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The Spike: or, Victoria College Review 1912

Bishop Hadfield Hostel

page 75

Bishop Hadfield Hostel.

At last! We bad scarcely hoped to have this triumph to report, but half-back Richmond's exquisite golfing style, Lennard's little trick of scoring, Foden's solid Taranaki training, with the sundry no less strenuous efforts of other individuals, both hockeyites and leading footballs, and the captaincy of Clere—that was a combination not to be effectively resisted, even by a team including in its personnel three members of the First XV. Four goals to nil was our score against Training College, two being placed by Lennard to our credit and his, and one each by Foden and McKenzie. For three years have we suffered in silence; may we be pardoned now for having at length reported the matter to the Press? However, if we talk too much about it the world will harshly judge our victory an accident that will never occur again. Let us turn to other things.

We devoted time and energy to the working up of a Capping Procession item. Our ideas were perhaps not without some merit; but we found, what indeed we might have known before, that one small lorry was scarcely large enough to hold, together, two such men as Mr. Massey and Sir Joseph Ward, Bart., much less to give them scope for the pulling of the strings with which we had provided them. As a matter of fact, in the Post Office Square we pushed Sir Joseph from his pedestal; but he and his followers were more successful on that occasion than they have been since in climbing back again into their places and into the way. Another thing we forgot was that details do not count: that we, as politicians, should have said and done only what would catch the ear and the eye of the public.

When we have said that McKenzie and Nathan have played throughout the season for the First XV., and represented College in the matches against Auckland and Canterbury, we have practically come to the end of our tether. A serious outbreak of the work epidemic has put an effectual stopper upon such diversions as debating; and not only does it mean that there is very little to report, but we find also, when we call for some imaginative man to volunteer to fill the gap by writing us an article, that this craze for hard work seems either to result in the deadening of the imaginative faculty, or to have the very valuable effect of rendering men modest. Let us hope it is the latter.