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Salient: Victoria University Students' Paper. Vol. 24, No. 15. 1961.

Regressive Acts ?

Regressive Acts ?

Dear Ed.,

How pleasant it is to have our own tennis courts — and fairly good ones at that. But who are those individuals who persist in, or regress to, a behaviour pattern characteristic of something lower on the phylogenetic scale. I refer to the frequent climbing of the surrounding wire netting. As a result of such activity the wire has in places been stretched and bent. The gate provided may indeed be unsatisfactory for retrieving some of the balls going over the top, so let someone seek provision of a gate at the other side. In the meantime, however, are we obliged to revert to barbed wire?

Curiously enough, the worst offenders are the "big boys". It would appear that the small 'ones' from around the neighbourhood know how to think and carry it over into action. Perhaps our education system misses out when University level is reached.

I am, etc.,

Vust.