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SMAD. An Organ of Student Opinion. 1937. Volume 8. Number 7.

A Mark's Nest?

A Mark's Nest?

Dear "Smad,"—

So they still wear gowns at C.U.C.! Well, well. And to think that they were introduced thirty years ago to save putting in a central-heating system! But time moves slowly, ever so slowly, in the grey ivied cloisters, under the grey Christchurch skies, so perhaps there is little to wonder at in the grey minds of the Christchurch students And I had forgotten— down at C.U.C. the lecture-rooms are scattered all over the countryside, so these gowns must serve to keep the rain out, at any rate.

And is "Cant'y horrified to see the front steps crowded before lectures? But "Cant'y comes from Christchurch, and probably does not know what a view is. "Cant'y" will have to be here, quite a while before he realises that the view from V.U.C. means more to most of us than a Student's Union Building, and far more than "Canty's" paltry tea-rooms. In the words of an old Extravangaza song:

"If you stroll that way at the close of day,

And it's only to look at the view

You will hear in your mind through the years behind

Victoria calling to you."

Yours, etc.,

Watermelon.