Morals at V.U.C.

The business of the 35th Annual Meeting of the Debating Society was speedily disposed of, excent for a slight hitch over the balance sheet. The Secretary's Annual Report was adopted.

The election of officers resulted as follows:—Chairman, C. M. P. Brown; Vice-chairman, A. F. T. Chorlton; Hon. Secretary, R. E. Jack; Treasurer, R. W. Edgley; Committer, Misses D. Souter and M. Shortall, Messrs. K. Tahiwi and A. H. Scotney.

Mr. Tahiwi opened a dull debate in an endeavour to prove that general ethical principles, whether applied to Adam and Eve, contacts in a tramcar between exhausted Professors and young training college students flushed with the exertions of folk-dancing, or even the co-eds of V.U.C. were a hindrance to success.

The McGhie gae as his tect that "the rudder in a man's hand was his moral sense." He thought everybody was a success and even accused us all of having a moral sense. He contended that without it, as if we were deprived of sight or hearing, we would be unbalanced, quoting as his authority our Second Seddon, Mr. Robert Semple, P.W.D., R.S.V.P.

Mr. Edgley spoke "in loco parentis" to the freshers in a vein of the starkest realism. In support of his philosophy of selfishness and its wide application in V.U.C., he instanced the rising cost of professorial opinion to the general public, and the sad lot that befel a social purist who was "expelled" from Weir despite his high moral influence.

Mr. Brown declared irrelevantly that Bismarck was easily moved by beetroot. He accepted Mr. Edgley's apology of success for his base ideals, but deplored Mr. Tahiwi's references to snakes, trolley cars, and Jewish synagogues.

"Old Faithful" spoke from the floor and gave his ever popular item, "The Great Hoax." It is now a national sport.

He instanced for the affirmative that Solomon and Sheba had been successful, for one had been the father of his nation and the other mistress of the world. M. Mason observed, "What a time they must have had!"

As for the nevative, Miss Dickens instanced the lives of King George V., and Edward VIII-not Henry!

The motion, "God Save the King," followed a remark from the floor. After a serious discussion, the amendment that "God Save the Queen," was passed unanimously.

The result of the debate on a show of hands was in favour of the negative by 37 votes to 31.