May I be permitted to use your columns for the purpose of entering a protest against the methods adopted at the first meeting of the Free Discussions Club. The club held its first meeting for the year a little before Easter, and I went along to take part in the function. After some delay Professor Hunter entered. He proceeded to state that owing to the absence of the secretary a report and balance-sheet had not been prepared. The Professor then proposed that no report and balance—sheet be prepared until the time came when the club should apply to the Students' Association for a grant. This was agreed to without one voice being raised in protest. The next statement ran somehow as follows: "The committee has received the following nominations. . . ." A string of names was then read out. Curiously they coincided with the number of vacancies. I have no recolection of nominations being called for on any of the College notice boards. The Professor then asked if there were any further nominations. Not a voice was raised in protest or to nominate. The persons who were nominated in such mysterious circumstances were I lien declared elected. This concluded that part of the evening devoted to the Annual General Meeting. The farce had lasted not longer than five minutes.

I am net an active member of the Free Discussions Club, but I feel as a student that some protest should be made. The club is a student club, and the students are entitled to proper organisation. In the first place there should have been an annual report and balance-sheet, and secondly the trick of going to the meeting with all the vacancies carefully tilled is not one which commends itself to my mind. One would have thought that the power or powers that be in the club would be imbued with a little more of the spirit of democracy—or is democracy a fad of the past with some of our friends. Is the cry now "Democracy is dead; long live Mussolini—and his would-be imitators!"