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Men's Common Room Club.

The past term has been a quiet one as far as the Common room Club is concerned. The Christian Union Social, the Boxing Tournament, the Women's Common Room entertainment, and a postponed debate took up every available Saturday evening in the first part of the term with one exception, when the Club held its annual dance.

The committee did not feel justified, in view of the large number of entertainments crowded into the second term, and of the proximity of terms and degree examinations, in continuing the usual fortnightly smoke concerts.

Consequently, after the dance (which is described elsewhere) the committee, with invaluable assistance of misses Fell, G. Saxon, and Thornton, was enabled to devote all its attention to the furnishing of the Club room. We trust the general public is satisfied with the result— it certainly should be. The much-maligned linoleum now has its manifold shortcomings concealed by two tablecloths, even a vase (aliter a jam bottle.—Ed.) is forthcoming, not to mention flowers, the windows are becomingly curtained, photographs adorn the walls, and, in fact, the whole scene is just "perfectly lovely, " if one of our guests at the dance.

We did not expect to find the Common Room very extensively patronized during this second and very busy term, and our expectations have been realized. A small and select band knows the delights of "Punch," "Current Literature," the "Windsor Magazine." etc., etc., not forgetting the "Triad" and the "Academy," but these are mostly the men to whom November is just as any other month. The vacation should see a change in all this, and the room ought to prove popular with men after tennis, cricket, or athletics. So when the swat-books are put away, my master, don't forget the Common Room, and least of all our motto, "it is better to smoke now than hereafter."

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P.S.—The Secretary is still seeking the blood of that miscreant who so sensibly left one of the windows open, unlatched, in a gale of wind, with the result that the whole window, frame and all, was wrenched from its hinges. In view of this and similar exhibitions of uncommon sense, the Students' Association has had all the windows fastened up, and the ventilation of the Common Room has not been improved thereby.