CAPPING CEREMONY

Nelson Evening Mail, Volume LXX, 27 March 1936, Page 8

CAPPING CEREMONY

PROFESSORIAL BOARD’S PRE= CAUTIONS TO PREVENT DISTURBANCES STUDENT JOURNAL'S COMMENT (By Telegraph—Press Association) WELLINGTON, This Day. The Victoria College Professorial Board, following incidents at last year's capping ceremony, decided that this year the capping will he held in the afternoon instead of at night, in the Concert Chamber instead of the Town Hall, and admission will be by ticket only. Lastyear there were periodic disturbances in which a considerable section of the student audience conducted a series of flour bomb battles during which the proceedings wore completely interrupted. Tile 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’ journal, “Smad.” makes the lollovving comment: “It- appears that the badinage and the raillery, ihal indefensibly infectious accompaniment- of ail student activity, lias year after year been the secret shame" of the 1 lofessorial Hoard. Year after year they have scon it as a clevourincr flame playmg destructive havoc with the dignity and moment of the ritual called capping, and this time the board has determined that shall bo conducted with solemnity. faultless regulation and perhaps the giace on winch .Professorial Boards have dreamed for decades past. Student drol|ny is so regular as to he traditional. U- has always been received by an interested public with good humoured underotnncmig and tolerance.”