SMAD. An Organ of Student Opinion. 1935. Volume 6. Number 18.

A Dictator Desirable

A Dictator Desirable.

If Thursday's meeting of the Exec. was a typical one, it must be a soul-destroying business going to more than one. Someone must do the routine work in connection with the Students' Association, but this meeting was a very potent argument in favour of a dictatorship.

In Camera.

Most of the business was in committee, but some of it was judged suitable for general consumption. In future, clubs desiring to use the gym. kitchen will have to obtain the key from the secretary. This is in order to keep a better check on the crockery, which seems to disappear so rapidly.

A vote of thanks was passed to the organisers and performers in "Cocktail Party" for their work, which resulted in quite a large sum being passed over to the building fund.

The report of the cafeteria enquiry committee was received, but ensuing discussion was in committee. However, Mr. C. S. Plank has been appointed cafeteria controller, with Miss Janet Grainger and Mr. L. Desborough as assistant controllers. The present enquiry committee is to remain in existence.

Reduction of Fees.

The N.Z.U.S.A. is to be supported in its efforts to secure a reduction of University fees. The support of the College is also to be accorded to the projected tennis tour of this country by an Australian Universities team.

Mr. Perry, M.L.C., speaking of the peace ballot said, "I should like them to remember that if Germany had won the last war most of those participating in the ballot would not have been born." Morally, economically and egotistically speaking it would have been better so, if we have to get killed now.

Stop Press!

...Peace Ballot progress report—126 votes cast. Where are the remain-in 600?

An Appreciation.

We take this opportunity in our final issue of thanking all those who have assisted in the production of eighteen issues of "Smad." Contributors, reporters, and the distribution staff have all done yeomen service: we have never been short of material and have all along received splendid support from the students. Outside assistance, especially from the illustration branches of the "Dominion," "Evening Post," and "Free Lance" has been much apprecited, while we do not forget those most essential people—our advertisers.

We feel that some measure of success has been achieved in the new form of "Smad," and we think that, profiting by the mistakes of this year, it can increase in usefulness in 1936 as an organ of student opinion and a record of University activities.

Music.

Alone I wandered in the starless night,

A silken silence did I feel.

I did not know the winged flight

Of Time. It seemed an opiate seal

Was set upon my senses then

To keep me from the world of men

And make me infinitely blind—

A silent music filled my mind

And in that dark tranquility

I stood like some still cypress tree.

The whispering pines their incense sighed

In vain—in vain the moon her silver spilled.

I saw it not, nor heard the swinging tide.

My mind with silent music filled.

For unseen pipers played to me

The music of eternity.

—P.P.P.