This year, in Salient, we are devoting a section to the activities and events of what we may call Fine Arts: that is to say, a section concerned with many facets of the arts of human Imagination and culture. We are thus, here, going to concern ourselves Initially with activities relating most closely to students—movies, music, drama, concerts, books and so so.

Indeed, most of this space will regularly be taken up with reviews of films, concerts, plays, and articles on not so irrelevant subjects as gramophone discs, short stories, etc. A design of any abtruse quality is certainly not intended: our primary purpose is to give indication to the student of what is happening in the city in the arts.

Naturally, our scope in covering "the many facets" is limited to the number of writers we have on hand: one cannot possibly expect two or three writers to be authorities on everything, or even to have the time to write everything. If there is any student willing to help in organising a column as this, he or she will be more than welcome.

Perhaps many students—in all probability many freshers—do not realise that Salient is not a closed book: it is open to all. Students with enough initiative to help in their own magazine will, of course, only be directly helping themselves.