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The Spike or Victoria College Review, June 1907

Breaking-Up Social

Breaking-Up Social.

The last entertainment of the year was just the bright little function one has come to expect the Students' Committee decides to hold high festival. The Glee Club first occupied the stage, "hailing" the "smiling morn" withal its accustomed melodious enthusiasm. Solos were given by Misses Robson and Strack and A. H. Bogle. The brothers Bogle with warlike howls and grimaces gave a Maori haka in their best style. "Celebrities" was dropped on this occasion—fine old pastime, what memories of bygone functions float around thy name—but parlour football, an entirely new departure in evening amusements, was introduced with much vigor and enthusiasm. One participant was "flattened," while another had recourse to cold water for a bleeding nose. "Quick work quick work!" "General Post "was another distinctly exhilarating pastime. The excellent impromptu display of ju-jitsu which ensued when two of the blindfold catchers succeeded in catching one another was much enjoyed by all present—save themselves. "Consequences" followed, the result, as read our by the careful President, being clever and original, but notthe work of the audience. Dancing concluded an interesting evening.

We recommend that a Committee be set up by the Students' Association to enquire and report as to a substitute for parlour football for use at future functions.