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VOLUME 10, NUMBER 2 VACATION ISSUE J U NE 1954

CONTENTS Grad Reception Huge Success 3 The President's Page 5 Convocation Address 6 281 Students Graduqte . 12 Valedictory Address . 19 Postgrad Patter 23 The Year In Review 25 Per Ardua Ad Astra 28 Lost Alumni 29 " Home Of Its Own" . 33 Baccalaureate Service Address 38

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"NEW LOOK" College Registration GRAD RECEPTION Totals 6,819 Students TOTAL of 6,819 students were HUGE SUCCESS A registered in the college and its schools during the 1953-54 term-an ORE than 600 attended the increase of 262 over the previous year, M Alumni Association's "new Douglass B. Clarke, registrar announced look" graduation reception held on recently. Friday, June 4, in the Champlain It was noted that registration in the Room of the Mount Royal Hotel. college itself totalled 3,844, made up of The reception, which followed 3,_112 evening students and 732 day the college's 1954 convocation, was students. During the 1952-53 term, 3,550 described by many "as. the best students attended both divisions. ever." A b_reakdown of registration figures For the first time in the college's for the past term, with 1952-53 figures history, the affair featured a musi­ in brackets, are: evening high school, cal trio, including a vocalist, and a 1,448 ( 1,425 ); evening elementary pair of ballroom dancers. Graduates, school, 200 (146 ); business school, 1,053 both new and old alike, seemed to (1,163); school of art, 253 (273 ); school appreciate the inovation. of retailing, 21. No classes in the latter school were held the ,previous year. The reception had been original­ Day and evening courses were given ly planned .for the Windsor Hall. o:f in the college, business school, and school the Winds!)" Hotel, but a few weeks of art during the year, Mr. Clark~ said. prior to tlie ~vening the alumni was advised that the, hall 4ad been re~ , · H e also announced that registration served for a civic reception in .h_onor figures for the summer term in all units of Emphor Haile Selassie. · stood at 1,113. Last year at this time 935 students were enrolled . A total of Through. the-kind . cooperation of 11913 registered for the 1952-53 term. the Mount Royal, a , last-minute switch was made and the affair .went · on as planned. Much credit goes to Social Chairman Frank Stannard and President Gordon Donaldson for their hard wo~k in connection SPECIAL with the arrangem~mts. With the affair's success, ·many POSTGRAD ISSUE graduates and alumni members were discussing the possibility of IN SEPTEMBER another "get-together"-before next year's annual reception rolls around again.

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4 The Po5'grad THE PRESIDENT'S PAGE

Dy GORDON C. DONALDSON President, Association of Alumni, Sir George Williams College

NOTHER academic year has passed and we again welcome a new Alumni A group. . It is hoped that these m embers will continue their College interes ts as they so ab1y demonstrated as undergraduates. Unfortunately, graduation to many, often means a severing of the c!Qse ties which existed while you were students. Marked enthusiasm was noticed during our recent Building Fund Campaign. Now that preparations for this project have started, we feel sure that you will now, more than ever, want to become closer to your Association of Alumni.

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June 1954 .5 CONVOCATION ADDRESS Q"4J SluuJJ Be flaw (ieH,d,ol/. SIR GEORGE ON "RIGHT' TRACK"

T IS A pleasure to be pre_sent at a Coi:ivocation of Sir ~eorge Willia~s Colleg~; I Thomas Ca·rlyle once said: "There 1s properly no history; only b10graphy. According to him, "The history of the world is but the biography of great men." Sir George Williams was a great man, and he has been responsible for a great deal of history, including this great university with its ever increasing body of graduates. But even so great a man as Sir George Williams could not do more than set things in motion. It was only in so far as the thing that made him what he was, inspired others to take up where he left off, that his life and work and the institutions of which he laid the foundatioµs, including this institution, were perpetuated. In extending to me the invitation of the Board of Governors, the Chairman sent me a copy of the college calendar. I had turned over but the first page when I read this: "The fundamental educational philosophy of Sir George Williams College is that its chief concern shall be the development of persons." There came at once into my mind that statement of the late President Wilson, himself a former university president, in which he said that "not the least of the returns in life is the immense satisfaction which comes from the development of personality, which derives as a consequence of a life devoted to the nearest _duty." How better could it be put? Many of us, if not all of us at times, are tempted to slight the duty immediately at hand, promising ourselves that we will attend to the very next one. Nothing could be more false or more fatal. Dr. Harry Emerson Fosdick tells of his father, a high school principal, bidding his mother good-bye on the front steps one morning and saying: "Tell Harry that

This year's convocation speaker was The Hon. Mr. Justice Roy Lindsay Kellock, Q.C., B.A., LL.D., of the Supreme Court of Canada. Justice Kellock was born in Perth, Ontario, the home of our own respected principal. He received his Bachelor's degree from McMaster University, and later went on to Osgoode Hall in Toronto for the study of law. He was called to the Bar of Ontario in 1920, and he was appointed Justice of the Court of Appeal for Ontario in 1942. On October 3, 1944, he was appointed Justice of the Supreme Court of Canada. _He has long shown a keen interest in higher education. A former Chancellor of McMaster University, his continued interest in that university, and in education in general, is indicated by his present position as Chairman of the Board of Governors of McMaster University. Justice Kellock is also Vice-President of the National Council of Canadian Y.M.C.A.'s.

6 The Postgrad he can cut the grass today, if he feels like it." Then, after walking a few steps down the street, he called back, "Tell Harry he had better feel like it." Although, like other teenagers, Harry had other plans for. that day, ~e cut the grass, and had sufficient sense of humour to laugh to himself over his father's remark so that he found the job not too onerous. He says he never dreamed that ;s long as sixty years after, he would be hearing the echo of his father's counsel, now given by himself to himself: "If you. don't get the tasks you like, like the tasks you get." That couns~l helped him all through the years, especially in dealing with drudgery. As Dr. Fosdick says, no matter how thrilling the high spots in any vocation may be, any calling is like an iceberg, its peak visible, but most of it under the water,- invisible routine, uninspiring details, drudgery. A man's attitude toward that aspect of his work often determines the whole result. A lot of routine grass-cutting must be done in every vocation, whether it is business or art or music, or whatever it may be. In a jurisdiction, not Canadian, the legislature passed last year, a statute directed against communism. It provides that every book used in the colleges, the public schools, the trade schools of that jurisdiction must be labelled. The label must indicate that the author is or i_s not an advocate of communism oi;- socialism, or is or is not, a member of the Communist Party or of any · communist front organization. It must also give the same information about the author of any other work to which reference is made in the book. The law applies not only to textbooks but to all library books which may be assigned for reading or reference. Every head of a school or college is required to prepare a iist of every took in his school, giving title, copyright date, author and publisher ; then to apply to the publisher for an appropriate label and to paste the label in the book. Presumably Shakespeare's plays will have t o be labelled. Was John Milton tainted with communism ? Who knows? A strict interpreta tion of the law would almost certainly eliminate the Bible as a socielist docum ent. A professor of history in one of the colleges mentioned that one of the texts he uses in h is classes has m ore than 1000 references to other books and authorities in the text, the footnotes and bibliography. The au thor of each of these citations must be certified as pure before the book can be legally used. T he label for that _textbook, presumably, will be somewha t larger than the book itself. T he most important objection to censorship, official or unofficial, is that it diverts families, churches and schools from their main job of building character by providing each person with his own standards of selection. When the character building institutions do their work well, they raise up a citizenry whose standards are so high that nobody will look twice at the waste paper which _litters our new,stands today. When that happens or to the extent that it happens, the financial incentive for the publication of indecent or trashy books and magazines will dis­ ap pear or dim inish. Individuals will never be safe until they are equipped with such standards. And the country will never be free until all its people are free to read anything, but use their freedom to read the best that has been thought and said. It is only a totalitarian country which can undertake to censor everything which its citizens might otherwise read. It is much better to make the citizen his own censor by creating in him the taste- for the higher. This is the function ~f education, in the best sense. According to H erbert Spencer: "Education has for its object the formation of character." We have often heard statements of that kind, and it is very true that "familiarity breeds conte_mpt." But I was much struck, within the last few weeks, in reading a review of a book recently published in India on the subject of Advocacy, Its Principles and Practice. It would appear that emphasis upon character is not confined to Anglo-Saxon countries. (Cont'd on page 9)

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June 1954 9 ,just that way. But I have no doubt my friend did a very effective job in helping that boy to get a better perspective of himself and his responsibility. Evidently the boy himself thought so. These are comparatively good times and in many situations today a man may get· away without giving value. But even in his own interest he should learn to be conscientiously efficient. Not only may the seven lean years come again but there is no satisfaction like the satisfaction which comes from a good job well done. Thus is personality developed. An education may, of course, be put to an entirely perverted use. Some years ago a swindler made a study of the death column in The Times of London. From this he would ascertain the name of a distinguished man who had gone to his last home, and would then write a letter to the man, reminding him (a) that they had been at school together, and (b ) that he-the man to whom the letter was addressed- had promised to assist the writer whenever he should be down on his luck. This letter would, in due course, be opened and read by the sorrowing widow. The scoundrel raked in hundreds of pounds by this means. When at length he was brought to book, many unfortunate widows turned up in court to say how they had been victimized. It is the existence of such individuals and others like him, which tends to make people cynical. To say of a person that his word is as good as his bond, used to be complimentary. But the cynical person with perhaps a little humour, is apt to say that when a man says his word is as good as his bond, always take his bond. A well-known lawyer used to say with reference to the expression about taking the will for the deed, that he was too good a lawyer to take a will for a deed. To be present at this Convocation must be a source of great satisfaction to all those who rejoice in seeing an increase in the ranks of those who have received a liberal education. The proper use of it is a responsibility and a trust. Looking about him fifty years ago, Professor James saw college graduates on both sides of every public question, and that fact puzzled him. As he put it: "There is not a public abuse tor which some Harvard advocate may not be found." The opportunity to study at this college should enable a graduate to appreciate what types of activity have stood the tests of time and give him a general sense of what superiority has always signified, namely, admiration for the really admirable and disesteem of what is trashy and impermanent. To have that is to have a fine sense of discrimination, a quality not too common today. Few of us become entirely emancipated from the chief characteristic of the adolescent-the haunting fear of being different. But the person who would be an individual must constantly resist pressure of that kind or lose his self-respect. Today there is a great tendency to uniformity. But it is as true now as in the day when John Stuart Mill wrote that: "the mere example of non-conformity, the mere refusal to bend the knee to custom is infinitely worthwhile".

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June 1954 II ONE THIRD MARRIED!

281 Students Graduate in Second Largest Class

1 5 PRIZE WINNERS

TOTAL of 281 students graduated at the 1954 convocation, making A it the second largest graduating class since 1936, when 'two degrees were awarded at the first convocation. In addition 30 students received associate diplomas after a two-year course. The oldest member of the class was 54 and the youngest was a young lady who was 20 last Christmas Day. Although half were under 24 years old, 41 graduates were older than 35. The class included three school principals, 20 chemists, 19 accountants, five engineers, 1 7 teachers, eight secretaries and stenographers and a lone housewife. More than a third were married, and a husband and wife, Mr. and Mrs. G. R. Curnew each were awarded a bachelor of commerce degree. B. W. Roberts had special praise for 177 of the graduates-who won degr~es through studying at night-some after as many as nine years in Sir George's high school and college. Pointing out that a contract had been awarded for the college's new building, Mr. Roberts said the college deeply appreciated "the generosity of the people of Montreal which has made this possible." He expressed regret that Dr. Norris, principal, had been . unable to attend the convocation through illness for the first time since 1936. The valedictorian was Rodney M. Booth. ,

DIPLOMAS Associate in Commerce Thomas Asahal Alexander Crawford Harold Norman• J acobsen (November 19, 1953) Angus Ross McIntosh Lewis Leslie Albert Grant Leonard Arnold Varah

Associate in Science Ronald Henry James Bush Robert Ian Alaistair Gibson John James Carragher Michael Ginger (November 19, 1953) Gerald Melbourne Coughlin (November David Arthur Harding 19, 1953) Ladislaus Stephen Hollosi (November 19, Milenko Srecko Djurovic (November 1953) 19, 1953) Walter Wasylciw

12 The Postgrad Associate in Arts

Irene Cleghorn Gordon Percy Mullin David Ironside Fowlie (November 19, 1953) John H enry Nesbitt -~ . Mary Eleanor Grant Alexander Muir Paxton Charles Adelard Jolin Adele Ann Pitt (November 19, 1953 ) William Peter Lewis Norma· J ean Roantree Mabel Louise Marshall William Edward Theriault ( Noveinbe; 19, Hope, Freda .Martin 1953) Margaret 'McLellan Barbara Lockhart Tindall Alan Franklyn Mc Whinnie Shirley Florence Tomalty

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George Henry Appleton Ala n Asher Leeker Joseph Neil Asselin Gordon William L eet Peter Eugene Avon (November 19, 1953) M yer Michael Leibovich Eric Dudley Bace Andre Joseph Ferdinand Lizotte (November Francis Edward Barrados 19, 1953 ) Joseph John Merrill Belanger Stephen J acques Maubach Andre Guy Bernard D aniel George John Max Pierre Joseph Henri Blain D avid Ross 'McCready Irving Elias Bookbinder J oseph Garfield McDonald Gilbert Charles Andrew Booth Archibald Whitehead McK enzie (November Lionel Eric Brittle 19, 1953) R onald Allan Burns J ohn William McManus (November 19, 1953 ) John Antony Chatterton Lindsay McManus George Christie Michael Mervin McManus J ames Adams Clinton (November 19, 1953 ) Gerald John Benton Miles (November 19, D avid Cohen (December 17, 1953 ) 1953) Andrew Coley D erek D avis Morris (December 17, 1953 ) Ross Wiggs Common (November. 19, 1953) Angela Maria Nargelas Richard Earle Cormier Aleksander Ritter O lsen Angela Mary Curnew (November 19, 1953) Charles Arnold Park George Robert Curnew Edward Patterson Rufus Arthur Curry Joseph Louis Jean-Guy Rivet Joseph Oscar da Costa Edward William Rowat (November 19, 1953) Richard Tryon Dalziel R onald Rubin Rush Bruce Huelin D aniel, B.Sc. Julian Salisnjak H enry Donald-L angley D esjardins (November Philip M aurice Schear 19, 1953 ) Ronald Baird Seaman J oseph Saul Drazin (November 19, 1953 ) Edward Alexander Small Stanley Gordon Durrant John H arold Smith, B.Sc. (November 19, Samuel Dworkin 1953 ) John Howard Easton J ohn Smo!a Douglas Edward R ichard Edmonds Ernest Steiner Oscar Friefield Frederick H erbert Stevenson (November 19, Guy Andre Gagnon 1953 ) Claude Joseph-Wilfrid-Hosmer Girard William J ames Stewart. B.A. (November 19, Donald William Guthrie 1953 ) Albert Roger H arrison John Brodie Stirling Charles Richard Hawthorne Andrew Sura Ross Edward H ealy Rober·t Austin Swail J ames H endry Carmer Joseph Sweica Barry Wilson Rive Holt Oscar Frank Sykora, L.L.D. J ames Edward K eith H ood (November J9, Charles T annen 1953 ) Frank Alfred Torode Albert Vincent M aurice Hudon William Geoffrey Turner Archibald Lorne Ingham Frederick Walsh Roger Joseph Martial L afreniere Jones Alina W alther (November 19, 1953 ) R alph George K azi, B.A. Edward George Ward Ross Fraser K ellie John James Wareham Allan William King Victor Osborne W est, J r. Tomas Kubicek, B.A. Andrew Peter Zizunas Thomas L eo L atimer (Cont'd on page 15) June 1954 13 HIGH QUALITY OFFICE FURNITURE

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14 The Postgrad (Cont'd from page 13) Bachelor of Science

Robert Vaughan Creery Aitken (November Ronald Lorne Lejeune 19, 1953 ) William Paul Lone Arnold Alfred Alexander Ojars J anis Lucis Crawford Allan Anderson J ohn Ross Mabon Donald Alfred Bain M alcolm Warren Marston Joan M argaret Bain Carol Ann H elen McCallum Israel Barg Robert Douglas McCulloch Andre Bordeleau (November 19, 1953) George H arding McGill M abel R obina Brash, A.B. Armand McMillan (November 19, 1953 ) Robert Bromley H arry Myron Miller Frank Sheldon Brough (November 19, 1953 ) Walter Mitchell (November 19, 1953) Salvatore J oseph Cake Ema Pavelka · Anthony Harry Carlisle Jerry Pinsky Jacques J oseph Rodolphe Cloutier (November ' Ross Gordon Pitcher 19, 1953 ) J ohn George R ehak (November 19, 1953) Roger J oseph Emile Coulombe Gilles Joseph-Elphege Ricard Serge Joseph-Paul-Oscar Courville Joseph Gordon Roland (November 19, 1953) William J ames ·cowan (November 19, 1953) Donald Edward Rolfe Clarence Gordon Cruise Tatjana Salins Francis George Augustine D e Monterey Pierre J oseph Samson Donald Dudley Dineen Nessie Steele Savage Russell Frederick Doren Norman Edgar Smith (November 19, 1953) Donald Watson Elliott D avid J ames Stevens (November 19, 1953) ·s am Enhorn, B.A. Frank John Sumeraj Claude Joseph Filion Michael Edward Anthony Tierney J eremy Forten (November 19, 1953) G uy Joseph Gerard Valiquette (November 19, J ames Robert Fraser 1953 ) M alcolm ' George F uller J ohn H enri Van de Leuv (November 19, Frieda Caryl Gatehouse 1953 ) Virginia R ansom Genser Ronald Cornellis Van der Linden Eric J ames G!encross Pierre Joseph Albert Veys Frederick R amsay H arford Zbynek Vlcek Eric Campbell_ M avor Hickey Catha! William Anthony Weightman George Wesley Ingelso n Gerald Francis Willan Carlton Spencer J oyc;:e H enry Edward Williams Sidney Scobell K earns D aniel D aher Zakaib (November 19, 1953 ). Albert August L ang

Bachelor of Arts

Ilse Albert Barbara Anne Burnside Gordon George Allan Emily Elizabeth Clarke Constantine Paraschi Anastassiadis Emily Christine D avis Clyke (November 19, W alter Gordon Asbil ' 1953) Robert Assaly Ruby Laurene Coons D onald Edward Ayre M argaret Olive Ford Cooper L eila D awn Azoulay Edwina Knight Crammond (November 19, Lorne Ross J oseph Baker 1953 ) William Fraser Clinton Barrie (November 19; Gerald Edward Doran, B.Sc. 1953 ) Allan Morphy Duncan Adrien Joseph Paul Beaudette (November 19, Alexander Adolphus Edwards 1953) Gerald Ellis M arjorie H ayes Clark Bedoukian Barbara Lorraine Emms Alice Edna Bergey Arthur D aniel Emond Nancy Ann Beveridge Ernest F eitler Frederick William Bezanson William H enry F ergus Solomon Bierbrier Rose D ena Finiffter William Biley H oward Carr Fraser William John Alexander Bishopric Yvette Naomi Freeman Rosaire M agella Boisvert Charles Arthur Griffith Rodney M aynard Booth H arry Hartman, B.Com. Philip Borrow (November 19, 1953 ) Joseph Norman H efl er Real Gerard Boulianne Rosalind Inhaber Charles Gould Bragg (November 19, 1953) M arguerite Isaacs Ellen O lgo Trein Brodahl Margaret Dorothy J ackson J ames Stewart Brown Nanette Elizabeth J essop

Jun e 1954 15 Bachelor of Arts (cont'd)

Norma Elizabeth Johnston Grant Russell Robinson Milan K aisvinkler, B.Com. l-lamld Rogers ,...... -Gertrude Elizabeth Irene K eegan, B.Com. Evelyn May Rollit (November 19, 1953) Hugh Wride Kirby Ida Rose Mary Rondina (November 19, 1953) Jon Kosorwich J ack Rose n Leo Kratvitz ( November 19, 1953 ) Leonard Rosen Robert Lazanik Morey Rossman James Andrew David Leamy (November 19, Silvia Riitman 1953 ) William Allan Shaver J ean Joseph Les tage, B.Sc. K enneth Stewart Shearman Madeleine Freeman Thompson Lewthwaite Leonard M elvin Sherman Judy Lily Lucko (November 19, 1953 ) Jean Sachi Shimo-Takahara Douglas Anthony Parry Lugar Arnold Allan Shuster Richard Greene MacDonald, B.Sc. Joseph Anthony Silkauskas Seymour Machlovitch alerie Antoinette Sims. Kenneth Young MacKeracher Irving H arold Smith (November 19, 1953) Gordon Christopher MacRae George Eugene Stafford Stead (November Gordon John MacWillie 19, 1953) Fleurette Malacket Hilda Aletha Sutton Roderick Anthony Manson Walter Grant Taylor Vilma Florence Mapp (November 19, 1953 ) Mortimer Max Teitelbaum Margaret Ann McCardell Muriel Thomas Adams G. Archibald McCurdy Hugh Joseph Tolan Julia Anne Mecelis David Edmund Toye Gloria Miller George Mackenzie Urquhart Harry .Miller Joseph Paul Virus Richard Mineau, B.Com. Silvia Vogel Alfred Mary Mordas Herbert Vool Zdenek Munz~r (November 19, 1953) Raymond Charles Walker (November 19, Patrick Joseph Murphy 1953) Beatrice Barbara Stella Opala Donald Gordon Wallace Anthony Aloisius Peltzner Eric Paul Wilson Horace Stephen Philipp, B.Sc. Allison Wood Winter Harold Gilbert Playfair John Harold Wiseman Robert George Pringle Bernard Joseph Woloshen (November 19, Moshe Zalman Prives 1953) Mabel Edith Probert Richard Osborne Young Bernadette Marie Anne Rainville Martin Mordcai Zryl Gordon Robert Reimer (November 19, 1953)

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PRIZES AND SPECIAL AWARDS

Hebrew Culture Organization of Psychological Association of the Canada Prize: for excellence in the Province of Quebec Prize: for out­ study of the Hebrew Language, Reuben standing work in Psychology, Marjorie Wekselman and Gloria Grace Kulbeck ; Hayes Clark Bedoukian, B.A. '54; The Sun Life Prize in Economics: The Chemical Institute Prize: for the for the graduating student with the best third year student entering fourth highest standing in the Economics Major, year and majoring in Chemistry, Andrew Robert George Pringle, B.A., '54; Davenport Long; First Graduating Class Award: for Association of Alumni Award: for outstanding new contribution to the the outstanding commendation of his student life of the College, Bernard fellows and of the Faculty, James Robert Dezwirek ; Fraser, B.Sc., '54.

16 The Postgrad PRIZES AND SPECIAL AWARDS (cont'd)

The Board of Governors' Medal for Canadian Industries Limited Prize In Creative Expression: for outstanding Chemistry: for the graduating student creative ability in the fine arts, John with the highest standing in Chemistry Alton Weary; courses, Ronald Lorne Lejeune, B.Sc., '54, and Ronald Van der Linden, B.Sc., Prix Villard: for the outstanding stu­ '54 ; dent in the study of French language and literature, Irena Liebich ; The Birks Medal: for the highest ranking graduating student in Arts, The Mappin Medal: for the highest William John Alexander Bishopric, B.A., ranking graduating student in Science, '54; Ronald Lorne Lejeune, B.Sc., '54; The Lieutenant-Governor's Silver The Frosst Medal: for the highest . Medal for History: for the highest ranking graduating student in Com­ standing in the H is tory major,' H arold merce, Philip Maurice Schear, B. Com., Rogers, B.A., '54; '54; The Governor General's Medal: for The Canadian International Paper the graduating student showing the Company Prize in Biology: for the highest achievement in the fie ld of graduating student with the best record English Language and Literature, Wil­ of work in the fie ld of Biology, Mabel liam John Alexander Bishopric, B.A., R obina Brash, B.A., B.Sc., ~54; '54;

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18 The Poslgrod VALEDICTORY AD.DRESS:

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at the 1954 Convocation, June 4)

R. CHAIRMAN, Dean Hall, Members of the Board of Governors, Members M of the Faculty, Fellow Graduates, Ladies and Gentlemen. Tonight it is my privilege and not altogether pleasant task to deliver the Valedictory Address to you on behalf of the Class of '54 whom you see before you arrayed in all their glory. I say "not altogether pleasant" because I find myself on the horns of a dilemna. Every giver of free advice has counselled me to avoid "the old platitudes" and "be original", but I ask you, what can I say that has not been said before, here or elsewhere, by others in my position? I can at best do little more than put a new wrapping on an old package. For a while I thought I should simply rise and say, "Well, we made it!" and leave it at that-which would probably please most of you no end-but just for · spite I shall use all the time at my disposal; at the end of which I shall undoubtedly be compared to the minister who was said to be a great preacher because at the end of every sermon there was a great awakening. What will be the high point of these Convocation Ceremonies for each graduate here tonight? It will not be the majestic processional, nor will it be the beautiful music, nor even the excellent addresses which I am sure they are going to receive. No indeed, the high point of this evening will come for each graduate as he reaches out and closes his hand around a scroll of paper bearing his name in ancient Gothic script, his degree. Seems like a lot of fuss to make over a piece of imitation sheepskin doesn't it? But it's not that scroll that's so important, it's what it represents to the person whose name it bears-what it represents in his past, what it means to him here, to-night, and what it will mean to him tomorrow and the day after and the day after that. I cannot express the feelings of each individual graduate but I can express my own and hope that there are some companion so1J.ls among this gowned and hooded multitude. They've gone quickly these last 4, 5, 6, or sometimes 7 years since we first entered Sir George and they mark a great change in our outlook, values, and life goals. You have heard it said that the college student enters college knowing everything and leaves knowing nothing-hardly a very flattering tribute to our professors. Perhaps it would be more correct to say that he enters thinking that he knows everything and leaves knowing that he doesn't. In that one phrase is caught up a good deal of the essence of college education-"we J_,,,.ve knowing that we don't know everything". The utter vastness of the field of knowledge to which our eyes have been opened, its complexities, varying facets, and yet unexplored channels, produces not only a stimulant for us to carry on our education far beyond the narrow confines of the B.A., B.Sc., or B.Comm., but it also drives home the comparative smallness of the once almighty "me" that formerly held sway over

June 1954 19 our intellect. O ver the past few years we have been forced to realize our own littleness when pitted against the vastness of God's Creation. But in the process of decreasing our own stature, we have also come to realize the equal stature of those around us. Both curricular and extra-curricular activities have produced in us an awareness that there are other people digging in this ditch besides ourselves and while digging our own way, we must take care · not to throw our dirt in the paths of others. To make Prof. Clarke's heart glad and quote H erman M elville, "we are all partners in a joint-stock company". A platitude perhaps? If so, my apologies- but still a truth which although easily stated is much harder and more subtly learned in the experiences of maturing intellectually and socially with our fellows. You who are not members of the Class of '54- friends, parents, wives, relatives­ I know what you are saying to yourselves now, or if you are not saying it you should be : "All he has said so far is that at the end of several years of college, the graduate has learned how to be "one of the boys" . What about the individual personality? Are we to assume that all humanity should be tossed into a common mixing bowl and pounded and kneaded into a uniform batter? M ay nothing be made of the separate ingredients?" And your point is well taken my friends. The college graduate must be, and is, more than "one of the boys", for he is also his own paradox- h e has realized his own smallness but he h as also sensed, and partly achieved, his own possible greatness. We who a re graduating have come to realize that although we a re members · of a larger society, we are separate and distinct individuals in ourselves. The curriculum at Sir George has been such as to a ll ow us to choose those courses which best developed our individuals talents- in fact I wager that you'd have a great deal of difficulty finding any two members of this graduating class who have taken completely identical courses. "So. Now he says that our sons and daughters, br,others and sisters, ha ve gone to college-and emerge as a bunch of individualists-several minutes ago he claimed they came out as 'members of a joint-stock company'. How does one explain this paradox?" · . In this way : Any society based on the free-will associations of its members depends on the development of a sense of personal r<:;sponsibility in its individual members-responsibility to or for themselves and their fellows. I t is this third factor that reconciles the first two. As individuals we have our desires and our wants, but knowing that we are res ponsible to society for any actions we employ in fulfi lling these desires-and further that as members of a joint-stock company we are individually responsible for the other members of that compa ny- we modify our own ambitions for the good of all. O ur university has attempted to give us ample room to develop this sense of responsibility. No one h as "cracked the whip" over us to make us study, attendance at · class has not been compulsory, the professors have been more than willing to meet the students at the latter's level, the U ndergraduate Societies, clubs and athletics have all extended the opportunity, a t any rate, for the development of this intangible, this sense of responsibility, in each individual student. Not all of us have developed it. Some of the original members of the Class of '54 are now in the Class of '55 or '56 as a result thereof, and undoubtedly some of us have yet to cultivate this quali ty. Some have overdeveloped the "one of the boys" attitude-these are the ones who would trample over the individual in their haste to erlsure what they believe to be " the good" for society as a whole. O thers have overdeveloped the "individualist" attitude and would trample society under-foot in order to attain their own ends. Neither attitude is any better than the other, both are undesirable. T ake a look at one of these degrees after the ceremony tonight. You won't

20 The Poslgrod see anything on it about the extent to which this sense of responsibility is developed in the recipient. It's not on the paper in black and white, but it and the years that produced it are represented thereby-and it is only these intangibles represented by the degree that make it more than a convenient decoration to cover up a hole in the plaster on the study wall. Ask several graduates why they went to college and you will get several different answers. Some cynic once compared a college education to a loaf of bread as "a four year loaf with plenty of crust, held together by the old-man's dough". Somehow I doubt if there are many in the Class of '54 who went to college for a four year loaf, or because they couldn't think of _anything else to do with their time. I'm sure that the evening students could vouch for this, working all day and studying all night is anything but a "loaf"; that majority of · day students who eat 59¢ meals and mix lectures and working hours in order to pay for their education would hardly call it a "four year loaf", much less a creation of the old-man's dough; and certainly the professors can determine from the audible groans that greet their work assignments that Sir George students have plenty to do to keep them busy. No, we did not come to college to loaf. Some-came for the sheer joy of learning, others came to increase their earning power ( although the extent to which a college education fulfills this latter is still a subject of much heated discussion), some coeds came to get their M.R.S. and judging from recent wedding announce­ ments many have been successful. Some coeds are really brilliant though, I read of one recently who got her Ph.D. in her second year-married him. Many students came for specialized training, others to prepare for post-graduate work, the reasons were many and varied. But regardless of our reasons for entering Sir George, as we leave we have this in common: we are mentally, perhaps physically, and we hope spiritually, better prepared to face the problems of life and take our place in world affairs. So we have arrived at this milestone and parting of the ways. What does our degree do for us tonight? It gives us a feeling of pride and a sense of accomplishment but at the same time it produces a touch of nostalgia and just a wee tinge of sorrow. Old associations and friendships fade away- a new pattern of life starts. For some the change is not so great, they carry on in the same channel but a little furthur upstream- here are included those going on to post-graduate work and those primarily in the Evening Division- who have been situated in business during their college career. But along with our pride. and nostalgia goes a weight of duty. Tonight we officially join the ranks of so-called "educated" men and are therefore expected to assume some leadership in this battered old world we live in. You of the older generation, please do not be too harsh in your criticisms of the way we handle this mess, remember, we are inheriting it from you! It would be trite, hackneyed and senseless for me to conduct a lengthy discourse, on "these difficult times", I leave that to the statesmen and Senator McCarthy; but on the other hand it would be exceedingly naive for us to assume that "all is lost". Negative thoughts never produced positive results, and the world certainly needs a few positive results. We shall tackle the situation and we shall make many mistakes, for tonight marks the beginning, not the end, of our education. We have graduated from Sir George but the world is now our school, experience our teacher, and life our lesson. We are prepared to enter this new school, and for this we are grateful to our college. In parting with her we say "Farewell Alma Mater, and Thank-You, your corridors were narrow but your education was broad."

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OOKING forward to visits from other Georgian grads, Ken Chappell , B.Sc. '52 L is now with Stuart Bros. Co. Ltd. at St. Clair, Trinidad. The Chappell's, which include Stan, his wife and two yo ungsters, recently played host to '53 grad Stan Muir during his three-week holiday there .. . Jean P. Petolas, B.Sc. '46, now assistant professor of physics at the college, the father of a son- Bernard George ... Gpod to hear from Edwin Dos Santos, who has been named assistant minister of St. Luke's Anglican Church, Saint John, N .B. Edwin graduated from Wycliffe College, Universiti of Toronto, this spring and was ordained to the ministry on May 2. H e's living at 149 Douglas avenue in Saint John ... Deepest sympathies to Mrs. Betty Kalmanasch, B.A. '40, who lost her husband in April­ she was the former Betty Mendelsohn . . . K enneth Murray recently married to Miss Elizabeth-Ann Sumner in Divinity H all Chapel, M cGill University

A baby girl to the Frank Stannard's at the Catherine Booth Hospital - they now have two girls and a boy . .. Rodney Booth, 1954 class valedictorian, off to England on the S.S. Atlantic with the Montreal Junior Symphony .. . Three alumni members among those who passed their courses at School of T eachers at Macdonald College - Steve Montague, Trevor Phillips, and Tod Andrews they'll have to prove it to the kids when the fall comes .. .

Agroup of Georgians recently breathed a sigh of relief with the results of first and second year exams at McGill's School of Law-among them, Sid Cutler, who ranked 12th in the freshman group, A. P. M agonet, M. Lack, John Hannan, Max Shenker, B. J. Woloshen, Bernard Litwack, G. L. Schneider, P. Borrow and in second year-Art Shulman . . . Engagement was announced recently of Shirley-Anne Rosevear to Pierre Lafond- the marriage to take place in Calgary, August 28 . . . Maurice Miller, class of '51, having trouble getting together Sir George graduates who have received their C.A.'s with the hope of forming a group-those interested please contact Maurice through the alumni office at 'MA. 8331 . . . The Shaver brothers, Bob and Bill, going on to greater heights­ the former studying for a science degree in 1956 and the latter for a commerce degree in the same year- both are arts grads- best of luck to two fine fellows . . . A baby girl to the Chris McFarland's at the Royal Victoria Hospital this month .. .

Science grad James D. Tucker, now with M erck and Co. in Valleyfi eld, is the proud papa of two youngsters- Lynda Susan, 3, and Ronald David, a member of the Tucker clan as of Dec. 31, 1953 . . . Ray Lasdin, B.A. '50, has been appointed assistant manager of the fashionable Casitas de! Monte Hotel at 2281 South Canyon Drive, Palm Springs, Calif.-:qiis dad is a B.Sc. (Com. ) grad of '42 . . . If you're looking for some good reading you might pick up a copy of "The Acrobats," by a former Georgian, Mordecai Richler-it's his first novel . .. Sophie T erk, B.A. '38, happy to be receiving her copies of The Postgrad in Tel Aviv, Israel, and is teaching at a commercial school there-graduates can reach her by writing to 30 Shlomo H amelech . . . Gord Mcfarlane and wife Mary back in Montreal with a new member of the family- a son, Bruce, at the Catherine Booth Hospital on June 17-They moved from Buckingham, Que. to Rosemount and Gord will be working with Red Feather Services . . . ,Another proud couple­ Ron and Marge Urquhart teaching their eight-months-old daughter to walk­ Ron graduated in arts '51 .

Ju ne 1954 29 Among those seen at the alumni reception-Lloyd Robertson, John Wilcox, Pinky Frost, Jane Hammond, Steve Montague, Bernie Tonchin, Joe Roland, Gyles D'Artois, Phil Buono, K en Adams, Ann Curll, Laurie and Nancy Braithwaite, Don Goldberg, Phil Field, Mag Flynn, Ross Boyle, Bill H amilton, M .P., Joyce Beddows, Bill Shaver, Eleanor Grant, Alfie Craig, and members of, the alumni executive-Mr. and Mrs. Gordon Donaldson, Mr. and Mrs. Alec• Fineberg, Mr. and Mrs. Len Rosenberg, Mr. and M rs. Bob H ayes ... Special credit for the whole affair goes to Social Chairman Frank Stannard for his work in making the evening a success ... H erb Shannon and Olive Dinsdale to middle-aisle it this month .. . Gilles Dube still pushin_g MacLean-Hunter publications .. . Until the next time- have yourselves a good summer ...

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f THE YEAR IN REVIEW

(A report by G. Brinkschulte, 1953-54 Presi­ dent of the Student's Council and S.U.S.l

HE YEAR opened with a two week program packed full of activities designed T for the freshmen and of course involving many of the upperclassmen. The theme of the program was orientation. The purpose was to introduce the new collegiate to the· traditions and philosophy of their new institution. The program ended with a gigantic parade through the streets of Montreal and a very successful dance at Victoria Hall. The next activity, involving the top brass of the executive, was NFCUS (National Federation of Canadian University Students) held at McGill. This was attended by the President, Bernie Dezwirek, Vice-Pres., and John Rae, NFCUS Chairman. This group helped to make a solid groundwork for future Georgian delegations as the recordings of the conference shows. At this session, Bernie Dezwirek, proposed a trophy which would be given to any student on any Canadian University who in the opinion of the plenary session has done the most for NFCUS. This is actually the only trophy that is open to all Canadian students. T hat this trophy bears the Georgian name is a tribute to Sir George and to Bernie, the founder of the idea. The electiom were run off in November with the usual complexities of campaigning. Activities ran at full steam until the Christmas Dance, a sell-out affair, ended the extra-curricular swing until after the exams. Immediately after the exams preparations were begun for the Carnival which was run by Ron Gibert. This was held on Mount Royal for the second consecutive year. The carnival was a joint activity of the College and Schools. As yet the carnival has not drawn enough students. Only about 700 participated. The event of the year was the American Student Exchange. This was a huge program with a committee of more than 100 students the chairman being Bernie Dezwirek. Thieves put a damper on the start of this affair by robbing the belongings of three students from their station wagon. The Georgians then took up a collection which netted the victims of the theft $100. CJAD went on the air for eight hours taking donations from generous Montrealers and the whole affair ended happily. A banquet was held at the Lasalle Hotel at which Bill H amilton, M.P. was the guest speaker. This was also attended by Mr. and Mrs. Buttrick, the American Counsul representative in Montreal, The program was a huge success and a tremendous show in Montreal of what Georgians can do. The spring elections were quite quiet this year. Maybe by that time most of the wheels were worn out. The Presidency of the SUS went to Bernie Dezwirek. Next year_looks bigger. As the last SUS meeting was held this year there were sounds of crashing brick and shattering glass to echo the motions. At long last the demolition men were at work. Our new home was on its way.

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(An· article written especially for The Postgrad by Professor Claude W. Thompson, assistant dean of the college.)

F YOU walk into a gathering of comparative str~ngers, and you are not six I drinks late, as a well-known public figure once said, and got rapped over the knuckles for it by some of those over-zealous for the proprieties, you will be sure to find the conversation very definitely on the weather. After _all, it's one thing we all have in common and is genuinely non-commital and safe. But why be safe and non-commital with a selected audience of Sir George Williams graduates? Most writers have an audience they have never met, or, alternatively are writing for a selected audience, as an engineer writing for engineers . But I have an audience which not only knows me, but which has a wide variety of interests, professions, and pursuits. And so, perhaps, the only safe subject is the weather. On the morning of February 27th, 1954, I woke in Montreal to a world of snow not to be measured in inches but in feet. Some of you will remember it. Between me and my destination lay a 'natural' barrier which gave everybody - a legitimate excuse for being la te for work, or not turning up at all. But I wasn't going to work- I was going on a holiday. So it was nothing that we had to dig the taxi out of a five-foot snowbank to get it within a few hundred feet of the house. It was a small chore to carry the baggage through the drifts, heave it · over the bank of snow left by a snowplow, and so into the car. It sounded completely mad, but I said to the driver as casually as I could, "Dorval airport; please. Our plane is due to leave at nine. " It was already 8.15 a.m. On the highway snowplows struggled against mounting drifts to clear the road-and won. At the airport mountains of snow banked the roads and runways, but both were clear. A plane came in and landed in a whirling cloud of snow. Another stood ready to leave. Busy little plows cleared a way, and the passengers- heads lowered and their coats tightly clutched around them- filed singly and slowly toward the terminal. • And then it was our turn. But nature is not so easily defeated. The icy hand of winter had frozen the landing wheels. Back we tracked to the waiting room, and, through the big snow-flecked windows watched man rush to the attack. An hour, and they were unfrozen. We· taxied down the runway, and then nature returned to the attack, froze the flaps and iced the wings! Into the hangar , wh~re we dripped for a couple of hours, and then another try. We were in the air, and in fiv e minutes up above the storm and in bright sunlight, and man and his machine had won. We sat back and thought back. Through the windows we 'saw the stars come out in a clear sky, and below the darkness broken every now and then by the myriad coloured lights of cities sparkling like jewels on a jet-black velvet cushion. And the world below talked to our plane-talked, and told us th4t nature was still our foe, as it shrouded our landing field in dense and impenetrable fog. But away to the west men were on the alert, a voice welcomed us and we taxied to a safe landing. And so man struggles against his enemies. Sometimes he loses, but often he wins-wins by his courage and determination on land, on the sea, and in the air. He refuses to admit defeat. But only by wise leadership, by united effort, by everyone everywhere and at all times being on the alert and seeking the common good of all can the fight be won- courage, determination, faith in victory.

28 The Postgrad: It need hardly be said that we have not reached this stage yet. Ideology struggles with ideology, theory with theory, man with man. Individual gain, individual interests are still the watchwords of our civilization. We waste our , substance in violent and continuous competition and divided aims and objectives. You, who have studied the sciences, the philosophies, history and the humanities know that this is so, and that it can be fatal. To you, graduates with your wide experience in the outside world, falls the task of seeing that not\only do we conquer nature, but that we triumph over ourselves, and move one step nearer to the goal of harmony al)d Peace. Only those who nave the knowledge, you who have seen the light, and have determined to follow it can save us from ourselves and the destruction that threatens. We who have watched you through undergraduate years and after believe that you have the determination and courage, and that you will succeed. To you· from failing hands we throw The torch; be yours to hold it high. (John McCrae)

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• • F YOU know where any of the following "missing graduates" are, please I telephone the alumni secretary, Miss Joyce Beddows, at MA. 8331, Local 42, or write to her at 1441 Drummond Street, Montreal:

- 1947 .,-­ -1950 - David A. Moor, B.Sc. Israel Freedman, B.A. Andre P. Richard, B.Sc. (Com.) Gordon E. MacLeod, B.Sc. - 1948- -1951- Frank Hoffer; B.A. Job T. Bradbury, B.Com. Sarah Eisenberg, B.A. :__ 1952 - William A. Kuflay, B.Sc. Dr. Apponelenairie Koziar, B.Sc. -1949- Dr. Edwin Koziar, B.Sc. Donald J. Murray, B.Sc. William Norman Johnston, B.Com. Harold L. Salisbury, B.A.

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-I :,­ (D -., THE NEW SIR GEORGE: The college's gleaming $3,000,000 building, pictured above, is expected to be ready for occupancy in the fall of 1956, officials g_ announced this month. The five-storey structure, to be built just south of the Central Y building, will have a frontage of 144 feet on Drummond ~ street and run back to Stanley f or a width of 68 feet. Shaped in an L, it will be functional in design and include a 410-seat auditorium for g_ dramatic productions and 48 classrooms and lecture halls. THE NEW S.G.W.C.

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IR GEORGE WILLIAMS College will soon move into a "home of its own"­ S a long-awaited $3,000,000, five-storey building next door to the Central Y. I t was announced this month that the contract has been let and that classes will move from their former quarters in the fall of 1956. Announcement of the construction was made by F . B. Walls, president of the YMCA in Montreal and B. W. Roberts, chairman of the college's board of governors. . It comes at a time when the college, offering undergraduate training in arts, science and commerce both in day and evening classes, is in the throes of a boom enrolment which has shown no signs of slackening. Under pressure of enrolment which has doubled since the war, the college has fanned out from headquarters in the Y into five separate rented buildings on Drummond and Stanley streets, developing a "sidewalk campus." Now adequate classroom3, laboratories and elbow space, all under one roof, are in sight- as well as the psychological stimulus of a building students can point to as their own. Shaped in an "L" and functional in design the new structure will have a frontage of 144 feet on Drummond ·street, and run back to Stanley street for_a width of 68 feet. It will be immediately south of, and integrated with, the parent Y.M.C.A.'s Central branch. · As he new building rises, the basement and first two floors of the Central branch will be remodeled. The heating plant in the new building will serve the branch as well. , Being near to the home in which it grew up will serve Sir 9'eorge. Students will continue to use the Y's s"';,imming pool, gymnasium and club rooms. The .college will also retain most of its space in the Y-though it will be put to new purposes. The library will stay where it is, but be expanded. A large chemistry room will be converted into a lecture hall. Adding old and new space, the college will have 48 classrooms and lecture halls, 17 laboratories and special rooms, student common rooms and reading rooms. The new building will have a 410-seat auditorium equipped for dramatic produc­ tions, and offices for the administration and facuty. The new structure is the major item in the Montreal Y.M.C.A.'s expansion program, for which a $3,300,000 public campaign was held two years ago. Parts of this program have already been realized, with completion of the new Northmont branch building and the beginning of construction of the Lachine branch. The Southwestern branch extension is about to be completed, and an N.D.G. branch extension is in the planning stage. · Fred G. Hubbard, general secretary of the Y.M.C.A. in Montreal, said that funds supplem~nting the campaign receipts would be necessary to finance Sir George's new building. The $3,000,000 cost includes the site, furnishings and equipment In 1920 high school courses ·at night were begun, a division which now enrols 1,200. In 192,6 the name Sir George Williams College was adopted (after the founder of the Y.M.C.A. ) to designate the expanding formal educational program

June 1954 33 of the Y. That year, too, the program became co-educational. Developed in the early l 930's, four-year _college degree courses were established 20 years ago. Today enrolment is 6,819, a figure which includes students in elementary and high school, in the art and business courses, as well as the regular college courses. Henry F. Hall, dean and vice-principal of the college, pointed out that Sir George, like colleges and universities across the country, recorded a boom enrolment when the Second World War ended. The 1941 registration of 2,498 jumped to 3,500 in 1945. By 1951 it was 5,721. At this point the post war influx at other colleges was tapering off markedly, but at Sir George enrolment continued to climb. Now it is 6,819 including 3,150 students who work all day and study at night. Dean Hall felt the continued boom was due to the growth of the city, and to growing acceptance of evening education in general · and recognition of Sir George in particular. "Primarily, the new building will help us do the job we are already doing more efficiently. A secondary consideration is that it will increase our capacity, so that we could handle 8,000 students," he added. Contractors for the structure are E. G. M. Cape and Co. and the architects are Ross, Patterson, Townsend and Fish. • • • • • • QUEBEC GRANTS COLLEGE RECEIVES TWIN $72,000 GIFTS

IR GEORGE WILLIAMS COL­ do their utmost to be worthy of this trust. S LEGE . announced receipt of two "The grants of the Provincial govern­ Quebec government grants of $72,000 ment to the universities are further each. evidence of the interest which the In a JOmt statement, B. Wynne premier and his government have always Roberts, chairman of the board of shown in the cause of education." governors, and Principal K. E. Norris The grant to Sir George is a -little said the grants toward maintenance were more than it has been estimated it would especially appreciated since they came have received under the Federal aid-to­ "at a very strategic and critical time in universities scheme for the two years. our history." 1 Mr. Roberts and Dr. Norris noted Sir The twin grants, covering the 1952~53 George's plans "for modest expansion and 1953-54 academic sessions, follow and improvement of our facilities." similar grants already announced to "Expansion requires increased main­ Laval University, McGill, the University tenance as well as capital expense. It is of Montreal and Bishop's University, indeed gratifying to be assured of assis­ Lennoxville. tance by the Provincial government in Made under provisions of Quebec's this matter. new income tax legislation, the funds "The deficits in actual operation of replace Federal grants which Quebec's the college have been met from year to universities accepted for the 1951-52 year very generously by the parent insti­ academic year but were not allowed to tution,- the Y.M.C.A. of Montreal. How­ accept for the two years thereafter. ever, there is a limit to the funds which . Mr. Roberts and Dr. Norris declared: the Y.M.C.A. can raise for this purpose. "The provincial grant will at least "Also, although tuition fees have been insure the maintenance of our present increased, it is felt that they must be program, and the government of the kept within the range of the clientele province may be assured that the gover­ the college is primarily designated to nors, the administrative and faculty will serve."

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EN OR more years ago, when I first started giving baccalaureate addresses to T graduating classes of Sir George Williams College, I tried to find something wise and learned to say. Now I am more- shall we say, mature- and, like most people when they grow older, I fear I shall be more didactic, more categorical, but at the same time, I shall be more practical or more "down-to-earth." I fear also that I shall take advantage of my position to hand out advice. In the first place may I humbly call your attention to the heritage of learning into which step?. Your graduation in 1954 is of course a great event in your present lives but whether it has any permanent and vital importance depends on what you do from now on. There are certain things on which nearly everyone thinks he is an expert. One of these is the curriculum. Some think tha t the curriculum of Sir George Williams is too liberal, too general or too elementary. However, it does at least have the advantage of introducing the serious student to the learning of the ages. You have at least a foundation on which to· build. You have, at least, the sources from which comes the life-long adventure of learning. But please don't forget this. What you do with your education depends on the immediate future for education can dissipate .as well as grow. It can go down hill as well as up and it's a good deal easier to go down. We academic people often make a grea t deal of knowledg~ but knowledge, by itself, is not really so important. No knowledge but wisdom is the principal thing; not knowledge but ability to use knowledge is important in the world of work; not stored facts but living ,Qttitudes, abilities, systems of habits are the true goal and purpose of education. ·:. The great crisis in the education of the average college person is, in my opinion, right after he graduates and leaves the "formal" part of his education. The person who proceeds to graduate study, or advanced professional education, is so apt to become engrossed in his specialty that he loses his contact with the other things which make his life richer and more valuable to himself and to others. So often too, is the concept of "completing one's education" held that we do not realize that education which does not advance surely regresses. Diplomas, degrees and all other pieces of paper may stand for .something but a person is, at best, a complex organism arid change is one of the laws of life. It is my firm belief that a diploma may lose in value as the years pass much more readily than it may gain. T herefore, I urge you to keep your education alive. You may find that the next four or so .years may be just as educative as the past four or so if you make them so. Read good books, develop

38 The Postgrod your interest, increase your contacts with people and with thoughts and ideas which. are stimulating and cultural (in the true sense) but, above all, develop your actual abilities for only by so doing can your life be richly rewarding to yourself, your country and to the world of your time. It is trite to remind you that these are most unsettled and perilous times. Some forty to fifty years ago, the late Dr. Walter Rauschenbush (who, I think, was one of the prophets of our time) wrote that "under the shadow of the cathedral and of the museum still lurk the beggar and the thug." But in our day the cathedrals and the museums themselves lie in dust and rubble throughout a large part of the world. The lag between material development and social progress led to its inevi­ table result and chaos. The release of atomic. power, which some had regarded as the probable beginning of a utopian age, is now a reality of fearful proportions. The very scientists who created it are now most fearful of its implications. As Dr. J. R. Oppenheimer wrote, it is "too revolutionary to consider in the framework of old ideas," and Dr. H. C.' Urey writes that "It all adds up to the most dangerous situa­ tion that humanity has faced in all history." Surely if this means anything it means that our greatest need is not physical, but spiritual, power. It seems to me that one of the marks · of an educated person should be a proper evaluation of himself. It is often said that humility is one of the signs of true great­ ness and I think that this is so. Surely the testimony of history and of our own experience is to the effect that those who are solely concerned with their own advancement, their own ends, their own pleasures, are thereby prevented from making their greatest possible contribution to humanity. Surely the true scholar, the learner, the student of forces, of life and of humanity, should of all men be filled with a sense of proportion and, therefore humble before the vastness of the great universe and the mystery of man. On the other hand, an experience of thirty years in dealing with young people has given me the unmistakable impression that youth, as individual, often fail to achieve their greatest development because they do not realize their own possibilities or their own importance in the scheme of things in the universe. Due regard for human personality is, to me, the basic dictum of ethics but the idea becomes the merest platitude unless one respects his own personality as well as that of ·others. The great leaders of mankind's upward struggle from the Hebrew prophets, to Socrates, to Jesus have been devoted to mankind but they themselves have had a sense of the greatness of their mission. If I could teach young people just one thing for their guidance, it would be that their lives are built by the practices which they follow day by day and that these lives that they build have a significance far beyond the range of our ordinary concepts. There once sat in my office a man who has had a very wide experience in coun­ selling· of individuals often under difficult circumstances, a man whom I regard as a truly great counsellor. I asked him what single factor stood out in his mind as a result of his extensive experience with the problems of people. He said that the thing which impressed him most was how often in the course of one's life, or the development of a situation, a single small attitude or habit or act on the part of someone had balanced the situation either toward a hopeless or disastrous situation or toward some improvement and eventually a solution.

We. often hear the well-known statement that we learn to do by doing. Dr. W. H. Kilpatrick thoughtfully points out that we learn not so much what we do but that it is our responses to what we do and what we experience. It is not so much literature, and science and philosophy, etc. that we learn b~t it is our resoonses to these things and to all the elements of our life that become a part of us. This is what I mean by the idea that our lives are built by our practices or, as some of you have heard me say perhaps too often "We become the sort of people we practice being."

June 1954 39 M~,y we look now at this qu~s tion of tµe peed for what l called spiritual ·power. Recently I met a, _: msi:i:i of cons\derable ability whom I used to know quite w~ll. We had not been talk~ng long wh~n he told me that he h_ad come to the cortclus10n that about the only function religion had played in the long course of human history had been to divide mankind up and to set one group against another. Well, one may be able to sympathize with the regrettable use of religious attitudes to create and extend what the Church of England Prayer Book coils "our unhappy divisions1' Dr. Harry Emerson Fosdick recounted the story of the Irishman who, thoroughly fed-up with the religious strifes of his country is reported to have exclaimed, "Would to God that we could all be heathens so that we might live together like Christians." But the very fact that this story is funny shows that it is . incongruous. Just as astronomy is plagued with astrology; as the scientific physician is cursed by the quack ; as the psychologist is often bothered by queer a nd unsound pseudo-psychological fortune-tellers; as earnest statesmanship is bedevilled by crafty and self-seeking politics ; so religion, by its very nature is, and has always been, used for unworthy and debasing ends which are quite at variance with the basic teachings of great religions about God and man. The teaching of the real leaders of great religions is quite different. Throughout the hitory of the Hebrew-Christian tradition to which most of us belong, there have been prophets, saints, teachers who have insisted on the prophetic, rather than the legalistic basis of religion. "I demand mercy and not sacrifice," says Issiah. "What does the Lord require of thee but to do justly and to love mercy and to walk humbly with thy God," says Micah. The teaching of Jesus is filled with this message. "If a man love not his brother whom he hath seen, how can he love God whom he has not seen?" and again "If you are offering a gift at the altar and remember that your brother has some­ thing against you, leave your gift before the altar and go, first be reconciled to your brother." Surely the hope of society lies only in the recognition of the interdependence of mankind but religion at the greatest has always recognized this. There is a mystical quality about the bonds which bind us together and which we cannot escape. Those of you who have studied biology are familiar with the volvox which is a simple aquatic plant consisting of a spherical network of cells. Study of these plants shows that the cells, though apparently independent, are actually bound together by strands of living protoplasm. I like to think of human society as something like that. We are bound by living strands which cannot escape. What happens to one affects us all. What one does has a reaction on every unit. Our behaviour affects most those who are close and related to us eventually it reacts on all mankind. The human family, · past, present and future, is bound by what Carlyle called "invistble chains." John Donne, whom Ben Johnson called "In some ways the greatest of our poets," says: " No man is an ilancl intire of itself; every man is a peece of the continent, a part of the maine; if a clod be washed away by the Sea, Europe is the less, as well as if a promontorie were . .. Any man's death diminishes me because I am involved in Mankind; And therefore never sent to know for whom the bell tools·; It tolls for thee !" My sincere and final word to you is this message-Love of God and our fellow man is the answer to all problems; noble impulses and unselfish deeds are the greatest things in the world. Students officiating at the service were Donald Ayre, Vice-President, Arts '54; Caryl Gatehouse, Secretary, Science '54; and Rodney Booth, Valedictorian, Arts '54. Other members of the graduating class executive acting as ushers in the service were: Ken McKerracher, President, Arts '54; Albert Hudon, Treasurer, Commerce '54; John Bain, Secretary, Science '54; Danny Max, Social Chairman Commerce '54; Pat Caplan and H erbert Vool, Annual Editors, Arts '54. '

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IGHTEEN students of the college's E School of Retailing received their Five Promotions diplomas from Dean H enry F. H all at the "premiere" graduation exercises in Announced the Central Y this month. IVE STAFF changes at Sir George Two students, Diana M ary Roberts F Williams College were announced in and Kalman Solomon, as top male and April by Dr. K. E. Norris. female graduates, won special prizes Heading the list was the appointment awarded by the T. Eaton Co. Ltd. of of P. T. R. Pugsley, associate professor Montreal. of commerce, to the post of professor of Henry W. Morgan, president, H enry commerce. Morgan and Co. Ltd., told the students Mr. Pugsley has been a member of that "opportunities are greater today the faculty of the college since 1936 than they ever were in this great city and has supervised the commerce divi­ of ours ... expanding in all directions ... sion since 1945. with Canada in the forefront of the Other appointments were: Neil Comp­ economic world." ton, from assistant professor of English Turning to the retail profession, he to associate professor; Norman E. Smith, said: "To make a success of selling you associate professor of mathematics; J. P. have to like people, show an interest Petolas, assistant professor of physics; in their problems, be a bit of a psycho­ and Helen J. Martin, lecturer in biology. logist by finding out with a few questions what they are after and then show them the type of goods they want to buy. of practical retail education in this province. Students attend lectures three "Retailing is getting bigger every day days weekly from September to May, -in the number of persons employed and work in retail stores as part time and in sales volume. As the population employees on the three other days. grows so grows retailing. Retailing sales amount to 70 per cent of the nation's Diplomas are granted on the basis of disposable income. final examinations of their academic "The retailer's role is vital. He works work plus the ratings they receive from directly with the customer. H e interprets the stores in which they work. Co­ his or her needs and desires and then operating firms in the training course translates them into orders for the manu­ are: Henry Birks & Sons (Montreal) facturer. Ltd. ; Dupuis Freres, Ltee.; T. Eaton Co. Ltd. of Montreal; Henry Morgan "The retailer watches, even anticipates, & Co. Ltd.; Jas. A. Ogilvy's L td.; consumer trends. He uses his imagina­ Simpson's Montreal Ltd.; and Stein­ tion to develop new merchandise ideas berg's Ltd. and calls on advertising and display to create demand· for them. Successful candidates were: C. Smillie Buckland, Peter H . Cheasley, Morton "The r e tailer helps change our J. Copelovitch, G. Dwane Dockrill, standard of living, too. He opens up Harvey L. Felsher, Sheila N. Johnson, mass markets to manufacturers, thus Frank A. Kerridge, Jean Larose, Paul­ lowering prices . He is, truly, a balance Emile Myre, M. Janice Pratt, Diana M. wheel for the w ole consumer goods Roberts, Julius Sand, Gerald Schwartz, section of our economy," :tvt;r. Morgan Eli Shaheen, Kalman Solomon, Sheila said. H. Stanley, H enry Ticker, Gary S. Wil­ The School of Retailing is a new type liams.

42 The Postgrad Record 12,600 Stay at Montreal Y's BARNES

RECORD 12,600 were accom­ 1·N V E S T I G AT I O N A modated for stays of two or three days or more at the YMCA here last BUREAU LTD. year, it was revealed at the annual meet­ ing of the association. Capacity houses have been the rule Industrial - Commercial Plants - at International, Central and Westmount Uniformed Guards branches, the report noted, The greatest supervision by Patrol Cars equipped demand for transient accommodation with Mobile Radio was at the Central Y "where the turn­ over of guests has taxed the energies of Secret Service Undercover Agents the residence staff." Many of the record number provided Complete Investigation Coverage with rooms were from the United States and other parts of Canada. CHARLES BARNES, President F. B. Walls was elected president of former Chief of Monlrf'CII City Polle• the association. Other officers elected were: L. W. Townsend, first vice-presi­ HArbour 91 61 dent; George M. Hobart, second vice­ 204 NOTRE DAME STREET WEST president; 0. B. Thornton, third vice­ president; T. Denton Lewis, honorary MONTREAL treasurer; and J. H. Webb, honorary. secretary. 24 Hours Service J. W . McConnell was once again named honorary president. The report to the 102nd annual meet­ the total number of groups was five ing, submitted by Fred G. Hubbard, fewer than in 1952, the attendance general secretary, said the range of prob­ increased by nearly 4,000. lems of young people seeking guidance - During the year Sir G~orge Williams at the Y covers virtually every human College and schools were used to the -situation. limit of their facilities. The total "load'', Personnel counselling services of the the report stated, caused serious over­ association handled last year such prob­ crowding of all auxiliary services involv­ lems as trouble at home, difficulties at ing academic records, students' accounts, work, loneliness and religious perplexity. library, registration-and even check• Mr. Hubbard said the Y counselled rooms and washrooms . on "all the countless confusions which .. Membership in the 12 branches of the beset the young, who feel their own association in Montreal reached a high experience too inadequate to help them of 28,012 last year. This was an increase toward resolving their problems." of 1,678 over the previous year. Counselling and interviews during the Greatest number of members-36 per year totalled 56,307. Employment place­ cent-were between the ages of 18 and ments totallec;l 498, about half the num­ 24 years. Members 35 years and older ber of the previous year. This was cited accounted for 11 per cent of the mem­ as an indication of more stability in bership. employment. In all, including summer camps, 31,412 Another notable increase, the report boys, girls, men and women took part in said, was recorded in the attendance at Y activities during the year. Y-sponsored club groups for young Within the association, construction people. During the year, there were 870 was started on several projects and pre­ clubs with an enrollment of 27,918 and construction planning continued on a total attendance of 365,762. Although others.

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ORE and more students at the realers. They all take the usual courses M college, including many planning leading to a bachelor's degree in arts, for a career in YMCA work, are working plus their post-graduate training in their way through college. special subjects.

According to statistics released by the The fellowship scheme began in Mont­ Montreal 'Y", there are 27 men and real 30 years ago, and many graduates five women "fellowship" students among are in leading posts in "Y" branches the thousands of employed pupils who across Canada. Two of the best known attend both night and day college alumni are Dr. Kenneth Norris and courses. H enry F. H all. The fellowship students .are working In the early years of the training their way through degree courses by scheme, students were trained at other serving in the city's "Y" branches in off institutions but presently Sir George is school hours. the acknowledged centre for nearly all Five of the special group are Mdnt- future "Y" secretaries.

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By JOHN P. KIDD, B.A. '37

HE OTHER evening I was browsing through "Hold Back The Night", a T diverting story of the Korean War, when one particular phrase caught my attention. In referring to similarities of two of the character, the author said that they "enjoyed the independence and frequent loneliness of free men". To those of us who have somehow developed- and are constantly endeavoring to maintain, against the never-ending attack of the hordes of conformity, a modicum of freedom and independence, intellectual and spiritual, this phrase rings a bell. The frequent loneliness. Loneliness is certainly one of the crosses, to use a biblical phrase, that free men have to bear. And it may be that the future of freedom will depend in no small degree on the ability of enough free m en to remain lonely. It is so easy to conform, to submit. There are so many lotus lands, so many lotus eaters-all about us. Why bother? Where does it get you? In this age of pre-digested, pre-fabricated and mass-produced things for the spirit, the mind, the stomach, the body,-for distraction and enjoyment, excitement and comfort­ why be an individual, why bother? It gets you nothing, except lonelin~ss, difficulties .and conflict. No doubt you have read- if you haven't, you should-"The True Believer", by Eric Hoffer. It deals with mass movements of all kinds-political, social, economic, religious-throughout the ages. And it shows how throughout time men have submitted, have conformed, willingly selling their birthright of free individuals to the comforting, sometimes elysian anonymity of a group movement. It is a disturbing book, and in some ways, it is a pessimistic one, for it suggests that man prefers the anonymity of the darkened audience seat to the spot-lighted chair on the stage. This present age is probably not different than past ones. This may sound p essimistic-and frankly I am pessimistic- but I believe that the main trends in Canada today are towards more and more conformity, and conformity m eans the end of truly free men, and thus the en:d of or the immediate hope of a truly free society. Everyday society is becoming more regulated ; ultimately, and it may be in our lifetime, we will have built, by design, by accident or by default1 a society as regulated as any of those in the past and present we have so fervently abhorred. One thing more before we take a look at some of these trends. In almost every case group movements have become authoritarian. The very nature of a group movement, if it is to grow and flourish, demands it. T o retain your membership in a group movement, you must submit to the ideas and practices of the movement­ the group .ideas and group practices. Individual ideas and practices would destroy the group ones. And consequently individual ideas and practices are not tolerated. You must believe this; you must do that. Threats of punishment, either here and now or in the "life beyond" are devised and promulgated. Individual thought, opinion and action will be met with scorn and contempt. There is no place for the infidel in the movement; if possible, no place for him in this life, an:d with some movements, a prettily imagined hell for him in the next. There is no place for the "independence of free men". For free men would think for themselves.

June 1954 45 And in doing this thy are guilty of the temerity of placing their reason above the infinite intelligence of God; for all group movements have had God as their grand patron, or some other god, perhaps the movement itself. All group movements, of course, ·prefer and endeavor to maintain the tidiness,. the orderliness, the quiet surety of the temple to the dynamic, ever-changing, exciting bustle of the market place. What are some indications of the trend towards a regulated state and a regulated society. They are many, too many to deal with in this brief article. But here are a few that I have encountered; they may not be the most serious,. or the most important. Since the beginning of the century, GOVERNMENT has been moving in, and in many cases, taking over responsibility and direction of rriore and more areas of human affairs. In Canada, this has been particularly true of the Federal Government, but also of the provincial and municipal bodies. Fortunately, we have also seen, during this period, the growth of non-official governments­ of voluntary organizations of all kinds. And as long as these organizations can maintain their independence of action and program, can remain healthy, vital and influential, then they can prevent a monolithic state d eveloping. Now there is nothing wrong with big government in itself, so long as it remains the servant of the people. But in its very bigness and complexity, and the complexity of the problems with which it is faced, lies the danger of it becoming the master. This colossal machine must be kept going, and so for the sake of efficiency and administrative expediency, it or its parts begins to know what's good for the people, and to act upon that "knowledge". And so we have a growth of not government by la w, but by men_-cabinet ministers, civil servants. Acts, and regulations are passed or made which literally places the "life, liberty and happiness" of individuals in the hands, not of the long established tradition of law, but of men, frequently over-worked men daily faced with the need for greater adm.inistrative effici ency. The past War conditioned us to accept a great deal of direction from govern­ ment, to conform for the common good, and to look to government for leadership and guidance. We have permitted ourselves to accept government as The Authority on many things. It is thus only natural that government at times takes unto itself the role of an authority on many other things- in trade, in health, in agriculture, and what is extrem ely dangerous to freedom, in ideas. How far can we let this trend go, and remain free? Another trend- that whole movement that may be summed up in the words "community chest". The community chest movement started out a co-operative venture; a number of voluntary organizations in the welfare and educational fields co-operatively pooling their resources for the purpose of making public appeals for financial support. But in some centres, now, the princes and priests of the local chests view as an infidel, and un-believer any organization which of its own free choice desires to remain outside of the ches •. They would have all organizations conform, not only to the co-operative financial campaign, but ultimately to the dictates of the · small group who pass on individual organization budgets; a small group who in doing so automatically set themselves up as an authority, a higher authority, which knows better than the individual organization itself how to carry on its business and program . I believe it was Benjamin Franklin who said "even a fool can put on his own pants best". But not only does this trend lessen the independence of the individual organization, but•it takes away from the private citizen the right and responsibility to choose which organizations are going to receive his support. Censorship, of course, has always been a weapon used against freedom. Those who believe in censorship don't believe in freedom, in the most basic of all

46 The Postgrod freedoms, the freedom to enquire, to think, to choose. And the censors are on the march. There are . many more indications ; I'm sure that you can list dozens. Individually they often seem not too important. And we are all so busy, these days, with just the "essentials" of living. Besides, we are basically a people who believe in freedom, in individualism, in independence. It co'uldn't happen here; someone will see it won't really happen. Sometimes, some of us, in our loneliness, wonder.

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By HENRY F. HALL, Vice-Principal and Dean of the College

. HE OBVIOU S effec ts of science on modern life arc really the effects of T technology ( applied science.) These are most dramatically demonstrated in rapid transportation and instantaneous communication. I do not regard myself as an old man but I well remember that first automobile I ever rode in, the first aeroplane I ever saw and the first radio program I ever h eard. M y children were brought up with radio as commonplace and now my grand-children are being brought up with television. The effects of these developments are many-not the least of these is that we are immediately confronted with the h appenings and, more important, the ideas of every part of the world. One would wish that some of these developments could be applied to our more immediate problems. What is the advantage of going to Europe faster and faster when it takes longer and longer to go from Notre D ame de Grace to St. James Street? · The variety of religions and of philosophies of life which assail our ears, if we listen to them, is another result of harnessed electricity and electro-magnetic radiation. One person, be h e dictator, president or constitutional monarch can now speak directly to the world. To some this is thrilling-to others it is dis­ illusioning. People are able, if they be so inclined, to criticise the flatness of a president's voice or the choice of words of a Queen of Britain. Some of us brought up unci"er rather more primitive, or ( as we like to think) pioneering, conditions ' will never get used to some of the more simple and commonplace applications of scientific advances. It is almost a miracle to me that I can drop a letter bearing a four-cent stamp in any post-box in Montreal and be reasonably assured that my sister will receive it in Calgary two or at the most three days later. I never reach up to turn off a reading lamp over my bed that I do not silently marvel at the wonder of the age in which I am privileged to live. For many years the philosophers and social scientists have been talking about the · "cultural lag"- the disparity between the applications of science and technology on the one hand, and man's ability to control them on the other. Some are inclined to smile at the anxiety over the· development of forces and machines we cannot control. They point out that it was ever thus and ·that, in all probability, some older philosophic members of the Palaeolithic tribes who first used fire pointed out to all who would listen that this was a dangerous development and would lead to no good end. They may have even forseen that great communities of the future would h ave to pay taxes to hire m en with expensive and complicated equipment just to sit around and wait day and night in case this dangerous thing called fire should get out of hand at some place and threaten to wipe out the community's property. At any rate it is well known that a medieval church council spent considerable time and much h eat and effort discussing the possibility of outlawing a new and inhuman weapon called the cross-bow. So say some complacent people­ "T'was ever thus-cross-bow, gunpowder, atomic energy- it's all tbe same thing!" However, it is my opinion that these people leave out one important factor in the situation and that is the simple, but scientific, fact of constant factors. The world up to our age has been able to absorb these changes by the simple

48 The Postgrad process of getting larger! However, we have _now ju~t about reach e_d the limit­ the size of the earth is a constant factor. It 1s practically all occupied and there is nowhere else to go, of course some say that . we could &o to the M?on o_r to Mars or ( what is almost as bad) that we can go to the arctic or antarctic reg10ns. This, to me, is just unrealistic. The truth is, in my opinion, that mankind has somehow got to learn to live on this little earth as "one world." However, it is not the technical applications of science, important and immediate though these are, that I wish to discuss particularly to-day. Pure science has also made advances that, though much less widely known and appreciated, are non-the-less thrilling and important. Two fairly new discoveries come to mind which I would like to call to your attention simply to point out the important cultural concomitants to scientific advances. The first of these developments is in· the fi eld of astronomy and it is perhaps symptomatic of our age that so great and far-reaching a discovery could be made and could cause so little concern, or even interest, outside of the immediate field in which fr is found. In brief this discovery concerns the size of the universe or, at least, the distances between parts of the universe. Astronomers have, in the last year or two, come to the sober conclusion that the distances of the universe are just about twice as great as they previously believed them to be. You well remember that Copernicus and his following in the 16th and 17th centuries (just about the time our city was founded in fact) brought about a revolution in ~hinking by showing that the earth was not the centre of the universe but was only one planet among several each following its own orbit around the central sun. A century or so later it was shown (but it did not make as much stir) that the sun is not the centre of the universe but is only one star among millions­ or even billions- many of which may have planets around them . Then in our own time, in fact about thirty years ago, the concept of the galaxy was developed, This shows that the stars are arranged in a great disc­ like assembly of unbelieveable proportions and, further, that this galaxy is only one of thousands ( or perhaps even millions ) ·of galaxies which populate known space as far as our best telescopes will show us-more space and more galaxies; more space and more galaxies; until they fade out in the great depths of astronomical distance. Now, naturally, one of the problems has been the simple question how far away are these other galaxies outside of our own? Our means of measuring these distances have been only indirect ones but the answers, as might be expected, have been figures of such huge pr9portions that we cannot really appreciate them. The new discovery, the details of which I cannot discuss to-day, indicates that this distance, and that of other galaxies, are just about half what they should be. In other words our nearest galaxy is a miUioR and a half light years away and the farthest ones our best telescopes will show us are about two billion light years away from us! · The second discovery is also recent and equally, if not more, exciting. This is a by-product of the immense research in the field of atomic energy but has quite a different application. It is, I think, a good example of the possible effect of one branch of science on another and of the way in which pure research in one fi eld may have effects in quite an apparently unrelated one. Dr. W . F. Libby was one of the great research team of the U.S. Atomic Energy study. He predicted and then discovered the presence of radio-active carbon ( called carbon-14) in the atmosphere. H e also predicted that this carbon, in small amounts, would become part of living organisms and, if so, would furnish a key to the age of once living tissue. Libby and his co-workers have supplied ample proof of the accuracy of his discovery. H e has taken samples of wood of known age and. deduced the age by his carbon-14: method with considerable accuracy. The method is not applicable

June 1954 49 to peripds of over 25,000 years but under that time it is provmg a great new tool for archeologists. Some of the results so far di~covered are as follows- (a ) the age of Egyptian dynasties have been verified ; (b ) the time of the last great ice-age (glaciation) to cover northern North America has been found to be only about 11,000 years and not 25,000 years as previously thought; ( c) the oldest remains of prehistoric man in North America are between 9 and 10 thousand years of age. This is less than previously believed. ( d ) Mankind invaded the North American continent, just as previously believed, from the west to the east, taking something · like five thousand years to establish himself from the western plains to the east coast ( e) the recent discovery of the book of Isaiah is found to be genuine and about 2,000 years old and not a mediaeval copy as had been suggested. Dr. Libby's carbon-14 method of dating- is so new that obvious questions have not been applied to it yet. It promises to give an unbelieveable degree of exactness to the whole field of archeology and to add great interest to the branch of anthropology dealing with prehistoric man. There are many ways in which one can regard the advance of scientific discovery. Some profess to see the universe, scientifically viewed, as a "fortuitous concourse of atoms"-a chance assemblage of sub-atomic particles and forces coming from .where they do not know. I have thought a great deal about this although I do not pretend to be either a scientist or a philosopher. It is my conviction that "In the beginning God··creat.ed, .. ." and that his creation is continuous. When I learn something new I say with· the scientist John Kepler, "O God, I think Thy thoughts· after Thee," or with the Psalmist-"O Lord, how manifold are Thy works! in wisdom last Thou made them all: the earth is full of Thy riches."-Summary of an address delivered by Dean Hall.

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