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The Spike or Victoria College Review, June 1907

Sound, Fight, and Heat

Sound, Fight, and Heat.

In connection with these branches of science there are certain phenomena within the College buildings which, we believe, have not yet come under the notice of the Professor of Physics. The eagle editorial eye has, however, had the misfortune to stumble across the said phenomena, and we felt in our duty to bring them beneath the searching gaze of the readers of The Spike. In the first place we have observed that the Library, the room in the College where silence is most desired—and the hints to that effect hanging about the walls are surely broad enough—seems to be recognized as a happy hunting ground for would-be orators. Some time ago one might have thought that the printed requests for silence gave advice undergraduate who disregard them, will before long mend their ways. There has also been a noticeable lack of light on several occasions, much page 79 to the annoyance of students, who have been compelled by circumstances to return home with their craving for knowledge unrelieved. With regard to heat, we have observed an overdose of it in the lecture rooms, and an absence it in the Students' Common Room. This latter deficiency may, to some extent, account for the limited number of students who seem to know of the Common Room's existence. There are one or two other details about the building which might be remedied—the lack of ventilation worthy of the name, to take one instance. Nobody however would dare to assert that the architects did not make the external beauty of the College all the cloud e desired.