Graduation Ceremony.

It will perhaps be remembered that last year the Graduation Ceremony was abandoned through unfortunate circumstances arising out of difficulties in securing a Speaker for the function. Now. this ceremony is a most important occasion for every graduate, ranking with his birth, marriage, and final shuffle off this mortal coil as one of the most significant turning points of his life. The Graduation Ceremony is the culmination, the "O altitudo" of his College life and labours, without which he would say farewell to the pleasant ways he walked in these several years past with a sense of bathos; his life as a collegian, instead of reaching a culminating point, would merely cease to continue, and his degree, instead of being conferred with due circumstance and solemnity, would merely have come upon him unawares like a thief in the night. This should not and must not happen, but without co-operation between the College Council and Professorial Board on the one hand, and the student body on the other, which is the sine qua non of the desired function, it most assuredly would happen.

It is sincerely hoped that the Council and Board will be in full sympathy with the student body's keenly-felt wish for a full-fledged Graduation Ceremony, and that the students for their part will recognise that failure to bear their share of the cooperation can only result in the defeat of their own ends.

Most students of the College, we know, realise this to the full, and are in no need of any admonition on this score; but in the past there have been a few whose youthful spirits have outstripped their discretion. A mere handful of these, doubtless without conscious ill-will, have hitherto by inane and unmannerly interruptions so lowered the standard and destroyed the dignity of the Ceremony that prominent men have been loath to brave the slings and arrows of an outrageous fortune by consenting to speak at the Ceremony.

This mere handful—if such are with us this year, and we hope there are not—are reminded that page 3 some day their own Graduation Ceremony may mean much to them, and that meantime it is poor sportsmanship to inflict on their fellow-students and the College an indignity and annoyance that they would not like to be inflicted on themselves.

It should not be forgotten that "Manners maketh Man," and it will be a proud day for this College when a dignified and successful Graduation Ceremony indicates that all her male students are Men.

Students, let. that Graduation Ceremony be the next one !