The Next Inter-University-College Tournament.

Those students who had the good fortune to attend any previous Tournament will need no reminding that the Tournament of 1908 is to be held at Dunedin : nor will any undue pressure be necessary to induce them to be with Victoria's chosen next Easter. The less fortunate students—those who have not yet attended a Tournament— will indeed be well advised if they leave their College cares for five or six days and join a band of "puei hilaresque puellae "who rejoice in the fact they are all students of the same University.

Our success of this year have not been forgotten but these successes are such that they connote be excelled. Even to attain to a like measure of success next year means enthusiasm in cartloads, and consistent hard training on the part of those who intend to strive for the honor of a place in the V. c. team. For this honour all students are eligible who are matriculated and have attended at least two-thirds of the lectures in one University subject in the year preceding the date o f the Tournament.

In tennis and debating, our representatives will have former victories to looks back upon, and will, we hope, be sufficiently encouraged by those victories to strive for greater honours next year. In athletics, however, we can so far boast of no brilliant successes. Our weaknesses this year were only too apparent, and our athletes will have to become more proficient if the Shield is to see the inside of our Common Room. In the running events we can compete on level terms with the other Colleges, but having said that we have said all. Our real need is for men to put the weight, throw the hammer, walk and high jump.

Let all students—those who know they are good at athletics, those who know they are not good, those who think they are good, and those who think they are not good-come out and train next year, and show what they can do, be it ever so little.

As for the social side of the Tournament, the worthiest pen could not exaggerate its pleasures. The Auckland students will join us here, and leave with us on the Thursday before Easter. We shall be joined at Christchurch by the Canterbury College team, and all will travel together to Dunedin, arriving there on the evening of Good Friday. If the entertainment provided by the Otago students in 1904 be any criterion, our enjoyment in 1908 will indeed be beyond words. The return journey will be commenced on the following Wednesday, and students will reach Wellington again on Thursday morning. Whatever our fortunes will then have been, we can safely say that there will be no student who will regret having resolved to visit Dunedin with the team of 1908.

Engagements:

"While some, in close recess apart,
Courted the ladies of their heart,
Nor courted them is vain."

—Scott.

"Me lists not at this tide to tell
The splendor of the spousal rite."

—Scott.