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The Spike: or, Victoria University College Review, June 1923

The Library

The Library

It would be a pleasing thing on the part of the powers that be to lay down matting along the floor of the galleries in the library. We believe it has been promised for a good many months, so the sooner it is done the better. Thus might the 'crashing progress of the heavier footed of our brethren (and sisters) be somewhat mitigated in its effects on minds already with difficulty attuned to a studious note. Thus also might one wrinkle be erased from our revered Librarian's harassed brow.

Likewise in the Library is the "Spike's" democratic soul considerably amazed and hurt by the legend writ in gold "This Register and Table Opposite for Use of Staff Only," or words of equal import—we are not sure of their exact obnoxious form. So it has come to this, in our own Victoria! The staff must have a little table to itself, with the greater privilege of never using it, and a golden notice warning off from indelicate intrusion Mere Students. Oh, professors of V.U.C., whose was the fatal brain that conceived, the fatal words that commanded, so impious a blot as this on our fair traditions of brotherhood? Shame on ye, haughty and stiff-necked ones! For shame!