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Victoria College Students' Carnival. Thursday and Saturday - 25th & 27th June 1908

Chorus of Professors

Chorus of Professors.

We're a badly treated body of professors;
The pay we get is really a disgrace
Though at lecturing perhaps we may be messers,
They need not tell us so before our face.
Our hours are long and ought to be adjusted,
For at ten we get away but not before,
And in fact we're so annoyed and so disgusted
We've really had enough and we will work no more.
But we've found a remedy for this disgraceful state of things,
For we have gone on strike and we will work no more.

The holidays we get should be much longer,
We only get six months in all the year;
For our lectures our voices should be stronger,
And gramophones should be provided here,
Our dignity is greatly underrated.
The students' insults hurt us to the core,
And the Council are so very antiquated
They've given us the spike and we will work no more.
But we have found, &c.

The students after little agitation
Obtained a social building of their own,
But the professorial need for recreation
This seems to be a thing as yet unknown,
We asked them most politely and discreetly
To provide for us a billiard saloon.
But North harangued the Council so completely
They lost their heads and so we struck this afternoon.
But we've found, &c.