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SMAD. An Organ of Student Opinion. 1932. Volume 3. Number 6.

A Kick for Cupid

A Kick for Cupid.

Dear "Smad,"—

I am no puritan. Petting and/or necking have their delights. Even the more robust moments indeed have charm. But there are limits.

The Common-Common Room was put aside for the conversational moments of young men ana maidens. It has already fallen on evil days as regards furniture, but now it won't be long before the evil tongues begin. Several of us have been shocked at recent occurrences in this room. Here, with the light on and the blinds up perish the thought!), was observed only last week a couple indulging in unrestrained osculation and other signs of immature devotion. If two young hearts wish to palpitate as one, I suggest that they in future try it in some more secluded spot. This may be springtime, but evidences of the livelier iris changing on the burnished dove should be carefully excluded from the College buildings.

Is this to continue to be a University College, or is it to become something far worse than the night-school it has already been called? Have we not a cemetery adjacent? I look to you, Sir, for help in stopping this disgraceful conduct. A strong body of student opinion is against doing these things in public, or semi-public, or semi-private, and I hope that the University tradition of freedom of everything will not be sullied by further fractures of the Eleventh Commandment, which, as every student knows, reads: "And the last and most binding Rule of Conduct is this: that ye shall not be Found out."

I am, etc.,

Father of Six.