Ode and Palinode.

Consider the dramatic intensity of the opening. In the first strophe, we weep for the Free Discussions Club and the Science Society—forsaken, dead, and disaffiliated. Their estates are distributed. Then comes an antistrophe in which we greet the birth of a new sociaty, the Table Tennis Club, and admire the vigour of its infancy.

We are given a list of the year's heroes, and then in the report on the Cafeteria we learn how they were nourished. The benefit was mutual for without raising prices the Cafhas "actually shown a profit." But how much beter it could be if we had a Students' Union Building!

This brings us to another story of contrasts; between the old Gym and the building of the future; between the committee which never met and the organisation which in a year has been able to increase the fund by £1080.

The extravaganza and the sales of the capping book contributed handsomely to the building fund. In these two items we see signs of what might be. If only students would realise heir community of interest. In almost everything else, all the work has been left to a few, but for these assistance came from a wider field. Necessarily. Because sub-committees, architects, and Extrav stars can do little without and humble bringers of bricks—for instance, those who sold the town 6,000 Cappicades. They could have sold 8,000.