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SMAD. An Organ of Student Opinion. 1935. Volume 6. Number 8.

Drunkenness a Virtiue?

Drunkenness a Virtiue?

Dear "Smad"—

In the last number of "Smad an appeal was voiced to the Executive to give this paper more support, lest the "undoubted talent" of subscribers to its columns should be turned to "baser issues." May I state that if the Tournament number of "Smad" is representative of this talent I can scarcely conceive of its being turned to baser issues? Judging from the general tenor of the articles of Tournament—more especially of the social side—drunkenness is a virtue of which to be proud. Does it not strike you that there is something radically wrong in the make-up of a man who can cheerfully brag of his college's prowess in drinking bouts?

As an admirer of all that is clean and straight in our College life, I cannot refrain from voicing a protest against the general spirit of coarseness expressed in these articles. Had the remarks even been witty, it might not have been so bad; but for sheer brawling beastliness I find these articles hard to beat.

"Smad" may consider itself representative of student opinion in such matters, but I assure you, Mr. Editor, that there is no small number of students who are ashamed to think that such lewd, public-house humour as appeared in the last number of "Smad" could for a moment be considered to express the general tone of the College. The profoundest need of the world to-day is for clean, strong personality, and yet "Smad" would have us believe that the poverty of character exemplified in the Tournament articles is typical of the best talent we have in our universities. I for one cannot let such an implication go unchallenged, because I consider it not only unjust but also inadvisable that the general estimation of our universities should be biassed by such a belief.

—Sybil Williams.