The Executive met recently to discuss among other things, the Professorial Board's plan to hold 1936 capping in the concert Chamber, to give admission by ticket only, and to put an end to that element of "undesirable" student revelry which has been a feature of the ceremony since the early days of the College.

The normal consequence of Capping, derived as it is from its function as the completion of a student's undergraduate labour was heightened by the announcement of the Professorial Board's intended arrangements for this year.

It appears that the badinage, the raillery, that indefeasibly infectious accompaniment of all student activity has year after year been the secret shame of the Professorial Board.

Year after year they have seen it as a devouring flame, playing destructive havoe with the dignity and moment of the ritural called capping, and this time the Board has determined it shallbe conducted with the solemnity, the faultless regulation, and perhaps the grace of which Professorial Boards have dreamed for decades past.

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.

Executive's Proposal.

The Executive with admirable though not unanimous spirit forwarded through Professor Rankine Brown a strang recommendation that capping be held in the main Town Hall under the same conditions, tumult excepted, as last years.

We understand that the Board has refused to alter the arrangements planned and we can only regret that what should be an item inseparable from the University life, is now to be an occansion only for those fortunate enough to be full-time students or for those whose employers feel kindly disposed.