I am sure that the idea of inaugurating a progressive club will interest many students who find the social life of the college inadequate. I for one would welcome an opportunity to discuss and criticise, together with students from all the various faculties, matters concerning college life generally.

Such a club would admirably help the college to attain its rightful place as a centre of progressive thought and action in the community. Of thought we have ample, as anyone will discover after being in the cafeteria for five minutes, but, as Andre Maurois has so wisely warned us, thought without action is useless.

First, however, we must cease to regard the College as a night-school and by our joint efforts transform it into a community of real importance in our lives. This we can accomplish only by establishing friendly contact with our executive and with each other, through the medium of sucli a club as that which is envisaged.

Many I think will concur with me in the belief that a college such as ours, with a large percentage of part-time students drawn from all branches of economic life, is well suited to reflect the social problems of our times, and at the same time to act as the vanguard of progressive movements. Only, however, when each of us realises and accepts our responsibility, not only to cur college, but to our country, will the University in New Zealand be worthy to rank with universities such as those in China, which have so nobly inspired the Chinese people in the travails of war. It is with this thought in mind that I earnestly hope the progressive club will receive whole-hearted support from all thinking students.—Yours, etc.,

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