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

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' A Message from the President To the Members of the Graduating Classes: REETING and good wishes! All too rapidly the years fly past and the freshman has become a grave and reverend senior, ending one chapter of his education and looking forward to the stern chapters of life's active experience. A university degree should mean that the graduate is interested in general ideas, that he will not accept or reject an idea until he has sought to understand itg that he is made capable of philosophy , that he desires to get down to the roots of mattersg that he has come to learn the significance of things in their universal relationships. I hope that the University has stimu- lated, and trained you to think, not necessarily to think alike, but at least to think strenuously about the great issues of right and wrong, of liberty and government, on which thinking for the individual and the community depends that balanced judgment which is vital to all noble and reasonable living. We cannot have today in our land too many citizens possessed of that combination of knowledge and sound judgment which it is one of the University's chief aims to provide. The aim, indeed, of all education is to enable you to do three things: Cab to make a living, tbl to live a life, and Ccj to mould a world. It is a worthy ambition to fit one's self to earn a living. This the Univer- sity has tried to help you to do. I hope that you will soon find a field for your trained abilities in this Dominion of Canada. The State has helped largely to give you this training and has therefore a right to expect your best service. This country while dowered with great material riches demands hard work, if this wealth is to be discovered, developed and conserved, but it is a country worth working for, a country which cannot stand still unless our own folly, disunion or stupidity retards its growth. It is of still greater importance to make a life, to enrich a personality. To do this is to attain real success. Such an enlargement of life is a good in itself. You carry away from college halls a disciplined mind, a quickened imagina- tion, a widened sympathy. You are called and trained also to mould a world. Your culture must issue in service. It is a perplexed and perplexing world in which we live and which we must influence. A great British pro-consul, the Earl of Cromer, once gave this advice to a group of English youths: Tell the truth, love your country, donit dawdlef' In these three ways you can help to mould your age. The Universities of Canada are bonds of national unity, training-places for national service, and windows which afford an international outlook. No nation today can live in isolation, much less can a member of the British Empire. The famous English historian, Professor G. IVI. Trevelyan, in the latest edition of his history of England, aptly and truly says: In spite of all our country's errors, the world's best hopes still rest on her. To safeguard all that is best in our heritage and traditions will be your sacred duty. You are called on to defend our democracy from dangers within and dangers with- out. Earl Baldwin well expressed your privilege and your responsibility: You are in charge of all our honour and all our hopesf' Both university and country make this same appeal to you. Don't stand apart from age and maturity. Age needs you and you need age. Let us strive together for the common good, for peace among men of good-will, for building the Kingdom of God on earth. In the name of this University, your alma mater, I wish you Godspeed and good success. Love the brotherhood, fear God, honour the King. 15th March, 1938. President,

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