"Experiment" Shelved

There will be no Experiment this year. This decision was reached by a meeting of the publications committee of Literary Society recently. Very little copy was received and that which did come in was of very indifferent quality.

Coming in the same year as the decision not to print Spike, this raises some pertinent questions about creative writing in this and other universities. The general poverty of creative activity in all our universities is exemplified by the editors of Art's Festival Yearbook complaining bitterly of the quality of the material that so far has been received.

Our precedent is a dangerous one, for once a little magazine of this kind falls to appear one year its re-establishment is extremely difficult. It also illustrates our poverty in this field as compared even with Training College. At present there is not even enough decent poetry or prose in this university to produce a literary suppliment of Salient.