Do Thou Likewise.

Charlie Plank's record, given elsewhere in this issue in an abbreviated form, serves not only as a challenge to his fellow-students, but also as a means of showing how wide are the ramifications of the Students' Association and how much skill and perseverance are required to keep the machine moving. There are men and women in the College whom you will not see shining in the lecture room; you will seldom find them in the library; you may wonder what they do. But if you could attend the Committee meetings of the larger and more active clubs and of the Executive and its various sub-committees you would find them at home talking with the quiet conviction which comes with knowledge and understanding. Their jobs are perhaps thankless and at the worst the only reward is the melancholy satisfaction coming from the knowledge that a job well done is a reasonable excuse for missing a section. On the other hand the rewards may be very great. The experience of human nature and the lasting friendships formed out of the mutual respect for ability and reliability are things to be prized.

They are able to carry out their tasks successfully because they have been trained for them either in business or better still in the many smaller duties which are always requiring to be done at V.U.C. and which require nothing more than keenness and reliability. This is where the young students can take up the challenge. This shows they will fit themselves for those greater responsibilities which the older generation will soon thankfully and yet regret fully be laying down.