The Colours

Silvia.—"Do you change colour?"

Valentine.—"Give him leave. Madam: he is a kind of chameleon."

The College is in its sixth year. In the days of its infancy an energetic Committee, feeling that the beauty of College decorations for all time was on its shoulders, fixed the colours at Chocolate and Gold. The hat-band would have been very pretty if an evil genius had not prompted the authorities to adorn it with a staring V. C. which was variously translated by the juvenile portion of the Community. The next generation of Committeemen, oppressed by the V. C. and the idea that posterity demanded something of them, endeavoured to perpetuate its own memory in Maroon and Light Blue. Vainly indeed—for a new race springs up, new times demand new colours. Prouse is on the war path, and he waves aloft his banner of Green and Gold. At the Annual General Meeting of 1904 this guarantee was given—the Professors thereby appeased—the College council asked to make assurance doubly sure and ratify the decree. The next change is due about A. D. 1907.

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"Broke the good meeting with most admired disorder."

The Annual General Meeting of the Students' Association looked liked going down to posterity as a quiet and uneventful, walk-off-the-grass affair. The ladies, ably seconded by the "United Shillally club," had imported green into our Constitution, without undue excitement. On a sudden a mine burst. It was moved that students refusing to play for College Clubs and playing for teams competing against them, should be ineligible for membership of the Students' Association—or words to that effect. Scarcely was the mover seated when the heavy brigade came up at the charge. The air became thick with battle and "friend slew friend not knowing whom he slew." In the end to motion, which seemed to be regarded as too coercive for a "free country," was lost by a large majority.