VARSITY STUDENTS’ HUMOUR

Greymouth Evening Star, 27 March 1936, Page 12

VARSITY STUDENTS’ HUMOUR

PROFESSORIAL CHECK. [per press association.] WELLINGTON, March 27. The Victoria College Professorial Board, following incidents at last year’s capping ceremony, decided this year, that the capping be held in the afternoon, instead of at night, and in the Concert Chamber instead of the Town Hall, and admission he by ticket only. Last year there were periodic disturbances in which a considerable section of the student audience conducted a se'ries of flour bomb battles, during which, the proceedings were completely interrupted. The students sent a deputation to the College Council to appeal against the Professorial Board’s decision. The discussion was taken in committee. The council received a letter from the Professorial Board stating that the students’ representations had been fully considered, and the Board had adhered. to the previous resolution. The students’ “Smad”, makes the following comment: It appears that the badinage and the raillery that are indefensibly the infectious accompaniment of all student activity, has year after year, been a secret shame of the Professorial Board. Year after year they have seen it as a devouring flame playing destructive havoc with the dignity and the moment of ritual called “capping,’ ’and this time the Board has determined it shall be conducted with solemnity, faultless regulation and perhaps the grace of which Professorial Boards have dreamed for decades past. Student drollery is so regular as to be traditional. It has always been received by an interested public with good-humoured understanding and tolerance.