Making History

A history of New Zealand's student press is being prepared in Wellington at the request of the South-East Asian Student Press meeting held in Manila this year.

Notes on the history of the journals at each college were forwarded by the staff of the then current paper at each college, and collation has been done by [unclear: ontad] Bollinger (co-editor of "Salient") and David Stone (President of N.Z.U. Student Press Council)

The history will be duplicated for distribution here and overseas, where it is intended to be incorporated in a history of the student press in the South-Fast Asia area being produced under the aegis of Co-Sec.

The collators report a striking similarly in the story of student journalism at each of the four colleges. From a review-scale magazine commencing publication early in the college's history "Spike" appeared first as a half-annual in 1902, there developed between wars a paper of more frequent appearance "Smad" began in 1930, and was replaced by "Salient' in 1938) Will someone deduce a new theory from this?