Upper Canada College

Yet I saw enough of farming to speak exuberantly in political addresses of the joy of early rising and the deep sleep, both of body and intellect, that is induced by honest manual toil.

I was educated at Upper Canada College, Toronto, of which I was head boy in 1887.

From there I went to the University of Toronto, where I graduated in 1891.

At the university I spent my entire time in the acquisition of languages, living, dead, and half-dead, and knew nothing of the outside world.

Very soon after graduation I had forgotten the languages and found myself intellectually bankrupt.

In other words, I was what is called a distinguished graduate, and as such I took to school teaching as the only trade I could find that need neither experience nor intellect.

I spent my time from 1891 to 1899 on the staff of Upper Canada College, an experience which has left me with a profound sympathy for the many gifted and brilliant men who are compelled to spend their lives in the most dreary, the most thankless, and the worst paid profession in the world.

I have noted that of my pupils those who seemed the laziest and the least enamored of books are now rising to eminence at the bar, in business, and in public life.

So you have townships and villages with names like Markham and Vaughan and Etobicoke and York and Weston.

And there's also a segment from the city of Toronto listing the contributions from teachers and pupils from Upper Canada College, academics and students from King's College, now a part of the University of Toronto.

Toronto, Toronto's police and firefighters, the Freemasons of Richmond Hill were also in the list.

There were contributions from the Bank of Upper Canada, from the Roman Catholic Bishop Michael Power, who sadly died of typhus in the fall of 1847.

And It's a testament to his character.

It's why he wore a C last year for Upper Canada College and he's a player that is going to be a cornerstone piece for us moving forward and one that I know as he gets more comfortable is going to start taking it to this league.

I don't know if this is anything to read into, but it was something I noticed last night in Kitchener.

I was doing the radio broadcast, and at one point I was watching the benches early on through the first and part of the second.

My name may not be familiar to the present generation of Torontonians, though I was born in Toronto and passed the early years of my life there.

since the days of my youth my visits to the upper province have been few and with one exception very brief so that i have doubtless passed out of the remembrance of many persons with whom i was once on terms of intimacy still there are several residents of toronto whom i am happy to number among my warmest personal friends at the present day There are also a good many persons of middle age, not in Toronto only, but scattered here and there throughout various parts of Ontario, who will have no difficulty in recalling my name as that of one of their fellow students at Upper Canada College.

The name of my late uncle, Richard Yardington, is of course well known to all old residents of Toronto, where he spent the last 32 years of his life.

He settled there in the year 1829, when the place was still known as Little York.

My name may not be familiar to the present generation of Torontonians, though I was born in Toronto and passed the early years of my life there.

since the days of my youth my visits to the upper province have been few and with one exception very brief so that i have doubtless passed out of the remembrance of many persons with whom i was once on terms of intimacy still there are several residents of toronto whom i am happy to number among my warmest personal friends at the present day There are also a good many persons of middle age, not in Toronto only, but scattered here and there throughout various parts of Ontario, who will have no difficulty in recalling my name as that of one of their fellow students at Upper Canada College.

The name of my late uncle, Richard Yardington, is of course well known to all old residents of Toronto, where he spent the last 32 years of his life.

He settled there in the year 1829, when the place was still known as Little York.

Yet I saw enough of farming to speak exuberantly in political addresses of the joy of early rising and the deep sleep, both of body and intellect, that is induced by honest manual toil.

I was educated at Upper Canada College, Toronto, of which I was head boy in 1887.

From there I went to the University of Toronto, where I graduated in 1891.

At the university I spent my entire time in the acquisition of languages, living, dead, and half-dead, and knew nothing of the outside world.

Very soon after graduation I had forgotten the languages, and found myself intellectually bankrupt.

In other words, I was what is called a distinguished graduate, and as such, I took to school teaching as the only trade I could find that need neither experience nor intellect.

I spent my time from 1891 to 1899 on the staff of Upper Canada College, an experience which has left me with a profound sympathy for the many gifted and brilliant men who are compelled to spend their lives in the most dreary, the most thankless, and the worst paid profession in the world.

I have noted that of my pupils, those who seemed the laziest and the least enamored of books are now rising to eminence at the bar, in business, and in public life.

It's definitely becoming more and more popular, and there's more teams popping up.

That's like the Canadian prep schools where you have- Like off the top of my head, like there's Ridley College in St. Catharines, Hill Academy, St. Andrews, Upper Canada College who play like, who's like in Ottawa.

They have, there's some really good programs in there that like pump out some really good hockey players.

And it's becoming more and more prevalent the older, especially like U18.

You had already been elected a prefect, which is a huge, huge accomplishment and speaks to who you are and, and the, the legacy you left here.

Um, and I will say personally that anytime we reach out, you answer, you send me pump up videos before FNL, and I, I always remember when, you know, you were at Princeton, you've played in the tournament, and you, you said to the guys, like, "FNL, Friday Night Lights, is still one of my favorite games I've played in." And for the boys here, that's the pinnacle, right? It's UCC, it's everything.

And you FaceTimed in before our game this year, which was a huge win, and I don't know if you could see it on your end, but, like, guys were fixing their hair as I panned the camera before seeing you.

[chuckles]

So I remember the-- not the-- I don't know if they were nerves, they probably were nerves, honestly, but the kind of nervous excitement for those games, you know, I had more of that for a FNL game than I do this past year playing in front of 20,000 people.

So, you know, I think tho-those games for sure were some of my favorite.

Who did we play, UCC? I think-

Your nor- your year was North Toronto