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

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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.

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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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UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LITERARY AND ATHLETIC SOCIETY BACK ROW: T. M. Stitt, Secretary-Treasurerg R. C. Marjoribanks, Treasurerg G. G. McCaffrey, Third Year Presiderztg D. L. Goldberg, Fourth Year Presidentg E. J. Michasiw, Second Year Presidentg A. J. Foster, First Year Presidentg F. G. Garner, Secretary. FRONT ROW: A. Siegel, Social Directorg R. G. Shepherd, Publicity Directorg R. W. Bell, Presidentg A. T. Van Every B.A., Honorary Presidentg B. Orenstein, Literary Director: V. E. Purcell. Athletic Director. University College Literary and Athletic Society OUND the panelled walls of the historic U.C. Junior Common Room march year after year the gilded names of successive MLit', Executives. Its slate of officers periodically shuffled from decade to decade, the uLit'i this year made another organizational change. per- petuated on the walls for posterity the title of another brand-new office: that of Publicity Director. Press-agent for a bewildering multi- plicity of College events, Publicist Ralph Shepherd had a hectic year. Leading off the parade was the Soph-Frosh Banquet. traditional climax of freshman initiation. which was staged in the Crystal Ballroom of the King Edward Hotel. Here Prin- cipal Smith addressed the incoming frosh, made his memorable division of students into three classes: low and lazy. broad and hazy. high and crazy. 8 Mopping his brow. Shepherd next plunged into Follies Pressagentry, spread campus-wide the germs of Follies Fever. Two old events rechristened were additional publicity headaches: the Joint Meetings. which took on new glamour. sported a more highbrow pro- gram. as WRed and White Nightswg and the spring Arts Ball, revitalized this year with a Latin motif. an auxiliary rhumba orchestra. and a castanet-clattering solo- ist. under the name of G'Fiesta . Spurred by a Shepherd-sponsored P. A. System. hordes of Royal Collegians thronged the stadium to see the Red and Wliite team carry off the Mulock Cup from a heavily-favoured School Team. Exuberant. they snitched the famed School cannon. later declared War when School snitched it back. As the spring leaves budded. Shepherd took a deep breath. turned to his books. It had been a successful year.