And Now . . .

The history of Victoria College has moved on another three years since this book was published, but the essentials it describes are still the same. There is the energetic, enthusiastic minority shaping presentday history and "the great dull flood that sweeps up the hill and back again with its ticket to a better job"—It's motto; "Cram for Jam." There are the amateur politicians, left and right, the orators and the thinkers, the reformers ad infinitum. "Through the years the students work and take degrees, win various scholarships, do their bits of research and write theses. They continue the Easter struggle, they keep on celebrating capping, now and again in a fierce frenzy of controversy—controversy with the Professional Board, controversy amongst themselves, over Extrav. They keep on criticising the University, and follow their elders in demanding reform.

But all along there has been general enthusiasm over the delightfulness of existence as it is at Victoria.

There is something deeper in the existence, the responsibility of a student as summed up by "Spike."

"More and more students are at last learning that their task is not merely to Interpret the world, but—to change it! This is an unconventional and responsible attitude, too advanced for the mass of the community But there must always be leader and now, as in the past, the leaders will be the students of Victoria University College!