President Misrepresented

(to the Editor.)

I noticed in the last issue of your paper an article reporting the supper given by the Management of Weir House to those residents who, for various reasons were leaving. This report, I regret to say, misrepresents the speech I made on that occasion, as it reads as if I categorically stated that Weir House would be a failure in 1936 owing to the departure of the older members, of whom I was one. Such an attitude would be an extremely conceited one and I am hoping that you will publish this letter in order to make clear the sentiments actually expressed. What I really did say was that with the annual eviction of the older residents in the past the House actually had diminished in usefulness to the College and if the present policy is continued then, owing to the lack of experience amongst those remaining in residence, Weir could not be expected to play its full part in College life. I implied that 1936 would be a leaner year, but did not by any means suggest that this House would prove a failure this year.

As a matter of fact the speech was made before the bulk of the new residents arrived, and after a cursory survey of the new material I have no hesitation in saying that if the new members pull together and can find leaders-either in the House or outside-to replace those whom the short-sighted policy of the Management Committee has required to leave, 1936 will not by any means be a lean year, but may well be an even more successful period than the palmy days of 1933 and 1934.