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

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UNIVERSITY COLLEGE SIDNEY E. SMITH hi... M.A., LL.B., LL.D., D.L.L. Plmlo by Karslz T is indeed for me a privilege and an honour to extend to the graduates of 4T5 the felicitations and best wishes of University College. Your welcome to me, your co-operation, your conduct and your academic altainments have made me happy and proud to be a member of no mean company-the Royal College. You will be told that you are putting forth to stormy seas. That is true. But you will not be daunted. When did Canadian youth evade adventure or dodge danger? While the storm raged outside. you. in the harbour of the College, have been studying principles of seamanship. equipping your craft, loading them with provisions of knowledge for your busy and leisure hours. fitting their sails and plotting their courses. Now you are about to cast off. Some fair winds will favour youg sometimes your seamanship will be tested by adversity. If you keep a sharp look-out, you will recognize, and be guided by. tl1e lighthouses, beacons and buoys described by your teachers. The farther from the harbour you sail, the more you should study the charts which are available. Un occasion, however. you will be obliged to depend on your own soundings and bearings. You alone must accept the responsibility of piloting your ships, but you need not travel alone. You may appoint as officers of the watch those great souls to whom you have been introduced by your teachers and with whom, through their writings, you have communed. During your voyage, you should sign as members of your crews other intellectual and spiritual leaders. May devotion to duty, steadfastness and courage be emblazoned on the pennants flying from your mast-heads. May you steer always by the pole-star of truth. I6I

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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

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i UNIVERSITY COLLEGE PERMANENT EXECUTIVE, 1945 LEFT TO RIGHT: Benson Orenstein, President: Joan Ebbels. Associate President: Elizabeth Anderson, Secretaryq Norman Walker, Treasurer. A Message from the Class of 4-T5 O University College. we shall for- ever owe a debt. for facilitating an association of students from all walks of life. Indeed. our college has been right- fully named. for universal it is in the most liberal sense. For the past four years we have had the privileged oppor- tunity of studying the liberal arts. More important has been the example of a way of life that we of University College may extend to all as an ideal. In a non-sectarian college. students of diversified cults. religions. and national- ities have proven how simple it is to for- get the differences of their fellows and accept the best of each in order to enrich our democratic way of life. Reviewing our undergraduate days shows us how co-operation, and tl1e understanding of 7 our differences. have made our college outstanding in every field of endeavor. Wfe can well boast of our achievements in athletics. with the numerous cham- pionships added to our college list. Wie can be proud of the success of our Fol- lies. the friendly spirit of the Red and W7hite. the atmosphere of Parliament. All our great college events resulted from that U.C. spirit and from the ability of everyone to get behind a common cause. Now that we are graduating into the University of the World . we can take forward all that we have learned. The lesson we should well remember and teach. is that of a true democratic under- standing of all our fellow citizens. re- gardless of race or creed. in order that we may build a better and happier world.