Other formats

    Adobe Portable Document Format file (facsimile images)   TEI XML file   ePub eBook file  

Connect

    mail icontwitter iconBlogspot iconrss icon

SMAD. An Organ of Student Opinion. 1932. Volume 3. Number 4.

Some Opinions

Some Opinions

Miss Forde.—"If each wife had a share in the national wealth she would at once emerge into the freedom advocated by those who recommend companionate marriage."

Mr. Chorlton.—"Until you wholly revolutionise the present economic system the only alternative is panionate marriage."

Mr. Bannister maintained that a common British method for "honourably" dissolving an unhappy marriage, to wit, by the husband providing evidence that he has spent the night at a hotel with a barmaid (though he need not in fact have clone so) is a greater blot on society than companionate marriage could ever be.

Mr. Larkin.—"Marriage as we know it to-day has been a success."

Mr. Scotney.—"Marriage is a legal contract entered into by two parties. The reason why it is so often unsuccessful is that the contracting parties are partly or wholly insane at the time of marriage."

Mr. Bishop remarked that under a system of trial wedlock "holy matrimony" would degenerate into an "unholy alliance."

When asked to vote upon the subject, the audience rejected the motion. The judge, Mr. W. J. McEldowney, placed the best six of the thirteen speakers in the following order:—1. Miss Fordc, 2. Taylor, 3. Bannister, 4. Scotney, 5. Reardon, 6. Miss Henderson.