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SMAD. An Organ of Student Opinion. 1936. Volume 7. Number 13.

Club Officers

Club Officers

The outstanding recollection that lingers in our memory from the S.A. Annual General Meeting concerns the motion passed by 51 votes to 49 that past students may be members of College teams but that they shall not hold office.

On due reflection, we feel that, apart from perhaps unhappy phraseology, the constitutional amendment is most unworthy of the support that it obtained.

We admit that clubs should not be ruled by old men with one of their feet in the grave. But in what club is or has this been true? We challenge our readers to cite any case where such an honour unearned by merit has been becase where such an honour unearned by merit has been bestowed; nor do we linger for a reply.

Experience to be gained wisely must be acquired slowly, not by trial and error for that is the law of the jungle. Experience we learn from our elders, and upon this rock sound judgment has its foundation.

Junior students may well govern clubs of which they are members, and as the black boy said, "Darwin will still be there to-morrow" —perhaps. But will the same efficiency and progress be there, the same wise decision in the face of adversity and difficulty! Along a path of roses a young soldier will win his battle, when the path is thorny and the battle long and fierce upon the old soldier do we pin our faith, and justly so.

As the voting shows, the question is one upon which widely divergent views are held. Readers, tell the world what you think, and then feel the joy of knowing that when duty calls you have answered. Let "The Cockpit," now columns for dead letters, deserve its name!