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SMAD. An Organ of Student Opinion. 1935. Volume 6. Number 15.

Fishbones

Fishbones.

"N.Z.U.S.A.": Messrs. A. Katz and E. Bucklin thank the Editor of "Smad" for the delicate compliment to their influence implied in these letters.

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"Distance bars travel to the majority"—Editorial, July 17. A similar illusion takes place when the majority travel to adjacent bars.

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"Our Anti-War Movement, for example, might have joined in the international strike against Fascism and war on April 12,"—Editorial, July 17 April 1 is a much better date on which to hold a war.

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"'Ave Cæsar, morituri te salutant,' we are tempted to murmur as we view the new lords we have elected to rule us."—Editorial, July 17. What we would like to know is, what member of the Executive did the shouting that tempted the Editor into murmuring this Fascist stuff?

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J Nesbitt Sellers murmurs in his turn. "Caveant Emptores."

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"However, I feel that I can rely upon the honesty of three people who were preesnt at the Annual General Meeting. . ."—J. Nesbitt Sellers. Another powerful argument for excluding outsiders from participation in College activities.

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". . . that it be a recommendation to the Executive to hold a thorough enquiry into the question of the Building Committee."—J. B. Aimers. The question of the Building Committee is, of course: "Can we do nothing more impressively by meeting or not meeting?"

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"At the monthly meeting of the St. Andrew Burns Club, which will be held in the Rechabite Hall, Willis Street, on Monday evening the speaker will be Mr. A. T. S. McGhie. Mr. McGhie who won the second prize in the recent Plunket Medal oratory contest, will give an address on Burns."—"Evening Post," July 13. So far as our recollection goes, Mr. McGhie's Burns was neither Andrew nor a saint.

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"Once a tiger has tasted blood you can never trust him again. It is much the same with inflationists."—Prof. Murphy.

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Write for "Smad."

With the end of year approaching, we again appeal to students to Write For "Smad." Especially do we commend the "Fishbones" column to you. Send in social scandal, remarks overheard, lecture titbits, poems, articles, anything; otherwise this epitaph may have to be engraved over an untimely grave.

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Epitaph.

Victoria had a little mag.

Whose page was virgin snow,

And when she said, "Do write for us,"

The undergrads said "No."

And then one day, I grieve to say,

So great was inanition.

The white corpuscles won the day:

"Smad" died of malnutrition.

Heard About Town.

I adopted a French child, and I'm learning French to understand him when he grows up.

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"My husband says he's through with me. Should I take it to heart?"

—"No: take it to Court."