Introducing—

the Common Room Committee

Dear "Smad;"—

It was very interesting to learn from the last issue of Of "Smad" that we have a properly constituted Men's Common Room Committee. Well, who are they, and what have they done this year except reduce the rowdyism, and I have a shrewd suspicion that the absence of the Training College students did this for them.

If the present condition of the Common Room is any indication of the efficiency of that Committee, then I strongly advocate that this self-elected body should be abolished and a committee elected at the Annual General Meeting, having in addition the Men's Vice-President of the Stud. Ass., the Treasurer of the Stud. Ass. and the President of the Haeremai Club as ex-officio members, should be substituted therefor. By this means we would be governed by popular persons, and it is obvious that those who are not popular have little hope of controlling the aforesaid room.