Dear "Spike,"—Ye gods! "The Spike" improves with age! We have been shown "J.C.B.'s" reply to our letter, and have been asked for our comments thereon. We hope this will be taken as a precedent; the opportunity of replying in the same issue to controversial letters to "The Spike" should always be given to those whom the letters affect.

Your correspondent endeavours to cloud the true issue (that of misuse of his position as Editor) by denying his responsibility for the posting of the proof of his first letter in the Hall. We did not conceive the possibility of some member of the Debating Society stealing the proof from the editorial precincts.

"J.C.B.'s" lucid and all-embracing reply merits no further comment.—We are, etc.,