STUDENTS’ DISPLAY

Otago Daily Times, Issue 18861, 14 May 1923, Page 8

STUDENTS’ DISPLAY

CAPPING DAY IN CHRIST CHURCH.

PRESS COMMENT.

DISGRACEFUL BEHAVIOUR

APPEAL TO COLLEGE AUTHORITIES,

(From Our Own Correspondent.) CHRISTCHURCH. May 15. - The Christchurch Star deals severely with the conduct of some of the students in Friday’s procession We feel compelled, it says, in the interests of decency and good conduct to protest against the behaviour which disgraced the occasion. The public ha 3 not been taught bv students to expect either good taste or subtle humour in these displays. The wit of the students’ displays is more of the bludgeon than the rapier, and humour is of the crudely obvious kind, inese things are tolerated because they are expected, and because there is a limit which must not be overstepped. Yesterday the ■ students went beyond the limit. Vulgarity gave way to indecency, and in some- eases intoxication displaced sobriety. Acts were committed which, the perpetrators should blush .to recall, and which ic is impossible for a decent journal to describe: Women and girls were held up by almost naked youths and kissed and mauled in 'a way that was cruelly outrageous to modest Womanhood.. We protest with all our force against the students’ gross abuse of a privilege which is granted them. The college authorities, should be informed by the . City Council that unless a definite guarantee, is given that the students will behave themselves the annual, procession must be abandorid. - - ■ -