Excerpt from O. A. C. Year Book, 1918, Vol. 4

Hen a famous sculptor was asked which Of his works he was most interest \x/ ed in he replied, I am most interested in the statue I am going-to carve next. This should be the point Of view of every good workman, and to the graduates of the class of 1918 the question may very properly be put, What are you most interested in? And now that you have graduated, what statue are you going to carve. Next? Your four years of College life are over! What about the next four years? From you, as graduates of this College, much more will be expected than from those who have not had the benefit of scientific training. Your failurelwill cast discredit upon scientific methods; your success will encourage others to follow your example. It is by your success or failure, rather than by any printed course of study in the calendar that the farming community will judge the work Of this college. It is to you also that the community in which you live will look for leadership in everything that makes for rural progress. And, most important of all, it is to you that the nation will look for the, open mind, the breadth of vision, and the scientific accuracy which will help in the problems of te-construction which we must resolutely face in the years to come.

Never has a graduating class, in the history of this College had to face problems and bear responsibilities such as the class of 1918 is called upon to meet. Before some of you lies the stern discipline of training camps, and the still greater tests of endurance and skill which fall to the lot of the soldier overseas. And for those of you who are not privileged to take your place in the front line trenches, there lie before you duties and responsibilities no less grave. Never has the need been great er than at the present time for young men and young women of clear vision and accurate knowledge to help solve the problems of increased production and conser vation Of the products of the farm. To such a task every young man and young woman must devote the best skill and energy that is in them. If books have been closed in'the College class-rooms, it is only to open them with keen minds and fresh enthusiam in the world of practical afiairs which you are about to enter. In that school, students and investigators are needed, - broad-minded men and women who are able to meet great problems and who have patience to overcome strong prejudices. Let it not be said of the young men and women of the class of 1918 that when the testing time came they failed in their task. Be strong and quit yourselves like men!

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