Other formats

    Adobe Portable Document Format file (facsimile images)   TEI XML file   ePub eBook file  

Connect

    mail icontwitter iconBlogspot iconrss icon

Salient. An Organ of Student Opinion at Victoria College, Wellington, N.Z. Vol 1, No. 1. March 9, 1938

Exhortation

Exhortation

Whether you he rich man; poor man; beggar man: thief.

Whatever obsesses you, be It dress reform, deep sea diving, or darwinism tell us all about it.

Fill yourself full to bursting of Divine Afflatus with 50 horse power apparatus and write for "Salient."

Be assured, all your troubles will vanish as the mists of morning If you pick up your pen dip it in the ink and write.

Let "Salient" be Your Safety-Valve.

At the University every great treatise Is postponed until Its author attains impartial Judgment and perfect knowledge. If a horse could wait as long for its shoes and would pay for them in advance, our blacksmiths would all be college dons.

Old lady, approaching two University students lounging on the front steps in the sun:

"So this is the University?"

Student: "Yes."

Old lady, gazing at the worm-eaten gymnasium: "I suppose that is the [unclear: Training] College, then?"