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The Spike: or, Victoria College Review, October 1904

The Supper

The Supper.

"To every guest the appropriate speech was made
And every duty with distinction paid."

—Scott.

Perhaps the most enjoyable function ever held by the Students' Association was the "supper in honour of the graduates" at the conclusion of the performance, when Professors, Students, and Members of the College Council found themselves the guests of the Association. The large gymnasium was packed to its utmost capacity with a crowd of lively good-humoured students who suffered no chance of enthusing wildly to escape. Toasts were given, songs sung, replies made, graduates hugged, (metaphorically speaking) page 51 mutual panegyircs cashed to a fine art. Eulogy lost itself in enthusiasm, and finally the satisfied crowd, having summed up sufficient breath to arouse the neighbourhood with the strains of Auld Lang Syne, repaired once more to the hall to take

"No rest till morn when youth and pleasure meet,
To chase the glowing hours with flying feet."