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"We can best serve the cause of Canadian unity and understanding by living first in and through and then beyond our own immediate traditions."
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Vincent MasseyIt is the Universitys function to turn out well-balanced persons with — Vincent Massey
"It is the Universitys function to turn out well-balanced persons with an understanding of themselves and of their place in life."
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Charles Vincent Massey was a Canadian diplomat and statesman who served as the 18th governor general of Canada from 1952 to 1959. Massey was the first governor general of Canada to be born in Canada.
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"I have had what might be called a post graduate course in the most important subject for all Canadians - Canada itself."
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"The age which we live in is not suited to idle complacency or to pleasant dreams of past greatness."
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"We are not born of the passions of war or of the fervours of revolution. And we grew quietly into the realization that, set as we are in a great wide land, with all our differences, there are certain traditions and ideals which we had in common, and which could best be preserved in a distinct society of our own."
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"Rational comprehension of the universe is not enough. We must call to our aid not merely reason, but the vision and the spiritual insight of the ages. These things we must seek."
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"The neglect of the humanities in present-day education is doubtless not a cause but a symptom of an age."
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