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Our Staff.

We sincerely congratulate Victoria College upon the decision of its Council to retain the services of the four pioneer Professors for a further term of five years from the date of expiry of the first engagement. The "Spike" is not quite sure whether it ought to congratulate the Professors also, but it knows what it knows—something about an uphill fight, a helping professorial hand, and personal sacrifice here and there, and is glad that the students will have the opportunity in their new home of showing they are not destitute of gratitude. And after all, Virgil construed by a Professor other than the present one is "not conceivable "; the laboratory without our goodly Professorial Chairman would be a "vacuum "; English without the few (too few!) jokes of a certain douce Scots lecturer, would be arid as-Anglo-Saxon; and the Binomial Theorem expounded by lips not those of our Cambridge LL.D., melancholy and slow.

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"A good rebuke,
Which might have well becomed the best of men."

—Antony & Cleopatra

The thanks of the Debating Society and of the College are due to H. H. Ostler for his prompt action in upholding the Dignity of the Students on a painful occasion when the Chairman of the Society, not that evening in the Chair, was observed among the audience in a sweater. Ostler pointed out that members should not appear in a public place in costumes unbecoming students of the N.Z. University. We understand that this sentiment has been indorsed by the Senate.

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Jog on, jog on, the foot-path way,
And merrily hent the stile-a:
A merry heart goes all the day,
Your sad tires in a mile-a.

—A Winter's Tale.

The College entered a team for the Harriers' Five-mile Road Race. Sixteen teams competed and sixty-four men started. College was not so successful as last year and only two men got home in the first twenty. de la Mare was 10th, and Beere close up. Goulding and Bray also finished.