"You'll All be in a rat-race in ten years—though you may smile now," Denis Glover told an overflow student audience last week.

He was speaking at the first lecture in the Political Science Society's First Term lectures.

Four hundred students packed the theatre, and another two hundred listened by loudspeaker extension in the common room.

Taking as his text the prophet Nahum ("Woe to the bloody city— it is full of lies and robbery"), Glover began a rambling survey of New Zealand society ten years from now.