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

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A MESSAGE FROM THE PRESIDENT To t-he Members of the Graduating Classes: NCE more it is my privilege to address you in the name of the whole University and to congratulate you on passing another milestone in your career. You are about to enter more immediately the battle-field of life. During your undergraduate course you have already enjoyed much of the keenness of livingg you now go forward with reasonable equipment to face the broader problems of a country singularly favoured in situation, in material resources and, I hope, in public spirit. I trust that you will all speedily find your opportunity for work and service and find it in this Dominion. During the year we have carried on our academic work under the shadow of the European crises. These have added to the urgency of the call to be serious and to redeem the time because the days are evilv. The future is still clouded. Even though Canada can go on with her work without the overhanging pall of fear in her daily life, she is vitally involved in any world- struggle of the future. She is part of the British Empire and of the British Commonwealth of Nations. She is one of the few remaining free democracies of the world. She cannot be neutral. Professor Wrong in his recent book, The Canadians , aptly puts the case: To attack Canada is to attack also the British Commonwealth, and to attack the British Commonwealth is also to attack her, whatever protests in some quarters this opinion may arouse. To attack Canada is also to attack the United States, which could not afford to have on its northern frontier a powerful assailant of Canada. It would be ignoble of Canada to fall back supinely on such defences, and to fail to take her fair share in creating the guarantees against fear. Canada will stand on guard for herself, for the Empire and for the sacred cause of justice and the freedom of the world . You are leaving the halls of your Alma Mater at a time when no one, man or woman, can escape the responsibilities of citizens-hip and of safeguarding free, just and honourable government in our own country and wherever sane democracy is still to be found. The State has a right to expect special service from University graduates, a large share of the cost of whose education it defrays. Your University has sought to help you to win a disciplined mind, widened interests and an enriched imagination. It has stimulated you to think, to think strenuouslyg to form balanced judgments, and then to act decisively. The supreme gift you can offer God, your country, your University, your fellows, is yourself. Courage, discipline, eihciency and leadership are as necessary to a democracy as to a dictatorship, and will be used, we believe, in a better cause. If I may adapt Browning's words in Pafracelsus, you devote yourself, you have a life to give . But Education can be a bulwark of democ- racy only so far as educated' men and women take part in public affairs. Our liberties which we took for granted are now ta cause for which we must fight: the fundamentals of free and godly living, which once seemed platitudes, are now a challenge to defend them. These are great and strenuous d'ays for new crusaders. Youth and maturity must combine forces in the great cause. Remember your University and help her in her work wheresoever she needs you: she will always follow your career with pride and good will. God j O1 President. bless and guide you!