Puerile—Immature

In recent years it was charged against an Executive that it was puerile and immature, and had no regard to the more far-reaching fields of activity, which I presume from the particular attitude adopted by that Executive towards such-questions, related to its refusal to pass its time in solemn debate on current questions of political and international importance. I would be the last to deny that University students should turn their minds to the pressing social and political problems of the day, and endeavour to make their contributions towards the solving of such problems. I would even go so far as to say that it is incumbent upon them to do so to a greater or less extent, if a University education is to remain that liberal and "complete" education that has come to be associated with its name. This I would deny however—that the Executive is the proper and apposite institution to be converted into a forum for idealistic political thinkers or social reformers; if our various clubs and societies are to fully justify their existence, can they do better than to take upon themselves such matters as these and to give them whatever expression they please? Here it seems is the more apt forum for a full and frank discussion of such controversial topics; the Executive if it carries out its administrative and supervisory duties well will have a man-sized task to attend to without further burdening itself with matters outside its sphere.