This year the ceremony on Diploma Day was held in het Town Hall—the last time, we hope, it will have to be performed under an alien roof. The Concert Hall was only fairly well filled—some friends stayed away afraid to face the weather, others perhaps because they had heard they were to be delivered over to the mercies of the eloquent and that their fate was to be unbrightened by any ray of relief from the undergrads.

The Chancellor's speech dealt chiefly with the duties and privilege of the graduates seemed to consider they had heard some-back, attempted various tunes on their toy bagpipes. The interrupters, after a warning, were silenced by a threat to stop the proceedings and confer the degrees in private. This dire threat was received with applause, and the remainder of the proceedings would have done credit even to Auckland.

After the conferring to the degrees, the registrar of the University, gave a resumé of the last Senate meeting. Dr. Chapple, speaking as a general practitioner of education, urged to be more useful than the ordinary classics. Incidently he congratulated "Professor" Hunter on his enterprise in obtaining the promise of apparatus for experimental psychology. Professor von Zedlitz had great pleasure, on behalf of himself and colleagues, speaking as specialist, in demolishing the theories of the last speaking Doubtless the value of Mental Science was great, and would be more so when the new apparatus was obtained, but the profs. Were unanimous in preferring to teach students who had wrestled with the Latin grammar, and as to the inapplicability page 49 of the experimental methods he looked forward confidently to the time when in our Hall on the hill, busts of Roman worthies would on the pressure of a knob discourse Ciceronian Latin with a Glasgow accent.