Our New Cover.

Three years ago "Smad" was first issued. The Executive called for cover designs, and offered a prize for the one accepted. After careful consideration of many designs, one was finally selected; and this, although slightly inaccurate in some minor details met with the approval of the students for over two years, and of the four successive editors, being used from the third until the issue before the last, the seventeenth.

In this last issue the cover paper was changed from our traditional green to white, due, no doubt, to the latter being a slightly better colour for advertisements.

In addition, without having the opportunity of submitting alternative cover designs, and without receiving any explanation why the old one was discarded excepting the general statement in the editorial that "it was felt by members of the Editorial Staff that some change was needed in the lay-out of the paper," we had foisted on us a design which is not comparable in dignity with the old design, and which offends the susceptibilities of more than half the subscribers to "Smad"

Could you tell me, Sir, the significance of the new design, the real reason for rejecting the old design and incurring the expense of a new one, and whether you are prepared to revert to the old design, thereby conforming to the wishes of the majority of students ?