INTERUNIVERSITY TOURNAMENT

Otago Daily Times, Issue 22544, 11 April 1935, Page 11

INTERUNIVERSITY TOURNAMENT

PROGRAMME FOR EASTER MEETING. The official programme for the New Zealand University tournament, to be held in Dunedin over Easter, has been arranged as follows: — THURSDAY, APRIL 18. 4.25 p.m. —Reception at station. FRIDAY. APRIL 19. 9 a.m.—Weighing in of boxers, Mr T. Harris’s gymnasium. 9.30 a.m—N.Z.U.S.A. annual conference, executive room. 2.30 p.m.—Official welcome, Allen Hall; official photograph; afternoon tea. 7 p, m- —Delegates’ meeting, Union buildings. SATURDAY, APRIL 20. 9.30 a.m.—Tennis preliminaries (men at University courts, women at Otago courts). _ _ 10 a.m. —Boxing preliminaries, Town Hall. 10 a.m.—Swimming preliminaries, at Baths. 10.30 a.m. —Athletic preliminaries, at University Oval. 11 a.m.—Eight-oar rowing. 8 p.m.—Boxing finals, Town Hall. 10 p.m. —Rendezvous, Union buildings. SUNDAY, APRIL 21. 2.30 p.m.—Motor drive, from University. 5 p.m.—S.C.M. tea. 6.30 p.m.—Church service, Knox Church. 7i45 p.m. —Reception by Lady Sidey, at Corstorphine. MONDAY. APRIL 22. 9 a.m.—Basketball preliminaries, at University. 11 a.m.—Athletics, at University Oval, Logan Park. 1 p.m. —Basketball finals. 2.15 p.m. —Athletic, University Oval, Logan Park. 10 p.m. Rendezvous. TUESDAY, APRIL 23. 9.30 a.m. —Tennis finals, at University courts. 8.30 p.m. —Tournament ball, Town Hall.

In the Theosophical Hall last Sunday, Mr William Crawford, speaking on “The Game of Life,” said that from a theosophical point of view life was a game, but to millions at the present day life was a nightmare. As the inward life in man was indestructible, he would gradually master all difficulties. _ Meanwhile there was the struggle for existence. The speaker had recently noticed in his trip to India that the people there, though often without home or food, were the happiest on earth; while in the Western countries' misery and suicide were rampant. Suicide was never caused by poverty itscdf, but by the “ fear ” of poverty, and hence was a mental state. Man was very happy in the Astrial World after death and still happier in the Heaven World when he spent about tOO years, then returning to this “University of Hard Knocks.” Man had evolved through the mineral, vegetable and animal kingdoms to the human kingdom. _ “The nature of the self is bliss,” said the speaker, “ and when we say we are miserable, do not know our self. Work should be pleasant and we should feel we could sing while working.” All the world was a stage and people were the actors wearing masks, so that they did not really know one another in one’s true nature. Some day the drama Mould come to an end, and they Mould then live in their true home. Life M-as easier when they co-operated M’ith God’s plan. They need not take themselves too seriously, but should act as in drama and see some of the joy of life. They need not be full of complaints about others, because everyone M'as doing his best. AH religions rightly interpreted lent to love and understanding; the Hindus had long held that God played. If people thought life long and labourions, they were under an illusion, for M’orking in God’s scheme should be pure delight. Christ did not teach that people were miserable sinners, but sons of God. The line drawn between good men and sinners was ridiculous, for none were perfectly good or perfectly bad. The Prodigal Son Mould come back. The teachings of pains of hell for ever was not even fit for savages, for everyone shares one consciousness, and if one soul M’as lost, they M - ere lost also. Millions of years ago man played, quarrelled, and made it up again; he M’as a child-soul. To-day there was more sorrow in the M’orld than joy for they Mere materialistic ami ignorant of the realities of life. That M-as a necessary stage in their training, and as they learned to be happy, and work’ hard (for genius M’as not a sudden growth), then some day the Golden Age would again appear on earth. Life was not a game of chance, or luck, but a game of skill, ruled by God’s burs M’liicb were beneficent and omnipotent. One estimate states that .‘150,000 new bouses Mill be built in the London area during the coming 12 months.

Will the yellow races spread all over the world, or will the world be ultimately neonled by an intimate compound ot white and yellow and black.' This question was put by Dr K. B. Aikman, of Harley street, in a paper on Ivace Mixture ” to the Victoria Institute, vVestminster. “ Some people,” he said, pro* less to look forward gladly to that tuna when national rivalries shall be no more, because nations will have ceased to provide that variety which is the spice of life, all sunk into a monotonous morass having the colour of coffee and milk. Bub if these alternatives are to be avoided—and I hope that this is still possible—it can only be through our studying the problems of race mixture and by acting before it is too late. The impression I have formed is that, until our real knowledge of heredity has made very great advances, any policy of encmiraging racialmixtures is a gamble which is unjustified.” Some form of mass segregation of races seemed to be desirable, said Dp Aikman. The ideal would seem to be that teachers, administrators, judges, and doctors should have access to the more backward races and that interchange of idea* should be allowed full play. In this way, each people would make its contribution to the culture of the world and would have the opportunity of fuller develop* ment. Dr Aikman said it was able how the intermarriage laws devised by Moses and Joshua, nearly 3500 year* ago, accorded with the latest scientino discoveries. He attributed the instability of family life in the United States to the mixed blood of most of her citizens. xt is said that people of foreign birth and .their children make up one-third of her population,, while another third had one foreign parent,” he said. Under such conditions it must be increasingly difficult to find two partners for life with similar ideals, tastes and outlook, an<* there would be a growing tendency for marriages to result purely from physical sex attraction.” The oldest advertisement dates from about GOO years before Christ. A potte? of Locris, in South Italy, put on his pott “ Fine! the pots which Pantelos makes are lino! ” A map of the moon, indicating its mou®? tains and prairies and all the other fees' lures on its surface, is being made i£ Washington from photographs taken frottabout 230,000 miles.