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Salient. An Organ of Student Opinion at Victoria College, Wellington, N.Z. Vol. 1, No. 8 May 5, 1938

[introduction]

The name adopted by the new Varsity paper, apart altogether from the present European situation, will remind many Old Clay "Patchians" of one activity that was available in their days, Today it is only a memory, but a great one withal.

In those days we always used to rend that the German navy always drank as a principal toast "deer tag," and one of the popular subjects of debate at the Debating Society was whether England should retain her naval superiority of two keels to one.

When Lord Kitchener visited New Zealand for the purpose first of finding and secondly then of reviewing the troops, it is said that that great man was very explosive in his comments. Whether his search was too difficult or not does not now matter at all.