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

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VQICN vwf5lC'Nl To the Graduating Class in University College By PRoFEssoR MALCOLM W. WALLACE, B.A., PHD. O WISH you God-speed, if the phrase is to be interpreted as success in a worldly sense, is hardly possible to-day without an uncomfortable feeling that the wish falls somewhat short of perfect sincerity. You are graduating at a time when the disorder of the world shows only faint signs of abating. For the present it is a world which may deny to many of you an op- portunity to pour your energies into those channels to which you are instinctively attracted by your various tastes and capacities. We are beginning to understand that compulsory unemployment is one of the greatest afliictions under which men suffer, and it is a measure of our present disorder that this affliction now selects as its victims, not merely the un- skilled and the ignorant, but a great multitude of those who are specially qualified to contribute to the well-being of society. Many of you will doubtless find more or less satisfactory employ- ment, but I confess that in writing this greeting to the graduating class I am thinking especially of those who may be less fortunate. For you, the immediate future may contain much of disappointment, and you will be tempted to indulge in bitterness and unavailing low spirits. I can say nothing to you that will conjure away this frustration of your hopes, but I can at least recall to your minds the reflections which adversity has always called forth from the wise. Keats was suffering under a much more intolerable burden of frustrated hopes than most of you are likely to experience when he wrote: The first thing that strikes me on hearing of a misfortune having befallen another is this-'Well, it cannot be helped: he will have the pleasure of trying the resources of his spirit'. Bacon declared that the virtue of adversity is fortitude, and indeed there is nothing else that can avail. You will know that the luxury of indulging one's sense of disappointment and regret is futile and weak, and that there is always scope for choice and self-mastery. Many men have converted periods of disappointed hopes into opportunities for fitting themselves more adequately to play their part in the world when opportunity at length presented itself. You are living in the dawn of a great new era in human affairs, and the very necessity of adjusting your- selves to new conditions may be the instrument for developing your characters and capacities. I know that homilies of this kind must seem to you a poor substitute for more substantial prospects, and I am very conscious of the fact that they can be delivered with most effect only by those who are fully sharing your troubles. Nevertheless, all human experience testifies to the wisdom of accepting the inevitable, of making the best of what cannot be helped, and to the high virtue of heroic courage and of a determination to think as clearly and act as wisely as we may when difficulties have gathered thick about us. - .gg 1 'Q fr g.,. V K . V g Eighfeen UNIVERSITY COLLEGE Cm hwiewfe N933

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Cliigivs lvwf5fC'vvn ivpfay Z, UNIVERSITY COLLEGE 3T3 PERMANENT EXECUTIVE J. D. AGNEW 4PresidentJ, MARGARET CONBOY rTreasurerJ, NORAH BOWERS QVice-Presidenta, W. G. Ross fSecretaryJ. Class History of ST3 University College E, ST3, constitute the graduating year of University College. Filled with a spirit , which had its inception in our freshman year, we have carried on striving ever to live up to noble precedents, and determined to leave behind us a record without peer. In almost every phase of University and College activity we have been represented, and have upheld the honour of our College. The success of our year has largely been due to the co-operation of the men and women who have worked together to create an Hesprit de corps which has developed, despite many difficulties. In almost every branch of Athletics you will find 3T3 represented. Our men and women have always striven to do their utmost for their University and College in their respective fields. We have won our share of honours at the track-meets, assaults-at-arms, rowing, basketball, baseball, water polo, rugby. tennis, hockey and soccer. Along the lines of literary endeavour, we have also been well represented. During our four years the Players' Guild has achieved many new successes. Debating has been encouraged and several speakers of ability have developed. We have been responsible for the revival of the U.C. Parliamentary Club and have placed it on a firm basis. Nor have we ignored the academic side of University life because of lesser and seemingly more attractive extra-curricular activities. ln scholarship we have left our mark and have always tried to uphold that scholastic record of which our College is so justly proud. The Undergraduate History of ST3 is now inscribed on the everlasting parchment of time. Four years ago we entered University College as neophytes, full of hope, and anxious to broaden our minds along various lines of learning. Now we have served our period of apprenticeship, and we enter a new field of life filled with the determination to give of our best. Our future success or failure will be determined in later years, but that which we have achieved while at University is now of the past, and is worthy of our Class. UNIVERSITY COLLEGE Nznefeen xe..A4' magcwl 1-2193? I