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SMAD. An Organ of Student Opinion. 1936. Volume 7. Number 3.

[introduction]

The Executive met recently to discuss among other things, the Professorial Board's plan to hold 1936 capping in the concert Chamber, to give admission by ticket only, and to put an end to that element of "undesirable" student revelry which has been a feature of the ceremony since the early days of the College.

The normal consequence of Capping, derived as it is from its function as the completion of a student's undergraduate labour was heightened by the announcement of the Professorial Board's intended arrangements for this year.

It appears that the badinage, the raillery, that indefeasibly infectious accompaniment of all student activity has year after year been the secret shame of the Professorial Board.

Year after year they have seen it as a devouring flame, playing destructive havoe with the dignity and moment of the ritural called capping, and this time the Board has determined it shallbe conducted with the solemnity, the faultless regulation, and perhaps the grace of which Professorial Boards have dreamed for decades past.