PUBLICATIONS RECEIVED.

Otago Daily Times, Issue 14927, 1 September 1910, Page 10

PUBLICATIONS RECEIVED.

In the Otago University Review for August the editor argues in favour of the continuation of the capping ceremony. Ho gives a number of from tho point of view, and sums up thue: ' So let us conserve our degree afternoon, with it 6 attendant nuisances, and lot tho public as it will object to our treatment of o» • martyr., instruments, of a; galling but needful phlebbtomy. _ Naturally, . the methods ' of operation will suggest tliemtselvee, an jriginat one being, that fhe spaechmakers should, a week prior to I lie ceremony, make. : phonograph records of their .perorations,' and then exultantly turn 'them off at highest pressure, to tile discomfiture of the uneeomly brawlers at the nether end of the partoiire." The leading feature of tho number is the first instalment of ail account of a. trip made by four students last vacation from Te Anau over,' Marshall's Pass to Milford. Tho Magpie for August contains the usual budget of cartoons of local celebrities. These vary in effectiveness from good to excellent. The letterpress is, as usual, of a ohoerful and 1 gossipy nature.