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

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KARSH OF OTTAWA SIDNEY E. SMITH, QC., M.A., LL.B., D.C.L., F.R.S.C.

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rw. Y , I r 30' -Q 'la' 1' K m fa ' . Hn' ,i ,QW 1 .,L, fw- . v ,.. er. r . .1 mu rv. WZ .Agia Zhjsm .L .aw- ...Rs ss - lf 'A z via , 7, 4 9' ' O H951 n'..e T.,- I . fi 6 f 'i' . immeasurably. DR. HAROLD A. INNIS M.A., PH.D., D.sc. E.c., F.R.s.c. A SHLE Y is-' CRIPPEN b. Nov. 5, 1894 - d. Nov. 8, 1952. y ehinatinn This volume of Torontonensis is affectionately dedicated to the memory of Dr. Harold A. Innis, esteemed teacher, scholar, author, public servant and University administrator whose outstanding con- tribution has increased the prestige of the University of Toronto

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PII 'Q'b 7 I 790. 7 :QW R414 'y f A 5 ARBOR ORONTO, so we are told, is an Indian derivative that means meeting placev. Here, surely, is a happy link with the University. For the University is indeed a meeting place, where the individual can broaden his horizons and enrich his experience in association with new ideas and new people. It is, above all, the human associations that you will come to cherish more dearly with the passing of the years. VVhen much else slips away, you will see on memory's screen many pictures such as the use of mannerisms by a great teacher or the first meet- ing with fellow students who were to become close friends. Your University has been to you, I am confident, au alma mater who has nourished and quickened you. There is, however, no distinctive 'Torontoi imprint. Your University does not seek to turn out a standard type. She believes in the power of individual differences, and she believes also in the Horatian precept, doctrina vim promouet innsitam. Her fondest wish is that she has made it possible for you to develop to the full your own strength of character and mind. At no time have we needed more urgently a tough and informed individualism. VVe need it to throw off the paralysis of fear and the myopia of hysteria. We need it so that we may make valid for our own age the Miltonic aflirinationz Let truth and falsehood grapple, who ever knew truth put to the worse, in a free and open encounterf, It is part of the graduation ritual for banquet orators and University officials to urge you to hitch your wagon to a star. I would not question the soundness of this advice, but, at the same time, I would urge you to keep a pair of hard- pulling donkeys handy for the day-to-day advance. Or to express my idea in more academic terms, the mark of an educated and mature mind is that it main- tains an effective adjustment between the ideal forms and the concrete realities, and determines what can be done to-day for to-morrow. Bon Voyage to your Port of High Hope.