The Board's Plans.

Elaborate plans have been drawn up to prevent any element of boisterousness or exuberance.

It has been decided to hold the graduation function in the Concert Chamber of the Town Hall during the afternoon. Admission is to be by ticket only.

At once it becomes evident that outside the graduands themseleves, the two or three friends allowed each, the dozen or so ushers and door men who will be necessary, and the brave array of professors, very little room will be available for accommodating the interested public, and, more important, the large body of students whose attendance each year at capping has always been frommotives of sincerity.

Now, the members of the Professorial Board quite justifiably consider that as capping is their own particular racket, a student should have the decency to show a certain amount of deference to their ideas regarding its conduct.

We cannot admit, however, and our opinion has the backing of a majority vote of the Executive, that the best interests either of the graduands, the student body at large, or the College itself, are being served by an attempt to exclude a large number of Victorians from Capping . Nor can we agree, and here the Executive's opinion is diffuse and diverse, that a reasonable amount of banter to which so much exception is taken, has at any time detracted from the any time detracted from the lustre and dignity of Graduation.

Student drollery is so regualr as to be traditional. It has always been received by the interested public with good-humoured understanding and tolerance.

The graduand's familiarity with it enables him to ignore it, and even to use it as a moral comfort in a ceremony at times unnerving.

In themselves, these animal spirits are rarely vicious, rarely undesirable.