Since this Congress provides annually the widest and most representative held of intellectual expression available to the students of the Unversities of England and Wales. I would like particularly to emphasise, and I hope you will and an interest in it, the viewpoint of the student. In so far as the student seems to have a viewpoint in this country and in so far as it was expressed here for there are a number of serious qualifications to be considered when accepting these views as representative. There is no question but that a very large section of the student population belong to the non-thinking section of the community: their motto is the old one of "huntin' shootin' fishin'," their railying cry "the old school tie," their principal contirbution to community life the O.T.C. and their only serious concern the economic necessity of getting a degree as quickly as may be. The attendance at the Congress (which was open to all) was 150 out of a total student population in the country of aproximately 100,000: if this is eloquent of one thing above all others it is so of what was termed the hopelessly apathetic attitude of the average student towards the world around him or so it was suggested although it does seem to me that there may be an excuse because in this mad world the student instinetively forsees one of two things—either that his life is going to be a short one and therefore he will make it a merry one, or else that he is going to have to face bitter competition and therefore he must get as good a start as possible with an early degree. Is it not a case of the world around him going to the dogs between these two conflicting obsessions?