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Salient. An Organ of Student Opinion at Victoria College, Wellington, N.Z. Vol. 1, No. 5 April 6, 1938

The Stage is Set

The Stage is Set.

The curtains parted to reveal the set. Front centre. Mr. Aimers, seated. Back drop covered with posters which the veriest child could see were from the "Loyalist" group in Spain. The tragic-comedy began. Mr. Aimers soon proved to be only the interlocutor—in the true style of Thucydides, or was it Simonides of Ceas? He cunningly tried to lead the assembled throng of the mass' Who constituted the audience to believe that this was to be an appeal for the destitute Spanish children—from both sides—torn from their families, now starving and homeless. Even the Training College girls in the third row didn't believe this for a moment, however, and every one eagerly awaited the real drammer which was to come.

Soon the first principal appeared. A few chosen words, and the problem was laid before us. The staunch hearts of the students who stood for the Great Principle beat a trifle faster—and the moving, epochal epic was under way in its re-telling. As the Good Book says: "Proletarier aller hander vereinight euch" which being translated is: "The faster a whale goes, the swimmer."—Now we students, by virtue of our Klassical education, are fully aware of tills—and we must take our Responsibility in Both Hands.