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

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VERY year our Universities send out from their halls hundreds of ambi- tious, questioning candidates for places in the sun. University College should not be ashamed of its contribution to the total for the year 1935. They average well in academic performance, in sanity, in judgment, and in the will to do. Our best wishes for their success in the wider field they are entering go with them and our interest will follow them regardless of the quarter of the world into which they are led by their lVIaster's voice. Our most earnest hope is that the master of that voice may be a credit to the best traditions and ideals of their Alma Mater. K. P. R. NEVILLE, Dean, University College.

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OFFICE OF PRESIDENT AND VICE CHANCELLOR THE UNIVERSITY OF WESTERN ONTARIO LONDON. CANADA January 25, 1935 In these days when ease and happiness are so generally sought as objectives in life the young university graduate is apt to be somewhat resentful of opposition. He cannot imagine why, with the training he has so laboriously acquired, he of all people should often find the path of life rough and encumbered. A word from one who has gone a long way along this path and has found the journey profitable and worthwhile may give understanding and courage to those about to enter upon the path. UI believe that man is made for en- countering opposition, and that opposition, when courageously met, turns out to be his best friend -- his 'beautiful enemy' I commend to Class '55 this word of one of the wisest men of modern times, Dr. L. P. Jacks, Editor of the Hibbert Journal. 074

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OU will receive a lot of advice as you graduate. The Faculty are naturally interested in your progress in future years, as your success reflects in some measure on them. Two things I would like to say to you. First there is but one straight road to success and that is merit. The man who is successful is the man who is useful. By your service to the community you will be judged. The second thing I would ask of you is to maintain the associations and friendships you have formed in your undergraduate years. Loyalty and friend- ship maintained, deepen as the years go by. F. J. H. CAMPBELL, Acting Dean. To MEMBERS OF THE CLASS OF 35 N the eve of graduation each one of you might well take a moment for retrospect, to esti- mate seriously what a college course has meant and what transformation has been wrought in you since your first entrance be- neath the portals of this university. If your self- analysis can enumerate accurate habits of thinking, logical reasoning, sympathetic understanding, and dependability, with a reasonable amount of factual equipment, then you and your instructors and ad- ministrators may be satisfied that college experience has not been in vain. These qualities are the prime essentials for a foundation on which to build future progress. For, more interesting than retrospect is prospect, with its vista of glorious years lying ahead of you, beckoning to new flights of fancy and new dreams to be crystallized into realities. So we bid you go forward to the success and hap- piness which is yours to achieve, always mindful of the fact that your Alma Mater never forgets you. With the full meaning of the term, we say A-dieu! DoRoTHY TURVILLE, Acting Adviser to Women.