All About "Salient"

Sir,—I am writing this letter in order that this paper may have a little more than the usual 2% of student opinion which its covers usually contain.

Possibly this 2% could be improved if the strip down the side of the cover were removed and the space used to present some student opinion.

Perhaps at the same time we could have some form of Editorial instead of the two articles which appear there and thus purport to be one.

At this stage I would like to say that the so-called questionnaire which you published a short while ago was not silly but useless. If your staff has deduced anything from it then they must have read more from between the lines than appeared on them.

I have come to think that the proportion of thinking students in this University has fallen from a very low level to almost zero. Once again the common-room is a place where cards can be played all and every day, and any intellect that may be present there is concerned primarily in the close examination of "card hands." Doesn't anyone realise that it is the third term?

As for Salient.. It's not even an organ of student opinion any longer. Not even of the Editor. In fact only two things seem to show that there is any opinion left in Salient staff.

These are "Today's Agnostic Text" and the "Bible Quotations." The latter has come from a rather insipid quotation to now be almost an answer to the "Agnostic Text" Both of these things at least reflect the opinions of their Editors.

As for the rest of the thing. With the exception of one or two articles which are only straight reporting or cribbing from other journals, the whole magazine would improve a "million' if we had the opinions of the writers rather than the unintelligible mixture of so-called facts which pass for articles in Salient at the present.

Well, here is a piece of student opinion which you might publish even if only for the one or two replies that it might bring. Yours, etc.,