ROBERT NEWTON: President, 1941–1950
In the mid-1920s Archbishop O’Leary (with President Tory to his right) blessed the site where St. Joseph’s College was to be built; the University farm is seen in the background.
(Newton became acting president in 1941 when William Kerr resigned because of poor health. In 1942 he was installed as president.)
“Life is rarely easy, and the University as training ground for life necessarily reflects that condition. Now especially, when our country and its associates of like mind are struggling to preserve for ourselves and our children the things we prize above all others — freedom, justice, and the dignity of the individual — I know we shall take up gladly our full share of the common burden. Even our play we shall try to keep on a level of quality worthy of the times. ... As Colonel Ralston said recently, the most that is asked of us is self-denial, surely a small thing in comparison with the pledge of life which so many of our kith and kin have freely offered.” (The Gateway, October 10, 1941.) A University farm grain storage facility.
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