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Salient. The Newspaper of Victoria University College. Vol. 20, No. 4. May 3, 1956

Degree for S.G.H ?

Degree for S.G.H ?

The inimitable Mr. Braybrooke began by disclaiming any relationship with a blurred concept or the Duke of Plaza Toro. He would have preferred to debate "that Aunt Daisy would make a better wife than Marilyn Monroe," but he had to make the best of the present subject The other morning he read a proposal to confer a degree on the Prime Minister. Realty, one had to draw the line . . .

Doogue argued that, after all, somewhere else was not somewhere, and he thought the lines should be drawn some whore else. His distillation of Kant (via Russell) was of pretty incomprehensible substance.

First from the floor, Larsen (aff.) said the proposition was a tautology, and must be accepted. Then Miss Mitcalfe (aff.) spoke of the line as the basis of form. ("It is also useful for drying clothes.")

Dawick (neg.) was conservative enough to ouote Shakespeare. But he redeemed himself when he told of people who "take Hob oca's Leviathan down." Wood (aff.) defended national boundaries when he got to the subject. He said there must be a definite time when the female's reproductive organs cease being the property of her parents and the State and become here own. The question is, when? ("And when Mrs. Ross speaks, who are we to object?")