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The Spike: or, Victoria University College Review, June 1921

The Ball

The Ball.

Youth, beauty, music, laughter, a starry night—gods! The ball was held in the Town Hall. The decoration, which some might say was meagre, we prefer to call chastely effective. We hesitate to describe the—ah—frocking—the large quantity (in toto) of ninon and chiffon and net and gauze and jazzy scarfs and such-like fal-lals, and all that sort of thing, which graced the femininity present. We can only say they all looked charming and behaved with that seductive decorum which has always been the high tradition of V.U.C. Owing to the concert chamber being unavailable, supper (when at last one arrived at it) was hardly the breathlessly-exciting function it. has been. Personally we waited, supporting a fainting partner and assailed by the most unutterable pangs, for one and a-half hours, at the end of which we found the sandwiches all gone. We think that labouring under the most immense difficulties as they were the managers might have done better than this. However, we have no wish to be unpleasant—we accuse none; we cavil not; we merely state. And it was really a very good dance, and, thank God! undisfigured with any of those crude concatenations of a debased humanity—jazz effects.

But why that stern, unbending look, O C. Q. P.—that ramrod back and furrowed brow? Come, come, dear boy! Take your pleasures not so seriously! Give a more care-free abandon to the charms of Terpsichore—woo the muse more madly!