University of Western Ontario - Occidentalia Yearbook (London, Ontario Canada)

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f'u-G ds' sill, 955 55 2 s 4, s 5 is VV E STE RN ONTARIO UNIVERSITY OF g 'Ji if 5 'Vg f, Q., V Editorial It is not sanguinary to expect that future graduates will support Western when exigencies shall arise. ITH the exodus of the Class of '28, the University of Western Ontario simultaneously passes its fiftieth milestone on the up- grade to the Greater Western. Fifty years have passed since - l V I I V Q g Students make a university and as a country must look to its people the foundation of this institution was laid: fifty long years for those in in time of stress, so must a University depend on its students to tide it authority who have struggled incessantly against adverse conditions, to make posible the University as it stands today: fifty short years for those who came. as did the Class of '28, to pass an all-toofbrief period within its in-alls. During this half century Western has passed through more than one crucial period when the fate of the University has hung in the balance. These periods have been met untlinchingly and have been passed over successfully and now the Board of Governors are faced with a new problem. As the University continues to expand, there is an ever- increasing demand for funds to meet the increasing expenditure which rnust ensue. since the students pay, in fees, only half of the cost of educatmg them. There is an onus placed upon the graduates by the fact that they still owe the balance ofthe cost of their education. However, the University makes no mention of this fact to the students themselves because it is not necessary. During the Endowment Campaign, which has been launched this year. Vilesterns graduates have risen to the occasion in a definite zanner. The graduating year has already contributed to the fund, thus signifying their intention to remember and support their University. over critical periods. The calibre of Western graduates is such that they will not fail. Each individual undergraduate looks forward, with some apprehen' sion, to the day when he or she will graduate. This year the members of '28 realizes in full the expectations and hopes. The door closes on that which they will consider as the happiest period of their existence and opens on a life which is entirely unknown to them and which, they have been told, is gratuitous 'to the successful and merciless to the failure. They eagerly greet this new life but they are reluctant to leave the old. At this time, Western probably means more to them than ever before and they leave with a feeling of loyalty which, in its intensity, is greater than they have hitherto experienced. They will never forget the years they spent at Western and its future progress will be of vital interest to them. Western stands on the verge of a new era. The graduate who will come back in a few years will be astonished at the progress which will have been made. He will feel like a pioneer, proud of his contribution to the great institution which he knew as a small university, Let the grads. work in unison to attain this great ideal. Let the watchword be, ON to The Greater Western. Page Six

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o Q A. EV swf t, UNIVERSITY OF WESTERN ONTARIO I FOREWORD To THE GRADUATING CLASS or Ti-ri: UNIVERSITY or WESTERN ONTARIO: N OLD proverb says that the best of a journey is getting home. Yours has been a journey of four years and you have achieved your goal by work which has been up to the standard set by your instructors. The University gives you its degree and you begin a new and longer journey in which the road will often be rough and in which there will doubtless be obstacles to overcome, Sometimes these obstacles may appear so great that you will fear failure. That will be a time to recall the courageous philosophy of Robert Louis Stevenson: j'To be feared of a thing and yet to do it, is what makes the prettiest kind of a man. Your University has provided you with a foundation upon which you will proceed to build. It cannot do more than give you this foundationgthe structure will depend upon your own effort and your owm ambition. Remember always that the University is judged by the world through its graduates. May your achievements reflect credit upon your Alma Mater. Be modest, alert, cheerful and openfminded. In the greatest adventure-which is life itself-bear your share of the common burdens and your share of the most lasting rewards will surely come. A. T. LITTLE, Page Five

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