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SMAD. An Organ of Student Opinion. 1930. Volume 1. Number 2.

Masquerade

Masquerade.

Lured by the gaudy posters which for months past had been blasting the minds of aesthetically-minded students, we wandered into the Haeremai Club Fancy Dress Ball. Inside we were greeted by the usual crowd of sedate revellers. What we had been led to believe was to be a Babylonian orgy w strangely enough merely a Fancy Dress Ball. Comus's band of revellers may have been more Bacchanalian, but certainly not more varied. They ranged from a towering Mephistopheles, who wound his serpentine way around the hall, to a hairy Baby Bliss of the football type.

We noticed many of our guests in unaccustomed guise. Our sedate President, with an English imported shirt, fell very easily for the charms of a dark Spanish Signorita. Valda Wilson and her friend the Cook risked the dangerous balcony—for a breath of fresh air. Frace Fabre, fresh from her conquests in Rowing and Property, pierretted gracefully. Aileen Davidson was there as a species of dream. Mr. Dowling had a corner in oil. Harry Read presented himself as one of Epstein's less orthodox conceptions. By the way, is it true that Harry is in love? A bespectacled Red Shadow added a romantic touch, which we believe was appreciated in certain quarters. Finally, Mr. East was just too sweet.

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It was something of a change—certainly a very pleasant change—to find a member of the College Staff with his wife acting as hosts at the recent Law Faculty Dance. We have often thought it a matter for regret that the members of the College Staff take such little part in the social life of the College. After all, if the students were given the opportunity of meeting their teachers in some more pleasant atmosphere than that of the class room a little would bo done to bridge that gap in thought and ideals that at present exists in our educational system.

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"Problems which Confront Parents."

No. 1: "The Boy—Knowing, Understanding, and Influencing Him." Speaker, Mr. A. E. Campbell, M.A., Dip., Ed. (Assistant Lecturer in Education, Victoria University College).—Advt. "Evening-Post." A good idea, letting the boy give his own point of view.

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Joan Anderson is said to be enjoying her science course. So stimulating these days.

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Mr. Maskell—Let not the Lamprey come between You.