Bishop Hadfield Hostel.

All vacancies at the Hostel were quickly filled this year, so that several applications coming later had to be refused. Of the sixteen students in residence, two are theologians, one of them a new man filling the place of an old student who has taken up ecclesiastical work at the Hutt. Last year, in a capping song, the Hostel produced the theory of the career of a Junior Scholar; now we have two of them to give an exhibition of the practical side . Mumps, though not included in the theory have been forthcoming in the practice, at least as far as one is concerned, this being the only case of sickness that there is to report.

Health and happiness—I almost included the customary "wealth," but someone struck into a song about "The fees he owed in Kelburne O!" so I refrained—but health and happiness have been the keynotes of the Hostel life. We may say first, with regard to one of the chief purposes for which we are here, that all who reached the stage of sitting last year for degree exams, were successful in passing. Then for other branches of activity: We had our representative at the swimming sports, and several entries for athletic events; a freshman's performance in the latter department leading us to hope for bright things to report at some future date. We had, too, a Tournament representative. Then there are players of Rugby and Hockey, and a number of enthusiastic exponents of the pugilistic art. Where the composition of football teams varies so much as it does at College, it is difficult to say definitely to what team a man belongs; but two of our number, and perhaps in future a third, may be accounted members of the First Fifteen. McKenzie is treasurer of the College Boxing Club; and he and several other-have worked up the almost defunct Hostel Club, purchasing a new pair of gloves, calculated, some of us hope, to permit of less damage to the person than those we had before,

Now it seems to be the mark of all flourishing institutions to indulge on occasions such as this in self-laudation. The Hostel, perhaps, is no exception to the rule. Yet each year, when we come to speak of what may now be considered our annual matches with the Training College, we have in some measure to climb down from our high pedestal. However, even in this connection, we can boast that in football we were beaten this time by less than ever before—by only nine points to nil. We leave it to our opponents to tell how we were outclassed, and ought to have suffered worse defeat. The game was fairly fast and most enjoyable—so much so, indeed, that two of our number have been converted from other following to that of Rugby.

There remain the Hostel Dance the formation of the Limited Liabilities Billiard Club Company—may Prof. Garrow be pleased to pardon any inaccuracy in the name we give to the product of some of the legal minds he so carefully nurture—and the doings of the Hostel Debating Society. All have interested us considerably; but we have some scruple about going into details. Speaking of the first, we should like to mention our indebtedness to the Hostel authorities for permission to hold the dance, and for the very valuable assistance given. As for the second, we should say how much we are indebted to the magnanimity of those gentlemen who have faced the financial risk involved in providing us with a billiard table-top; but page 71 further we dare not venture, for fear of going astray in the maze of Company Law,—and equally for fear of arousing a hostile interest among profs, who have a jealous eye to the time to be devoted to their work. Then as regards the third, we may say that we have almost a dislike to confessing that we have so far proceeded along the paths followed by the College Debating Society; but having now decided in favour of Party Government, and disposed of Land Nationalization by six votes to five—the thought of the votes that would have been cast by the absentees enabling the losers to adopt the policy of never admitting de feat—we hope in the future to strike out on more original lines.