Home & Country Newsletters (Stoney Creek, ON), Fall 1970, p. 8

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Girls touring Macdonold Institute, from leftâ€"Miss Bard bara Foley, Miss Judy Ellis, Miss Barbara Gemmell, Miss Virginia Thompson. The New Morality “Don't get the idea that such things as chastity. loyalty and responsibility are outdat- ed.“ warned the speaker. “Don’t get the idea that immorality is a big part of university life, or that there's anything romantic or glamorous about it. It needn‘t affect you if you make your friends among young people whose inter- ests are more like your own.“ Protest and Progress “Young people have always protested and many good reforms have come from their pro- tests. But protest is not violence, destroying property and fighting anyone who tries to stop them, claiming to be against violence but themselves using any violence they can lay their hands on no matter who gets hurt.” In the food lab, at Muedonuld lnslil'ule, from leflâ€"less Doreen Burnsteod, Miss Mary Seiders, Miss Thelma The World You Make For Yourself “So much for the world you have inherited There's another more personal world that yrn make for yourself, your career, or the work t which you earn your living." Your Career “Your career will depend on your abiliti. but perhaps almost as much on your edu. tion. No generation has ever had the oppor nities for education that you have â€"â€" the a: get is that you may quit too soon.“ Miss Chapman told the following sto “When Ibsen was asked by a young man w; he should do to be the mest use in the W0 the poet said, ‘There is no way you can bent society more at this time of your life than coining the metal you have in yourself.‘ Mr. Nelson Huwn inslruding the girls in public speL ing. “Coining the metal you have in yoursei‘ repeated Miss Chapman, and went on to i plain this statement. “You are young “95 dreams of doing great things and certain abi ties but your abilities are mixed up with la- of knowledge and no discipline in the use them, like bits of silver in a lump of 0; There is no way of using the ore until it h- goue through the furnace and the silver i7 been melted out and minted into coins. In ti same way education will bring out your abr‘ ties and polish them so that you can use the“- to the fullest extent." HOME AND COUNTRI'

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