The Spike or Victoria University College Review 1934
Editors' Note
Editors' Note
This Foundation Number of The Spike Has been produced, and is issued, in the spirit of the Presentation Ceremony when the oil portraits of the Foundation Professors were presented to the College. May the issue be bought and read in the spirit of this outstanding event, a spirit produced by the traditions we have inherited from the Foundation Professors and the students of those early years. We acknowledge with grateful thanks the assistance of all who made this issue possible. Foremost in that band is the anonymous donor who relieved a chronically impecunious Students' Association from all financial liability involved in producing a number worthy of the occasion. Such kindly and practical assistance is particularly outstanding in these days of financial stringency.
Our efforts to make this number as complete and as authoritative as human fallibility will permit have been lightened to a tremendous extent by Mr. G. F. Dixon. To Mr. Dixon goes the credit of any success we may have had in extracting much of this issue that relates to the past. His Souvenir Booklet in connection with the Ceremony, each copy personally autographed by the three surviving Professors, inspired us in our task.
To Mr. F. A. de la Mare in particular and to the many other contributors who spent hours of search for information before they set pen to paper we tender our grateful thanks. Referring to the subject of preserving records, we feelingly support from tantalising experience, Mr. Dixon's plea in this issue for preservation of all records connected with the College. We would very much appreciate advice from former students who are in possession of College records or photographs of historical value, as such information would greatly assist the Students' Association in its efforts to form a complete collection of all items of historical interest. We also thank Messrs. F. A. de la Mare and S. Eichelbaum, who compiled "The Old Clay Patch," for the invaluable assistance its pages have afforded us in our search for quotations in keeping with this issue.
In the name of the Victoria University College Students' Association we send forth this Foundation Number of The Spike to all friends of the College, and in particular to those "in far Japan or Tobago," as a token of the love and veneration we of 1934 bear towards those who, dauntless in adversity, modest in victory, founded our Alma Mater.
The Editors.
Victoria University College, Wellington, N.Z., 17th November, 1934
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