Salient: An Organ of Student Opinion at Victoria College, Wellington, N.Z. Vol. 12, No. 2, March 16th, 1949.

Of cafeterias..

Of cafeterias...

"First, let's take the Cafeteria. In our building, it must be an essential part of the function. It should have space, it should be a place where you can sit and talk—intact, the sort of place where you feel you want to sit. This would make it essential to the social life of the students. It is hardly that at present. You see how important the question of atmosphere will be. For the rest, I think there must be a flexible use of space. Your groups will not always be large, and a large room would often hamper the sort of feeling which it ought to have. Yet this same space must be able to be adapted to large meetings, talks, assemblies. It must have provision for the showing of films when you wish. Sometimes, a concert—recorded music, a quartet perhaps? Where does your debating club meet now?

We might have answered "In the middle of the props for the Drama Club's next show" but we refrained.

"You are very lucky with this," he said. "I have been over most of New Zealand and I have seen nowhere any place of this sort. Since this is a new problem, the answer can be entirely original; you see that there is no tradition to be tied to—we can create as we like."