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

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You have set for yourselves summits of attainment. You will now continue your climb. You will find the footing difficult. That will not discourage you as you realize that you must gain from difficulty experience for the higher reaches. You will be undecided on occasion about the path to follow. Yet you will not be daunted as you pause and seek the counsel of the master guides of all ages and climes whose acquaintance you made in the University. The light will sometimes be poor, yet you will be unafraid as you use the lamp of truth. You will often be alone but you will not be lonesome as you recall the abiding fellowship of those from whom you have learned. You will not suffer for long from the cold as you call on the warm friendship of class-mates. May you keep your balance as gusts of prejudice, bigotry and superstition beat upon you. May you find shelter under the Rock of Ages as avalanches of fear crash down the mountain side. The higher you climb the harder you must strive. You will not turn back. May you never be so successful that you will stop trying. As you attain one peak you will see new ranges of achievement beckoning to you. As I write this message on New Year's Eve at the mid-century mark, I would pray that graduates of the University of Toronto should scale during the next fifty years the mountain tops which, at a Yuletide over a century ago, Tennyson saw. Those peaks are still unoccupied- Ring out false pride in place and blood, The civic slander and the spite, Ring in the love of truth and right, Ring in the common love of good. Ring out old shapes of foul disease, b Ring out the narrowing lust of gold, Ring out the thousand wars of old, Ring in the thousand years of peace. 7

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The Graduating Classes