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SMAD. An Organ of Student Opinion. 1937. Volume 8. Number 6.

Smad's Monthly Contest. — Wake Up and Think

Smad's Monthly Contest.

Wake Up and Think.

Whatever may be said or written about "Smad's" being an organ of Student Opinion, we are almost convinced that it is a Body—and a body that lacks a brain! That is. a challenge. We have thrown down the gauntlet. Sound the trumpets, send forth your heralds and gird on your armour, for the stakes are high.

Through the Lists are our knights riding—aimless and idle. Fair damsel have lost their glamour and the dragons have all been slain.

To Horse, then, o knights, for the tourney is on! We have a new contest: the Battle of Brains and Brawn! Groom your steeds and train your squires; trim your beards and rouse your ires. Gallop into the Lists and brazen your way to Victory. Set high on sapling pole is a shimmering wreath to tantalize you into a frenzy of Desire to Possess. If you can attain that exalted wreath you have attained Originality and the Tournament is won.

To horse, boot, saddle and away —the trumpets sound and eager knights swarm the field!

Gather around. Hold your horses while fair words of explanation spill in illumination from the lips of the Lady Rowena.

This is the contest: You are to supply, in rhymed couplets of any metre, a list of the six platitudes you hate most intensely.

Spill your Wit.
Vent your Wrath,
Write it in Hate
Or in bubbling Froth.
Tell us your hates
And we shall admire,
Here is a chance
To exploit your Ire.