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Notes from other Colleges.

It gives us much pleasure to congratulate Colin M. Gilray of Otago on his election as Rhodes Scholar for 1907. Although his scholastic attainments are not as high as those of previous Scholars, yet we doubt is a man could be found more adapted to the late Cecil Rhodes' ideals. His prowess as an athlete, and his good qualities as a man and leader of men, are in themselves sufficient to bring honour to the University which he represents.

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Both the Canterbury College and the Otago University football teams have been distinguishing themselves this season. The latter have lost one match and made a draw of another, while the former have won a match. How are the mighty fallen!

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The annual meeting of the Otago Students' Association was characterized by an unusual state of decorum. A write in the Otago University Review expresses a hope that the same state of affairs may hold at the debates during the year.

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It is the custom at Auckland for the students' Association Committee to depute some student to write a play for the Capping page 86 Carnival every year. This year the task was entrusted to L.T. Pickmere. But, after having half written the play, it proved too much for him, and he is now recovering from scarlet fever.

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Otago Hockey Notes: "Ryburn is a new player from the North Island."

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The Sydney University football team is having successful season. There was a crowd of 20,000 to witness their game with Glebe on the 25th May. So far the University is leading for the Metropolitan premiership; and there are ten other teams in the competition. It is stated that Varsity's success is due to their visit opt New Zealand last year when, it will be remembered, they played matches against O. U., C. C. and V. C.

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A report of an Oxford capping ceremony provides somewhat light reading. One write, describing such a function, stated that the undergraduate have developed the gift for sauce into an art that even knows the laws of proportion and restraint. Later on the states that nobody has a chance of knowing what the various speakers say until the speeches are reported in the papers. We certainly are at a disadvantage in New Zealand in not being an old enough institution for habits of this sort to have become custom.

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There seems to have been a certain amount of dissatisfaction at Otago University and Canterbury College, as well as amongst ourselves, with regards to the manner in which the football teams were selected last year. The contributor of notes about the first XV to the O. U. Review expresses satisfaction at the fact that "the Selection Committee had not followed last year's principal of discarding old and trusted players for new blood"; on the next page the contributor of notes about the second XV complains that, "the first eleven show too little consideration for the Juniors." At C. C. the constitution of the selection committee was altered at the annual meeting of the Football Club.

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The Victoria College ladies will be please to hear from Canterbury that we hold a dance here once a month. The Victoria Councillors will be even more pleased to hear that these dances are held in the College Hall. Where is this College Hall?

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The Auckland Capping Ceremony and Carnival held at the beginning of this month were unqualified success. The Chancellor was unable to be present to confer degrees, and in consequence Sir Maurice O'Rorke presided. The chief feature of the concert in t he evening was the action of "Rosencrantz and Guildenstern" by students. The evening was also enlivened by several items effectively rendered by the College Orchestra, which is evidently a flourishing institution.