Shackleton—A Link with V.U.C.

It is with a certain thrill that one reads that Shackleton treasured in his memory the lines from our own V.U.C. Sports Chorus:—

"Then here's to the long white road that beckons,
The climb that baffles, the risk that nerves,
And here's to the merry heart that reckons
The rough with the smooth, and never swerves."

Truly they are lines which characterise the spirit of the whole of his ardous and courageous life; one feels proud that a snatch of song from these far shores should be so carried all over the world. It may be that in the future V.U.C. will have more and greater treasures to offer to all men; we should at least see in the present that we do not let those that we have and the tradition associated with them perish for want of memory and interest. Turn up The Old Clay Patch" again and read through the rest of S.S M.