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v l 0 DEDICATION To that vast corps of Torontonensis staff members of the past forty years, in whose anonymous service, symbolic of the true University spirit, may be found that sacrifice of self which is, and will ever be, the world's greatest need. .... The temper in which knowledge is used is often more important than the knowledge itself. No one is going to do his lije-work in a, void .... 'i 11' 3--H DR BRUCE TAYLOR or QUEEN s in message to Torontcmensis 1922 3 sg 'fEf, :.
Those Forty Years It may be that the fiftieth or one hundredth anniversary is more properly the time for such a dedication, such a preface. We are not, however, entirely free agents in this matter: long hours spent over the volumes of other years resting in quiet repose- uncomfortably near oblivion- on the fifth floor of the Library stacks have conditioned our action to a point approaching neces- sity. Yield recognition, pay tribute we must. This is not the place to discuss or attempt a judicious estima- tion ofthe value of Tofrontonensis, or to conduct a searching inquiry into the rightness or wrongness of the very bases of its existence. The first, the only court of trial is with each year's graduating classes: that each year the book has met with approval sufficient to render its continued publication highly desirable-a matter of importance, if not of vital necessity- relegates, perhaps, any con- templated probing of its 'raison d'etre to the limbo of academic exercises. Q A What we would do here is focus attention on the inception and evolution of Torontonemis. Toronto'nensis, remarked The Varsity recently, brings you the world in pictures. The basis for this somewhat exaggerated statement, residing in what appears today to be the distinguishing characteristic of Torontonensis, could not, however, be found to an equal extent in the initial volume of 1898. For Volume I, containing one-half as large and one-half as many pages as this present volume, boasted only some two dozen group photographs- of clubs and class executives. There were no corresponding portraits for the biographies of the ninety-eight men graduating and of the fifty-two women-whose biographies, incidentally, were divided into four groups of thirteen, the pages of
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