The Spike: or, Victoria College Review, June 1909

College Notes

College Notes

Group of academics talking

The Gymnasium

"Amusement, dance of song he strictly scorns.

Thomson.

For years our football team has been predicting success for itself when the gymnasium is erected. The football team have always been disappointed, but will soon have to arouse themselves from their state of coma if their prophecy is to prove worthy of the trust which it has not yet received. For the gymnasium is being built. Tenders were called for before the College term began and by Easter building operations were well under way. Now that they have some tangible evidence of the work done by the Gymnasium Committee, students are commencing to take a real interest in it and to find grounds for complaint; by the time that the building is complete the anathemas which seem to be in waiting for the committee should completely overwhelm them. It is to be hoped that students will remember their indebtedness to the Minister for Education and through him to the Government, to Lieutenant Shackleton and Mr Leonard Tripp, to our anonymous donor and to those few generous citizens who gave to the fund. The matter of regulations for the financial and other control of the gymnasium has been disturbing the mind of the Students Association Committee for some time. The gymnasium should be ready by next term.

Wellington College

From the beginning of the University Tournament Victoria College has been in debt, and this year our indebtedness has again been increased by Mr. J. P. Firth having given further evidence of his interesting us, by allowing us to use, once again, the Wellington College grounds for training purposes. Now that Kelburne Park is completed, it should be available for training purposes, but we can never forget that our past success has been made possible through Mr. Firth's kindness.

Us.

This year The Spike Committee wishes to bring it about that The Spike will not be a millstone round the financial neck of the Students' Association; students will remember that the loss on last year's working of The Spike amounted to nearly eight pounds; in addition to this, there has been a very substantial increase in the cost of printing. It would be impossible for the magazine to be kept at its present size and price, and for it to be at the same time a financial success; and the Committee does not wish to reduce the size of the magazine. As a result, therefore, of these circumstances, it has been reluctantly compelled to increase the price of the magazine.