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The Spike: or, Victoria College Review October 1907

Electrical Engineering

Electrical Engineering.

"There is no arguing with the inevitable. The only argument available with an east wind is to put on your overcoat.

Lowell.

Professors and students have again been given an opportunity of displaying their fortitude in times of peril. During the term the lights have failed again on at least one occasion. We do not wish to discredit the abilities of the electricians in Wellington, but it is remarkable that Victoria College alone should so often be placed in darkness. On the occasion above page 69 referred to, Latin class was admiring h beauties of Horace's verses, when without any warning the light failed. One students—O'Regan by name—displayed remarkable resource : he lit innumerable matches and walked in and out of the class room five or six times; his actions one studious youth to declare that a second Diogenes had come to judgment. The Professor in the meantime regaled the class with witty anecdotes which he class enjoyed so immensely that they were almost sorry when the lights came on again.