Just Weaklings

Sir,—Commiseration with our selves on our hardships has [unclear: reach] such a high pitch of [unclear: intensify] it is lime we mention that [unclear: sover] hardship, that which must [unclear: make] existence as students a [unclear: burden] ourselves and an annoyance to one another, the fact that we never do what we want. The policy of the Executive, the facilities of the clubs, the ineffectiveness of notices, and the clutches of time and modern civilisation are evidently more than our capaclties can cope with. We are merely able to lament our frustration in "Salient." and exhort one another into activity which we have acknowledged impossible.

So M.W.R. has made the helpful Malthusian suggestion that if in our starred condition our giant clubs murdered the weaklings there would be more Association food for the giants, and we would produce a finer race. He has made the suggestion from no feeling of anti-humanitarian ism, but from the conviction that these weaklings are merely buy and that they would become veritable tigers in strength and ferocity should we threaten them with extinction.

I humbly wish to suggest that they are possibly just weaklings, and that many of us are still humanitarians. I also Suggest that there is one thing better than casting off societies and that is founding new ones.

B.D.