THE STUDENTS' PROCESSION.

Auckland Star, Volume LIV, Issue 148, 23 June 1923, Page 13

THE STUDENTS' PROCESSION.

(To the Baitor.) Sir,—'Although I cannot undertake to » answer the specifio criticism of "Not a' University Student" in your columns, I j would like this opportunity as a host of extolling the conduct of some 200 of the A selfsame "educated young men" referred d to by that critic whilst guests at my n dining rooms on the afternoon of the n procession. Like their older brothers i and cousins at France and elsewhere n ' during the Great War, my guests were a "division of gentlemen." In the cir-1 j| cumstances I cannot say too much for ' c i their gentlemanly conduct throughout the proceedings, and one of my lady guests, of whom there were a very fair sprinkling present, expreseed to mc what I know was the prevailing opinion of her sex, that the boys were a "jolly decent lot." Last year, in the same rooms, under similar circumstances, I am proud and happy to state tho conduct of the " boys was irreproachable in every way.— I am, etc., *" C. H. BLACK. Ie '5 [This correspondence ie now closed.— , Ed-]