Justification

Ever since the building committee first launched its appeal there has been, not loudly but nevertheless consistently, the cry of "Why should we do so much to build something that we may never enjoy!" In your last editorial you say, "Well, someone has to bear the burden, why not us?" That seems to me to be philosophically worthy, but to beg the question, and the question is one that I am astonished should ever have arisen. Were I so reluctant to build for posterity I should hesitate very much to accent all that I do from the generations that have preceded me. I did nothing to help build this University or even the present Students' Association Building, which, though inadequate, is serving a useful purpose, and if I felt it necessary to commercialise the efforts I make for the building fund I would regard them as a small measure of repayment for these two things that some other generation has built for me.