Invited to record something in the nature of reminiscences of the "goings on" of students of Victoria University College of the 1920's, I have endeavoured to recall some of the incidents which stand out most vividly in my memory. One's recollections are naturally coloured by one's point of view and I do not pretend that the events which I chronicle are necessarily typical of the experience of all students nor are they necessarily the incidents which others will recall with the same pleasure.

Among the most active of student bodies of those days were the Debating Society and the Free Discussions Club. It was in these bodies, no less than in the classroom, that many students learnt to enquire, to think and to speak. Sometimes when they spoke they expressed views which did not meet with the approval of Authority, but speak they did, and the right to express views that were honestly and sincerely held with the utmost freedom irrespective of whether those views might or might not accord with popular opinion was a right most jealously guarded and stoutly defended.