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SMAD. An Organ of Student Opinion. 1931. Volume 2. Number 3.

Tramp, Tramp, Tramp—

Tramp, Tramp, Tramp

"Why did I ever come tramping?"

For the past few years I have been collecting opinions on why trampers tramp. (I hope in time to rival Professor Mackenzie's collection of Nightingales in Literature.)
(1)Because it is so lovely when you leave off.
(2)Because "luxury cannot be bought; it must be earned."
(3)Sensibility: Dr. Henning pointed out at the Free Discussions Club a week or two ago that in New Zealand we have neither art, nor culture, nor enlightened society; but when he went on to marvel at trampers, he did not realise that these folk create for themselves a new society in an environment of their own seeking, in that New Zealand which they know as the domain of a wild and fickle Dame Nature rather than "God's Own Country."
4.One who is oppressed by the "fierce confederate storm of sorrow barricaded evermore within the walls of cities," takes up an arduous pursuit with something very like the martyr's desire for mortification.
5.For he who has no home to call his own

Will find a home somewhere—

Will find a home somewhere."?

June 20th—the Dance with a punch.