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

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ff , E Q, HE science of Public Health is yet in its infancy and the future holds untold opportunity for service toward the promotion of human health and happiness. We welcome you to the ranks of the professional public health workers. The record of achievement handed down by the pioneers in this field of endeavour will serve as a never-failing source of inspiration. Be diligent in your labor and loyal to your ideals and it may then prove that your record of achievement will provide a source of inspiration to others. A. l. SLACK, Dean, Faculty of Public Health. To the Graduates of l936 ESUS CHRIST, the incarnate God, the true light which enlighteneth every man that cometh into this world, was called upon for a word of advice. A rich young man came to Him and said: Good Master, what must I do to possess eternal life? The Lord answered: lf thou would'st enter into life, keep the commandments. The young ll man said: All these have I kept from my youth. Assumption College has been laboring during the past four years to direct your footsteps in the paths of Virtue and Knowledge. Now that you are ready to go forth from beneath the shelter of her roof, she too has a word of advice. During your College Course she has constantly appealed to the teaching of lesus Christ. She has invoked His example, the example of His holy mother, in whose honour your College is dedicated, and the example of the saints, whose lives shine like beacon lights to guide you on your way. Her final word to you, her sons, is the same as her Master's Whom she serves in all humility, if thou would'st enter into life, keep the Commandments. She will be proud of you, her sons, not so much for your achievements in the business and profes- sional world, as for the fidelity with which you bring to fulfilment her parting words. She will rejoice in your achievements if you are able to say to the Master Himself when He meets you on the way: All these have I kept from my youth. T. A. MacDONALD, Principal, Assumption Collegen page 28

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I 2 3 v GE!!! O love all, trust a few and do wrong to none are old precepts that are still good in these modern times in the practice of medicine. As you qo forth from this University as Doctors of Medicine, two other thouqhts always keep in mind. First, you are members of a great profession with long traditions and hiqh ideals, second, you are graduates of a University whose representatives you truly are, and the University, in sending you forth as qraduates in medicine, in placing its seal of approval upon you, has faith in your acceptance of this responsibility. F. I. H. CAMPBELL, Dean, Faculty of Medicine. HE aim of education is to teach the individual to live with himself, and with others. We hope that the skills developed or acquired in your University training will facilitate adjustment to what- ever conditions await you. Our best wishes for a happy and useful life are extended to each of you. DQROTHY TURVILLE, Adviser to Women. page 21

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23 2 O each of you who this year attain the graduate goal of your special efforts, congratulations, greetings and Godspeed. You contemplate entering on a new chapter in your life. Whatever it may be it must be in some sense one of service and routine, in part at least monotonous. One of the questions put to every candidate for the office of a Deacon in the Church of England recites at some length the routine duties of the pastoral office, and then asks, Will you do this gladly and willingly? You are entering, or are prepared to enter, as a result of graduation, on the office of a servant or perhaps on the office of a Deacon. Technically modern conditions do not make our tasks easier or the duties less onerous or less exacting .... But the spirit in which you face them will count- Will you do this gladly and willingly? lt will lighten your own burdens .... lt will probably, more than you realize, lighten those of others. A merry heart doeth good like medicine. May I offer you this motto in all sincerity and affection: Gladly and willingly. C. CAMERCN WALLER, Principal, Huron College. UCI-I sound advice has been given to young men as they completed their long years of intellectual and moral training and prepared to embark upon the turbulent sea of life. But seldom has anyone improved upon the last maxim of Polonius to his son, if taken in its highest sense: This above ally to thine own self be true, And it must follow, as the night the day, Thou canst not then be false to any man. What a man is the man who is true to himself! Such an one is true to the best that is in him-the law of his nature which commands him to do his duty toward God, himself and his fellow-man. May you always and everywhere be true to yourselves. Thus will you bring glory and honour to yourselves and your Alma Mater. A. P. MAHONEY Rector, St. Peter's Seminary. . 1 fxtf f Page