Dear "Smad,"

I feel that forceful attention should be drawn to the deplorable lack of manners displayed by a section of those attending debates at V.U.C. One is constrained to wonder what some of these go there for. I have always understood it to be the height of rudeness to talk while someone else has the floor, yet I find that a section of the audience do this with impunity. I should like to draw attention to the action, and execration down upon the heads of those who at a recent debate when respectfully asked by the chairman to desist or go outside (even this should not have been necessary) blandly continued their discussion for a time, and then, to add insult to injury, rose in a body and stamped noisily from the room, and this. Sir, when a lady was speaking. The audience, I may say, actually laughed! It would be regrettable to find persons in any audience guilty of this conduct, but coming from University students, allegedly setting the standard of culture and refinement in the community, it can only be described as nauseating. When to this is added the fact that after the debate, when supper is passed round, we find wave upon wave of clamourous masculinity pouring up on to the stage and grabbing the food from the plates like underfed street urchins in a lolly scramble at. a school picnic, regardless of the fact that visitors may be present, and unmindful even of girl students in the audience, the picture becomes so depressing that no words of mine can describe; the more so because, as apparently we live in a community of boors, there is no hope of a reformation.