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SMAD. An Organ of Student Opinion. 1932. Volume 3. Number 5.
Editorial
Editorial
Students' Burdens.
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TODay with the greatly lessened revenue apparent everywhere, in all lines, and all sections, the difficulty of making both ends meet is becoming more and more acute. The University Student like everyone else has naturally felt the pinch, and finds examination fees and the like now increasingly difficult to meet.
So far there has been no reduction in these fees by the University authorities. Their point of view can easily be understood. They like the rest of us have anticipated a decrease in the number sitting the examinations in the future and therefore do not feel justified in lowering the fees desirous though they may be of lightening the Students' burden.
There are thus two sides to the question and it should be thoroughly fought out. And at the same time the lecture fees and the fees for degrees themselves should also be subjected to scrutiny. They at least appear to be very lopsided, the degree of LL.B., for instance, costing £7 7s. 0d., whilst the corresponding degree in Arts is only £1 Is. A glance through the other degree fees shows no set system throughout the whole series, some degrees being picked out for harsh treatment apparently haphasardly.
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University Sport.
There seems little doubt, that the record of this University in its Sporting World should be better. For a University gaining the cream of the province's talent from the Secondary Schools it is rather strange that the College should have such a poor record as in the immediate past few years
The Year 1928 was admittedly a boom year in Victoria College Sport, and a year that will live in memory. 1929 was scarcely less successful. But since then the College's record has slipped—that is from the results point of view.
Many are of the opinion that the Secondary Colleges are not producing the men of the calibre of a few years ago; that the Colleges are no longer the training grounds of Athletic champions but we cannot subscribe to that view. There is nothing new in that view-point—past champions are always the greatest.
However as in all sports institutions at one time or another, several Victoria College Clubs are in a period of change. The Champions of the past few years have just dropped out of the various sports and the youngsters who have been compelled to take their places are not as yet sufficiently experienced in the first grade to be consistent enough to win. There is no need to worry; Victoria College Will come again.