Objects.

It will not be out of place here to state the objects which were kept in view by those who managed the first Tournament. To begin with the unit, they desired to infuse new life into the individual Colleges; to encourage that feeling of esprit de corps, which must come when the members of any institution stand shoulder to shoulder for a common purpose. It was hoped, and the hope has been justified, that the purpose was large and good enough to unite a strong party in each College. In the secoud place, they wished to create what might be called a "University Life." The students of the different centres had hitherto known practically nothing of one another. Now, it was proposed to bring them together; to get them to know one another, and, as children of the one Alma Mater, to meet in friendly rivalry—man to man. By bringing the students throughout New Zealand into touch, it was hoped to expel from the University the spirit of narrow provinicialism so rife in other spheres.

There is another aspect of the Tournament on which stress might well be laid, and one which will be handed down as a tradition to all future University generations. The promoters of the First Tournament had at heart the interests of pure amateur sport. The spirit of professionalism has done much to ruin all departments of sport. School and college sport in New Zealand is yet free from it, and every effort was made to keep University sport clean.

Looked at broadly, then, it may be said that the students of the University have begun to resent the idea that the Colleges are mere cramming machines, and are determined to use the medium of healthy athleticism to develop the social, and, with it, the intellectual side of University life.