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

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fur, Ulllilll if '6- 4RB5Q 'ji A ' -- I N if HEN we came back last fall we were seniors and we could hardly believe it, for We did not feel as old or as wise or as competent as seniors had always seemed to be. We achieved athletic distinction this year when the rugby team defeated S.P.S. for the first time in history, and we finished high in the race for intramural sport supremacy. This was the busiest year of all, and in many ways the saddest. Added to the sadness of leaving and the usual problems of what to do after graduation, were the abnormal Worries and responsibilities arising from the increasing gravity of the war. Many hours a week we devoted to military training, and one by one our friends slipped away to join the fighting ranks. To look ahead seemed almost futile, for only con- fusion lay there. It seemed scarcely possible when we sat down at the Graduation Banquet that our college days were practically over. But no matter what the future may hold in store, nothing will ever erase for us the memory and the meaning of those four years at U.C. QV! 435 A EVE! ' IE E I -A Ao' 2, ff Was 09'

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6 1 ,Q I 'Gio ' F!! E I A to .Q 4RB 09' UNIOR year-the best of them all! War was loose in the world but it was still very remote to us, and life Went on fairly normally here on the campus. We had V ' found our niche, and things ran smoothly, pleasantly, buoyantly. We began to exert some influence in campus affairs, finally succeeding in winning an election to a year office. Even though we had vowed to waste no time thiS year, we found that I'9SiCl9HCG has Sessions, usually starting with religion or politics Z-1DCl Sndlllg OD the opposite SSX, OCCL1pi9d ITIOTE and mgre Of Our leisure hcjyufg as We experi- enced the true comradeship of college days. This was the year We revolutionized the Arts Ball, holding it before Christmas and restoring it to its former position of prominence in the CHmpuS social Sphere. This 'COO WSIS the year When, from a myriad of beautiful co-eds, one shone out with special brilliance-and lo, as the freshness of Spring turned the campus from white to green, we knew we were in love. , cfs- . .mf K-if Dau, 'fil l ie, 15' A iw v -- X 0 .xo 5913599-

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UNIVERSITY COLLEGE to THE GRADUATING CLASS by L Principal Malcolm W. Wallace, B.A., Ph.D. E ARE living in a time of supreme national danger. During these weeks of crisis, the most acute in our long national history, we are conscious of not knowing what the morrow may bring forth. Our daily diet is of horrors. Our newspapers speak of little but of battle by sea, land and air, of the vast armies of men organized to kill their fellows. of the multitudes of refugees who know not whither to turn, and of those who fill the prisons and internment camps of their enemies. Many highly civilized peoples have been reduced to virtual slavery and writhe beneath the callous cruelty of their oppressors. It is strange to reflect that in such a world men are not altogether unhappy, and that we are discovering happiness in places where we had not been accustomed to look for it. Our sense of national unity has probably never been so intense, and we are daily made aware that our most funda- mental riches are those which we hold in common with our fellows and not individually. Daily we are astonished by the capacity and readiness of humble men and women 'to contribute to the common well-being by deeds of heroism and self-sacrifice. And there is a peculiar satisfaction in identifying ourselves with this new world where none is for a party and all are for the state. Englishmen will know one another much better before this war is over. The evacuation of great numbers of city- dwellers, and the sharing of air-raid shelters by rich and poor have been highly educative experiences. Rich and poor have shared a common danger in which they have been intimately acquainted with death. Sharing in common has become the rule of life-sharing in danger, heroism, food and shelter and medical care. and many men are realizing as they had never before realized how vital are the things which unite them, how superficial those that divide them. They have learned to take great pleasure and pride in their fellow-men, and in those co-operative undertakings which seek the well-being of all. Soldiers have always known the satisfaction of this highest kind of patriotic service, and today multitudes of civilians are in the f1'ont line of the battle. As one listens to the Radio News-reel-to a weaver, an admiral, a fisherman, a servant-girl, a cabinet minister. the brother of the Queen, one is conscious chiefly of the common characteristics of the great national family. Only the incurably sceptical can believe that these things will pass away with the coming of peace. This crisis in human history may well mark an epoch in the story of our social and economic progress. We shall not enter the Millennium immediately, but many pre-war injustices and inequalities will seem no longer tolerable. And in the process we may discover new and satisfying kinds of human activity. C