The Spike or Victoria College Review October 1930

In Haste

In Haste

O cam dear it's all so stimulating—here's the term almost over and its been such a flaming year not a scrap defunct like the previous two because everything seems to have Germinated somehow even the Cafeteria which used to be more like a Lazar-house than a dining room and there's a new Exec ever so Eager and their Secretary who is the Dearest thing, has been smearing notices all over everywhere and people have been Defacing them and sawing legs off chairs and one boy even won the Home Sweet Home at the Wellington Competitions. So you can tell by reading between the lines what a full life we've all been leading. Moreover there's a new Monthly magazine too Hideously too too for words of course but ever so Chit-Chatty and Instructive Notwithstanding. Furthermore you know for 3d exactly where you are and how things are Moving and although it is somewhat Segregated dealing as it does with only the Olympians it's so Breathless wondering if you will figure in the next. Additionally I have been Exuberating and Occurring for weeks in the Expectation that the Editorial Staff would become Aware of me but as they haven't I have Draughted Out some Outrageoussities for next year so that they simply must say something Appalling about me. Then Cam dear I shall be Made. However the Tramping Club went to National Park last Vacation and in a lapse of youthful Dizziness swilled neat whisky, girls and everything on a Ruapehuian Glacier. Not-withstanding Max Riske caused such a Flutter and Twitter in the Science Wing the other day when he consented to tea with girls over there they made him: the most Extensive cake and read up Lenin on Bolshevism and then discovered he was quite Human like themselves and keep on asking him again. It's all so Wearing Life being practically one thing after another. Mollie Gillespie had her Baby snatched the last night of the term from right on the door-mat almost but found him all right none the worse for his trying ordeal and now she locks his engine. Furthermore it was so Heavenly the first day of the term all the profs had their hair cut at once so at least some Barbers have Balanced their Budgets, and another lecturer has Announced Engagement and all the little Scientists are Grief-stricken and Languishing. Morover Dorothy and Bish have broken it off for six months so that they can both have a look around and know their Own Minds. And Mildred B. and Jack F. did Capping together and it's been Enduring ever since. What a surfeit can be consummated in six months. Even Boyd I believe has been At It Again.

Oh, well, a Bolt in hand is worth two on the Bridge and Waste Not Want Not.

P.S.— The two previously unattached lecturers are fastly becoming affixed. Writing again soon.

Yours Imperatively

Victoria.