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Notes From Other Colleges.

We offer our congratulations to the Otago Varsity Football team on their success this season; they have won the Senior Championship with only one loss, the last game of the season. It is gratifying to know that there is at least one college team which can more than hold its own in Senior Football.

The following extract culled from the Canterbury College Review will probably awake a sympathetic echo in the hearts of many girls in Mr. Gray's long-suffering flock: "To an outsider the lot of the Normal girl-students appears to be somewhat hard, for, in addition to their ordinary College work and their school-teaching, one hears echoes of criticism lessons, school method and education lectures, a course of cooking lessons, music lectures, twenty minutes kindergarten, physical culture, psychology, school of art, agriculture, tidying-up the children's play-ground, etc. . . . Unless the students have marvellously neat pigeon-holes one wonders how they stow away all the knowledge showered upon them."

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A scheme, making the Students' Association the central body, and granting all the College clubs direct representation on its committee, has been approved and adopted by the Canterbury College students. This scheme, which, by the way, has often been brought before the notice of our students, promises to meet with success.

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The Canterbury College Students' Lodge, referred to in our last issue, appears to be progressing satisfactorily, though as vet the accommodation is not exactly overtaxed.

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The following is the record of the Sydney University Football team, which recently toured New Zealand: v. Otago Varsity—Lost, 21—0; second match—Lost, 3—0; v. Otago—Lost, 6—3; v. Canterbury College—Won, 26—0; v. Victoria College—Won, 31—3. The visitors expressed considerable regret that they were unable to visit Auckland.

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In the last number of the "Varsity," one of the Oxford magazines, a prize was offered for the best poem dealing from the examinee's point of view with the species examiner, its merits and demerits. We quote a verse from the prize poem:

Examiners, Examiners!
Why need such monsters be?
What faint excuse
Can they adduce
For their enormity?
What vestige of a reason why
They should not disappear or die?