Editorial

In our last editorial we noted the passing of the Student Body Corporate. We feel tempted to record herein the final interment of this loved one, which many people believe took place at Easter Tournament, Christchurch. Indeed, the overall achievements of Victoria College, which managed to gain only eight points, appear to give us every reason for coming to the conclusion that the final ceremonies were in fact performed when Mr. Galvin, senior tournament delegate for Vic, received the Wooden Spoon on behalf of our sports team.

All this may be so but, nevertheless, we would be much more willing to assume that the present recession is only temporary and that by the time Winter Tournament arrives this College will be prepared to take its place once more as a serious rival for Tournament honours.

We do not intend to conduct long and involved post-mortems in these pages. The teams themselves know better than we do where the faults lie. Lack of training was apparent, especially in the athletics; perhaps the facilities in many cases are not sufficient; there may be other reasons such as lack of talent, or of interest. But the solution is with club members themselves—they know what can be done, and what is impractical.

Some of this has been pointed out by "Tourney" in a letter which is printed in this issue. Other than this we have no comment.