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The Spike: or, Victoria University College Review, June 1916

A Complaint

A Complaint.

To the Editor of The Spike.

Sir:—May I have a little space to indict jointly and severally the Victoria University College, Council, Professorial Board and Students' Association? The indictment, which is based on the form of the invitation card issued this year by those bodies to the invited guests' for the Annual Capping Ceremony, contains two counts: (1) The College is therein referred to as Victoria College. After years of unpleasant confusion between this College and Sundry Secondary schools (whose only claim to the title of College consists of the fact that they have become possessed of the endowments which were originally set aside for University purposes in Wellington) not to mention numerous typewriting College, Piano-banging College, Hair-dressing College and such like, we were in the year of our Lord 1914 by Act of Parliament re-christened Victoria University College. The students have endeavored to take full advantage of this desirable change and by correspondingly changing the name of the College clubs and teams, have tried to fasten the Word University on the mind of the Public when that august body has this College in mind. It is unfortunate that College officialdom persists (this not being merely one occasion) in the old misreading name. (2) That miserable hybrid word Graduand appears again. When coined for use at our first V. U. C. Capping it was laboriously justified on the ground of accuracy: there were then that technically no Graduates, the degrees being conferred at a later date than that no Graduates, the degrees being conferred at a later date then that of our ceremony. This year the word dis not only as unpleasant as ever, but is positively wrong as the degrees have been conferred long since: our successful students are no longer merely "about to graduate."

Yours.

Quis.