From the Hole Itself.

As an ex-Wikitorian, now condemned to spend his days in Christchurch and some of them at C.U.C. it was with righteous indignation that I read the letter from "Canty" in "Smad" of 14th April, 1937.

Dear Editor, don't believe everything you are told. He, she or it (i.e. "Canty") is a snare and a delusion.

Don't you worry about lack of under-grad-tradition. I will let you into a secret. The Students' Executive at Canterbury College goes blue in the face about twice a week begging students to wear their gowns to lectures. The only people who do it are the College House men and that because the President of the Students' Association is Head of the House.

Canterbury College can have its cloisters, the tea-rooms, its magnificent buildings, and the gowns and their tradition, but give me good old V.U.C., stuck up on the top of a hill, the "night-school." with its "Brookie," its dirty Common Room, its hilarity ("Canty" didn't mention that!) and the view from the front steps.

If I write any more I will burst into tears. I'm getting all sentimental.