Modest and Efficient.

"Bayard" brays hard in his dispraise of an Exec, that does its work modestly and efficiently, but decently fails to go chasing after the fleshpots of notoriety. Either the parfait knight has had a bad night or else the Stud. Ass. elections are within coo-ee. The tone of this "Truth" stuff that Bayard emits sounds suspiciously like pre-election propaganda. Is it designed to make straight the path of some young bounder who scents in Exec. office an opportunity for bringing his name prominently before all and sundry (particularly his employers) as the Vox Studentium of V.U.C.? The work of the Exec. is to execute the common will of the students, not to go publicity-mongering in their own interest under the pretext of sweetening the public, much less to be that pestilential nuisance of modern times, "a potent politically progressive, up-to-date body." If there is a Hitler in our midst who would like "to centralise" student opinion in himself, his presence has been indicated in, time, and we have now no excuse for failing to scrutinise carefully the personal proclivities, particularly the selfish ambitions, of any who offers, or contrives to have himself offered, for election this year, to that representative committee the competence of which has justly been measured in the past by the quietness and inconspicuousness with which its individual members have discharged their duties on behalf of the student body. Leave potent political progressiveness to the students. Bayard, whose multifarious club activities can quite properly compass this sort of thing, but refrain I beg of you, from yahooing at one of the best Executives we have ever had simply because they do not descend to noisy self-advertisement.

Bay Rum.