to do so. Do not assume for a moment that your generation need be as difficult and disappointing as ours has been. Those who talk thus are the disillusioned left-overs from our time. hlany of them also have been grievously injured in the crash of our social system, and naturally they are unhappy when they see few signs of old things being restored. But that old age has gone, and I almost venture to say to you, Behold! a new one is already coming in. You are on the threshold, l believe, of something better, and among the signs of it is hope, which, like violets blooming on cold ground in spring, is breaking through and persisting in the chill weather of our age. It will be worth all our worry if for a while we shall not find it quite so easy to make money as it was. As the world fills up with people and its material resources are seized upon by larger masses of men, there will be less to go round, and then we shall cease to talk as much as we do now of standards of living in terms of dollars. VVhen we get better distribution no one will be able to amass vast quantities, and provided the fear of penury can be removed, possibly we may be relieved of the present delusion that great wealth is a real good. That materialistic idea having been got out of the way, there will be a chance for new and better things to come into and enrich our life. And if we can attain simplicity of living-for to enjoy a simple life needs education and effort-there will be an even greater demand on the part of the world for just those gifts of the mind and the spirit which graduates of universities can con- tribute to the common good. ln the coming age of greater justicevnot in the sense that everyone shall have the same wages or enjoy the same amount of material goods, but greater justice in the attitude of man to man-a token of that justice will be the wider distribution of the blessings of the mind and the spirit. Universities will become more beneficial than ever, because from them will go forth men and women who will carry things that are true, beautiful and good to gladden the earth. l can hope for nothing better for you than that you will help to bring in and prove equal to the better age that is on the way. Q D Q: 4 rf at 1 lo

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