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

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3 5 THIS FORTY-SEVENTH VOLUME OF TORONTONENSIS IS DEDICATED WITH REVERENCE AND AFFECTION TO THE HON. and REV. HENRY JOHN CODY C.M.G., E.D.. MA.. D.D., LLD., D.C.L., F.R.S.C. Who for thirteen years has embodied the moral idea of the University as President, and whose elevation to the Chancellorship upon his retirement caps fittingly sixty years' distinguished connection with his Alma Mater. E41

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EDITGRIAL VVl1y Is Torontonensis? Torontonensis, numbing tome, Wfhere Themes and Dedications roam, Pasquale D'Angelic attitudes And biographic platitudes. . . HAT is the indictment of a mere book of record, on whose miscellaneous pages the harassed editor has tried to impose such continuity as he might. We have tried to do more. We have tried to make it more than a book of record- rather, a teeming slice of University life. Une part, the essential part, of Uni- versity life, has grown merged inextric- ably with ourselves. The other part, the accidental, pleasurable round of en- counters, books, debates, April sunlight, dusky October evenings, initiations, plays, prodigious discussions, will rap- idly coalesce beyond detailed recall into a sort of four years' glow, no more dis- tinct than a distant wedding-day rap- ture. It is this latter side of campus life that Torontonensis should aid us to recall. u 4. For nearly half a century Toronton- ensis has been seizing and embalming the attitudes, the aspirations, the activities of a host of graduating students, ulike bridal garments folded away in a linen -2 press to molder until their rediscovery provokes a flood of memories. We have tried to seize more: more of the real and joyous. And we have tried to avoid embalming it. In as lively a vol- ume as the often intractable material would permit, we have tried by informal pictures, by brittle, stimulating commen- tary, by exciting layouts. to retain all that was lively and keep it alive and refreshing. Vlfe know we have not more than partly succeeded, but we think we have not altogether failed. In twenty years. in fifty. may this volume of Torontonensis recall memories as priceless, and seem to you as exciting and alive, as it does to us, the editors, now.

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To The Graduating Classes: FOR probably the last time as President of this University I have the privilege of addressing you in this message. We do not know when or how the war in Europe will close, but we are confident that our just cause will i11 due course be crowned with success. Cod will defend the right. Into what kind of world will you enter when you leave the Univer- sity? Will it be a hard world or an easy world? After every great global struggle, the period of reconstruction or of improving conditions is inevitably hard. You will need courage, venturesomeness, hopefulness and faith to face this future. May yo11 do this with full confidence and success. Security will never drive out the need of adventure and determination, if we wish to retain or to achieve strength of soul and mind. You have enjoyed at the University great opportunities and high privileges. You will now think rather of your duties and responsibilities. All we now possess bears the hall-mark of blood, it has been purchased and maintained for us by the sacrifice of others. How can we be worthy of this price paid? The war has given a fresh demonstration of the value of the univer- sity to the state, in days of peace what can Canada expect from her university-trained men? The state should have the right to expect from you: 1. The leadership which ample knowledge and clear thinking make possible. 2. Some service in public life as citizens, even though it be unpleasant. 3. Some expert knowledge in the solution of national, political, social, industrial and educational problems. 4. Some skill in piercing shams, superficial or misleading phrases and slogans. 5. T horough, honest, hard work in whatever field of life you choose as your own. 6. Integrity of character and conduct. 7. The development of a sense of duty, of moral responsibility. 8. Wise planning for the unity of Canada, on the basis of common citizenship and common responsibility in the building up of a great community of free, intelligent and upright men and women. May I sum up by asking you to link yourselves to some great causes, to give some definite service to the state and the community, to seek above all things the development of personality-our most priceless possession, to remember with practical loyalty your Alma Mater, to make our country worthy of its opportunities, to fear Cod and keep His commandments. G 0' President and Chancellor of the U71iU67'5ify of Toronto. I 5 l