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

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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.

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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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OUR years ago we both came to this university, now you are going out. Good-bye, and good luck. If you have become as fond of the place in these four years as I have, you will be very sorry indeed to leave it. Perhaps, however, you are thinking of next June as a glorious setting-forth rather than as a regretful leave-taking. That is as it should be. In your baggage will be a chaste and dignified roll of parchment, representing, presumably, four years of study and self-discipline, a quantity of miscellaneous facts painfully acquired. Some of these facts may be of use to you later ong whether they are or not does not matter greatly. VVhat does matter is the attitude and temper of mind which their garnering ought to have produced. I hope you have not believed all you were told by your professors. Mr. Shaw, in his preface to The Apple Cari, says: VVe should never accept anything reverently until we have asked it a great many very searching questions. If you want this advice in more compact form, I suggest an even more venerable authority: Prove all thingsg hold fast that which is goodf' You will soon be beginning to prove-the proof of the pudding is in the eating- some of the things you have been taught here. May you find much to which you can hold fast. Out you go, and joy be with your Wayfaringl W. S. MILNE 6' ?