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

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HERE comes, serizzs, orius, an end of all good things. The year, Arts '31, has reached the end of its sojourn here: its members have kept the faith, have finished their course, and now go out to take their places with the alumni of this and sister institutions and with the far more numerous alumni of the great University of practical experience. VVe would not do other than give them their dues-gratitude for having had them with us for four happy years, and best wishes for many, many, happy and successful years to come. But we hope they may never forget that success is not always as the world sees itg that the world's brand of success, tho' the most widely advertised, is, as usual under those circumstances, the cheapest. If they have really learned this fact, their tarrying at Xllestern has not been in vain. Faustz7fa,z1staeq11e sin! et felzffes. K. P. R. NEVILLE. '

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VVhen Simcoe Visited London U ARCH 2nd, 07935. We struck the Thames at one end of a low, flat island, enveloped with shrubs and trees. The rapidity and strength of the current were such as to have forced a channel through the mainland, being a peninsula, and to have formed the island. The Governor wished to examine the situation and its environs, and therefore remained here all day. He judged it to be a situation eminently calculated for the metropolis of all Canada. H Among many other essentials, it possesses the following advantages: Command of territory, internal situation, central position, facility of water communi- cation up and down the Thames into Lakes St. Clair, Erie, Huron and Superior, and for small craft to probably near the Moravian settlement, to the northward by a small portage to the waters flowing into Lake Huron, to the south-east by a carrying place into Lake Ontario and the River St. Lawrenceg the soil luxuriantly fertile, the land rich and capable of being easily cleared and soon put into a state of agriculture: a pinery upon the adjacent high knoll, and other timber on the heights well calculated for the erection of public buildings: a climate not inferior to any part of Canada. To these natural advan- tages, an object of great consideration is to be added, that the enormous expense of the Indian Department would be greatly diminished, if not abolished. The Indians would, in all probability, be induced to become the carriers of their own peltries, and they would find a ready, contiguous, commodious and equitable mart, honorably advantageous to the Govern- ment and the community generally, without their becoming a prey to the monopolizing and unprincipled trader. -Extract from the diary of Major E. B. Littlehales who accompanied Lieutenant-Governor Szmcoe to the site of the present Czty of London.

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OU are stepping out from your Alma Mater into a new universe, a new world, new economic conditions, new social conditions, new mental, physical and spiritual life. VVe envy you, we congratulate you and we trust you with your opportunity, the greatest opportunity of all time. We shall follow you with concern, with support, where any word or deed of ours may serve you, and I feel sure with pride in your achievement. There has been much wool-gathering in our minds in the past. Today, fortunately, there is no market for brain-wool. All thinking people are seeking to know life, to know it more abundantly, to know life eternal. May you have your full share in the eternities of life. I hope that many of you will contribute a worthy share to the mental eternities of life. I trust that no one has spent four years here without acquiring a broader mind. Broad-mindedness was at one time defined as an intelligent brain, ready to see the good, and sacrifice, if need be, to attain benefit from opportunity, and to sacrifice pride, if necessary, to serve. If this be not the correct definition of broad-mindedness, it might be well to revive a little old-fashioned narrow-mindedness. At least, be sure, that straight is the way and narrow the gate that leads to the eternities of life, and we wish for you a full share in both the physical and mental eternities. VVhat all the world is seeking is happiness. Happiness is won or lost in the attitude of the inner life. Really happy lives are not made such by abundant possessions, luxury, fame, and the like, but by the following of noble ideals and by the spirit of loving service. I hope that, at the University of VVestern Ontario, you have found happiness and that you can say of your Alma Mater: Hlfor Love, with all the rest, Thou gavest me here, And Love is Heaven's very atmosphere. I hope, too, that you will be ever mindful to make it possible for your Alina Mater to continue to enrich the lives to an ever increasing degree of an ever increasing number of her sons and daughters. RUBY E. C. MASGN, Dean of Women.