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M OUNT KOSCIU SKOHumped above mighty foothills, and wearing a mantle of snow through

the hottest summer, sits in silent majesty in the heart of the Great Divide in the south-eastern comer of New South Wales, the king of Australian mountains.

Marvellous panoramic views in prodigal extravagance are to be obtained from its summit, extendimg far over New South Wales and Victoria.

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stood proudly above the sea whem, of the Alps and Himalayas, not a stone was laid above a stone.

" We date the age of continents or of lands from the time when they finally emerged from beneath the sea. Reckoned in this way. Mount Kosciu'sko is vastly older than any land known on the earth to­day. The highest mountains are, it goes without saying, not always the oldest.

“ The Australian Alps show no peaks and crags rising to altituuea of eight to ten thousand feet and clothed in eternal snow; but their very age can account for this.

“ ■Millions of years of wear and tear have smoothed down the crags of Kosciusko and rounded its peaks.”

The great improvements effected by the New South Wales Govern­ment make it now possible to ascend to a point well above the snow line in winter.

At the Hotel Kosciusko, situate above the deep snow level, guests are comfortably housed in a warm, palatial building, organised and con­structed along the lines o f the hostels of the far-famed Swiss Alps.The glorious sport of ski-running and tobogganing may be indulged, apid a frozen lake in front of the Hortel affords opportunities for ice- skating under ideal conditions.

So bracing is the atmosphere, and so exhilarating and novel are the attractions, that hundreds testify to the rejuvenating effect of even a brief holiday at Australia’s snow sanatorium.

The last of the snow carnivals listed for the 1917 winter season will be held on the 23rd August.

The hotel tariff to 15th September is 16/ and 17/6 per day. From 15th September to 7th December the Tariff will be reduced to 12/6 and 14/; or, on completion of a week’s stay, the charge will be 9/ and 9/9 per day.

During the period September 15th to December 7th, coupons are issued at £8, covering a full week’s stay at the Hotel Kosciu^o, and all travelling expenses from Sydney and retvtrn first class, and with second class rail at £7/2/6.

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TH E MOST ANCIENT O F M OUNTAINS

MOUNT KOSCIUSKOHiimped above mighty foothills, and wearing a mantle of snow through

the hottest summer, sits in silent majesty in the heart of the Great Divide in the south-eastern comer of New South Wales, the king of Australian moimtains.

Marvellous panoramic views in prodigal extravagance are to be obtained from its svunmit, extending far over New South Wales and Victoria.

At a height of 7328 feet, the greatest altitude to be reached in Aus­tralia, the atmosphere is limiinomsly clear, and the range of vision seems illimitable.

Apart from its geographical interest, Kosciusko is well worth a visit, even- from the most travelled of the world’s tourists, for it possesses the oldest land surface known on the globe-

A well-known geologi-st states:—“ The European Alps are old; the Himalayas are old; but Kosciusko

stood proudly above the sea when, of the Alps and Himalayas, not a stone was laid above a stone.

“ We date the age of continents or of lands from the time when they finally emerged from beneath the sea. Reckoned in this way, Mount Kosciusko is vastly older than any land known on the earth to­day. The higbest mountains are, it goes without saying, not always the oldest.

“ The Australian Alps show no peaks and crags rising to altituues of eight to ten thousand feet and clothed in eternal snow; but their very age can account for this.

"Millions of years of wear and tear have smoothed down the crags of Kosciusko and rounded its peaks.”

The great improvements effected by the New South Wales Govern­ment make it now possible to ascend to a i>oint well above the snow line in winter.

At the Hotel Kosciusko, situate above the deep snow level, guests are comfortably housed in a warm, palatial building, organised and con­structed along the lines of the hostels of the far-famed Swiss Alps.The glorious sport of ski-rtmning and tobogganinjg may be indulged, aind a frozen lake in front of the Hoitel affords opportunities for ice- skating under ideal conditions.

So bracing is the atmosphere, and so exhilarating and novel are the attractions, that hundreds testify to the rejuvenating effect of even a brief holiday at Australia’s snow sanatorium.

The last of the snow carnivals listed for the 1917 winter season will be held on the 23rd August.

The hotel tariff to 15th September is 16/ and 17/6 per day. From 15th September to 7th December the Tariff will be reduced to 12/6 and 14/; or, on completion of a week’s stay, the charge will be 9/ and 9/9 per day.

During the period September 15th to December 7th, coupons are issued at covering a full week’s stay at the Hotel Kosciusko, and all travelling expenses from Sydney and return first class, and with second class rail at £7/2/6.

Pamphlets and further particulars may be obtained on application to theGOVERNMENT TOURIST BUREAU

Telephone: City 4945. Challis House, Martin Place, SYDNEY.

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A Famous Optical FirmThe name of Barraclough has long been famous for its connection with good optical work in Australia. All that the name implies, all that the great organisa­tion introduces—qualified opticians, valu- abe optical instruments, care and skill in every process from the testing to the making and fitting of the glasses—all this is available to you at moderate prices. To order Barraclough Glasses means that you shall get the best—in testing and in materials. Prices range from 17/6.

Several of the members of the firm, as enumerated above, have qualified after the course prescribed by the British Optical Association and by study and experience abroad and in Australia.

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Contents.Page

Colonel Sir Alexander McCormick (Frontispiece)Editorial.—The University and the N ation ............................................................... 73

The War R ecords.................................................................................................... 75Lent Term Issu e....................................................................................................... 76

Epitaphe—Emile Cammaerts........................................................................................ 77“ Hennes”—Its Evolution and Some Reminiscences............................................... 78Education by Selection—Major-General J. G. Legge, C.B-, C.M.G....................... 80Entrance to the Fisher Library—S k etch .................................................................. 82On Philistinism—M- J. O’Reilly, C.M......................................................................... 83Night—C. F. P.Andy’s Rubiayat—Verse and Sketc'hes....................................................................... 87Round the Common R o o m ............................................................................................ 88Personal............................................................................................................................. 91The University Man and Politics—T. R. Bavin, B.A., LL.Bt, M-L.A................. 92Sunset—R. K. D .............................................................................................................. 94Undergraduates’ Association......................................................................................... 95Women Undergraduates’ Association........................................................................... 96Evening Students’ Association ....................................................................................... 96Whom the Gods Love—A. J. M................................................................................... 97The Bar of iP aris ............................................................................................................ 98Rest—R . K. D .................................................................................................................100A Poet of the Anzacs—Review by L. H. A .................... ........................................101Peace on Earth—L. H. A ..............................................................................................104The Anzacs—M. J. O’Reilly, C.M................................................................................. 105The War Records of the University of Sydney.—II-

High Distinction in History—Professor G. A . W o o d .......................................106Heroic Life—J. Le Gay Brereton......................................................................... 107Roll of D istinction................................................................................................... 108Brig.-General H. N. MacLaurin (iU u s.)............................................................. I l lSome of Our Soildiers’ Careers ( i j lu s .) ......................................................... 112-118Letters From “ Somewhere” ............................................................................119-124

Froth and Bubble—Major Stuart Kay, M.B., Ch.M.................................................. 125Zoology Notes—S k etch ...................................................................................................126The Union—W . A . Selle. B .A .......................................................................................127Sydney University Women’s U n ion .............................................................................129“ Hermes” Exchanges..................................................................................................... 130Lamentations and RevelationiS—“ Medicus” ...............................................................131Youth—R. I. K ................................................................................................................133Chanson—J. R. P ............................................................................................................. 134Some Reminiscences of James P. Pickburn—J. Le Gay Brereton........................135Book Notes and R eview s.............................................................................................. 137For France........................................................................................................................ 143Union Debates ................................................................................................................ 145College N otes .................................................................................................................... 148S p ort................................................................................................................................... 150Clubs and Societies .. • .................................................................................................. 158Correspondence................................................................................................................. 161

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VISITOR:The Right Rev. The Moderator of the General Assembly of the

Pre^yterian Church of N. S. Wales.

PRINCIPAL:Rev. ANDREW HARPER. M.A., D.D.. Edin.

cox m cn .i.O R S :Arthur Bowman, Esq., B.A. Edward Bowman, Esq., M.A., LL.B. Rev. John Edwards, M.A.Rev. John Ferguson.Hon. G. W. Fuller, M.A.Hon. John Garland, M.A., LL.B.,

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SECRETARY:S. J. CARRUTHERS, Esq.

Stanway House, 77 King Street.

The College has now a sufficient rumber of Rooma to receive 81 Students, who may be of any denomination.

Tutorial Help is given in Classics, English, Philosophy, iMathematics, Law, Engineering, Zoology, Botany. Physics, Chemisl^, and Medicine; and religious instruction as required by the Affiliated Colleges Act, is given by the Principal.

There ar« also Laboratories for the Science Teaching.There are nine open Scholarships awarded annually, amd six con­

fined to students for the Ministry, besides some special prizes. The open Scholarships and Prizes are awarded on the results of the Univer­sity Examinations.

Intending competitors should send in their names to the Secretary not later than 1st March, 1918.

The Fees are: Twenty<ine Guineas per Term; i.e., £66/3/ per aoinum.There is also an Entrance Fee of £2/2/, paid only on first year.There are two asphalt Tennis Coturts, and other facilities for

athletics.

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TH E W O M E N S C O LLE G EW ITHIN TH E UNIVERSITY O F SYD N EY

For Matriculated Women Students of the University.

Students who have not already Matriculated are eligible for admission to the College provided they prepare to Matriculate as soon as shall be practicable after entering

into residence.

Fee for the Session of three terms £66

For information apply toT H E PRINCIPAL.

H E R M E S . XXV.

W E S L E Y C O L L E G E

Master:

Rev. M. SCOTT FLETCH ER M.A.. (Sydney) B.Litt. (Oxon.)

Preliminary Announcement

This College, which is now approach­ing completion, will be sufficiently ready to receive University Students wishing to come into residence, during Michael­mas Term of this year.

For fees and further particulars applyto

THE MASTER, c/o 381 George Street,

Sydney.

The College Calendar for 1917-8 will be publishedshortly

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I'uhlished once a Term hy the Uudergradnates Assot ialion,

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Edilor-in-ChieJ:W. J. BRADLEY. B .A .,

Judges’ Chambers, Supreme Court, Sydney.

Sub-Editor and Sports Editor:E. A. WOODWARD,

St. Andrew’s College, Camperdown.

Ex-Otficio:B. B. BARRACK,

President, Undergraduates Association.

Literary Staff:R. 1. KAY, B .A . (Law School, Sydney).F. J. SHEED, B .A . (Law School, Sydney).D. H. C. KEVANS, B.A. TSt. John's College, Camperdown), C. F, PETTINGER (Medical School).J. H. A. CIIAUVEL, B.A. (St. Paul’s College, Darlington).

Editorial Secretary:N. ROSS SMITH, (Medical School).

/business Secretaries :N. L. COWPER (Arts IID , The University.M. R. FLY\.\, B .A ., B.Sc., (Mcdical School), The

University.

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COLONEL SIR A LE X A N D E R MacCORMlCK, Kt.Lecturer in the Principles and Practice of Surgery in the University of Sydney, now Con'sultiing Surgeon to the Imperial Forces in France.

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(Published Once a Term for the Undergraduates’ Association.)

VOL. XXin. (New'Series). No. 2. AUGUST, 1917.

The University and the Nation.After three years of unmitigated fury of battle, with the end of the

conflict no more clearly in sight, there exists no pretext whereby the dullest of the most ordinary individuals can excuse or explain an atti­tude of indifference. It has taken from us the best of our manhood, limited our business, and on every hand curtailed even our opportuni­ties of travel and social intercourse with the old world. The stage has been reached in which the most remote of personal interest has been brought into close relation with the heart of the struggle. Among the many vital consequences resulting from so wide and intense a circu­lation of the life-blood of the present titanic struggle is that even those who were at its inception comparatively indifferent from a personal point of view to the progress of events are now anxiously at inquin," among themselves for an explanation of the meaning of it, and of some hand which will definitely point out to them the direction in which civilisation is trending. It is in endeavouring in some measure to supply a satisfactory solution to such problems that the University should, and indeed must, take an active and leading part.

The duty and capacity of a University in respect of such matters as these is a twofold one: primarily, it is an institution of an intellectual nature, to which Society turns for satisfaction and support in time of ethical and psychic stress. It is further, or if it is not, undoubtedly it should be, the birthplace of scientific invention and the nursery of all existing branches of useful practical knowledge.

On its intellectual side there never has, in the history of learning or of a people, been a time in which the responsibilities and opportuni­ties of a University were equal to those incidental to the present upheaval. The old ideas of civilisation, the old codes of international ethics, and the old faith in the inherent decency of mankind have been of late so rudely shaken by the abominable infidelity and the fiendish faithlessness of one of the leading nations of Europe, that a profound moral and ethical gloom is settling upon the people, which it is the University’s duty to combat. As a people we are in this war to a man, and it is incumbent upon the intellectual centres of our civilisa­tion so to stimulate and encourage the spirit of our race that the in­evitable despair of a protracted war will become no shackle upon our activities in the cause of freedom. The University should seize the reins of popular thought and guide it into that course which will best propagate an enthusiasm to win the war and a determination not to be dismayed by the tragedy, suffering and waste which have been rendered necessarv incidentals in our struggle to maintain the rights, honour, and independence of the free peoples of the earth.

From, the scientific point of view, tlie duty of the University, be­cause we are a young and sparsely-populated country, is not so heavy; but because of the continual drain on the manhood of our Empire and the imperative necessity for successful competition in scientific warfare with one of the most skilled mechanical peoples of the world, no scienti­fic part in the great conflict, however small, can be safely ignored. It is now, more than ever, urgently the duty of the scientific side of our University to exercise its resources to the utmost to combat a people who have prostituted science to the slaughter of innocents and the de­struction of art. Already we have numbers of our graduates in the munition works and war laboratories of the homeland, while our En­gineers are engaged in field service.

This stage, then, in the history’- of the great war of the old world has been reached: that no man among us of conscience but looks with anxiety for some leading intellect to indicate along what lines the re- ■sources of the nation can best be employed towards the consummation. Throughout the Empire the leaders of the nation are making appeal to the people for a concentration of its utmost effort on the all-important task of bringing this conflict to a successful issue. W e are urged to economise our resources, to organise our industries, to systematise in gross the whole of our activities, with this sole object in view. In such a thorough recasting as tliat to which the nation now submits itself, the question naturally arises what is the task of the University? Has enough been done to justify its existence? Has an adequate part been taken by it in the gigantic essay? Its young manhood has gone forth freely and helped to make known throughout the world the prowess of Australians in these days of marvellous attainments. Its staff, its eraduates, and its undergraduates are well represented in the Rolls of Honour to which our country will point proudly for generations to come.

But the more serious task of the University is not so much a matter for the individual or the school as for the leaders of our people beyond its walls, and the more powerful intellects amoner us. to submit its life to a thorough organisation in proper keeping with the needs of the time; to point out to the less gifted among us the course to be

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pursued and to enable us to face the future with a clean conscience, knowing that we have played our part from the intellectual point of view with a success equal to that already established by our prowess in arms.

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THE W AR RECORDS.In November, 1915, it was announced by the Editor of “ Hermes”

that an endeavour would be made early in 1916 to publish records and photographs of University men at the war. During 191G the President of the Union (Mr. H. V . Evatt, M.A.) endeavoured to collect records, &c., and notified the relatives and friends by special circular of what was proposed. The same notification has been continued this year by the Union President (Mr. W . A . Selle, B.A.), and in the pages of “ Hermes.” To date, Sydney University has sent on service nearly 1400 of her sons, yet it is doubtful if the Union archives contain com­plete records for one hundred.

When the publication of the records was begun this year a system was sought whereby some order might be maintained in the setting out of the University’s splendid record. Several suggestions were available, three at least being worthy of consideration. These were:—

(1.) That the records should be published alphabetically. Had this course been followed, it would have meant that a man, the initial letter of whose name came early in the alphabet, would be ahead of one whose initial letter was towards the end and who probably had been killed, wounded, or decorated years before. Obviously this would not have been satisfac­tory.

(2 .) Chronologically. While this appeared to be the fairer and better system, it was impossible to carry it out owing to the small number of records available, especially records of the men who left in the first divisions. Finally, a start was made by

(3 .) Selections, with an endeavour to be as representative as pos­sible of faculties and sections.

However, a further appeal is now being made to the relatives and friends of the University’s sons who have gone on service. The Union is asking that a photograph, and as complete a record as possible, of each man be sent to the Union archives. It should be sent to the Union President, by whom it will be acknowledged, and failing the acceptance of a better system the following order of publication will be adhered to:—

(1) Photos and records of the men who have given their lives;(2) Photos and records of men who have won distinctions for con­

spicuous service;(3) Photos and records of men of the University who have gone on

service abroad.In each issue of the magazine, where it is possible, some pages of

extracts, notes, or letters from the men on service will be published, in accordance with the expressed wishes of the writers or writer’s rela­tives. Records, photographs, letters, or extracts should be sent to the Union as soon as possible.

LENT TERM ISSUE.

In the May number a departure was made in the general get-up of the Magazine, so as to be in conformity with the beginning of the publication of the War Records. The alterations entailed a higher cost, principally on account of war prices, so that strict and careful economy was needed in the spending of the limited amounts available.

While it was thought that some extra copies would be needed on account of the War Records, it was never contemplated that the de­mand would be so enthusiastic. All prepaid orders were arranged for, and an additional 20 per cent, to meet the cxpected extra demand. Yet, twenty-four hours after the arrival of the issue at the University there was not a single copy available, and many inquirers have since been disappointed.

“ Hermes” regrets that those who had not booked or prepaid orders were unable to secure copies of the May issue, but an endeavour will be made to supply all wants from now on till the end of the year. Still, it is mudh more satisfactory if members of the University and their friends would let the Business Secretaries know in advance what is required. This would not only avoid disappointment, but also lessen the task of the staff of the Magazine, whose work is entirely honorary.

It was, 'however, verj- gratifying and encouraging to meet the en­thusiasm that was displayed at the change. The work entailed was arduous, yet the encouragement manifested and the universal offers of help from all members of the Universit}-^—students, graduates, and Pro­fessors— have more than balanced the extra effort needed for the change.

To the staff, graduates and undergraduates, who 'have tendered their congratulations. “ Hermes” takes this opportunity of expressing thanks. The alterations, however, really represent but the first at­tempt along the lines it is believed the Magazine should develop, and the support that has been accorded this year’s attempt augurs well for those whose duty it will be to continue.

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FOR THE MEN AT THE FRONT.

The Undergraduates’ Association wishes it to be known that there is a small parcel of the souvenir song books of the concert for France available. Copies will be supplied free of charge to members of the University or their friends who wish to send them to the men at the front. Application should be made to the Hon. Secretaries or year representatives, who will arrange to obtain what is needed.

There are also several parcels of back numbers of “ Hermes,” ’Var­sity song lx)oks for concerts, and other events held during past years. To students who wish to have complete sets or extra copies, these are available on application. The women students should make application through their executive.

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Epitaphe.By Emile Cammaerts.

To the Memory o£ Sergeant Jacques Bcuvier, aged 23, killed at Dixmude, while relieving a comrade buried under his dug-out, in an advance post.

II n’est pas mort.II est parti.II a fore 6 la porte dc sa vie.II a franchi,D’un bond, le seuil de son sort.II n’est pas mort.II est sortiD’un monde qui 6tait trop petit pour lui.

Couvrez le tambour d’un voile noir Couvrez son corps Du drapeau de la Victoire.

II n’a pas eu, comme d’autres, la patience D ’attendre jusqu’ au bout.In n’a pas eu, comme d’autres, la prudence De boire a petits coups.II n’est pas mort.II est parti.II a vid6 sa coupe jusqu’ la lie.II a franchi,D ’un bond, le seuil de son sort.II a fait, d’un geste, tout ce qu’il avait k faire,II a dit, d’un mot, tout ce qu’il avait a dire.II a livre sa guerre Et souffert son martyre.

Battez le tambour i petits coups las,Portez son corps A petits pas.

II n’est pas mort,Mais nous mourronsChaque fois que nous songerons lui,Et que nous nous souviendrons Que nous ne I’avons pas suivi.II n’est pas mort.Mais nous vivrons Bien des jours et bien des nuits Sans jamais voir la porte d’or Qui s’est ouverte devant lui.

Plantez une croix sur ton tombeau—II n’est pas mort—Gravez son nom, son num^ro,Et tirez sur son corps La salve des h6ros!

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Hermes. > >

The Evolution of the Magazine and Some Reminiscences.

In 1886 a small coterie of undergraduates evolved the idea of a students’ journal, and one of the leaders of the group that founded

Hermes" was Mr. G. P. Barbour, the father of Dr. Eric Barbour, who was Editor in 1913-14. The toddling “ Hermes” was to contain 16 pages of mainly irresponsible and therefore interesting University items, and showed little promise of the wings that he has since de­veloped. Its pages were devoted to criticisms of the Senate, Professors, &c. It was modelled on the Oxford “ Gadfly,” at least a modified “ Gadfly.” The early editors were never interfered with by the Senate or Professorial Boards, which is proof that while the criticism was fearless and outspoken it was never scurrilous or in very bad taste.

The early issues of “ Hermes” contained several columns of notes, short and interesting—often personal— pars, descriptions of official functions, several columns of sport, and occasionally a character sketch. The best of these sketches came from the clever pen of the late Sir James Graham, then Dr. “ Jimmie.”

The editors, both of whom by the way are still contributing, did their own canvassing for advertisements, and in fact most of the work. Though their “public” was small they made a profit of several pounds on the earlier issues.

“ Hermes” was first published “to give expression to public opinion am on g our undergraduates. . . and to expose misleading and ignor­ant statements in the Press regarding u s.”

“ We undergrads are so accustomed to read in the papers that we are a useless and expensive institution, without the sympathy of the public, that we have almost begun to believe it. Blatant members of Parliament have thrown mud at us so often that some of it has stuck. Our object is to be able to say a word on behalf of this institution. Fair play is all we desire.”

In their first issue the Editors set forth the objects of the founding of “ Hermes”

(1.) To defend our rights.(2.) To circulate University news.(3.) To publish reports of societies and current events.(4.) To publish letters on any subject.(5.) To give news concerning old students and items of interest

from other Universities.The Editor’s note concluded: “ We must remind our fellow-

undergrads that without cordial co-operation from them this enterprise cannot be successful. Every one of you must support us or we shall certainly fall to the ground.”

The early issues contained reports of Union debates, much corres­pondence of a humorous and topical nature, and articles on the

grievances of the students. The debaters decided that “ Ireland should be accorded the same system of self-government as the colo­nies,” and that “ New South Wales should support Immigration.” The correspondents dealt with the old Common Room, which was de­scribed as “ a wretched Yankee ready-made structure, or rather shanty.” It was considered to be a disgrace to the University and an insult to the students. In 1887, undergraduates considered that Union debates were being run to death, and a plea was put forth for a change of pro­gramme. Original papers, readings, or lectures were demanded, or even a nigger minstrelsy!

Towards the end of 1887 the students petitioned the Senate for “ Posts” in March, and “ Hermes” supported the request with a leader.

In 1890, cartoons were includel in the magazine, personal notes were published, and the Law School sent contributions. The following year a women’s column was commenced.

In 1895, it was the opinion of the Editors and the students of the growing University that the magazine fell far short of what it ought to be. A new issue was decided upon under the title of “ An University Magazine.” The Editors contended that the average undergrad had simply contented himself with the observation that “ Hermes” was not what it might be without manifesting the slightest curiosity to know the reason. How were they to get good results if the entire work of production was left to one or two overtaxed editors ? . . . " If. however, undergrads would only write themselves instead of merely resting contented with carping at the efforts of those who, whether successful or not, at least do something, we will at once strike at the very root of the evil.” As a result of this appeal, sub-editors were appointed from each of the different Faculties to hunt up contributions.

But reform was in the air, for towards the end of the year a Medical supplement was added, and about the middle of the following year (1896) a still further alteration was made, and the magazine was published under the title of “ Hermes,” the Magazine of the University of Sydney, and later in the year an Engineering supplement was added.

Among the newer features of the revised Magazine were letters from the Women’s Common Room and the University of Melbourne. The eternal question, What should “ Hermes” be, was still up for dis­cussion. Correspondence was published frorn various sections of the undergraduate life of the University, some of which contended that it should be a purely Arts Magazine, but its then Editor argued for An University Magazine.

Briefly, the opinion of the present staff is that it should still be the Magazine of the University of Sydney, not only in name but also in the matter published. Naturally a large section of the space must be de­voted to the various phases of Undergraduate life within the University, but it is contended that there should be available space for the work of the Staff and graduates, whD, it should never be forgotten, are also part of the University. To effect this it has been necessary to alter, and it is hoped, improve the make-up of the magazine, so that “ Hermes” should not only be w'orthy of the greatest University in the Southern Hemisphere, but also that it shall satisfy the needs of those in whose interests it is published.

W . J. B.(Next issue, “ Hermes” in the nineties, by J. Le Gay Brereton, B.A.)

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Education by Selection.BY MAJOR-GENERAL J. G. LEGGE, C.B., C.M.G.

M.A. (1887) and LL.B. (1890), University cf Sydney. Inspector-General of the Military Forces of the Commonwealth.

The Editor of “ Hermes” has asked me to write an article on “ The University Man and the War,” but its consideration has at once landed me in difficulties. During the two years I have been at the front I have known many officers who have been University men, and very good officers they were, but after all they only formed a portion of our many thousands of officers, and very good ones also. It seems to me that our Universities 'have not made their mark on the history of the war that one would expect, and have not influenced the general thought of the community in relation to the war in the degree that is desirable.-

These ideas may be wrong, but they lead me to put forward two propositions, which I hope may be productive of discussion. They are:—

(1.) That Universities are not yet broad enough in their educational scope, leaving much to other institutions which s'hould be theirs, while many subjects are altogether neglected.

(2.) That those for whom education is actually provided are not necessarily the most suitable pupils, wliile at the same time many of the best intellects of the State never come within the light of the University.

First, then, as to the educational scope of the University. In their origins universities were but guilds, or co-operative institutions, for the betterment of teachers and pupils who gathered at definite centres for the exchange of knowledge. The only limit to their work was that of the then existing sciences, of Arts, Law, and Medicine. Gradually these limits crystallised, and their aim became the educa­tional polish of the wealthy classes. Only within the last generation have the universities really broadened by accepting responsibility for teaching the “ natural” sciences, engineering, and kindred professions. Yet this broader view does not seem to have a very definite aim. Should not universities embrace within their curriculum not only all the pure sciences, but also the application of such sciences to practice, that is the arts? In part this is now in operation in respect of medicine, dentistry, and engineering, but much more has been left to other in­stitutions, or not provided for at all. What of the science of govern­ment, of education, of public rights and responsibilities, in other words, public morals, of the organisation of finance, business, and labour? Should not the University be responsible for ALL higher education be­yond the schools, should it not select the best intellects of the people to become leaders, and train them to their duties? This is maintained to be the tnie function of a University; it should be accepted by the

governments of States, and the means for its realisation provided from the public purse.

My second proposition is that education should be based on selec­tion. In the military sphere I have always advocated promotion based on merit, not on seniority. Our Australian troops have now had in force for some years the rule that promotion in the Citizen Forces shall be based on the results of competitive practical tests, and experience of this rule is encouraging. On active service it is not practicable to have examinations, but the enemy provides the tests. Commanding officers are responsible and anxious for the success of their commands, they are constantly on the watch for marks of capacity, skill, and leadership among those under their orders and it is those who show such marks who are selected for promotion. Australia has led the way in the rule that all promotion shall be from the ranks, and the result has been, so far as we can judge on active service, most satis­factory.

The qualities we require in a military officer are;—Determination (in war referred to as courage).Tact (management of men, or leadership).Judgment (otherwise spoken of as level-headedness).Education (of fair general type).

And, for promotion to higher grades:—Higher education in subjects required for special branches.Are not all these qualities equally necessary to success in other

than military pursuits? Does not a lawyer, doctor, engineer, banker, merchant, or manufacturer equally need these qualities? If selection of the best intellects is suitable in the strenuous pursuit of war, will it be less useful in the direction of the sciences, arts, and business of a country in peace?

In all forms of human activity in a State, as in an army, the best leaders will be those having naturally determination, tact, and juag- ment, but these qualities can also be cultivated by training. Without them book knowledge alone produces only doubtful results. Aus­tralians as a people are quick witted, and so need the best leaders, and it should be the aim of our Governments to provide them.

Hitherto, with the exception of a few scholarships or bursaries, education at universities has been limited to those who could pay for it. Certainly the Governments have assisted and so have private benefactors, but the revenue has been dependent to a great extent on fees.

Selection of the best intellects in the State for higher education means, of course, that the State must provide not only the education but also the subsistence of the pupils. And the outcome of such a system will amply repay the cost. To produce highly trained in­structors for the troops of the Commonwealth, we train in exactly this fashion the cadets of the Royal Military College. Not only are general and specialised education provided, but the whole system in force there aims also at the production of character. Payment of fees was ruled out, and pupils receive their whole maintenance from the State while being made fit for their public functions. And well have the graduated cadets of Duntroon repaid the public expenditure upon them.

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The pursuit of knowledge and research, the organisation of educa­tion, the training of leaders in all pursuits, and the formation of charac­ter in those leaders, such should be the aims of the true University. The knowledge of the University should be passed on by the schools to the people at large, in the degree to which they are capable, and those showing the greatest promise of future capacity should be selected at the school-leaving age for higher training. This verges no doubt on what is sometimes called State Socialism, but are we to avoid every good thing which forms part of the programme of another political party? I do not say that higher education should be limited to those selected, but in the interests of the State at large those should have preference. To conduct such selection presents many difficulties, but they are not insuperable. It is being done every day, when the busi­ness man notes ability in a working boy and puts him in the way of rising, and what men in business can do for their ow n benefit can be done by the State for the public advantage.

THE ENTRANCE TO THE FISHER LIBRARY.

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On Philistinism.In this, the second of the series of articles from the principals of the colleges

within the University, the Rector of St. Johm’s discusses “ Philistinism.” In Michaelmas Term issue the Principal of St. Andrew’s will deal with “ The Uni­versities and the War.”

“ The Philistines be upon thee, Samson!”— (Jud. xvi., 9 .)I must confess to a distinct sense of disappointment which followed

on the readmg of the otherwise very interesting article entitled, “ Learning in Utopia,” contributed to your last issue by the Rev. Warden of St. Paul’s College. It was not that any exception could be taken to what he said. But, in discussing the respective educa­tional ideals of Utopia and of the New Atlantis, he led me to expect something more. I would fain know whether he favoured the scientific culture ot the latter, or the more literary trend of More’s academy. Above all, I would know how he would characterise the ideal pursued at our University of Sydney. Is it literary or is it scientific? Is it academic, dilettante, and remote from life, or is it practical, commercial, professional? From a longer acquaintance with the University, his answers to such questions would be more satisfying than mine can pretend to be. And yet I am tempted to record impressions, for which —if any apology be needed—I shall merely plead that, being impres­sions, they are but knowledge in the making. Before they harden into conclusions, I hope to have the benefit of the riper experience of other observers.

It is of course to be remembered that a new country, which calls for great daring and robust physique in the men that blaze the track and clear ithe scrub, that bridge the rivers, and spin the iron web of the railways, in a word, that make the land habitable and pleasant to live in, has but little time for mere learning. There is a stone age in literature as in the arts; and the most incredible of all legends is that which makes Minerva spring, fully armed, from the head of Jove. Nor is it true that we are heirs of all the ages. It is certainly only partially true of education and culture; else why should the history of literature L ? a record of ebb and flow ? It is unfortunate, nevertheless, that the men of a new country, proud, as they naturally are, of their victories over all the obstacles by which they had been confronted, either depreciate education as having been little serviceable to them­selves; or, when they do at last make a beginning, easily persuade themselves that they have already reached the end. Hence his usual sympathetic insight had not failed the creator of Elijah Pogram and Jefferson Brick. The very cocksuredness concerning their own achieve^ ment, which aroused among Americans such indignation over Martin Chuzzlewit, makes it hard for ourselves to hear the truth, and we had no difficulty in believing—for the Knibbs and Turner report left us unconvinced—that we had the finest education system on earth. And so Mr, Meredith Atkinson knew that we should take him au serieux, as h« compared the debates of Oxford and Sydney.

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Philistinism, as Mathew Arnold has told us, is characteristic of the British middle class. And this is what he means: “ On the side of beauty and taste, vulgarity; on the side of morals and feeling, coarse­ness; on the side of mind and spirit, unintelligence— this is Philistin­ism.” It is the bourgeois spirit, that appraises the things of mind only in terms of cash values. If we would believe M. Taine, it followed the giant Milton even unto his Paradise, which has much of the starched and drab respectability of an English Sunday. Unlike Simon Magus, who would exchange his money for spiritual powers, the Philistine values learning itself merely as a means to sordid gain. Translated into the educational sphere, Philistinism regards a University, not as a place wherein to learn “ something about every subject, and every­thing about one,” but rather as a place where it may rigidly specialise in that professional knowledge, which shall admit it with the least possible delay to a lucrative profession. The contrast makes Simony look respectable.

That such Philistinism is unknown at our own University few will care to assert, I have already stated that, in a new country, life is so strenuous, that there is but little of that leisure without which scholar­ship is impossible. Time is fleeting, while Art is long. Hence we must not be unjust, by ignoring our environment. Nor must we for­get that, with the democratisation of education, we cater for students, to many of whom time is money, and who can but ill afford to cull the flowers of mere culture by the way. But we must also be honest with ourselves. Unless we recognise our limitations, there can be no real progress, and no friend of the University will be satisfied with speaking comfortably to Jerusalem.

The Arts Course is the only cultural course at any University. It is now the ambition of the average candidate for a profession to elimin­ate it; his examinations are selected with that object in view. Where the Arts Course is retained, with the possible exception of the Law students, it is usually because of the usefulness of the Arts degree, as indicating academic qualifications for some position which the graduate hopes to fill. The medical students are unanimous in their verdict that their professional course is so congested as to leave little or no time for excursions into non-professional fields. If this be true, the disabilities in the way of acquiring general culture, under which they now labor, are not all of their own making. How far it may be pos­sible to ease the strain without impairing professional efficiency I have naturally no means of determining; but I am at one with Mr. Meredith Atkinson in believing that, in addition to the drawbacks incidental to his environment, the Australian student labors under artificial restric­tions, which impair the spontaneous character of his intellectual de­velopment. , , ' ■

As things are, it is no longer a preference as between the induc­tive triumphs of ^ lom on ’s House and the more humanising influences of More’s literati. With nearly all our resources undeveloped, our students might well be pardoned, »f the trend of Australian student work were in the direction of scientific research. It would be more than a sop to the materialism of Cerberus, while true science should necessarily be the gainer. But, as far as both observation and repeated and diligent inquiry have helped me to judge, our students are as little

attracted to one as to the other. Speaking by way of a rough general­isation, those among our students who love science like Dr. Faustns, or literature after the fashion of Erasmus, are “ rari nantes in gurgite vasto.” And the inevitable result must be professional men with the cachet of a University degree, yet with no claim to the wider culture that the very name of University should connote. The medical man, the engineer, the barrister, who brings no considered aesthetic prin­ciples, or historical knowledge, or acquaintance with technique, to t!he study of art, of music, of architecture, who relies for his appreciation on a sense of beauty, of harmony, or of form, which is utterly uncritical because altogether undeveloped, not only lives upon a lower plane, but fails to realise the true bios biotos. And as to those who may be expected to rule the fortunes of the State, so far are we removed from the Platonic ideal of philosophers in power, that we are secure without being safe in our indecision as to which of two views of politics we shall hold: (1) That of George IV.—that Politics is a trade for a black­guard, and not for a gentleman; and (3) that no previous training in history, in economics, or in statecraft is needful in any man who would rule the State. To suggest that the most difficult of all arts, that of governing, requires a preparation and an apprenticeship, is to speak a language not understanded of the people.

In a word, the crux of the situation would seem to be, not a mis­take in our choice of ideals, but rather the absence of any educational ideal worthy of the name; the successful invasion of the University by rank commercialism and professionalism; surely a kind of abomination of desolation in a holy place.

Should any friend of the University have had the patience to follow me thus far, more especially should he have accepted my presentation of the facts, it is but natural that he should further want to know what remedy the writer would propose for the condition of things that he deplores.

Well, in the first place, I have already suggested that we must begin by being utterly frank with ourselves. An evil that is acknow­ledged is half remedied. Let it be admitted that the quest of know­ledge is one of the delights of life, and not merely a pathv/ay to a com­mercial door. And surely a University, which, as the name implies, has all knowledge for its province, was never intended to consist of a series of professional schools, divided like water-tight bulkheads, so as to prevent inter-communication. Nil literarum a nobis alienum putemus. If it be true—and I make bold to say that, in great part it is true— that commercialism is sapping the life of the University, let those who think so, speak the unpleasant truth plainly. We may then hope to devise some means of combating the evil.

In the next place, at the risk of tiresome repetition, I would say that, despite all efforts that may be made to exorcise the demon of pro­fessionalism, the absence of a leisured class in a new country makes it impossible that we should emulate the conditions of lands, intellect­ually better situated, where

“ The weariness, the fever, and the fret”of life do not so choke intellectual activities as they do in Australia. But this limitation being presupposed, there seems to be no valid

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reason why learning for learning’s sake should not, as the years go by, become the shining goal of an increasingly large number of our stu­dents.

Thirdly, and at the risk of being sadly misunderstood, I believe that, in the change to be effected, the colleges must play a leading role. It is hardly worth while, at this stage, to revive the old controversy as to the merits and demerits of the collegiate system. About two years ago, I heard the most conflicting views on the subject voiced by .such authorities as the late External Registrar of the University of London, and the present Dean of Balliol. The latter, one of the most notable men in the Oxford of to-day, would not admit that the op­ponents of residence had a case at all. Be this as it may, the in­fluences which, in the halls of the University are somewhat casual, are more constantly operative in the more intimate life of the colleges. If the denominations represented in the affiliated colleges can be got to realise the extent to which character can be built up, or moulded, tastes cultivated, acquired knowledge indexed and co-ordinated under the tutorial system of the old Universities, they will then provide en­dowments which are sadly lacking at present, yet, without which, the colleges must remain shorn of much of their usefulness. The per­sonal element, or, to speak more accurately, the element of personality, has freest play at the colleges; and it was that element that built up the first Universities in Europe. The nucleus of those early types was almost invariably a man. The fame of Paris itself will be for ever associated with that of Abelard.

But, while we are waiting for development on the lines just in­dicated, it seems to me that the love of learning for its own sake, a taste for the arts and for the amenities of education, together with the desire for a broader culture, can be best fostered at the colleges. Any good that is there effected is quickly diffused by the corporate life of the establishment, and, within a reasonably short time, enters into and pervades, if it does not even constitute, the spirit of the place.

In conclusion, I would repeat that I have but recorded my impres­sions. My residence at the University has been too short to entitle me to do more. Not a few others, I know, share my views; so that I am by no means alone in entertaining them. If the cry—“ the Philis­tines be upon thee, Samson”—should thoroughly awaken our drowsy giant, let us hope that, arising in his strength, he will give but short sihrift to his enemies.

St. John’s College. M. J. O’ReiUy, C.M.

NIGHT.

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The low-hung moon is like a full-blown rose Whose dropping petals float along the sea ;

A yellow lamp upyon Ben Buckler throws A shivering blade across the bay to me.

The lights upon the seafront twisting play Like golden sea-snakes in the sandy bay;Among the rocks the great waves chum and cream—All gold aind blue and silver is the scheme.

Bondi. O.FJ*.

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Andy s Rubaiyat.“ . . . Time was when he would not have recommended a medical woman.

In Edinburgh, where he studied medicine, he had become biassed. . . . But he had lived and learned. The medical women he knew in Australia were worthy of every confidenoe.”—Sir Thomas Ander.=;on Stuart, at the Salvation Army Con­gress.

I.Myself when young did eagerly frequent

Doctors and Profs, ajnd heard great Argument;

Tho’ Angel Shapes did lure and beckon me. My Heart was stone to Love and Senti­

ment.

II.Indeed, indeed ’gainst women oft before

I swore; but was I biassed when I swore?

For then, a/nd then, came knowledge, and too soon

My threadbare Prejudice apieces tore.

III.In Women now the Seed of Wisdom do I 'sow

And with my own Hand labour it to grow And this is still the Harvest that I reap—

Women are as good as Men when once you know.

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The “ Sentimental Bloke” as Applied to the University.

Jist moochin’ round like some pore barmey coot.—A Fresher.Where smilin’ tarts walks up an’ down, all dressed in clobber w'hite.

—A ’Varsity Carnival.It’s ’ow Gawd builds a bloke, but don’t it ’urt.—The Study of

Anatomy.An’ all ’is creatures clamour at 'is feet,Until ’e thinks ’imself a little gawd.—Andy.

A dead tough crowd o’ crooks.—Profs, and Law Students.An’ there I’m standin’ like a gawky lout. . .. . , An’ wonders wot ’e’s goin’ to ask about.—Med. Vivas.Yeh’d be surprised the ’eaps o ’ things ’e knows.—5th Year Med.I drops into a chair, an’ jist sez, “ ’Ell.”—26th November, 1917.

“Plexus,” in “ The Speculum.”* * * *

Did anyone notice Toddy blush at the France’s Day concert the other night? Well, most of us did when we saw the Pillar of the Glee Club, clad in a boiled shirt (and other things) sitting among the ladies in the front row. And did anyone happen to catch a glimpse of “ Puss” entertaining the V .R . party? But no one could have helped noticing Freddie’s smile and his bunch of mignonette after he had seen Ella to her car! 'j

* * * *Has Med III. a grievance?

Piper piped a song for me And he piped most skitingly Of the knowledge he had gained At the Med. School where he tnained.

Piper! pipe a song for Janes:And he piped of join'ts and bones.Cunningham, he said, was fine.But he, the piper, drew the line.

Pij>er piped a song for me On our physiology!Practised in the art of swank The place for Piper is the “ Tank.”

* ♦ * *The Vision came to Med. III. in the Med. Reading Room;—It

was aged, grey haired, and thin; frail as a stood’s chance of tipping exam, questions; with a vast amount of knowledge under its arm—

it carried three volumes of Anatomy; bones there were in its hands, gaunt long human bones; it entered in an eerie manner, like Hamlet’s poor old dad; cautiously it closed the door, noiselessly chose a seat, and then—well, then I saw what it was; it was one of the new Massage Girls! * * * *

The Magazine bacillus has been busy lately. About the time the sounding wires in the Union Hall were rebounding to Ronny’s arm- waving, Brad’s vigorous retorts, and Freddy’s looks of anger (has anyone ever seen Freddy angry?), the Melbourne University Magazine was also in very hot water. Guido Barrachi, Law Student Rep. on the Melbourne Association, and a contributor to the Melbourne ’Varsity Magazine, wrote an article on the war Which \claimed that the con­flagration was local to Europe and of no more significance to Australia than the fall of Lucifer.

The censor passed the article, and the Editress (Melbourne has a Lady-Editor) published it. Then the rumpus started. The “ Argus” published the news in full headlines, and for days its columns were full of letters from indignants. Prof. Harrison Moore (President Mel­bourne Professorial Board) says two limitations have been laid down:

(1.) Concerns the war. Nothing may be published which pro­fesses or encourages a neutral attitude of Australians.

(3.) The Magazine must not be used for personal attacks upon members of the staff.

The imp of trouble seems to be touring Australia.(The Melbourne correspondence has been sent to the Union read­

ing room.) * * * *The enterprise of Science and Engineering at France’s Day concert

was astounding. Listen to the Engineers;Our object all sublime

We have achieved this time To make the Meds. feel awfully small,

The Jleds. feel awfully small.For an that Friday night

With our banners and our might We proved ourselves the best of all

Ourselves the Best of All.m * * *But poor old Science must be reminded that Medicine is the Queen

of the Faculties, though of course Science may be the Faculty of Queens. * ♦ * *

Dedicated to Barney: A group of careworn, harassed-looking stu­dents, reading hard for their Final:

First Student (reading) : “ There is yet another form of ulcer—the duodenal ulcer------ ”

Majority of Group: Darn the duodenal ulcers!Exhausted Remainder: Bury their heads—and sigh.♦ * !» *The newly-formed Arts Society has under consideration the advisa­

bility of forming an Insurance Association—insurance against Tommy’s wit. One wintry morning, a sweet girl undergrad. strolled in at

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twenty past, whereupon one of the lads, piv^bably glad of the interrup­tion, stamped his appreciation. Then Tommy, with his delicious-vicious smile: “ Of course M r .------ , you may have your favourites, butdon’t show it that way.” Tommy, me boy, it’s your score, but warn us, the shock is too great! +

Down in Victoria (says “ The Speculum” ) barmaids must now register and have their identification marks recorded; 250 reported at the Labour Bureau.

Sing a song of Trix and Sis, treble star and rye,Five times fifljy barmlaids stonn the registry;When the doors were opened, cries of “ Take our marks,”Wasn’t that a dairaty dish to set before the clerks?Calls for measure, tape ajid charts—Hebes go off " pop- ’Labour Bureau looking like millinery shop,Volumes on anatomy fetched in headlong haste,“ Right between the scapulae.” “ Inch (above the waist.”

There’s more of it, available in the Union Reading Room in " The Speculum.”

* * *“ Where are my press agents?” is the cry of Mac. Miss Bilhe

Burke has lately been boomed throughout Filmdom, but no one has attempted to give prominence to the premier danseur of the Med. School, Billie Mac. Allow me to describe his effort on behalf of France’s Day:—He glided over the surface of the table, like the froth on a mug of ale. Genee at her best was only half as good as he. His dainty limbs were cast hither and thither (mostly thither) with charm­ing abandon, and his light, devil-take-Barney step reminded one ofnought so much as an irate elephant. He------ [Enough, didn’t theassemblage applaud, women included?— Ed.]

We hate to hear a Great Man maligned. We believe that Sir Thomas Anderson Stuart made his much quoted remarks last week with Best Possible Motives.

There have lately been in the Medical School a number of men who adopted the profession as a sure means of earning a large income without the expenditure of capital. “These people are not desirable, some of them do not even pay fees!—but how to get rid of them—of course, without hurting their feelings! What better course than to tell the struggling dweller in the suburbs that his doctor is a Croesus for wealth; then his bill will go unpaid, like the butcher’s, who labours under the same reputation for money. These materialistic students are cunning enough to see the consequences; fhey will leave; no more of them will com e.” And some people would make unkind remarks about a Man with a Mind like that.

♦ * -K- *

Since the news of Dr. Chapman's retirement has become public, it has been suggested that he missed the above-mentioned purpose of Andy’s remarks, and took them at their face value. He then weighed his salary in the balance—all in the metric system for the sake of scien­tific accurac)"—found it wanting, took his temperature—F. corrected to three places of decimals C.—a sheet of notepaper for his resignation, and his departure.

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“Gladdy” has come to the end of the Perfect Day. Despite the most elegant shoes, broad laces, and the tie with the negative heliotropic effect—aye, in spite of all these—that “scientific” geological excursion to Yass is off! * *

The House in Park Street famous for its “ good hats,” has opened a branch at the ’Varsity. Particulars may be had on application to the Manageress, care Manning House.

* * * *THE ARTS SOCIETT,

When we were in the Arts School in the years of long ago,We took it quite fcir granted that the girls were very slew;

They were creatures unessential—Even enemies potential

And we didn’t see those girls were really some!But the men and girls of nowadays are much more up-to-date,They want to give each undergrad. a chance to meet her fate

They’ve got an Arts Society With girls to igive variety,

And we rather think the Arts School’s going to hum.

Talking on Aesthetics or Philosophy or Art,Finding that beneath each gown there beats a little heart;Man’s love will never more be of man’s fag a thing apart,

And won’t they make the Arts’ School hum?

For every Arts man is a lad—each girl a bit of fluff—And they may discuss aesthetics,—but it sounds to us like blufl.

For there’ll be no chaperoning—That’s a crime there’s ‘no condoning—

And there won't be any Mister-ing or Mias-ing.

And the girls will join the stamping, and discard the cap and gown.And they’ll trot across tp LaUa and they’ll try to keep one down.

Oh, the cuddling and the mugging!And the flirting and the hugging!

And each meeting will wind up with rounds of kissing.

Talking on Aesthetics—simple girls and guileless men—But we rather think some fool will turn the lights out now and then, And the men will whisper “ Will you?” and the girls will whisper

“ When?”And they’ll soon be giving scholarships for kissing.

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PERSONAL.

“ Hermes” tenders his congratulations to :—Mr. R. J. Tillyard, M.A., B-Sc. (1914), winner of the Crisp Medal and Prize of

the Council of the Linnean Society of London.Dr. C- G. McDonald (M.B. 1916), Editor of " Hermes” 1915, on his election

to the Presidency of the Medical Society.His Honour Judge Curlewis (B.A. 1890, LL.B. 1S92), on his elevation to the

judiciary of the Industrial Arbitration Court.Mr. R. Windeyer (B.A. 1891), on his attainment to King’s Counsel.Rev. M. Scott Fletcher (M-A- 1902), upon his appointment as Master of Wesley

College (within the University).

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The University Man and^Politics.BY T. R. BAVIN,

1894, LL.B. 1898, Member for Gordon in the Legislative Assembly of New South Wales.

It is hard to say anything but commonplaces on the subject which has been assigned to me. Everybody knows that the business of politics is intricate and important: that it demands the best intelli­gence of the community: that University men, to whom the community has given special advantages, are under special obligations: and that they are, or ought to be, specially qualified for the solution of political problems. No one, in theory, disputes these propositions, and I doubt whether much is to be gained by repetition of them.

The practical question for the individual University man is : What am I going to do about it? The possession of a general unexercised capacity for politics is not much good, either to the individual or the community. It is like the “ fugitive and cloistered virtue, unexercised and unbreathed, that never sallies out and seeks her adversary,” which Milton found it impossible to praise. If it is true that a University education ought to produce a special qualification for the solution of political problems, then it is the imperative duty of the individual gradu­ate to see that his aptitude does not remain unexercised and unbreathed.

My only purpose, just now, is to discuss whether, and how, it is true, that a University education ought to qualify men for politics. There can, I think, be no doubt that it should do so. In fact, as soon as we get a clear idea of what politics is, and what a University edu­cation is for, it becomes a mere truism.

Politics is not a separate specialised department of our social life. It is the ordinary affairs of a man’s own life, raised to a higher power. It is, as Lord Acton called it, “the art of doing, on the largest scale, what is right.” Not only what is ethically right, but what is intellec­tually right. This is not easy, even in one’s own little affairs. It is anything but easy, in public affairs. The qualities that are required for it are precisely the qualities that a true University education is mtended to produce—or, rather, to educe. I know no better statement of these than the one which is to be found in the preface to Newman’s “ Idea of a University,” a book which, in my humble opinion, might profitably be made the subject of a special examination in every Uni­versity, as an essential preliminary to the grant of an Arts degree. “ Our desideratum,” he says, “ is . . . . the force, the steadi­ness, the comprehensiveness, and the versatility of intellect, the com­mand over our own powers, the instinctive just estimate of things as they pass before us, which sometimes, indeed, is a natural gift, but commonly is not gained without much effort and the exercise of years.”

Your really dangerous man, in politics, is the man described by Newman, who can never look straight before him, can never see the

point, and has no difficulties in the most difficult subjects—the man who has nothing better than brilliant general views about all things whatever. There are plenty of them about. W e have all met them. But:

Non tali auxilio, nec defensoribus istis Tempus eget:

This is the kind of man from whom, if it does its work properly, the University will save us.

But the University can do more for politics than this. Political life, and political work, is not merely a matter of thinking wisely and temper­ately about public affairs. The useful citizen, whether he takes an active public part in politics or not, should be able to convey his thoughts to others, less instructed than himself, in such a way as to convince them that his opinions are better than theirs. In other words, he must cultivate the art of effective expression.

It is not easy to over-rate the importance of this in a democracy. The efficiency of a democracy depends upon the general level of intelli­gence, and the general capacity for w'ise judgment, on the part of the mass of citizens. This depends, not merely upon the wisdom and judgment of its wisest men, but also on their capacity for inducing their fellow-citizens to t'hink as they do. It is possible so to dress up non­sense as to make it look very much like sense. It is also possible so to present wisdom as to make it look much like nonsense. Who among us does not know' men, of high character, and wise judgment, v/hose public effectiveness is lessened, or almost non-existent, because cf their inability to tell their fellow's, clearly and persuasively, what they think. A University education, if complete, should qualify a man to express himself in such a way as to enable him to make other people think as he does.

It is no part of my present business to criticise the methods of our own University. But I cannot help feeling that insufficient attention is given to this matter. Stores of information, clearness of thought, temperateness of judgment, are of the highest value to the individual. But if the individual lacks the power of using them so as to influence others, they are of little or no value to the community. They are like a perfect musical instrument, which the possessor does not know how to play. It is the business of the University, and of the students them­selves, to see that they not only possess the instrument, but know how to play it.

“ But,” it will be said, “ surely it is not the business of the Univer­sity to make its graduates public speakers, and so add to the flood of talk that already almost overwhelms the community.” Putting aside the fact that wisdom can be conveyed by writing as well as by speak­ing, and that the standard of political writing in the community might be much improved, I say it is the business of the University in its Arts course, to help to qualify its students as public speakers. It is true we are flooded with talk—much of it very bad and useless talk. This will go on until it is displaced by good and useful talk, and the more of that we have the better. The University men, taught, as the great Badham, in our own University Hall, said they ought to be taught, in such a way as to give them “ discrimination in the use of w'ords, to ac­

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custom them to weigh the force of expressions, to give them a tact for evidence, to encourage their sagacity in the detection of error, and at the same time their common sense in not allowing an overweening sagacity to carry them out of their depth”—these are the men who can and ought to replace foolish talk, and foolish writing, with something better.

There is another way in which a University education helps in politics—though perhaps this is only a special application of what has been said before. Our politics are conducted on the party system. Regarded as a mode of getting at the truth, the party system is a foolish system. There is little to be said, from the point of view of the pur­suit of truth, for a system which consists in finding out what somebody else says, and then saying the opposite. However, there it is, and for the present we have to make the best of it. Now the special danger of the party system, as Lord Morlej" (I think) says, is that it imposes on thought, the discipline that is necessary for action. It tends to make men not merely tolerate evil, but pretend to others and persuade them­selves that it is good. From the moral and intellectual dangers which this involves, I know no better protection than a true University educa­tion. It need not prevent a man from being a party man, but it will save him from being a mere party hack. It will give him an inde­pendent standard, by which he can test party demands, and decide how far he should respond to them.

These, then, are some of the ways in which a University educa­tion qualifies men for politics. The possession of this qualification en­tails a heavy obligation. Our politics are suffering for want of the very qualities which it is the primary purpose of a University to educe. It lies on University men to see that this want is met, or, at all events, to do their best to meet it. The very effort will bring its own success.

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SUNSET.

The westering suin is sinking slowly down:The lengthening shadows seem to grow at sight:

The noise o f Nature’s bustle and of life Fainter become;—and lo! e’en now ’tis Night.

The whispering breeze wearies at length and spent With chasing o ’er the World the livelong day

Seeks shelter ’mid.st the trees—and shelter lent,Now Night is come, ’til Mom ’tis glad to stay.

And gently overhead pale shafts of light Peep out from windows opened in the stars And flying forth, light up a lightless world.

South Head. H ^ jj_

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Undergraduates Association.Trinity Term generally begins with a kind of stocktaking. The

amount of work done during Lent Term is reviewed, and a resolution has to be reached as to the programme of serious work for the rest of the University year. The August exams, have to be kept in mind, and for those who are taking the special war exams, there is little of interest save work.

The only event of general interest has been the Undergraduate effort to raise funds for the Frenob-Australian League. For this pur­pose a joint committee from the S .U .U .A . and the S .U .W .U .A . was formed to arrange a students’ concert in the Town Hall. A re­port of this appears elsewhere, and the thanks of the Association are due to the Staff for assisting in the preparation of the song book, and to the women students for the making (at their own expense) and selling of sweets. While the balance-sheet is not yet completed, owing to a few outstanding accounts, it may be stated now, however, that the fund for our gallant Ally will benefit to the extent of an amount between £250 and £300 as a result of the students’ efforts. Under the circumstances this is indeed satisfactory, and the Association is deeply grateful to those members of the University and their triends who, by their assistance and attendance, contributed to the result. The officially-audited balance-sheet of receipts and expenditure will be published next issue.

On the 12th July a special general meeting was held to discuss the development of “Hermes,” which is financed and controlled solely by the Association. The President informed the meeting of the business that it was proposed to discuss, and asked the Editor to explain to members what had been done and what was further proposed.

Letters congratulating the Association on the improvement in the Magazine were read from members of the University Staff and prom­inent graduates, also a telegram from the ofificial secretary to the Governor-General, asking for extra copies.

An attack, however, was laundhed against the proposal by a cer­tain member, and accusations were hurled against the executive. While the Association at all times welcomes criticism, it most strongly objects to having: false accusations hurled at its executive. The meet­ing, however, defeated the hostile motion by an overwhelming majority, and then unanimously carried a vote of confidence in its executive.

At the committee meeting held on 13th July, it was decided to form “ War Savings Groups” among the various faculties and years, and the year representatives were entrusted with the task of explaining to members this excellent proposal to help in the national struggle. Many groups have since been formed, and the Association recommends to its members this patriotic system of combined saving and helping. Those who wish to extend or re-form groups may obtain all particulars, pamphlets, and books from Mr, R . A . Dallen,

B. B. Barrack, President.J. S. F. Barnet | JointP. Hindmarsh » Hon. Secs.

WOMEN UNDERGRADUATES’ ASSOCIATION.

Patriotic work in the forms of sewing for the Red Cross, War Chest, and French-Australian League, and sweet-making and selling have been the main activities of the W '.U .A . this term. ,At the re­cent Undergraduates’ Concert, the sale of sweets among the audience was fast and furious. In fact, one well-known Professor, arriving at ten minutes to 8, found to his sorrow that there was not one of the four hundred boxes left! Now , who says ’Varsity girls cannot make sweets?

Early in term a lunch hour concert was held in the Union Hall, from which £10/3/6 was realised, and handed to the Red Triangle Fund. Those who assisted were Misses Rice, Killen, Stuart, Jensen, Coppola, Noulsdale, Glover, Knox, Ostler, and Messrs. Ranclaud and Cutler.

We-wish to thank all those who have, by their interest and enthus­iasm, helped us regularly each week in our patriotic work; and to exhort students to remember that their work is as much needed in third term as it was earlier in the year.

Mary S. Johnston, President.Ailsa Craig, Hon. Secretary.

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EVENING STUDENTS’ ASSOCIATION.

The activities of our Association have developed most successfully, the membership now totalling 150.

It is with heartfelt sorrow that we have to record the death of one of our members, Lieut. Ernest Shannon, who was killed in France on June 1st, 1917, being posthumously awarded the Croix de Guerre.

Another milestone on the road of progress 'has been passed by the institution of Life Membership. Evening graduates are notified that they are eligible for membership; the charge is half a guinea. Full particulars may be obtained from the Secretary.

It is proposed to set these subscriptions aside for the purpose of establishing an annual prize to be awarded to the most distinguished Evening Student on graduation. The Committee feels that in making this move, it is taking a practical interest in the welfare of Evening Students, and it confidently invites the cordial co-operation of all who have graduated as Evening Students.

The committee of the E .S .A . is much gratified that the badge they have just issued to members is meeting with such unqualified ap­proval, and it may be noted that all orders can be fulfilled in this re­spect.

One of the chief objects of our Association is to further social rela­tions between the men, and in this connection a most successful and a highly enjoyable smoke concert was held in the Union Tearoom on the evening of May 18th.

The principal speakers of the evening were Mr. Peter Board, Pro­fessor Holme, Mr. P. B. Cox, Rev. Father Monaghan, Mr. C. J. Brennan, Mr. G. T . Spaull, and Mr. C. Tonking. Mr. Board feeling­ly proposed the toast of “Absent Friends.”

These functions form an integral part of our activities, and we spare no effort to make them most acceptable.

The Trinity “ Smoko” will be held on Thursday, 16th August.

We ask evening men and women to bear in mind that on the first Wednesday of Michaelmas Terms, meetings will be iheld in the Union and elsevVhere under the auspices of the Society for Combating Venereal Diseases. Addresses by such eminent men as Sir Thomas Anderson- Stuart and Professor Welsh will be delivered to evening students on that evening. As, we presume, lectures will be “ off” for that evening, or portion of the evening, we expect every evening student to support us at that meeting.

In conclusion we wish to say that as a mark of deep respect for our worthy patron, Professor E. R. Holme, the Association 'has elected him as our first Life Member.

P. B. Cox, President.Wm. H. Matheson, Secretary.

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WHOM THE GODS LOVE.

With life’s sweet cup scarce tasted at their lips .A.nd morning in their eyes.

They left the glowing wine and budding flowers To join the high emprise.

They wore the glorious garment of their youth With bright unheeding grace,

Woven of high-souled thoughts and keen delights Crowding each moment’s space.

When, radiant, like a Queen, with star-bound brow Honour returned to earth ;

Visions of Pain and Love un-glimpsed before She brought, to test our worth.

Where right with sword unsheathed opposes might In fierce unyielding strife,

Gallant and gay they fought, and dying, won From Death the crown of life.

Nor doubt nor hate could mar their faith and love. Greatly they chose to die;

’Ere age could dim the bright flame of their youth. Fame set its light on high.

These are the dead for whom we may not mourn With unavailing tears:

Serene and splendid shines their sacrifice,Riciher than wealth of vears.

A.J.M.

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The Bar of Paris.

In Memory of Parisian Advocates Fallen on the Field of Honour.

“ Hermes” is indebted to Professor the Hon. J. B. Peden, M.L.C., for the following extracts from “ The Weekly Notes." The speeches were originally pub­lished in “ La Liberte,” and translated by a member of the New South Wales Bar;—

On the afternoon of the 29th October, 1916, a meeting of the Order of Advocates of Paris was held in the Library of the Palace of Justice to do honour to the memory of 124 of their number who had fallen on the Field of Honour. The meeting was held under the presidency of Henri Robert, the Leader of the Bar. Amongst others present were the Presidents of the Republic; MM.Briand and Viviani; M. Carton de Wiart, Belgian Minister for Justice; M. Theodor, Leader of the Bar of Brussels; and representatives of other legal societies.

After greeting the Leader of the Brussels Bar and expressing his gratitude to King Alphonse XIH., to whom M. Theodor owed his liberation, M. Robert spoke of the 124 advocates of Paris who had given their lives in the war. After enumerating the honours gained by members of the Bar, he went on to pay his tribute to all our heroes.“ Let us say it without fear of being contradicted by history. No men were ever the equals of these men. When we declare that the heroism of France has never attained these heights, we say nothing to detract from the honour of the soldiers of Conde and of Napoleon. Rather do we give ourselves new and just reasons for pride.”

The following is the peroration of this moving address:—“ We who are kept at home by age or by sickness have other binding obligations to fulfil towards the men at the front. It is our duty to see that our splendid soldiers will find on their return that France has forgotten all the old party quarrels, that all opinions and beliefs are respected, in a word that the union of classes and creeds is clearly and permanently fixed. Ah, gentlemen, if it is cruel to die in the flower of one’s youth, it is glorious to sacrifice oneself for a country which has never been harsh except to herself, for the beauty of the skies above her, for the soft lights of her horizons, for those gradual hillsides whose unbroken outline seems to bear witness to the unity and the steadfastness of our race, for the country which saw the birth of Corneille and Pascal, of Racine and Bossuet, of Voltaire and Hugo, whose national heroes are not only men of valour, but men of sensitive hearts and generous souls, for France which, bv the side of Roland and Duguesclin and Turenne, can put Bayard the Just and Joan the Maid of Lorraine.

“ To pay to our brethren their due homage we must wait till the morrow of a victory when the tricolour floats over the soil of a France that has been liberated and reconquered, and our p ief has been made easier to bear by the presence of our soldiers alive and victorious. But there is one voice, so sad and so commanding that it must be heard at once. I mean the voice of those who will not return, who

have fallen in the battlefield—some in the ecstasy of a morning of assault with the sun shining upon them as they look death in the face, some overwhelmed in the darkness and coldness of night with their hands torn by the barbed wire of the enemy; or perhaps it is a voice more distant and yet more piercing—the voice of those who have gone and left no record. The dead in the great war would not be separated from their comrades who are still fighting. They will not truly enter into their rest until the day on which the common task has been finished by victory.”

The President of the French Republic thanked his brethren of the Bar for having invited him to this ceremony. “ For long years,” he said, “ I shared your labours, I lived your life, your joys were mine, surely then I could not be absent from vou in the days of your mourn­ing.”

“ The Bar, gentlemen, is an excellent school of patriotism. Is it not marked by destiny to be the home of a union of classes and creeds? In it there is no place for class distinctions; in it all political parties come together, their differences obliterated by the robes of the profession. The different districts of France are all represented in the Bar. Religious beliefs and philosophical doctrines live together in peace, protected by the respect of all its members. It is a true image of an industrious democracy and of our undivided nation, for thej" too have known how to develop within the bounds of union and liberty. If I add that this vast professional society, which has never known the murderous dissensions of politics, is grouped about the altar of Justice as about a divinity of the hearth, I shall doubtless have sug­gested to you some reasons why this building of ours should be the home of an ardent and inextinguishable patriotism. They, indeed, are short-sighted who cannot discover in the commands of municipal law the essential principles of the law of nations, and who think that a treaty made by diplomatists is less sacred than a contract signed in a lawyer’s office. No, gentlemen, there are not two kinds of morality— one for individuals, and another for Governments and peoples. You who are the servants of Justice must remember her eternal lesson. She teaches you to hate and to despise crime and perjury wherever you find them.”

The President then declared that men who are not summoned to the army have, nevertheless, a great task to fulfil. Their first duty is charity, their second education and the teaching of patriotism.

“ They will be the teachers of coolness and steadfastness. By voice and pen they will sustain and animate the public mind. It is their task to defeat and to unmask those German calumnies which, under some mask of hypocrisy, speak through our streets in the dark­ness. Their duty is to take these sowers of discouragement—these hucksters of false news—by the neck, and to tell them in the words of Demosthenes to Aeschines: ‘ A man who finds his profit on the same side as the enemy cannot love his country. If the barbarian gains some advantage you do not see me appearing in the market-place proud and triumphant, shaking my friends by the hands and telling them what has happened with a shameful pleasure. If we gain a success, I do not go about trembling and groaning, with my eyes cast down, like

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those unnatural citizens who detest the glory of their country and forget that her fame is their own.” Ah, gentlemen, I trust that these pessimists will find no welcome amongst you.”

After having mentioned some of the most notable references in orders of the day to members of the Order of Advocates, the President finished his specch with these words:—

“ Henceforward the Bar of Paris is entitled to a share in the grati­tude of the nation. When our country receives the fruits of the heavy sacrifices, which it has borne so patiently, you will have the inestim­able honour of having, yourselves, in some way contributed to its vic­tory and liberation. On that day, without forgetting our dead, with the banners of mourning about us, we shall meet again to celebrate the triumph of France and the defeat of her enemy. We shall see then the red ribbon of the Legion of Honour and the Cross of War shine upon the black robes of our Order. Then we shall repeat: ‘ If our country in concert with our Allies has beaten its powerful and terrible adversary, if it has given back to the world the peace which the Im­perialism of Germany had snatched from it, if it has assured itself a calm, industrious, and prosperous future at the price of most terrible losses, if it has gained in reputation before the eyes of the world and to its old renown for bravery and for chivalry added a new reputation for endurance, for energy without excitement, and for tenacity without weariness; if our country appears henceforward among the nations surrounded by a halo of glory, it is to each one these men who has fought for her that we owe this miraculous apotheosis. And when we open our arms to the survivors, we shall keep one thought and one very tender thought for those who are no more.’ ”

REST.

Now in the quiet night the stilly noises seem To wander gemtly thro’ the pathless air And soothe the listening ear—and to the eye

Comes silently some distant star’s faint beam.

The softly munn’ring streamlet in its bed Glides on unceasing to its final rest.And merging with the water of the lake.

Is glad at last its wandering course is sped.

A fluttering leaf falls from a lofty bough:A wearied soul departs its mortal clay:And Time, unheeding, folds the Book of Life.

Jervis Bay. R. K, D.

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A Poet of The Anzacs.*The mass of life offered in this war to stress and violence and noble

abnegations must rekindle from its own annihilation. The Destroyer is the Preserver. This never—relaxing absorption of the mind, its spurts and relapses, its exultances and its very boredom, would not be tolerable but for the knowledge that the world is being wielded anew. The ripping up of old ease and laughter, of that fatal taking-for-granted of the things that never cease demanding search and solution, will bring to us a re-statement of values forced by the drastic Fact. Herein lies the significance of Mr. Gellert’s poems. They are the record of a mind sensitive to beauty and delicate feeling, torn from somewhat roseate ideals to a confronting of life in the raw. The experience might have proved too much for his stabihty, for the shock was evi­dently great, had not the very impulse that sent him into the turmoil righted him from his bewilderment. Perhaps the noblest poem in this record of fine emotions is “The Return” :

I have oooie home again!Dawn is a dreain to me Lying here, soon to be

Clinging, awaking;See where ’tis breaking

Mockingly, mistily!I have come home again!

I have come home again!Blithe is the day, and clear.All of my youth is near.

Here with the sun above,Here with my boyhood, love,

Joy, and a tear- I have come home again!

I have come home again!Grand is the night to-night,Stars shed their brightest light,

SJiiine all their brightest fire,Shine with their old desire.

Wild with delight!I have come home again!

I must away again!Since I have lived this day Here, now I cannot stay.

Back with the changing sky,I m-ust away to die;

Die in the proper way.I must away again!

One need not doubt the ideals of a spirit like that.Mr. Gellert has not reached complete mastery of his art. Though

there are many lyrics in this collection, few have the genuine lyric touch. There is a certain hardness of outline and jerkiness of metre

**■ Songs of a Campaign,” by Leon Gellert. Third Edition, with 25 additional poems, and 16 pictures by yorman Lindsay. Angus & Robertson, Sydney, 1917.

that no lyric can possibly bear. He has a pictorial quality of mind, which, while it produces some excellent effects, can lead by cumula­tion and over-emphasis to the merely meretricious. Such, for instance, is “The Grey World” :

Grey nights in the wind,,And the grey-faced dead.Grey hairs in my head,

And grey eyes in my mind.

Grey mists in the mom.And grey waves that rave.Grey mould on my grave.

And grey eyes forlorn.

Grey clouds in the sky,And the grey world asleep.

Grey ghosts that sigh.And grey eyas that weep.

Surely the intelligent reader may be trusted with a little sugges­tion! So, too, the tendency to hard outline will produce a picture like “ The Three Concerned,” alas, too reminiscent of the approved and regulation R .A . Sometimes his imagination leads him into bizarre and artificial fancies, as in the sickroom picture “Patience.”

But Mr. Gellert, though he has not yet uttered himself fully, has the essentials of poetry. His nature is sincere, his perceptions keen, his sensations vivid. The book shows a rapid ripening of the mma, a gathering power of expression, and a sense of rightful moderation and reticence. He is at home with swelling and crashing metres; his thought is able to sustain them: and his errors in this respect are good ones. His lines never sag through paucity of thought; if ever they halt it is because they are overcharged.

It is the rapid ripening of his mind that is the most promising and significant feature of his work. It is remarkable how, as his contact with reality deepens, the response not only rises to the experience, but generally contains and masters it. I conjecture that some of the open­ing poems of the third edition have been written after the completion of the first edition. At any rate they have a power and ease that is absent from “The Edge of the Desert,” perhaps the least convincing part of the work. It is not easy in a few words to epitomise a collec­tion of such crammed and varied experience. Briefly, it may be said that the poet, having resolved to leave his dreams for a terrible reality, chronicles in moving pictures and mournful introspection the whole drama as he sees and reflects thereon. That War is horrid both in fact and idea, he has no doubt. It is the unloosing of the shadows:

The black revolving depths have moved and stirred With news. Thetr Lord has cried, “ Send these, and these.”

Swift feet awake. Shapes speed. The dreadful word Resounds along the tunnels of the seas.

Sly Falsehood comes, with Sin, and Flattery,And long-toothed Fear runs shrieking by the wall.

Face-hidden Sorrow follows Cruelty,And peering Jealousy grown over tall.

Slobbering Lust is there, asmear with slime,And Vice’s ushers from the Uttermost:

Comes painted Pleasure, somewhat fat with time;And Murder takes his place amid the host.

Thronewards they staind and gaze. The Foiul Voice screams,"Inw ke this God! Go hand in hand with dreams!”

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That is his main conception; and all through these ghastly mini# trants taint or shatter what of beauty he wins from sorrow.

There is something Tschaikowsky in his moodiness. War is a red delirium, and the crushing out of life a senseless riddle.

I mind they told me on a noisy hill.I sat and disbelieved, and shook my head;

“Impossible! Impossible! But still These other men have died, and others bied.”

Knees clasped, I sat and thought, unheeding war.The trees, the winds, the streets oame back to me.

The laughter of his eyes, his home afar,The memory of his hopes, his buoyancy.

His dreams, his jests, his moods of wistfulness.The quaintness of his speech, his favouritfe sosig.

And this, and this the end so pitiless!The man we knew! The man we knew so long!

—To die—be dead—'not move,—and this was he!I rose and oiled my rifle, musingly.

He is a Hamlet, too, before the hopeless aftermath of war. This is a brilliant and bitter picture:—

A red-roofed house is shining to the skies,A house red-roofed and brilliant in the wind,

A house of colour filled wth wandering eyes.And all the eyes are blind.

A gentle sound of *K>Ving fills each «xwn;A sound of hands,—dimib hands that touch aind pry;

A sound of fingers feeling in a toihb Before they close and die.

A hundred windows face long rows of flowers—Long rows of flowers, and flowers that sway and dance;

Where lidded eyes can gaze for hours and hotirs;Blue eyes that shut in France.

There is little of solace. One feels that the vividness of his im­pressions has for the time blinded him. But an ocasional breaking of the tension shows what is and must be permanent. This poem on Wordsworth is noble and healing:—

Thy talks on God, and glories of His fields Are woven into my unworthy past.

The fragments o f thy thoug;hts my memory yields Grow dim at times, and yet they seem to last.

This little book of verses, covered red,A eift to me, a gift of quiet rest.

Is filled with soothing words that thou hast said:Some chosen thoughts, the wisest and the best;.

Sweet songs and gleanings from that inward eye.The noise of bees, the vnnd in daffodils.

The •splendour of the sea and of the idcy.And Nature standing on the silent hills.

Thy words, thy thoughts, for me can never cease To have that fevour of eternal peace.

His hook is pessimistic, but it is only the pessimism of the hurt idealist. He has not flaunted banners and whacked the drum. His dead heroes are fine men wrenched from life; they are not revellers in a

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khaki Asgard. Such poignant records are far more difficult to express; It is their sincerity that allows him to close on a note of what is hope, though in a minor cadence.

Uplift thy lyre, and touch the tender strings,But leave unsung the epics of thy land.Till thou and Time have made a song both grand

And mellow with thy long imaginings.Breathe forth the secret whisperings of thy birth,

And play the isoft tunes of thine infancy;Nor sing the dull oft-told reality

Of worldly ways but rather let the earth Grow old, then sii^ the great songs of its youth.

Then thou, whilst aigeing in the pass of time.Add fame to fame, and rhyme to gloried rhjrme.

Till fit thy lyre is for the song of Truth.But now, a child-song, sweet with laughs and tears,And let the imripe ripen with the years.

Does not this epitomise the whole relation of poetry and reality? And is it not the triumph of the poet?

L.H.A.

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Peace on Earth.CHRISTMAS 1916.

Death looks in with leering eyes,Blood upon his purple face;

Lo, the little ember dies!Naught at all there is to trace

But the lines of wrinkled white Like a taunting hieroglyph

Left to work its final spite On a mummy parched and stiff.

Death, they call thee pale and thin;Lo, the lives of many men

Fat thee with thy vampire grin Like a larva-denizen

Of the ancient pits of blood Where they drained the steaming bull

On the pious wretch who stood Rapturing out his bellyful.

Get thee gone! Thy dripping fangs Mad me with their bestial show.

Where is Christ, and where His pangs?Where the sacred double flow

From His still-forgiving side?Did He die than thou might’st kill?

What mad catch the angels cried “ Peace on Earth, to men goodwill” !

L. H. Allen.

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The Anzacs.

They marched to the troopship behind the band,With the crowds around them cheering;

Loose-limbed, bright-eyed, and sun-tanned,Squatter and rouseabout band in hand.The pick of the men of a chosen land,

Strangers to doubt or fearing.

Not on the Argonauts’ quest of gain,With never a wish to palter.

They saw not danger, nor winced at pain.They shed their blood like the summer rain.And the gifts they gave, they would lay again

Upon their country’s altar.

There are quaint, rude crosses at Anzac Cove,There are fresh-made graves at Ypres;

At Loos and at Pozieres they prove The matchless pluck of the land they love.And they lie where the roar of the guns above

Shall never disturb the sleeper.

And some have come back to the South, ah me!Stricken, and maimed, and groping;

Once more the band is upon the quay.And the crowds are cheering right lustily.And wives and sweethearts are there to see

The wreck of their human hoping.

Yes—wives and sweethearts, but white with fear.And baleful beyond all others.

Are those whose grief cannot shed a tear.Whose heart-beats stop as the cot swings clear.Who strain for the name they would fain not hear:

Dear God! The Australian mothers!

O Southland, yours is a mother’s part.The stricken are in your keeping;

Take them for ever to your heart,Whose glory needs not the praise of art,With the lads who, lonely and far apart,

In foreign graves He sleeping.St. John’s College. M. J. O’Reilly, C.M,

10ft H B R M E s.

The War RecordsO F TH E UNIVERSITY O F SYDNEY.

The War records were couMiienced in the May issue. They are being compiled from the Union archives by the Hon. Archivist, Mr. J. Le Gay Brereton, B.A., with the sanction of the Union President, Mr. W . A . Selle, B.A., and the per­mission of the relatives of the University men on service.

II.HIGH DISTINCTION IN HISTORY.

He was a first year student, and he wrote his class essay on “ The Consequences of the Norman Conquest.” It was the best essay and, as (One heard him read it, one thought of “ High Distinction” at the year’s end. But in the September vacation he wrote me a postcard. I had been speaking about the interest of travel to the student of his­tory, and he chose to give the words a double meaning. “ For the last two ^erms,” he said, “ you have been urging me to study iiuropean History in Europe. You will not be surprised to hear that 1 have enlisted. I go to study History in the making.’’ I received another postcard from him, written the day they smashed the “ Emden.” He was not allowed to write news, he said, but he had seen a bit of History made. 1 did not hear from him again. His name was among those “ missing” after the landing at Anzac Cove on the 25th of April, ilis body was destroyed, it is supposed, as he stormed the height. Thus came his “ High Distinction.” in the British School of History.

As we think of our students in arms, so gentle, so generous, so brave, native hue of resolution brightened and steadied by strong cast of thought, our minds go backward and forward. They go backward to the golden crises of the thousand years’ fight for Liberty, that is the service the British have rendered to mankind. We think of reso- jute battles long ago when our Fathers won, and won for mankind, tliose great and good things which are the food on which to-day man lives:—the liberty of men to possess tlieir souls, the liberty to grow in grace and to be gentlemen, the liberty to smash the bully and to help the weak. And as we ponder the learning of the British School we perceive that the strength of a thousand years’ victory is in the souls and in the arms of our student soldiers. They fight for all that has been noble and beautiful in our national life from the days of Alfred to the days of Gladstone. They fight the good fight that was fought by great heroes of our race, “ dear to God, and famous to all ages,” and by innumerable thousands whose names are forgotten but whose deeds live in every victory of Liberty. They salute the Fathers, and keep the Faith.

And then we look forward. When hundreds of years away students read the record of this war, when in the old Library they reverently turn tJhe letters of those who fought, and died, and won, what will they think as they read? W’ hat will they say, perchance in some class essay, of the consequences of the war of 1914, and of the part

that Australians played in that war? They will say that the test of character, rushing sudden and savage at a nation that lived in peace and that loved peace, proved beyond precedent that the just ways of peace breed natures as brave as they are gentle. They will say that never were braver exploits achieved by those who loved war than were now achieved by those to whom war was hateful. They will say that the everlasting glory of these exploits is that they were achieved by men whose souls were iired by passionate hate of evil, by passionate love of good, by passionate faith in the Cross. And they will say that faith was justified by History. As in older days so now aiso the British so fought for Liberty that their triumph was the triumph of mankind. Once more by martyrdom they opened the way to those of all nations who storm the height of the City of God.

G. A. Wood.

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HEROIC LIFE.

Hail to you, comrades, who have won,Where the red lines of battle run By tattered town and ruined mead,The honour that men give with pride To those who, daffing death aside.Have done the valorous deed!

And has the war, then, brought to birth,As flowers that spring from western earth At summons of the pelting rain,The courage that can force its way,And hold the hovering wings at bay.And smile at lingering pain?

And is it true that only nowLife lifts from her heroic browThe smothering shroud of deadly peace,And laughs to sniff the morning air,And bids a thousand bonfires flare The news of her release?

Hell’s throat may swallow back its lie!For men knew how to live and die And take the gifts of motley fate.Before the fiends of Fear and Greed.Clasping, engendered from their seed The hissing brood of hate.

IAre they not sightless fools, who crave The sombre splendours of the grave To prove that man is more than dust?Who dabble fingers in the side Of him who lives because he died.Believing—when they must?

J. L« Gay Brereton.

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ROLL O F DISTINCTION.

Honours and Rewards for Services in the Field.

“ Deliberate Valour, and the rage •Of righteous Vengeance side by side appear."

—Wordsworth.

OROEB OF THE BATH.Military Oompanion (O.B.).

MAJOR-GENERAL J. G. LEGGE, M .A ., L L .B .

ORDER o r SAINT MICHAEL AND SAINT GEORGE. Oompaoioiu (C.M.G.).

COLONEL R. J. MILLARD, M .B., Ch.M.COLONEL B. J. NEWMARCH, F.R.C.S.COLONEL R. E. ROTH, M .R .C .S.

COMPANIONS OF THE DISTINGUISHED SERVICE ORDER. CompaniniM (D ^O.).

LIEUT.-OOLONEL R. H. BEARDSMORE, B.A.MAJOR L. W. BOND. M.B., Ch.M.CAPTAIN N. W. BROUGHTON,* M .B ., Ch.M.LIEUT.-COLONEL A . G- BUTLER, M.B.MAJOR G. C. BYRiNE, M.B.MAJOR J. E. F. D’APICE, B.Sc.LIEUT.-COLONEL H. K. DENHAM, B-A., LL.B., M.B., Ch.M. CAPTAIN C. O. G. DONOVAN, M.B., Ch.M.MAJOR R. 1. FURBER, M.B., Ch.M.CAPTAIN R. R . HARPER, Med. II.CAPTAIN C. H. HARRISON, M.A.DIEUT.-COLONEL I . G. MACKAY.t B .A .L IE U T.^LO N E L W. K. S- MACKENZIE, Arts II. LIEUT.COLONEL C. L . S. MACINTOSH, M.B., Ch.M. DIEUT.-COLONEL A . M. MARTYN, B.E .CAPTAIN A. J. PETERSON, B .Sc., B .E .LIEUT.-COLONEL C. R. A . PYE, M .B ., Ch.M.LIEUT.-OOLONEL A . W . RALSTON, B.A., LL.B. LIEUT.-COLONEL B. V- STACY, B A . LL.B .LIEUT.-COLONEL H. S. STACY, M .D ., Ch-M.LIEUT-COLONEL A. H. TEBBUTT, M .B ., Ch.M. LIEUT.-COLONEL J. B. St. V- WELCH, M .B ., Ch.M.MAJOR H. L. S t V. WELCH, M .B., Ch.M.

THE lOLITART CROSS (M.O.).

CAPTAIN R. A . M. ALLEN, Arts II.MAJOR J. S. S. ANDERiSON, Science III.CAPTAIN W . R. ASPINALL.* M.B.. Ch.M.CAPTAIN M. AUROUSSEAU, B.Sc.LIEUT. G. BEST, B .E .

HERM ES. lOe

CAPTAIN R. H. BROWNING, B .A .LIEUT. W. BUCHAN, B .A ., Law II.LIEUT. J. G. BURNELL. B .E .MAJOR A. E. COLVIN, M.B., Ch-M.CAPTAIN C. H. CROPPER, B .E .LIEUT. R. T. DOWNING, B.Sc. (Agr,). CAPTAIN W . FENWICK, M.B.CAPTAIN E. M. FISHER, M.B.LIEUT. J. A . FITZ-HERBERT, B .A .LIEUT. H. W. FRY, B .E .CAPTAIN W . E . GIBLIN, M.B., Ch.M.LIEUT. S. W . GRiITTEN, Secretary of the Union. CAPTAIN K. H. GRIEVE, M.B.LIEUT. G. B. HARDEN, B .E.CAPTAIN J. HARDIE, M .B ., Ch.M.CAPTAIN C. H. HARRISON, M.A.CAPTAIN G. A. M. HEYDON, M .B ., Ch.M. LIEUT. A. W. HICKS, M.A.CAPTAIN G. M. HUNT. M .B., Ch.M.CAPTAIN C. R. R. HUXTABLE, M.B.CAPTAIN J. T. JONES, M.B.LIEUT. C. H. KAEPPEL, B .A .MAJOR W. D. KIRKLAND,* M.B., Ch.M.MAJOR N. E. B. KIRKWOOD, M B.MAJOR C. S. LECKY, Arts II.CAPTAIN H. B. LEE (Med.), M .B ., B.S. (Melb ) CAPTAIN P. S. La\G-INNES, Med. I.CAPTAIN W. P. MacCALLUM, Arts II. CAPTAIN R. V . McDONNELL, M.B.CAPTAIN J. B. METCALFE, M.B.

MAJOR F. MoINTYRE, M-B.CAPTAIN C. C. MINTY, M.B.LIEUT. A. R. MUIR, Eng. II.CAPTAIN R. D. MULVEY, B .A ., B.Sc.LIEUT. R . A. M. MURRAY,* Med. II.CAPTAIN S. V . O’REGAN, M.B.CAPTAIN H. J. ORR, M .B ., Ch.M.CAPTAIN H. H. PAGE, Arts III. and Law I. CAPTAIN C. K . PARKLNSON, M .B .,C h. M. CAPTAIN S. E. PEIRCE,* B.Sc.MAJOR S. L. PERRY, Eng. I.LIEUT. W . M. PITT, B .A .LIEUT. W . E. POTTS, B.E.LIEUT. L. J. PRICE, Eng. II.CAPTAIN H. D. PULLING, Eng. I.CAPTAIN A. W . RAYMOND, M.B.CAPTAIN H. RAYSON, M.B.LIEUT. R. V . SHIELD, B.A . and Law. IIV. LIEUT. W . R . SNOW, Econ. II. CHAPLAIN-CAPTAIN A. H. TEECE, B.A . MAJOR C. W. THOMPSON, M.B.LIEUT. J. S. D. WALKER, B .E .CAPTAIN H. K . WARD, M.B.LIEUT. W. L. WATERHOUSE, B.Sc. (Agr.). CAPTAIN H F. WATSON, B .A ., LL.B.

CAPTAIN T. WELLS, Arts II.CAPTAIN G. C. WILLCOCKS, M .B ., Ch.M.CAPTAIN R. C. WINN, M.B., Ch.M.CAPTAIN E. W. WREN, Econ. II.CAPTAIN J. L. WRIG-HT, Eng. III.

DISTZNGTJISHED CONDUCT M&0AL (D.OJH).TROOPER E. C. CROUCH. B .D.S.

MIUTART MEDAL (M.M ).

SERGEANT J. p . LOVE. B.A.CX)RPORAL C. G. PAGE,* B.A.SIGNALLER A. W. WHEEN.t Arts I.

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CBOIX DE GUERRE.LIEUT.-OOiLbNEL A. M. MARTYN, B.E.MAJOR R. J. A. MASSIE, B .B ., Esquire Bedell. ' CAPTAIN R. R. HARPER, Med. II.CAPTAIN V. M. RICH, M.B-, Ch. M.LIEUT. E. W . SHANNON,* Arts II.LIEUT. A. CONSETT STEPHEN, B.A., LL.B.CAPTAN E. W. WRBN, Econ. II.

SERVIAN RED CROSS.CAPTAIN J. H. V. SCOTT, M .B., Ch.M.

MONTENEGRIN RED CROSS.SURGEON MARTHA T. ORMISTON, M .B ., Ch.M.

MONTENEGRIN ORDER OF DANILO.MAJOR-GENERAL J. G. LEGGE, M .A., LL.B.

RUSSIAN ORDER OF ST. STANISLAUSLIEUT.-COLONEL W. K. S. MACKENZIE, Arts II.

CHEVALIER CROSS OF THE LEGION OF HONOUR.MAJOR M. F. BRUXNER, Arts.

* Killed in acticm. t And Bar.

» HERMES” FOR THE MEN AT THE FRONT.

Friends and relatives who wish to send the Magazine to the men at the front may obtain extra copies at cost price from the B«isiin«ss Secretaries. Appllication should be made promptly after publication, as owing to increased costs no more can be printed than are ordered.

In return, "Hermes” asks the men at the front to send us notes and news, and thus keep in general touch with their student friends in Australia.

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BRIG.-GEN. H EN RY NORM AN D MacLAURlN.Son of the late Sir Normaiid MacLaurin, late Chancellor of the University. He was educated at Blair Lodge iSchool in Scotland, and graduated B.A. (Syd.) in 1899. At 18 he joined the Scottish Rifles as Lieutenant, later became Adjutant, and on the outbreak was Lieut.-Col. of the 36th Inf., from which he was appointed to the command of the First Infantry Brigade, leaving Australia with the rank of Colonel (A .I .F .) . He was killed in action while leading the landing party at the Dardanelles, 25th April, 191.5.

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CAPTAIN ERIC PITTY BARBOUR.

Is the son of Mr- George Pitty Bar­bour, M.A. (Syd-), Headmaster of Too­woomba Grammar School. He was edu­cated at Sydney Grammar School, from which he passed the Junior in 1907 with seven A’s, and was placed prox. acc. for the general proficiency medal. In 1909 he secured the medals for Latin and Eng­lish-

1915, h« left with the A .A .M .C . for Egypt in September, where he remained till June, 1916. He is now at Salisbury Plain, England.

CAPTAIN NORMAN McALISTER GREGG

Is the son of Mr. James Gregg, man­aging director of Richardson & Wrench, Ltd. He was born 7th March, 1892, and educated at Homebush Grammar School and Sydney Grammar School- At Homebush he was Dux of the School, passing the Junior at 13. At the Syd­ney Grammar School he gained Sir G. W . Allen’s Mathematical Prize during two consecutive years, and obtained 7 A’s and 2 B's in the senior, dividing a scholarship.

Adopting a medical course at the Uni­versity, he gained Sir Arthur Renwick's scholarship during his first year, passing his other years with honours- He was one of the best known and prominent members in the Undergraduate hfe and Sports Union of the University, winning a double Bluj for tennis and Cricket- He graduated M .B ., Ch.M., in 1915, and in March he was gazetted to a commis­sion in the Royal Army Medical Corps. For two years he was with the forces in Belgium and France, and is now attach­ed to the Military Hospital at Bethnal Green, London.

CAPTAIN E- P. BARBOUR.

At the Grammar he broke nearly all the cricket records for batting and bowl­ing, .securing the highest score—356. In oiie season he got 100 wickets and 2000 runs- He was als:> captain of the Ten­nis Club, and head of the school in 1909.

At the University he was the best known figure in the Undergraduate and College life of recent years. Entering the Medical school in 1910, he held the positions of President of the Undergra­duates’ Association. Editor of “ Hermes” ficr two years in succession. V’ioe-Pre.si- dent of the Union, gained Blues in cric­ket, tennis and baseball, and was senior student in St. Andrew’s College in 1914- 15.

In March. 191.5, he graduated M .B.. Ch.M., and was appointed Senior Resi­dent Medical Officer at Toowoomba Hos­pital. Being accepted for service in July, CAPTAILN -VORMAN GREGG.

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LIEUT. JOHN TERENCE McMAHON

Was the second son of Air. and Mrs- P- McMahon, Dulwich Hill. He was edu­cated at the Marist Brothers' High School, St. Mary’s, and St. Jo^ph's Col­lege, Hunter’s Hill. At the College he was prominent both as an athlete and a student. He was a member of the First Eleven and the Stecond Fifteen. In the Senior University Examination of 1909. when scarcely 17 years of age, he matri­culated with distinction, and obtained the best pass from the College, for which honour he was awarded the Emilian Gold Medal. In the following year he passed on to the University, and studied civil engineering, obtaining his B .E . de­gree in 1913 with honours, at the early age of 21. For twelve months before and twelve months after graduation he occupied the position of Demonstrator at the University in the Department of Engineering. At the time of enlisting. Lieut- McAIahon was an officer in the Public Works Department, being station­ed at Yanco in connection with the Murrumbidgee Irrigation scheme. He pas.sed through an officer's school a: Moore Park, and received his commis- sicHi. He left- with Engineer Reinforce­ments on 2nd Jlay, 1916, and shortly after arrival in England attended a

Royal Engineers’ School at Deganwy (near Llandudno), in North Wales, where after compteting the course he obtained the distinction sought. For a short time he had been engaged taking drafts to the Australian base in France. After rejoining his unit he proceeded to the front in January, whence he was re­ported as having been killed in action on 9th April (Easter Monday), whilst at­tached to the 3rd Field Company of En­gineers. He was then only 24 years of age.

LIEUT. CLARENCE GORDON PRESCOTT

Is the son of Colonel-Chaplain Pres­cott, M-A., Headmaster of Newington College. Stanmore. He was born 8th September, 1892, educated at Newington College, from which he passed the Junior and Senior examinations- He was Du.x of his College, and won the Schofield and Wigram Allen Scholarships- He was also captain of the College 1st eleven in cricket, vice-captain of the 1st fifteen in football, and captain of the rifle team. He was at the University from 1912-15, gaining his B .A . in December, 1914, and Honours in Greek in 2\Iarch, 1915. He was then a student in Law, and articled to Mr. A. H. Holdship. In University sport he was a member of the 1st cricket eleven, and represented Sydney against Melbourne University in 1913. He was also hon- secretary for the 1st eleven during 1913-14 and >'ear rep. on the com­mittee of the Undergraduates’ Associa­tion.

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He enlisted in June, 1915, and won his commission in November of the same year. In January, 1915, he sailed as 2n(l Lieutenant with reinforcements for his Battalion, and was for a time stationed in Egypt, and later transferred to France with the first draft of Australians to be sent to the Western front. While his unit was at the base he was temporarily appointed assistant Q.M. and showed such aptitude for this position that he was for a time sole Q.M. He rejoined his battalion in the firing line early in winter, but contracted various trench ail­ments, and was invalided to hospital in February, and again in May. He has since returned to France.

Several articles from Lieut. Prescott's p>en concerning life at the front have ap­peared in the Sydney press, one of them, "The Anzac Vocabulary,” being reprint ed in the latest issue of the Anzac Me­morial-

TROOPER ARTHUR WELLESLEY OAKESWas the son of Archdeacon Oakes, cf Kelso, near Bathurst. He was born 18th June, 1886, and educated at All Saints’ College. Bathurst. He gained his Dip­loma in Economics and Commerce in 1910, his B .A . in 1911, and M.A. (cum laude) in 1913. He left Australia as a trooper in the 1st Light Horse in Octo­ber, 1-914, and was killed in action at Gallipoli 7th August, 1915.

While the Light Horse were awaiting their chance, Tr;oper Oakes wrote, “The

Australians will never be beaten. They may be wiped out, but they will never run. W hen our time comes, may we line up to the example of those who landed amidst that murderous fire of shrapnel- Our pride in their courage al­most compensates us for the price we had to pay. ”

An annual prize has been founded by a gift from the subscribers to the Arthur Oakes ^lem'jrial. It is known as the Arthur Oakes Memorial Prize, and is awarded in the Department of Econo­mics.

Bishop Long, of Bathurst, wrote of Arthur Oakes as follows:—“Arthur be­gan his life’s work in the banking ser-

TROOPER A. W. OAKES.

CAPTAIN S. V. O'REGAX, M.C.

vice, and instead of being content with a mere routine knowledge of his duties, he was fired with the ambition to become a master of his subject.lt was then he dis­played his latent strength of will and brain power. He entered the Sydney University for the new course just then instituted in Economics, Accountancy, and kindred subjects. He speedily pro\- ed himself without a rival in breadth of view and logical acumen, moving with­out a break to his degree of Bachelor K>f Arts, and a few years later, whilst en­grossed in heavy professional work, he took his M.A. degree—the only man of

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talion. After the heavy fighting in the north of France word was received that Captain O’Regan has been decorated with the Mihtary Cross.

CAPTAIN IDRIS MORGANIs the son of Rev- Thomas Morgan,

Superintendent of Home Missions of the Presbyterian Church of Austraha. He was educated at Fort Street High School, from which he matriculated with First- class Honours in English and French. Adopting a medical course at the Uni­versity, he graduated M .B ., Ch.M., in 1915 with First-class Honours and the University Medal.

“Gus” Morgan was a prominent mem­ber of the University Hockey Club, and gained his Half-Blue in 1913. He join­ed the A .I .F . in August, 1915, and left Australia for Egypt early in October. Here he remained for some months as Senior Medical Officer in the Australian Hospital at Gizeh, and later was sent to France for service in the Base Hos­pital at Etaples. After six months' strenuous work there he was moved “up the line” as Field Medical Officer. Recent advices from the front state that Capt. Morgan has been mentioned in despatches by Sir Douglas Haig for his work with Surgeon-General Howse, V .C .

CAPTAIN I. MORGAN-

his yiear “cum laude,” . . . . A man of such promise was eagerly sought for, and immediately upon the comple­tion of his University course he was of­fered a splendid position and partner­ship with a leading firm of public ac­countants in Brisbane. . . . Though bnt a young man, his commercial ‘ value’ was in easy command of a position at iilOOO a year, and \’et he left it all without hesitation to serve his country as a private trooper at 5/ a day. An act of that sort is a sufficient inde.x of a man’s character, but there are many other ways by which one could measure the worth of character of Arthur Oakes.”(, APTAIN STANLEY VI.^CENT O'REGAN

Is the second youngest son of Mr. J . O'Regan, and brother of Alderman J. F. O’Regan, of Wagga. He was educated at St. Patrick’s College, Goulburn, and in1915 obtained his M.B. degree, graduat­ing with First-class Honours. Imme­diately he offered his services far active .service, and in Augu.st last left with theA.M.C. In France he was first attached to the Field Ambulance, but recent ad­vices state that he has been appointed Regimental Medical Officer to his bat-

DRIVER JOHN MORGAN

Is the -second -son of the Rev. Thomas Morgan, and younger brother of Captain Idris Morgan. He was educated at Fort Street High School, and in 1913 gained

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CAPTAIN E. M. FISHER, M.C.

the Leaving Certificate with Honours In History and German- He went into re­sidence at St. Andrew’s College in 1914, and graduated B .A . in August, 1916, at the same time completing his first year in Medicine.

“Jock” Morgan’s football career was full of promise. At school be was prom­inent in the game, being captain of Fort Street 1st fifteen in 1913. He played with the 'Varsity 1st Fifteen in 1915 and1916 up till the time of his enlistment.

He joined the Artillery in Augusl, 1916, and left Australia for England In October. Arriving in England he went to Salisbury Plain in December, 1916, and left for France at the end of April this year. His letters state that he has been in action, and a recent cable after an engagement stated that he was still safe and sound.

CAPTAIN ERIC MORTLEY FISHERIs the son of Mr. Albert Fisher, of

Ashfield, and was born 25th May, 1889- He was educated at Sydney Grammar School, from which he passed the Junior in 1905 and the Senior in 1907- At the Grammar he was a prominent member of the cricket, football, and athletic teams. At the University he won Blues in cricket and football, and graduated M .B. in 1913 with First-class Honcurs and the University Medal- He was ap­pointed Junior Resident Medical Officer at the Royal Prince Alfred Hospital,

which he held for a year, and was then appointed Senior Resident Medical Officer. After holding this appointment for a year he became Assistant Medical Superintendent, and while in this office applied for leave of absence for the pur­pose of enlisting ficr active service.

He left Australia as Captain in the 3rd General Hospital, which he accompanied to Lemnos, but on arrival there he trans­ferred to the 3rd Field Ambulance on Gallipoli. He remained at Anzac for three months, and took part in the eva­cuation. He then joined the 11th Bat­talion as R .M .O ., and went with them to France. He was present at Pozieres, and was awarded the Military Cross. He was invalided to England in December,1916, and has since returned to Australda-

SERGT. LIONEL R. H. IRVINE

Is the son of Professor R. F. Irvine, of the Department of Economics and Com­merce. He was born on 9th February, 1894, and educated at the Church of Eng­land Grammar School, North Sydney, from which he passed the Senior, and came to the University in 1911. Here he took up a course, in Civil Engineer­ing, and had completed but three of his four years, when he enlisted on 9th Fetj- ruary, 1915, his 21st birthday. He land­ed at Gallipoli, August, 1915, and was present till the evacuation in December, 1915. He then remained in Egypt for three months on the Suez Canal de­fences; left later for France, where he

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arrived in March 1916. He passea through the battle of the Somme unin­jured, but was wounded near the village of Le Sars in February of this year, the second anniversary of his enlistemnt in Australia-

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LIEUT HERBERT TRANGMAR ALLAN

Is the son of Mr. Percy Allan, Chief Engineer for National and Local Gov­ernment Works of N .S .W . He was born ic,n 5th January, 1895, and educated at St. Ignatius' College, River\'iew. At College he represented Ignatius in row­ing, and “stroked” the eight in the All Schools Race. At the University he was a member of the Scouts, and had com­pleted two years of an Arts course on the outbreak of war. In the e.xamina- tion in Military Science and Tactics at the University be secured a Pass with Distinction, being first on the list with 92 per cent.

Enlisting for ser\'ice in the A .I .F ., he was sent to an officers’ school of instruc­tion. securing fourth place among the list of fifty-one successful candidates. Having been gazetted Lieut-, he was at­tached to the A .I .F . Depot Gamp for training recruits, and later, in Septem­ber, 1916, sailed with the Reinforcements for the 17th Battalion, to which he was attached. He is now with his Regiment on the Western front,

LIEUT.-COLONEL ALEXANDER WINDEYER RALSTON, D.S.O-

Is the son of Mr. A. G. Ralston, K .C ., and was born 27th November. 1885. He was educated at the Sydney Grammar School, from which he passed to the University, gaining his B .A . in 1907, and LL.B. in 1909. He also se­cured the Diploma in Military Scismce-

W'hile at the Uni\’«rsity he was a member of the University Scouts, and later joined the Scottish Rifles, rising from Second Lieut, to Lieutenant, then Captain in 1906, and Major in 1910. At the passing of the Defence Act he was appointed to second in command of the 39th Infantr\% which he held at the out­break of war. Volunteering for ac- tjve service, he was appointed to a company command in the naval and military expedition to the Pacific, being present in the attack on the wireless station at Rabaul, the maich on Tuna, and the expedition to New Ireland and the Solomons. After the return of the contingent to Sydney he was appointed to the 19th Battalion,A .I .F ., which he accompanied to Egypt and Gallipoli, where be remained till the evacuation. The battalion, of which he was now second in command, was allot­ted to the defences on Sinai Peninsula, and went to France in March, 1916. Here 'h« was promoted to Lieiut-Colonel and placed in command of the 20th Bat­talion- He took part in the operations round Armentieres. at the attack on the Somme, and was present at the taking of Pozferes. He was awarded the D.S-O. in January last.

LIEUT.-COL. A. W . RALSTON, D.S.O.

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MAJOR CECIL RODWAY LUCAS,Son of Mr. E d p r Lucas, of Sydney,

came to the University frcm the Syd­ney Grammar School, graduated in Arts <n 1911 and in Law in 1915, and was ad­mitted to the Bar a few days before leaving for the front- He was then As­sociate to Mr. Justice Fierguson. Both at school and at the University “Caesar ’ was prominent in the field of sport- At the University he rowed in the Challenge Fours and mcst of the open races, and for a time was captain of the Boat Club.

Before the war he held a commission in the 25th Battalion (Scottish Rifiesi- He left Sydney as Lieutenant in the 17th Battalion of the A .I .F ., and spent about four months at Anzac. Writing about him after the evacuation, his O.C., Lisut.-Col- Goddard, said: •'! can quite understand that it was a delight to you to know that Captain Lucas had done well—he always will do well, of that I am sure. There was nothing 1 said of him that I am not ever anxious to say of him to everyone, and that is that he was just splendid on the Peninsula, earn­ing the love and admiration of all of us- As you will know, he went right through from the time we landed until the very last party of the evacuation, I having chosen him to take command of the fire trench on the last night. (I daresay he will long remember our midnight meal that night). I recommended him for a decoration in connection with that and his good work right through, and am more than sorry nothing came of it-”

When the Fifth Division was forming ir Egypt, Major Lucas was transferred to the 56th Battalion, where 'he found him­self a member of a mess largely com­posed of old Grammar School and ’Var­sity men. In France, in addition to win­ning further promotion, he has recei\-ed special commendation for his organisa­tion of trench raids, and has been men­tioned in despatches.

MATOR C. R. LUCAS.

CAPTAIN EVAN SELWYN RICHARDS

Was the eldest son of the late Mr. T. H. Richards, founder and Headmaster of Wolaroi Grammar School, Orange. He was educated at “ Wolaroi” and the Syd­ney Grammar School. At the outbreak of war he was a student in Science, but. enlisting in the A .I .F ., he left Sydney with the 20th Battalion, 5th Infantry Brigade, in June, 1915, as 2nd Lieuten­ant. At Gallipoli he was promoted to 1st Lieutenant, and later invalided to England with enteric. During conTOles- cence he was attached for instruction to the Grenadier Guards, and rejoined his Regiment in France in July, 1916. Later he was promoted to Captain, was pre.sent in the attack on Pozieres, and mentioned in de.spatches for his good work. He was severely wounded on 22nd August, and had both legs amputated, dying on the 5th September, 1916, at the age of 26.

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Letters From “ Somewhere.W HEN FRITZ RETIRED.

I shall start on the date when we first had news that “ Fritz” was retirinor. His reasons for this we can only surmise, for when we ad­vanced and looked back over our line, we saw what a magnificent position he had vacated, and, if he had decided to resist our attacks, we could only have succeeded at the expense of an enormous number of lives.

On the 24th of Februarj- the report came through that the Hun had evacuated his front line trenches in the vicinity of the Butte de Marlin- court. The two battalions of our brigade were ordered to move for­ward and take possession, w*hich they did without resistance. That night these two battalions moved forward again, and came in contact with the Germans on a line running between the village of Marlincourt and Le Barque. Having gone forward as far as they could, they took up a position in an old watercourse, and made themselves as secure as possible before daylight. The watercourse was only 2ft. Gin. deep, so it does not take much imagination to see fhat these men had to keep pretty low during the day to get cover from the machine gims firing from the village 500 yards away.

The next night my company received orders to relieve the com­pany holding this watercourse. We received the order at 4 a.m., and by 6 a.m ., just as dawn was breaking, had the relief complete. It was a bit of a squeeze, but we managed it by the skin of our teeth. A and B Companies, who were on our left, and on the left of the Ba- paume-road. became involved in a bombing “stunt” during the day, and I had to take my company across the road to help them. I got the wthole company across safely, but when getting it together I missed three men. Two hours after we left the old watercourse, “ Fritz” blew it to pieces, and killed the three I had missed. After fighting the Hun for the whole day with bombs, and using something in the vicinity of 10,000 bombs, we found ourselves in possession of about 350 yards of his trench, with the loss of only ten men of our own. Once in pos­session of this piece of his line— Malt Trench, as we know it—we could easily see why the Hun had hung on to it so desperately. In this trench he had established an O .P . (observation post), which gave him command of the Bapaume-road and the ridges practically from Pozieres. Next night we were relieved, and t<he same night the Huns retired to the Grevillers line, some 600 yards to the rear. I may add that, while going to get my company on the day of the bombing “ stunt,” I had the narrowest escape possible. I was hit on the left arm near the shoulder by a whole shell. I use the word “ hit,” but it was really only a scrape. The shell tore the coat and cut the arm for about i inch. Small wound, but some escape. It burst 10 yards in front of me, but being a high- velocity shell, all the burst was forward.

We did not hit the line again till when Sadler (C Companyand myself (D Company) took over the front line, which now ran be­tween the villages of Biefvillers and Grevillers, the Hun having evacu-

uted the Grevillers line two nights previously. All that nigiit we had patrols, practically hanging on the German wires, watching for any cessation of madhine gun fire or sniping, which would give us an ink­ling that he was again retiring. This state of affairs continued until about 5 a.m ., when a change appeared to be taking place, so I gave orders for a party of one officer and 30 men, equipped with wire cutters, to stand in readiness to move at a moment’s notice. At 6 a.m. I gave the order to move, and at 6.15 we were in occupation of the German trenches in front of Biefvillers, having made entries in two places through three rounds of barbed wire, each 10 yards wide. At 6.30 the whole company was up, and I was in telephonic communication with Headquarters. A few minutes after my first party got in. Captain Sadler and C Company passed right through and started to clear the village of snipers, who were getting very nasty. In about an hour the whole village was clear, and we had established an outpost line about 1000 yards beyond the village. The reason for our few casualties was, 1 think the quickness with which we moved. The entry of my com­pany that morning into the German lines was the first entry made for a distance of 40 miles, and was the beginning of the big retreat, which is still going on. One night, standing on a hill, I saw no less than ten villages burning fiercely. It was a magnificent but awful sight. In all the villages Fritz has left, the main buildings have been mined and blown up, or are mined, and will blow up when you are not thinking about it. Moral: Choose a humble home for your billet. Churches in all cases have been blown up.

H.B.T.

OUT OF ACTION.2/9/16.

On the night of the 4th August my battalion moved up to take its place in the line. We got simple hell in the form of a terrific bombard­ment from the old Bosche on that and the two following nights, follow­ed each morning by a counter-attack by ‘his infantry. That was when we used to get our own back for the previous night’s “ strafe.” Several times during these “ evening hates” as we call them, I was partially buried by falling earth and sandbags when a shell blew up a section of our trench. I was very fortunate in escaping unhurt on more than one occasion. Once a piece of shell case came “ pinging” down (you can hear these pieces coming), and struck my wristlet watch, smashing the face and breaking the strap, but not a scratch did I get. Just a sud­den tug at my arm, and I saw the watch go hurtling along the trench. I afterwards recovered it, and am now keeping it as a reminder of a close call.

However, on the 7th I was not so fortunate. The section of trench I was in was blown to blazes, and I was buried, along with some others, for quite a long time. When I was ultimately dug out, I had lost all power in my body from the waist down. It was impossible to get stretcher-bearers where we were, so, with the assistance of a pick, 1 made my own way down to the nearest dressing-station, a mile away.I dug the pick in the ground and drew myself up to it. In that way I ultimately got to the station, after having taken six hours to do the mile. From there I was carried, by two German prisoners we had captured that morning, to the ambulance.

E.V.S.

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BY TRANSPORT TO THE OTHER SIDE.3/9/16.

It took our ship seven weeks and four days to reach Alexandria. Two days encircled by the rocks and grey-green hills of Albany; two days sweltering in sight of the palms of Colombo; then we laboured through the Red Sea to the friendly port of Suez. It seemed friendly because we came so near the land in turning round the corner into the Canal. It was refreshing in the highest degree to be so close to a street that one could see the faces of the people who passed by. The passage of the Canal took sixteen hours—half by day and half by night. Troops in thousands were camped on either bank; but most to the eastward. Far out on the hills against the skyline we could see the clustered tents of the Light Horse outposts—men w.ho have splendidly responded to the latest task given them. Trenches, zig-zagging from the bank away across the sands, gun emplacements, entanglements—all told of earnest and vigilant preparation. Under a half-moon, with the ship’s brilliant headlight outlining the dusky shores, we moved as if floating in a charmed vessel upon a voyage fantastic, dreamlike, uncer­tain. So strange, so powerful is the spell of night—troops, tents, trenches, all faded away into tiie mist that falls on half-forgotten things. Late at night, sleeping out under Egyption stars, we seemed in truth

“ Wrapt in eternal silence, farre from enimyes.”The spell of antiquity fell upon m e: two hundred dead generations

rose up— lived, worked, built those monuments by which wt know them —and fell back into sleep again. Not far from here, Sneferu, earliest of re­corded Egyptian Kings, smote the Bedouin, over six thousand years ago. Across this very soil came the Hyksos, bringing the horses then un­known to Africa; and here the Alhmes fought the last victorious battle against these Asiatic invaders. There is no silence for the spirit. The very air is vocal with sounds thousands of years old. The ground trembles under the tread of antique warriors. The dust of Pharaoh’s chariot wheels is lifted on every wind. Dawn brought, not the sun, but Ammon-Ra, brighest of the vanished gods of Egypt.

Port Said aroused me from reverie. Here, too, we were close to either shore, for the harbour is nothing but a long, wide street, lined with ships on either side. From here I carried away one of the most haunting, pleasing, half-tender, ihalf-sad of memories—that of the high- pitched, rhythmical chanting of the natives on the coal-barges. Now, after‘twelve weeks of crowded experience, it seems to me like a breath from a forgotten world, full of strange power to lift one’s wdiole being into another and wholly different channel of existence. As we passed slowly out beyond the long eastern breakwater into the Mediterranean, something of the real meaning of our long journey was borne in upon us; for now we wore lifebelts all day; slept with them alongside us; a gun was mounted at the stem, and all round the ship was posted a submarine guard. And out ahead of us, racing from side to side, a fast destroyer shared the watch.

It is only fifteen hours’ run to Alexandria; we took twenty, for the ship travelled in huge semicircles, visible for miles astern. Morning broke again before we anchored in the tharbour where—so we imagined —our wanderings were to end. That was on June 9th. The same morning we were transhipped to an English transport, the “ Aragon,” and left the next day for England. Some anonymous humorist made a

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little rhyme about the “Aragon” never having been “a paragon” ; and he spoke truth. There were 2500 of us on the boat, including bOO odds and ends from Gallipoli and Egyptian deserts—little pieces of battalions, fag-ends of Light Horse regiments, and relics of Engineer and Army Service companies.

But for one thing on this boat I was grateful: we were allowed on the fo’castle—right up to the very bows of the ship—There, for twelve days or so, I nightly pitched my moving tent, and slept with the cease­less rushing of the leaping waters for a stranger, sweeter sleep-song than any I have heard before or since. Still the lifebelts, still the look- but, still the swift escort—though soon enough they meant little to us.

So on to Gibraltar, which dawned on us, “grand and grey” indeed, on June 19th. There we only stayed two hours; yet of this, as much as of any of the places I have seen, I have impressions so powerful and so vivid as to be ‘whollj" incommunicable in anything like their true in­tensity. One thing: I realized more fully what the British Empire meant, and felt a truer pride in belonging to it.

We sailed out into the Atlantic that evening, speeding sunwards over a sea, calm, level and luminous. Under the early stars we ploughed still westward, far out into the ocean; then, with a huge sweep, north­ward to the Homeland. Three days passed, and on the fourth morn­ing we woke up to find once more a fast destroyer wheeling and curv­ing ahead of us. Early on June 23rd, the red sails of the fishing fleet began to stand out sharply against the pale gold of the dawn; a lofty tower, a lighthouse, rose up to view; then “ the high green fields and happy blossoming shore.” With what joy, what reverence, what kindling enthusiasm, we greeted this land of lands, who can ever tell aright?

The “Aragon,” with much preliminary noise, rattled out her anchor chains in Plymouth Harbour the same day. We left the ship two hours later, boarded a train (if such a thing can be done), and left for Salis­bury Plain.

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AN INTERLUDE IN THE SERBIAN CAMPAIGN.8/1/16, and li /l /K j-

Orders were changed. I had to be ready to move with two com­panies and a machine gun, at a moment’s notice, to Dedeli. We moved next morning early, and reached the village in pouring rain. The place was filthy, but I put the men on the verandahs for the time being, and set to work cleaning up the biggest houses.

Dedeli is at the northern entrance to a long pass that breaks through the mountains and into the valley we had come from. There are two other tracks over this range—about 2000 feet high at the most —one from Sobre-yu-vala up to Causli, and then down a ravine, and the other from Obasi to Hasauli, and there is also at rack along the crest from Dedeli to Causli; a horse can just manage these tracks, and no more. There are also other places at which one can walk over, but I don’t think horses could manage. The road through the Dedeli Pass is excellent, with many bridges, and it runs north to Strumica; it really connects that town with Doiran, and also with Strumica station.

We enjoyed Dedeli very much. I was in sole charge, and we were

sinking and making trenches and cleaning up the village, while all the time the weather was glorious. Headquarters was a fine new house, with a sunny verandah and a fine mess and room for meals and bridge. We made a fine swimming bath by damming up a stream, but it was only finished when we received the beastly news to move. Partridges and other game birds, a fowl or two, dogs in packs, were all there to shoot. W e bagged fourteen of the latter, and were glad, as they were getting starved and dangerous, especially to the sheep we wanted greatly to get. Yes, Dedeli was a grand place, and we were very sorry indeed to leave it. The views around were fine, as, below it, the ground stretched between the high walls of the pass in waves down to a level valley and river. Beyond the river were the foothills and mountains that rose up until tJhey formed a lofty barrier, parallel to the range from Doiran to Dedeli—that is, running from east to west. Straight in front was the entrance of the pass to Strumitza, and on the left was famous Hill 516, the scene of great fighting between the Bul- gars and French. On the right was the pass leading to Prystan and then up to Doral-oba. And up on the left ran the Vardar, far up among the mountains. Always, as one gazed, the sky was speckled with little, round, dissolving balls of white, and a faint booming sound was continuous. This was the French 75’s and 120’s, and also from the Bulgar guns, as, all the time, great and successful efforts to advance w'ere being made by the French. W e were a second line to them in their attempt to rush up the Vardar Valley and join in force with the hard-pressed Serbians. The particular mission of the force directly in front was to reach the frontier and guard the long and attenuated lines of communication up the Vardar, which at this point run parallel to and near the frontier. Close-cropped mulberry trees, tobacco fields, maize crops, all covered the near foreground—a rich land just waiting for peaceful work to give good fruits. W e were playing bridge at 8.30 p.m . on Saturday night, and one opponent had gone “one no trumps,” with the score game all and 20 points to them; and in came a messen­ger: “ Move your two companies at once, without transport, to Tar- tarli.” That meant no luggage; and the night was black and rainy. Up we got, and then, with a guide, we slowly plodded through mud and up a knee-deep river until we arrived, at 3.30 a.m. on Sunday. Stand to, at 5 a.m., and then, since nothing happened, turn in, or rather turn down on the ground, and a snooze in the sunlight that was just appearing.

We had been moved from our little paradise to this open field near Tartarli because a Bulgarian battalion had been reported coming down the hills near Boluntili against our right, and we had been called on to meet it. And it was a false alarm!!!

B.R.F.

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AN EGYPTIAN TRAIN AND A FRENCH FARMHOUSE.l e / i / ic .

We left the canal one evening and spent all night in the train. The train! Oh, help! Have you ever travelled far on a cold night in an open iron truck, lying on the floor with an overcoat on, your head on a pack, your eyes, ears and mouth full of coal dust and cinders, and your temper so ragged that you curse the war, the army, the Kaiser, Egypt, yourself and everything on earth or in the sea? Now, however,

I am bloated up with “ flash food” ; I have slept between sheets; had many hot baths; and every day I lie back in a chair, and pay a man to shave me; so, at present, it’s a good war. I think we are off to France. ................... Landed at Marseilles and entrained the same day. Ar­rived at the end about dawn feeling dirty, tired, and sore. I hate the dawn; there’s nothing beautiful about it, and I’ve seen enough to do me for the rest of my life. The country is all agricultural, with lots of vines and fruit trees all in bloom; it looks so clean that you’d think it had been just swept. We are now in billets, at country farm houses. It is quaint and countrified, with mud, pigs, cows and fowls. It is about fifteen miles behind the trenches, but we can hear the guns going quite distinctly. Had a practice with gas helmets yesterday, walking through a trench full of poison gas. It’s not too good, but there, again, it has to be done. Went up to the trenches, and saw more mud and unpleasantness than I’ve seen for years. We moved out of our bil­lets, and w'ere a bit sorry to go as we had settled down comfortably. The old farmer and his wife had a great opinion of our chaps, and liked to compare them with the Germans w»ho stayed at the place for two nights. They were strictly just but firm, requisitioned a few horses and some w'aggons, but atrocities—nil. The evening before we left the farm people asked us in for a cup of coffee in their kitchen. The old man, this wife, and son and servant were sitting round the wall,, the table covered with bottles, glasses, cups, &c. W e started off with a couple of glasses of Normandy cider, and followed that up with a few glasses of white wine. Then it was time for coffee, which is made strong, and with which you drink a small glass of French rum. After that we had some Belgian gin as a chaser, and the drinks were over. A little vodka and some beer and we should have sampled all the Allies’ drinks. All these were out of different glasses.

The next morning we marched off in the rain and mud to our pre­sent billets. It is a funny feeling to go to bed with only a brick wall and some windows to keep out the shells—you don’t feel nearly as safe as in a dugout. I have been living in an empty house in a little tinpot village, in which some furniture was left. It is all shattered with shrapnel, and one whole shell has ploughed through a door and one of the walls. These places do not have much in the way of pictures, ex­cept some weird efforts, generally of the Crucifixion, but they make up for the lack with a profusion of images vvhich my batman finds very handy for hanging clothes on. It is strange to see people living in their houses right up behind the trenches, and, of course, in range. The fields are cultivated right close up also, and it is not uncommon to see shells dropping in a field while a man, or in come cases a woman, is ploughing it.

This is rolling country like Bathurst, heavily wooded in parts, and, of course, beautifully green. The crops are all full grown, the trees in full leaf, and there are poppies, daisies, clover, and purple flowers like cornflowers everywhere growing wild, and the result is charming.

E.M.F.

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Froth and Bubble.II.

“ALONG THE REST OF THE FRONT THE USUAL ARTILLERY DUEL PREVAILS.”

Some have seen this so often that they rarely pause to think of what it means. At the front one has a personal interest in it, for since the commencement of the great offensive last year there has been one continuous artillery duel along the whole front. Shells deal out death not only to those in the trenches, but to the occupants of farmhouses miles in the rear. Still in these places the remnant of the civil popu­lation remains—old men and women and children. The Bosche had overrun these areas before the Anglo-French troops drove him back to the positions that he occupied until lately. Sad are the tales of the villagers of the days when he ravaged their farms, shot their ncn- combatants, and desecrated their churches. Since trench warfare set in the villagers have carried on their civil life in a modified fashion quite close up to the trenches. In military parlance, they “ carry on” as best they can under shell fire, always thankful to Providence for their won­derful luck in being on the Allies’ side of the trenches, and ever mindful of their less fortunate friends whose villages, though only a couple of miles away, are in the hands of the Bosche. Intermarriage is the rule in these villages, and the narrow strip occupied by the opposing armies divides families connected by the closest ties of blood. Everywhere active military operations are in progress, and for miles back in the area defended by the British every variety of soldier gathered from far an,d near in our Empire is to be met with. Farming is going on almost up to the very trenches, and often even under fire. I have many times been reminded of the pose of the peasants in Millet’s An- gelus on seeing a couple resting from their work, not at the call of the devotional bell but to watch an enemy shell bursting in their field —waiting to see if any more are coming before seeking shelter. The peasant behind the lines has an acquired contempt for shells. Children have been accustomed to them for over two years, and to them it is all in the day’s work.

The British soldier by his exemplary behaviour and generosity has made-himself loved by the citizens of this war-desolated land. He has been in their midst for months, and almost every villager speaks some English. It is just as well that they do so, for French is little spoken except in the towns. Every village 'has a patois of its own which often disgusts the French interpreter attached to all British battalions. A young schoolmistress who could speak excellent French informed me that if she were to speak it to the local people out of school she would be accused of having “ le toupet.” Very amusing scenes can often be witnessed as a group of soldiers exchange phrases and expressions with our Allies. Perhaps one will see a merry crowd of French women and children minding their P’s as they struggle with Peter Piper’s pepper picking episode. Then our men flounder through its French equivalent: Combien ces six saucissons ci? Six sous ces six saucissons ci, etc. In this way many happy and profitable hours are passed over steaming cups of French coffee.

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Many of the French children speak excellent English. One morning I sat in a ruined courtyard with another medical Major as well known at the ’Varsity as in the army, and in both places familiarly known as “ Dad.” His moustache is auburn. Near him was sitting a young officer with yellowish hair. Another officer with sunburnt face and dark hair was also in our group chatting to a fourth officer recently returned from London, as his elegant clothes pro­claimed. Three little maids arrived attired in soiled and torn black dresses, the oldest, aged about twelve, carrying a baby brother. All carried their masks against poison gas. After a few words in French the eldest was asked if she spoke English. She said nothing until she had handed the baby to her sister, then pulling “ Dad’s” moustache, she said the one word “ Ginger.” She then pointed to the next and to the third saying first “ Snowy,” then “ Darkie.” The fourth officer then asked what about himself. Looking at him from head to foot, she said: “ Swank,” and ran off with her sisters. W e were satisfied with her English.

As we laughed we thought of just such another little girl in the farmhouse across the road. She should not have been there, but her mother would not allow her removal to an hospital, for she hoped the father might get his “ permission” and be home for a few days. She had been bedridden with severe shell shock for weeks. He never saw her, for she died a few days after the above incident happened while all around “ the usual artillery duel prevailed.”

Stuart Kay.

ZOOLOGY NOTES.The dissectbn of thie fiog is often a difficult and dangerous operatioa.

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The Union.The appeal for increased membership in the last issue of “ Hermes”

has met with an excellent response, the list of ordinary members being now almost as large as in 1915. There are, however, still a few delin­quents, and it is hoped that this second appeal will awaken their en­thusiasm or energy, wfhichever is lacking.

Financial problems still occupy the attention of the Board, and will no doubt continue to do so throughout the period of war conditions.

The support accorded the Tea-room has been excellently maintained, and if this spirit of loyal co-operation is continued, a slight credit bal­ance is assured on the year’s working, while the action of many mem­bers who during luncheon remain waiting for vacancies in the crowded tea-room instead of going elsewhere is to be commended.

Mr. E. F. Campbell, B.E.—now in England on munition work— resigned from the Electric Lighting and House Committees, and Mr. C.A. W . Devitt, B .E ., was elected in his place.

Mr. A. G. Hill (R .S .A .) was also elected to fill a vacancy in the Debates Committee, caused bv the resignation of Mr. H. V . Evatt, M .A .

The Board has under consideration a suggestion that a Pleasance Committee be formed whereby members may render practical assist­ance by gardening and by offering shrubs and plants to tihe Union. The long-delayed paths around and adjacent to the Hall are now com­plete, and have considerably enhanced the surroundings of the Union.

The Board of Directors continues to elect to Honorary Life Mem­bership those of its members who depart on active service abroad. Each month sees lengthy additions to the list as the present members of the University continue to follow along the road to Europe, and to joint their brothers in the fight for freedom.

As an instance of the appreciation of the Union’s thoughtfulness in sendin r Christmas greetings to the men at the front, the following ex­tracts from a letter received from Captain H. Leaver, M .B ., Ch.M ., will be interesting to members :—

“ To-day (16/4/1?) I received the tasteful Christmas and New Year card which has been sent to members of the Union on active service abroad.

I could not refrain from writing to tell you how much I ap­preciate the kindly thoughts and wishes which prompted the gift.

When least expecting it, the sight of the University crest brought back the University, the Union, and its members in a sudden rush of memories. I was quite touched.

I have no doubt that other members as much appreciate an act which I hope will be repeated next year.”An additional set of lockers has been installed in the cloak-room,

and each locker is now in use. Each year sees greater use being made of the Union services, but members should make more frequent use of

the suggestion book for bringing before the notice of the House Com­mittee and Board, alterations or improvements in the Union services.

Extra racks and forms have also been added to the cloak-room, and the newly installed telephone collector has proved a valuable asset to the Union. A new notice board is being erected in the common room in order to relieve the congestion which is apparent under the original design. This is partly accounted for by the continuous demand for the new Union Hall, which is now the hall chiefly used for University meetings.

There is, however, one service whidh the Union placed at the dis­posal of members with great confidence, and one which has brought forth the poorest of responses. This is the book exchange. Possibly it is due to forgetfulness, but this is a service which now, above all other times, might be profitably made use of by members in all Facul­ties.

During Michaelmas Term, tournaments will be held in billiards, chess, and draugihts. The following recommendations of the Games Committee were decided upon at the last meeting of the House Com­mittee.

“That a Billiard Handicap and Championship Tournament be held during the second week of Michaelmas Term.”

“That the entrance fee be 3 / for the Championship, and 1/ for the Handicap.”

“That first and second prizes be awarded for each event, the prizes to be in the form of an open order, and the amount deter­mined by the entries received.”

“That entries close on Friday, 14th September, and Tourna­ment to commence on Monday, 17t/h September.”

“That a Chess and Draughts Tournament be held at the same time as the Billiards Tournament, and that the entrance fee for each be 1 / . ”Full particulars and conditions are posted on the Union notice

board.In two months’ time, and before another issue of “ Hermes” is

available, the present Board and Committees will have retired, and others will have been elected in their stead. This report, then, is in a way, a farewell. In it, at least, must be expressed the retiring President’s ap­preciation of the loyalty of members to w'hat is now the greatest of University societies, and at the same time the common meeting ground of all members of the University. The Union has more than fulfilled what was expected of it from the Senate, and in its present state has met with surprising facility the heavy demands made upon it by the general body of students. Its success as an institution is in no small measure due to the devotion and self-sacrifice shown by the members of the Board and Committees, who have ever been found willing and ready to give advice, help, and labour, to its cause. The clash of war found the Union of 1914 little more than adolescent, and wliile its early officers have hurried to the forefront of the struggle for freedom, in which many of them have given their lives, it is the earnest wish of every Union man that the life membership roll will be the foundation of that greater Union of University men whose strength and influence we shall not know until the days of peace.

Walter A. Selle, President.

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SYDNEY UNIVERSITY W OMEN’S UNION.Trinity term sees the Women’s Union in full working order and

Manning House at last free of Workmen.A beginning is now being made on the laying out of the garden,

and the fencing in of the ground set apart for the Women’s Union is to be undertaken immediately. It is a matter for congratulation that provision has been made here for the future and ample space allowed for the extension of the building. The Women's Union would take this opportunity of expressing its grateful thanks to the Senate of the University for its further generosity in granting the money necessary for the fencing and laying out of the ground. The sum donated by the Women’s Undergraduates’ Association for expenditure on the gar­den will enable the Directors to provide some garden seats, which will make both work and rest out of doors possible.

It is gratifying to be able to report that the dining-room has paid its way from the outset. W’hile considering the interests of members in every way by supplying suitable meals at the most reasonable prices possible the Women’s Union had to make sure that this service would not be carried on at a loss. Now that members are used to the new arrangements for meals, they must feel that the dining-room is a great convenience and plays an important part in the social side of their life. The support which they have given it up to the present has been most satisfactory, and it is hoped that they will continue to patronise it freely.

As the financial position improves, the Board of Directors hopes to be able from time to time to make various additions which will mean added comfort for the members. The screen erected on the verandah outside the door of the corridor is one improvement recently added, at considerable expense, it is true, but it has made so much for comfort in bad weather that the outlay of money has proved a wise one.

Very careful management of the finances of the Women’s Union will be necessary during the first few years of its work, and the Direct­ors feel that they are justified in proceeding slowly. For this reason they have not seen their way to spending more money at present on magazines and papers for the reading room and common room. Dona­tions have enabled several magazines to be taken, and other papers and magazines are being sent in regularly by friends interested in the Women’s Union. It is hoped that members will be interested enough in this matter to make or secure similar donations or gifts of papers and magazines as well as books. Books dealing with subjects con­nected with the war would be especially welcome.

On July 10th an address was given by Mr. Meredith Atkinson on “ Social Reconstruction After the War.” The Union Hall was taken for the occasion, as the meeting was thrown open to all members of the University. It attracted a large audience, especially of the women students and their friends.

The debates, particularly the weekly impromptu ones during the luncheon hour on Friday, have been well attended, and are likely to prove very popular. It is gratifying that so many are availing them­selves of the training in public speaking and the opportunity for dis­cussion that these meetings aflFord. Subjects such as the Censorship

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in War Time, the Anti Shouting Campaign, the appointment of Women Police, as well as some of a lighter nature, 'have been discussed. An attempt is made to bring up for discussion questions of the day and stimulate interest in them.

The Assembly Hall is already proving to be too small for a large gathering of members. It is felt that when the extensions already planned are to be carried out the Assembly Hall arranged for on the ground floor must be among the first things to be considered. In the meantime, it means much to the women students to have a room, how­ever small, which can be reserved for meetings. The Assembly Hall is serving a further purpose this year, for the Women’s Union has granted the use of it to the Women’s Undergraduate Association for the work that it is doing for the War Chest, the Red Cross, and the French- Australian League. Every morning sees large groups of women stu­dents giving their spare hours to this patriotic work. The wives of many of the members of the teaching staff have given valuable help in connection with this work.

At a meeting held recently it was decided that every member should be urged to join a group for the purchase of war-saving cer­tificates, or to have a booklet for the war-savings stamps. Groups will be formed as members wish for it, and the stamps will be on sale during the lunch hour on Mondays and Thursdays. It is hoped that these arrangements will encourage members to do their part in helping to make this scheme a success, and that before the end of the year a large number of certificates will have been purchased by them.

Isabel M. Fidler, President.

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“ HERMES" EXCHANGES.

Undergraduates who do not find the Magazine of their school on the list should notify the Editorial Secretary, or arrange with their school to have the publication sent in exchange.

Suggested additions should be notified to the Editorial Secretary.The following are acknowledged, and are available to members in the Reading

Room of the Union:—“ St. Peter’s School Magazine,” University of Adelaide, S.A.“The S.J.C.,” St. Joseph’s College, Hunter’s Hill.“The Novocastrian,” Newcastle High School.“ The Sydneian,” Sydney Grammar School.“The 'Newingtonian,” Newington College, Stanmore.“Queensland University Magazin'e,” Brisbane, Queensland.“The Speculum,” Medical Journal, Melbourne University.“The Round Table” (June) MacMmillans, London.“ Otago University Review,” Otago University, Dunedin, New Zealand. "Canterbury University College Review,” Canterbury College, Christchurch,

New Zealand.“The Fortian,” Boys’ High School, Petersham.“The Conserv'atorium Magazine,” the official organ of the State Conservatorium

of Music.“ Women’s College Calendar,” Women’s College (within the University).

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Lamentations and Revelations.Lo! they said unto me work; and I did work. Three long months

have 1 worked, most dihgently have i toiled at my studies. And now' tne time is at hand, now lias tne wheel turned lull round, and now must i run my course. Yet a little while and 1 shall stand belore Jum; yet a little while and the Day ol judgment shall come. Surely mercy and goodness shall rule ever in Jum’s Heart.

How has Barney Done the Dirty on Med 111.! When we saw the new iVlassage Girls we were hlled with great cheer, yea we rejoiced when we beheld them. But then did Barney see our joy and he placed them far from us, among the ilnd year men did he put them, even among those Blighters. VVherefore our hearts were heavy, for though many of these VVomen were long lost from youth, some there were of Pure Gold.

Lo! i stood at the gate of a Women's College in the twelfth day of the seventh month; and it was about the eleventh hour. And 1 lifted up mine eyes and saw a Beast rise up out of the night having four wheels and two seats, and upon his head two shining lights! And the wheels of the Beast were of Rubber, and his body was of Iron. And i looked and saw', and lo ! the number of the Beast was one thousand one hundred and five. Now in the mouth of the Beast sat a Man, and by the side of the man i saw a Woman. And the man was clothed in brown raiment even after the way of a Soldier, and the Woman w'as fair to Icok upon. And as I looked I saw that the arms of the Man were close around the Woman, and his face was pressed close to her face. And there was a Glow upon her Cheek. . . . And I could bear no more, but turned from thence with a sigh, for I thought that some men were Too Lucky.

How heavily does the hand of Cupid lie upon the Medical School! Even so that the Reading Room is become a Trysting Place, and the Hall has become a Place of Flirtation. The amours of George are revived, the ardour of “Dutch” is unceasing. Even He-that-walketh- with-a-Stick is troubled, he and many others.

“ Behold I go quickly,” saith Chappie, “yet a little while and I shall leave you.” And now Rejoice O Ye Cats and Dogs, for now is your Enemy taken away; Rejoice O ye Milk Trains, for Punctuality need no longer be yours; Rejoice O ye who write Text Books, for now may Students take your W ord; Rejoice O ye Surgeons, for now may ye make Mistakes; Rejoice O ye Other People, for now may ye hold your own Opinions; and Rejoice, O Sir Andy, for now is thine Authority undisputed. But Mourn, all ye Bakers, for now may your yeast go on Strike; Mourn, all ye who drink Beer, for now is your Champion gone from among you ; Mourn, all ye Med. Students, for no longer will you hear his yarns; and Mourn all our ’Varsity, for a Fine Man is gone from us.

And it came to pass one day as I worked earnestly at the Dissect­ing Table that I lifted up mine eyes from my work and beheld a Man coming afar off. And as I looked I saw that in his hand was a Stick and upon his arm a Blue Raiment. And upon the head of the Man

was a cover, of the kind that is called Naval. And upon his raiment was much metal, bright and shining, and upon his sleeve was much Braid of Gold. And they that were with me saw him also, and imme­diately the Place was filled with the Hornpipe of the seafarer, at which the Man seemed Greatly Annoyed.

Lo! one sent unto me saying: Attend at the Room that is called Orderly on the sixth day and at the ninth hour. And on the morning of the sixth day I arose at the ninth hour and girded up my loins and went forth as I was bid. And when I was come to the appointed place I ob­served a great Multitude, and immediately a Trumpet was sounded and I heard the sound of many voices, yea, and much Shouting. And after a time I observed that the multitude was drawn up even as were the Gideonites, the first Captain with his Fifty, the second with his fifty, and the third with his fifty. And straightway I heard a mighty roaring to which some of those present gave heed, but many gave ear no, not for a moment. But he that did roar commanded each captain to take his fifty and to go every man his own way. And some led their men to green pastures, and bade them lie down and rest; and some led their men by the roadside, and there they called each man his name, as was written in the book; and some who knew not the Law marched their men to and fro, yea even to Desperation. And about the twelfth hour a Trumpet did sound, and again the multitude was assembled. Where­upon He that roared first, roared even again, and immediately each man left his neighbour and went his way.

And at all these things did I marvel exceedingly, for I knew not what meaning they did hold. But One that was Wise said that they meant many Shekels to our country.

And it came to pass that as I wandered through the land that is forbidden to the males I passed by the tents of the tribe called Coll. And lo! standing in the alcoves I did see the Unfortunates awaiting the chastisement chamber, for in the Tabernacle of their patriarche there were lamentations and tribulations. And after the chastening the mem­bers of the tribe did wander afar off with sadness in their hearts but a glint of gladness in their eyes as they bethought themselves of the monument of their endeavour. And as I passed on my way I mur­mured to myself: The Girls will be Girls.

Medicus.

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TO GRADUATES

An endeavour is being made to increase the list of graduate subscribers to "Herm<es.” While it is often difficult to reach all those members of the University who wish to receive the Magazine regularly, much help could be given by graduates who are already subscribers. "Hennes” looks to these to remind their friends of the appeal, and assist by an extended circulation in maintaining the Magazine at a thoroughly representative standard.

The Editor.

TO CONTRIBUTORS.

The response that has met the request for contributions has been so great that, despite a further increase in the size of the magazine, many artides and con­tributions have had to be held over. These will be given preference in Michaelmas Term issue.

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YouthYouth is abroad careless-footed upon the graves of its fathers.

Armed in a steely confidence forged in the easy arsenals whose portals the shadow of failure has never deigned to darken, its battalions trample our past into the dust of their unmemoried marches. Fresh­cheeked omniscience has stepped from its knickerbockers man-clothed into the majesty of its self-conceived superiority. They that bore us are grey and wrinkled and bent, and lean to the beckoning dust. Their days are wrapped in sadness, their spirits are memory-laden and slow to anger, their states are shattered, and their temples razed, their gods are trodden in the mire, and their passions cold in the grey ashes of their weary souls. They have sultered and learnt. They vaunt no more, nor march singing forward over the corpses of their weaker bro­thers, crying “Vae Victis.” They are old, these our fathers. Let us put them quietly against the wall and shoot them, for they hamper us in our inevitable and sacred duty of rivalling Paradise, and of hurling in the face of God the new heaven we build in His despite. Let us on, brothers, we are the Inevitable Young, and the world and life are ours. Stay not, and let them bleed. They are old and foolish, these our fathers.

It is so tragically young, this ne\v youth, whose voice is high on every shore, whose riots and revolutions redden the quiet old w’orld, w’hose confident ignorance streams through the world raucous-voiced and undenied; so purblind in its omnivision, so futile in its omnipotence, so selfish in its panadelphianism, so soulless in its passion, so helpless in its independent satisfaction, so convinced of the eternity of its tran­sient vigor. Hot-cheeked and lusty, large-limbed and impatient of stay, it stalks red-handed from Petrograd to Broken Hill, from Leeds to Chicago, from Dublin to Madrid, from perdition to anarchy, finding in the aeon-old truth of human progress a novel creed of rebellion in whose temple hot-breathed it fans the altar flame to leaping furies of ravage. It feeds on burning villages and hot words, shattered win­dows and broken faith, mingled creeds and mixed metaphors, fallen thrones and failed adventurers, red flag and redder ruin; while Time, waiting for the generation that is in its turn to trample on the wasted relics of this eternal force, creases his belly in cynical mirth to see the fury failing even as it fumes. Even-handed it lays the ghosts of yesterday and the plots of to-morrow, explodes harmless theories and dangerous bombs, creates provisional governments and perpetual trouble, sagely performing the worn pantomime of folly, new-found, airily indifferent to the fact that Eternal Youth has danced the same jig ever since life was a transient tragedy.

It has its press, this youth, its hustings and hoarseness, its picks and shovels, and its prophets; its Parliaments and its publicans; its en­thusiasms and its egoisms, its sins and sincerities, its brotherhoods and its brothels; gauded out in all the old trappings of the last eternal youth that ate the same fire a hundred years agone, and now lies mocking in the dust of the new movement. It is the righteous avenger of Tyranny,

and meets opposition with torch and pike and gelignite. It is the bro­therhood of man, and death to all who have no envy of the relationship. The stark fosterchild of want, it is also with amazing inconsistency the hangman of stability and church, charity and oubstance.

We are the New Life of Freedom to all. We are the death-knell of oppression. We have paralysed God, and will out-miracle the Gos­pels. Let us kill everybody else, burn the world down, and dance the Carmagnole. Had it nor voice nor arm, were it not for its loud self­justification and belauding in word and deed, there were no matter in this youth but the mirth of it. But it walks and wills, slays and revels, leaps torch-fisted from the last pyre to the new sacrifice unstayed and raving with righteousness. In has no memories, no past, no lessons and no regrets. The still night, sandalled in silver, sea-voiced and vine-tressed, soft with slumber and cloaked with recollection, brings to it no realisation of the inevitable recompense of time. When it has leamt tears and death, this new youth, and mumbled the dust in its blind gums, the Valleys it has set aflame will be green with young leaves, and the cool moss will creep to the quiet stream. The moon will fall golden on the young tree-stems, and in the quiet nights the branches will whisper of peace. The sea will be at its singing as now, and for unstoried ages past. The new young will be mating at will and giving birth in high and traitorous confusion of the present new and eternal freedom. Time, tongue in cheek, will know the leaders of this new-born equality grown greasy with the fat of their own getting.

Is there then no virtue in age, O New Youth, that criest “ Make way for the young” ? Is there no knowledge in suffering, no experi­ence in failure, no seasoning of spirit in sorrow, but that thy flaunting fatuity can relegate them all to the dustbin of an unprofitable past, and hasten folly-frantic and unwarned over the precipices of an equally un­profitable future? Is there no wisdom in tears, and in years neither profit nor learning, that the world must be delivered untrammelled to the inexperience of thine itching hands, and thy passage to perdition franked over the bodies of the old? Thy cheeks are still red with youth, and thy hands already red with death. The strength that leaves thy fathers runs lusty in thine arms to strike them. Thy flames leap high about the homes that housed thee and the temples that gave thee name. Of a truth thou art the movement of Freedom, the unparallel­led arbiter of humane justice, the stern hand on the galloping reins of progress, O Youth that criest “ Make way for the Young!”

R.LK.

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CHANSON.

As the pale night, scarce bra'athing, lest its voice Should swell to dirge of long-pemt sorrowing;As the slow wave, long hesitating, stays Ere on the callous shore its full heart breaks. Wasted and sorrow-spent; as to the rose The tired petal clings before it fall Asleep in dewy grave; as in the sense Sweet violet odours linger las they die.And in the silent air melodious Vibrates the echo of a fading song—So do I tremble when I feel you near To speak my love and know you love me not.

J, R. P.

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Some Reminiscences of

James Prosper Pickburn.At school I do not remember exchanging even a greeting with

Fickburn, for he was my elder in ability if not in years. My first clear recollection of him is pleasant enough. There was a performance of “ Henry V .” in the “ Big schoolroom.” Henry himself was a kind of Aguecheek, with a w'eak voice, mutton-chop whiskers, and a costume somewhat like that of Bombastes Furioso; but some of the other roles were fairly well sustained. The late L. Whitfeld, for example, gave an interesting rendering of Fluellen. But, to my mind, only one actor thoroughly realised his part— the flaxen-haired youth who played the “ Boy” with a delightful mixture of naivete and sarcasm, a malicious good-nature which drew liking and laughter. After all, he hardly needed to act to produce that impression.

At the University I knew him as a careless, good-natured, brilliant student, who appeared to idle into one success after another. He was not a deep thinker, but he had a mind of extraordinary activity and a retentive memory, and he could achieve quite remarkable results from a few hours’ study. His cheerfulness was unfailing, and he tackled serious problems with a smile. The ease with which he won honours was a grief to professors who wished to encourage systematic and con­tinuous study; but they were powerless. In the Union, I am told, he was one of the ablest and most eloquent of debaters; I never heard him there, but I w as present when, with no great effort, he swayed a hostile meeting of the Association. Everybody was drawn to him, though he rever seemed to make any attempt to win or hold affection. He was often sarcastic, but there was something disarming in jests which were so plainly devoid of ill intent, so unmistakably prompted by high spirits and a whimsical sense of fun. As my colleague in “ Hermes,” he displayed his abilities in light invective, satire, parody, and verse trans­lation. Sometimes I found it difficult to get his “ copy” in time, but. when it came, it always outweighed in value all the other contents of the number in which it was to appear. He was a leading member of the University Dramatic Society. I remember him as the Duke in Ford’s “ Love’s Sacrifice,” Dick Coomes in Porter’s “ Two Angry Women of Abington,” Tattle in Congreve's “ Love for Love,” the apothecary in Colman’s “ Poor Gentleman,” and in other parts; but most distinctly I recall him as a debased clergyman in a two-act farce by Billy McIntyre, another member of the troupe, and as the florid Poppytop in “The Wedding March”—an adaptation from Labiche by W , S. Gilbert. He was most successful in parts which required little subtlety but depended for their effect upon broad humour, but he rolled forth serious blank verse with infectious enjoyment. Of the English poets he most admired William Morris, and he knew the more sonorous passages of “ Sigurd” by heart; yet his admiration, which amounted slmost to hero-worship, was rather for the man than for the writer—

for the man who sacrificed much in the service of 'his fellows, who scorned to remain “ the idle singer of an empty day,” but gave his best energies to the cause of social reform.

Twice Pickburn went landloping with me. The first trip was short, and we were accompanied by a young brother of mine and a graduate whose pet-name was Galba. VVe carried swags and, with one exception, might easily have passed as ordinary swaggies; but Galba ivore white duck trousers, a kind of tail coat, and a hard-hitter hat, ?nd trusted that a large cotton handkerchief about his neck would suffi­ciently indicate that he was a peregrinating toiler. We passed through tl-e Kangaroo Valley on a blazing Sunday, a day of unmitigated thirst, and from one settlement to another before us sped a man on horseback to warn the publicans that detectives in disguise were trying to tiap Sunday traders. Nobody would sell us a drink. A night or two later we slept beside the ruins of a humpy, not far from a creek on the main coast road. I neyer saw a place more productive of mosquitoes. They covered us in a humming cloud. We found a domestic utensil with a hole in the bottom, filled it with clods of natural incense, and almost smothered ourselves with smoke; but the mosquitoes scented us through the haze and were not to be put off. Jim was restless. None of us rested but Galba. Galba snored. “ Kid,” said Jim to my brother, “ you’re nearest to Galba; stop him.” The Kid said he had tried. “ Turn him over,” Jim directed solemnly; “ turn him over every time he snores.” The Kid, overawed by Jim’s years and knowledge, bestrid the exhausted detective and laboriously turned him. Galba snorted, n:?oaned, and was silent. Several times in the night I woke with a start to see a shadowy form leaning over a grunting sleeper; but Jim was breathing deeply and peacefully. Early in the morning, after we had despatched the Kid to a farm a mile back to buy onions, Galba rose, «!ishevelled, heavy-eyed, and rather surly. Jim condoled with him. ■'You look a bit out of sorts,” he said sympathetically. “ So would you,” growled Galba; “ that infernal young beggar has been turning me over the whole blessed night.” The wild delight of Jim at this reply ’.vas a treasure for the memory.

On our second expedition, Jim and I tramped lazily over the coun­try for six weeks. He was an ideal companion. W e seldom talked, and often we were far apart, but we came to know each other very well, and we enjoyed smoking together before our camp-fires. Those were happy days. Laughter and sadness and a longing for the road mingle as I think of them. In later years I saw but little of him, but the memories of his sardonic humour and his underlying kindness were never dimmed. In his chambers there used to hang a photograph ot a jnan in old and dirty garments—trousers which were coloured with the dust and mud of many a road and camp, a coat which once had formed part of a pyjama suit, and a soft felt hat. broken and shapeless. A handkerchief was knotted at his throat, in his hand was a bundle con­taining “ tucker” and a Globe Shakespeare, and on his face was five weeks’ growth of beard. I took that photo in King’s Cave the morn- L-ig before we started on the day's slouch towards Sydney. That was Jim Pickburn as I now like to remember him, the man as best I knew and loved him. J. Le Gay Brereton.

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Book Notes and ReviewsO. HENRY.

We do not know the American at his best. Sydney has experience of him mainly as Push Promoter and Walhngford idealist. His novels and plays are abominable. 1 cannot do better than sum them up in Mr. Leacock's expressive word, “ snoopopathic.” When he is not “ mushy” he is “ live-wire.” Hence hustling business, hustling philosophy, and—" Progress.”

I suppose we see mainly the business side of the American. The Queedy” novels that come over to us are “ best-sellers.” The plays

are the “sensations.” But that is merely poster-America. Is there act something corporate and individual at once in this hundred million? There was an America we knew— the rollicking America of Mark Twain, the prim America of Hawthorne, the spacious America of Whitman. But has this modern polyethnic, almost polyglot genera­tion some consonance hidden from the foreign ear, an intimacy not to be gathered from “ Nash’s Magazine” and Mrs. Wilcox?

Turn to O. Henry and you feel baffled. You are not so sure as you were about the American. He is speaking to you in new and subtle .ways ;that make you wonder whether you have got up-to-dateness in the right perspective. Is there a romance of the flat and the flat-iron? Are there humans in the cities as well as bulls and bears? Do love and hate go on as well as “ blink ads” ? Is there a New York of O . Kenry as there is a Five Towns of Bennett?

There is and there is not. He tells us of city-voices. “ Chicago bays unhesitatingly ‘ I w'ill’ ; Philadelphia says ‘ I should’ ; New Orleans says ‘ I used to’ ; Louisville says ‘ Don’t care if I do” ; St. Louis says'Excuse me’ ; Pittsburg says ‘ Smoke up.’ Now, New York ------ .”Much of his genius was spent in catching the tones of that voice—the voice of the “ Four Million.” Yet something is missing. The whole concord is not there. It is hard to say just where the lack is, for most of his work is the transcription of a genuine life. He is not artificial, though the artificial is in his works. If you compare his language with that of “ Fables in Slang” or “ Shorty McCabe” you see at once the difference between an artist and these knights of the wet towel. He has no metallic lingo. He does not bastinado his themes. When he slips it ife from exuberance, not from exhaustion. Herein his deficiency is legitimate because it is national. When the American humorist misses 'his mark it is through boisteiousness and violence. He loves extravagant situation and precipitous anti-climax, but he is generally lovable and lively. O. Henry has these faults in his own atmosphere of city-smartness. But the smartness is not card-trick smartness as in “ Fables in Slang.” It is his own dialect, but it is a langiiage sprung from a real life. If he sometimes misuses it his facility is to blame.

Why, then, is his echo of the city voice incomplete? Mainly be­cause his art is fragmentary and superficial. He 'had not Dickens’ power of sketching in a few lines an unforgettable character. He can­not be patient and meticulous like Bennett or Balzac. His work re- mmds one of the disappearing electric advertisements. It is in the quiet, the intimate and permanent that he fails.

We have been expecting a “ Life” of O . Henry, and it has appeared over the signature of C. Alphonse Smith, Poe Professor of English in the University of Virginia. In the use of “ pure” English the bio­grapher is more strained than his subject was in his own dialect. There is a retarding self-consciousness in the style suggestive of timidity. Queer artificialities result. The first chapter essays a factitious parallel between the course of O. Henry’s life and the normal course of an O. Henry story. How discouraging! No doubt O. Henry’s style is con­tagious, but woe worth the imitator! It leads to a sentence like this; “ Poe’s art, unlike that of Irving, is identified with no particular time or place. He was always stronger on moods than tenses, and his geography curtsied more to sound than to Mercater or Maury.” It is strange, too, that the biographer of a humorist can write in all serious­ness : “ Like Childe Roland’s acceptance of the challenge on the occasion ot his memorable first visit to the Dark Tower, O. Henry’s acceptance of the invitation to come to New York was in itself the pledge of ulti­mate victory.” Is there a poem of Browning’s called “ Childe Roland, Tourist” ?

Professor Smith has gone to much pains in collecting and collating material for his work. He is sympathetic and appreciative, and has (lone his subject at least one lasting service in clearing him completely of the unlucky charge that sent him to prison. Sympathy and admira­tion should inform a biographer’s work; otherwise the stimulus is merely publication. Professor Smith is certainly whole-heartea; per­haps his fault is being too much so. He shares the too-frequent bio­grapher’s mistake of regarding his subject as flawless. Some stricte.r canons seem necessary. For though he views him with a compatriot’s eye, yet he should remember he is testing O. Henry in a universal field. O . Henry is not flawless, or he would surely be no genius. It is second-class art that is flawless.

O. Henry has his limitations. He saw a great deal of life, but he saw little of it deeply. I said above that the quiet, the intimate, and the permanent were lacking in his work. This is not true of all he wrote, for he sometimes reaches delightful little backwaters of still Ijie. But in the main he must do things quickly and snappily. Charac­ters do not grow under his hands; and it both astonishes and disap­points that a man who had seen so much of life resorts to a method which produces mere types. His shop-girls, tramps, and clerks are almost interchangeable. Their exteriors are hit ofif with amazing pre­cision and terseness, but they are substantial only as representative of a class.

It is also strange that one so immersed in life sought so persistently the novel situation, the unexpected climax. His biographer is posi­tively wrong in stating, “ It was not startling plots that he sought; it was human nature themes.” Far too many of his plots turn on mere extravaganza. This is in keeping when his aim is purely humorous, as in the “ Gentle Grafter.” But the characteristic extends to more serious attempts.

One reason for this is the necessity of the journalist to keep in More a surprise over the page. But the other lies in his own nature. He has not the Frenchman’s intuitive subtlety. He is too often subtle by intention. It is for this reason that he keeps to humour and pathos. He avoids the tragic and severe.

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But O . Henry emerges serene above carping and qualification. He is a genius, but where that genius manifests itself is not easy to say. The final word on him must come from America. But you cannot read him without feeling that a something behind mere smartness is speaking. It is not merely that he has created a technique of his own, but that a simple, noble, and generous nature is expressing itself. He hated philanthropists, snobs, and sociologists. He loved the ordinary. Whatever sense of the artificial we get comes purely from his manner. The man was not artificial, but unaffected and whole-hearted. He gave a poetry to a life outside of, and too good for, the “ best-seller.”

O. Henry is significant in a more important sense. I have dis­cussed him mainly as the interpreter of the city. But he is more than that. He is a complete American. He knew the south, east, west, and north. Though his touch is surest in city subjects, he is remark­ably impartial in handling themes from every locality. He is the first sign of a corporate voice from modern America. A Southern or a Northern note is not enough. Just now America has spoken with one voice. She has raised a war-cry not of Rebs and Yanks. War knits or loosens a nation. It nci'er leaves that nation ‘as it was. Will it be war that brings from America her representative man?

L. H. A.

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FIVE PLAYS OF SHAKESPEARE.“ The Australasian Shakespeare” is a series of Shakespearian texts

issued in Melbourne under the general supervision of Professor R . S. Wallace. The first volume is “Twelfth Night,” edited by Professor Wallace himself, \vith a brief but sufficient introduction, dealing with the date and source of the play and adding some pleasant general criti­cism. There are also a glossary, explanatory notes, and a couple of useful appendices. This book serves in some sort as a model for the work of subsequent editors, though, within the limits, those editors have enjoyed a remarkable freedom. It might have been better for the schools if the glossary had been embodied in the notes, but then we should have wanted an index. The notes are helpful, if not over- plentiful. Generally, one feels that the series has been given a good start. The volume looks rather well, too; it is printed on good paper and bound in a handsome blue cloth, and there are two apposite illus­trations. Perhaps the war is to blame for the inferiority of the ma­terials used in the make-up of later issues. They don’t look bad, but they can’t' wear as well as “ Twelfth Night.” Educational authorities properly expect them to last a year, but the publisher doubtless hopes, however vainly, that teachers will instruct their pupils in the fair usage of books. Let them fight it out.

Mr. A. T. Strong’s “King Lear” is scholarly and yet not above the heads of the average school class. The introduction is a sound piece of work, always thoughtful and often touched with generous warmth. A defence of Cordelia against the precise critics, who declare her guilty of momentary lack of consideration and therefore worthy of the gibbet, is as just as it is eloquent. “ She is‘a tragic figure,” he concludes, “ but she is not the figfure w'ho makes the tragedy, hence we need not pry into her soul for flaws as if we were God’s spies.’'

“ As You Like It” has been well edited by Mr. Frank Tate; but the explanation of Touchstone’s character and place iq the play, which

has wisely been given piecemeal in the notes as occasion demanded, has less wisely been repeated forthright in the introduction where it can be conned by the parrots. The discussion ot date and sources is set forth carefully, and the cheerful treatise on the spirit of the piece is admirable. (A line of Arnold’s is misquoted on page x., but Mr. Tate is not the only editor who introduces misquotations into the series.) The frontispiece is the Chandos portrait, but Mr. Tate forgets to tell his young readers why ‘he reproduces a picture which is certainly not like Shakespeare, a portrait which Sir Sidney Lee supposes may have been painted “ from fanciful descriptions” of the poet.

Professor Murdoch, too, seems infatuated with the Chandos por­trait, for he sets it in the front of his “ Merchant of Venice.” His other illustration is, unaccountably, the title-pages of Alabastei’s “ Roxana” and Richards’ “ Messallina.” Nothing else in Professor Murdoch’s book is puzzling. The introduction is simple, charming, adequate. The notes are clear, brief, and interesting, nicely calculated to wake the literary sense of the pupil, and provocative of thought. I w'ish ithere were more of them, but their author explains that he is “ no believer in copious annotations to an edition intended for use in schools.” To this one may reply in the words of Professor Tiicker— “ the purpose of a commentary is to deal with all perplexities and mis­understandings which either have arisen or are likely to arise. What seems obvious to one reader is by no means so to another, and obvious­ness often turns out to be fallacious.” Professor Murdoch’s “ Merchant of Venice” would be a perfect book in the hands of a class directed by an able teacher with a fully annotated edition.

Professor Murdoch, with gentle and just consideration, refuses to bore children with a long discussion of the date question. “ We may be grateful,” he says, “ to the devoted scholars who 'have laboriously sifted all the available evidence for us . . . but a description of the evidence on which their conclusions are based is apt to be in­tolerably tedious.” The remark is aptly illustrated by Professor Tucker’s introduction to “ Macbeth.” Professor Tucker is learned and, as he is at pains to assure us, original, but boys and girls will never appreciate his pedagogical solemnities, and some may even won­der why his reference numbers in the notes never agree with the num­bers with which the printer, under guidance of the linotype, has flanked the text. His opinion that “ in dealing with the folio text a wise editor will err—if err he must—on the side of conservatism” is sound; but why does he shake our confidence by substituting “ Beelzebub” for ‘ Belzebub,’ ‘ cauldron’ for ‘ cawdron,’ ‘ clept’ for ‘clipi,’ ‘ hermits’ for 'eremites.’ ‘ scotch’d’ for ‘ scorch’d,’ and ‘ thou’dst’ for ’th’adst’ ? His ‘ wreck’ for ‘ wrack’ we must recognise as a misprint; and ‘ Macbeth’ for ‘ Macduff’ (p. 156, notes) is an accident. His conjectural readings seldom have any appreciable value and might well have been omitted from the notes. Thrice in his text he departs purposely from the folio —in two scenes he ventures to reassign certain speeches, though the folio arrangement is defensible, and in v. iii. 21 (this is not the lino­type’s numbering) he reads ‘defease’ (equals ‘undo’) for ‘diseate,’ though ‘defeat’ (equals ‘undo’), which was first suggested by Daniel, would necessitate a slighter alteration of the folio lettering. ‘ Defease’ is a rare word, and the N.E.D. can quote no example earlier than 1631: ‘ defeat’ had long been established in the language, and in “ The Ad­

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vancement of Learning” (1605) we read: “ Great and sudden fortune for the most part defeateth men” ; the date of “ Macbetih” may be 1606. In the absence of a glossary to the notes, the use, in a school book, of such unfamiliar terms of ‘obelize,’ ‘concettistic,’ ‘athetizing’ and ‘ caliphory’ has almost a smack of pedantry. Caliphory does not grow by every creek. The Van Buchell sketch of the Swan playhouse, which is given as an illustration or an ornament, is misleading when it is not explained. Some of the Professor’s arguments against the authenticity of scenes i. and ii. of act I. are a little strained, and those which depend upon the alleged inconsistencies in the record of Cawdor’s downfall have been answered in advance by Profe.ssor MacCallum in “ The Cawdor Problem” (“ The Book of Homage to Shakespeare,” 1916). There is so much in Professor Tucker’s “ Macbeth” which is scholarly, especially in the discussion of general principles, so much that would be valuable if more attractively presented, that it is impossible not to deplore its blemishes, trifling as they may appear to those whose thoughts are fixed upon the heights. J. L. G. B.

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The Round Table.The June issue, which came to hand by the last English mail, is a

very strong number. The first article, entitled “A War of Liberation,” arrests attention by reason of its width of outlook, its fine idealism, and its excellent literary style. If fuses together impressions on the Russian revolution, the reform movement in Germany, the American participation in the War, in a remarkable manner, and shows, in an eloquent and cogent final section, how essential to a new birth of free­dom is the overthrow of Prussian absolutism. Another very striking article is one on the new developments in the constitution of the Em­pire, signalised by the meeting of the Imperial War Conference and the formation of the Imperial War Cabinet. Writings such as the two just mentioned are essential to an adequate realisation by the well-in­formed citizen of the real meaning and tendency of events of which he reads from day to day in his newspaper. A paper in “The Education of the Citizen” includes an article of special interest to University read­ers; it is entitled “The Nation’s Appeal to the Universities.” In it are shown in striking contrast the British and German systems, with many post-war problems, w'hich must influence the University development of the future.

The Coo-ee Contingent.A collection of twenty-five short stories covering war experiences

in Egypt, Gallipoli, and France. The sketches are short, brightly and cleverly written, and one of them, “The Gallipoli Riders,” is considered by the “ Bulletin” reviewer to be one of the few great stories of the War. From Angus & Robertson, Ltd.

“ The Vision Splendid,” by John Oxenham.A handy-sized and daintily got up volume of semi-religious verse,

“ for the times and the times to come.” The author dedicates to “ all those who are looking forward with earnest expectation and steadfast determination to the emergence from this present chaos of a cosmos

worthy of God and humanity in this twentieth century of the Christian era.” The subjects chosen are mostly concerning the war, and the anther deals with the angels at Mons:

Were there angels at Mons?Why not?There are angels everywhere;An we were fitter to receive We might more possibly perceive Them in the way.Has He not charged them to upbear Our stumbling footsteps, and with care To help us when we stray?

“ Hermes’ ” copy comes from the publishers, Messrs. Methuen & Co., London.

A Book of Verse.Tyrell’s, Ltd'., will shortly be publishing a small volume of Aus­

tralian verse by C. F. Pettinger, of “ Hermes” staff. It will be en­titled, “Dust and Dew,” and will contain reprints from the “ Bulletin,” “Triad,” and “ Hermes,” as well as some previously unpublished verse.

“ Artificial Limbs,” by Sir Thomas Anderson Stuart.This is a lecture delivered by Sir Thomas Anderson Stuart before

members of the Red Cross Society, and is now issued in pamphlet form by the Government Printer bv the authority of the Minister of Public Health.

The lecturer dealt with the history of artificial limbs from ancient times (300 B.C.) to the limbs produced by the Carnes Co. (Kansas, U .S .A .), which are a revelation to those outside the profession. Illus­trations are given of a letter written by the aid of a Carnes arm, and the perfection of the limbs is such that one may skate, climb a ladder, or cycle after having lost one or even two legs, and drive, row, and even swing a pick (in the case of a navvy) with the aid of the Carnes arm.

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SUNRISE.

Ashore we gaze far out across the seaDarkened with night’s black shadow. Now faint beams

Strike upward from the sun hidden as yet And stronger grow: And o’er night’s blackness streams

A flood illuminating. Suddenly By unseen hands upon th’ Horizon’s edge

A radiant ball is set, ’twixt sea and sky.That Darkness’ powers shall never rule—God’s pledge.

Nature awakes; the wind comes forth once more;The.shadows flee—another day is com«;A miracle is worked—Dark yields to Light.

South Head. R. K. D.

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For France.Not for the love of a battlefield gory,

But for the love of their women enslaved.Not for revenge do they fight, nor for glory,

But that their country and we may be saved.Heed ye the sacrifice?Frenchmen have paid the price.

Giving their life blood for you and for me.Shall they have died in vain?Fruitless shall be their pain?

Fight, give, and labour that France may be free!

At the outbreak of war in 1914 the various Undergraduate Asso­ciations were in satisfactory financial positions, in fact most of them had substantial amounts standing to credit. As the seriousness of the war horizon developed and the call became universal throughout the nation, varying amounts were donated to the dififerent War, Red Cross and Patriotic funds, until the balances were practically exhausted. Still, the war went on, and the call became more insistent on those at home to help our soldiers’ dependents, our Red Cross, and other organisations, as well as our gallant Allies. To raise funds effort was organised, and as a result t)he members of the University and their friends have raised substantial amounts to supplement various funds. In 1915 over £400 was raised by means of a patriotic concert for Belgium. Last year the University Fete provided £800 for the “Citi­zens’ War Chest,” and this year the students’ efforts were devoted to France.

Owing to the credit balance of the Associations being almost nominal, a joint committee of men and women students was formed, and a students’ concert was held in Sydney Town Hall on 6th July. Tihe undergraduates w ere assisted by several well-known artists, and al­though the official balance-sheet is not yet available, it is estimated that the funds of the French-Australian League will benefit to the ex­tent of £250 or £300.

Whatever doubt may have inspired the croakers, there was none in the minds of the executive half an hour after the doors opened. The women’s, gallery quickly filled, and the rows of smiling faces be­hind the streamers plainly told of the enjoyment that Miss Arts, Miss Wog, and Miss Butdher contemplated during the evening. The men’s gallery was not so crowded as in days gone by, and even among those present the khaki colour of our comrades from the camps gave proof of the loyalty of the ’Varsity man to his faculty. There was little or no work for the Vigilance Committee. During the week mysterious bulletins were issued from the “School” showing that the barometer stood at “ stormy.” But it wasn’t, not at least from that quarter. During an aria some few rabbits did leave their warren and attempt aeronautics, but their effort was hardly worth)’ of the applause. The large audience in the body of the hall was headed by His Excellency the Lieut.- Governor and party—which, during the evening, included “ Puss”—the Consuls, and a large number of the staff with their friends.

It was a concert evening, and the student body were in concert mood. It must have been a revelation to many who knew the student by reputation only to have experienced such appreciative attention as was displayed to the better-known artists and the patriotic songs. After the National Anthem at the arrival of His Excellency, M . Goos- sens sang La Marseillaise. Of course, the student has favourites just as has the matinee maid, and Miss Caspers was well remembered from the Belgian concert. “ Ella was wanted,” and as the chief of the Vigi­lance Committee explained, it is always dangerous to tantalise Meds. No one suspected Frank Whitlow’s knowledge of ’Varsity secrets and Tom of all! Had it been—but, no, let it drop.

It is still being debated in spite of August exams as to who spent the most enjoyable evening. Freddy still smiles at the recollection of Mignonette and the weighty exchequer; at supper. Puss and “ Shad,” with Stan and Jim, smiled the smile of the contented, and the President of tihe S .U .W .U .A . disbanded her tired maids well satisfied with their efforts.

The event made a welcome break in the serious routine of our lives, and while the funds for France are augmented as the result of our efforts, we remember that

Still with the powers of darkness contending (Weary the waiting and bloody the fray),

Prance battles on with a purpose unbending.But wistful she looks for the coming of day,

Day, that shall victory 'bring,Day, whe.n the bells shall ring

Telling of peace and the gladness to be.Mangled by shot and shell.Braving the night of hell,

France battles on that the world may be free.

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‘ HERMES” STAFF.

Dear "Hermes,”—^Your magazine makes a distinct claim to represent this University in the world of journalism; your secretary sends round notices to Manning House and the Women’s College: you invite the women to purchase copies of “ Hermes” ; and yet, you have no women on your oommittee! Is this quite fair?

The men, without doubt form an integral part of this University—so do the women. They attend the same lectures, they suffer at the hand's of the same examiners, and, if lucky, they appear in cap and gown to take the same degrees. Why should they not be represented on the committee of the University magazine?

I heard to-day that the Editor made a personal request to the women for “ copy,” and this was based on the fact that the Trinity number was to contain reports and sketches of the Women’s activities. Now, it really isn’t fair to expect the “ mere man” (as he often calls himself) to run a “ Women’s Section” on his own. He would surely find a woman’s assistance somewhat useful.

So, on behalf of many of the women students I am asking you to consider the question of having one or even two women on your committe.—Yours, &c.,

M. R.["Hermes” is at present financed and staffed from the Undergraduates’ Asso­

ciation, and the powers of appointment are governed by the Constitution.Contributions from ALL members of the University are invited; and, as may

be seen fnom the issue, full representation is given to the activities and contribu­tions of the women students.

If it is desired that the personnel of the staff should be changed, representa­tions should be made direct or officially to the S .U .U .A .—Editor.]

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TRINITY TERM.It was a wise move on the part of the President to change the

debates from the Union Hall to the Common Room for the winter months. The Common Room proved more cosy and comfortable, and there is little doubt that the change was responsible for the excellent attendance and sustained interest.

Although the evening of 22nd June was decidedly wintry, the brightness and warmth of the fire, the semi-circular formation of the lounge chairs which were used by members, and the characteristic and comfortable parliamentary attitude adopted by many brought to mind Mr. Atkinson’s description of the Debating Hall of the Oxford Union. The re-arrangement of our own Hall or the inclusion of a debating chamber is a question that must undoubtedly exercise the minds of Union Directors after the War.

In most debates members vote according to their individual opin­ions. Whether tihis is right or not might fairly be discussed by the framers of governing and temporary rules. In most cases the voters are carried away by their feelings on a particular question. The de­bating benefit is then lost, and the side with the greater following or the more popular side of the question 'has an easy victorj’ over its op­ponents. In war-time and in matters of great national importance this might be overlooked, but what of the team which has perforce to adopt the unpopular side of a particular subject? The continuation of this denies to oratory its right, and cuts away all the merit that should belong to prepared and well-thought-out arguments. Contrasted with Oxford, then the verdict in our debates is little else than a popular vote of Union members taken weekly on some subject or other.

The War and graduation have robbed the Union of most of the older and more prominent debaters. The newer men, however, from the ability they lhave already displayed, are showing promise of de­velopment equal to the best average of the past. Beginning from the debates in June, men like Ross Smith, MacMahon, l^dford, Mullens, Johnston, Purcell, Tarleton, Kench, and Stephenson were prominent among the younger debaters. Ross Smith’s work showed signs of careful attention in preparation of detail, and, while earnest in de­bate, he is as yet without the driving force which is necessary to carry conviction. Mr. MacMahon has a good style, a clear enunciation, and has been seen to advantage in arguments of which he is personally convinced. He should gain much benefit from the discussion of subjects which demand the advocacy of contrary views. Mr. Radford’s earnestness is always apparent, especially in patriotic topics. But in debate one shouldn’t plead so much as advocate. When one’s argu­ments are good it is quite safe to set tihem out and crystallise with firm­ness the points relied on. An adversary can always be refuted by taking his argument and tearing it to pieces. Mr. Mullens, who spent some 14 months at the War (he is an Anzac), brought in a ne\v note.

It was the spirit of our soldiers, the vigorous note of a man of the world, the view, one miglht say, of the man outside thrown into the midst of students who at times take themselves too seriously. Often­times the young debater will dress his argument in the phraseology of his faculty, the technicality of whidh is lost on the majority of the audience. Mr. Mullens brought to us an abextra point of view.

Mr. Tarleton belongs to the same type. His point of view has also been tempered by experiences—he also is back frcm the war. His style is easy, more conversational than argumentative; but the ring ot sound common sense based on t*he facts of life and gained under the conditions of which he speaks, has the desired effect on his audience. Messrs. Johnston, Purcell, and Kench, of the younger men, are sure to develop to a satisfactory standard, while Mr. Stevenson, although he persists in retaining his notes, is surely benefiting himself as well as often rounding off a debate with quips and puns that are greatly ap­preciated by his attentive audience.

While attendances may be regarded as satisfactory under condi­tions of war, winter, and examinations, nevertheless there are scores of students who might attend witih profit to themselves. The world out­side rightly expects much from the young man who has been privi­leged to spend some three or six years of his life at the University. Oftentimes when called upon to state some principle or express a w i^ at a social or national gathering, the graduate looks confused, stutters or stammers some incoherent remarks, and sits down. And his friends look at one another and say, “ And he is a University man!” Is the criticism justified?

The Faculty and Collegiate events decided so far resulted in Law defeating Medicine in the first round of the Inter-Faculty Debates. The second round on 3rd August between Arts and Science re­sulted in a win for Arts. In the Inter-Collegiate contests, St. An­drew’s defeated St. Paul’s on 6th July. Finals in Inter-Faculty and Inter-Collegiate will be held in Michaelmas Term.ARTS v. SCIENCE AT MANNING HOUSE.

The Inter-Faculty Debate between teams of women students re­presentative of Arts and Science took place on 34th July, and was made the occasion of an open evening at Manning House. Miss I. Fidler,B.A. (President Women’s Union), presided over an audience that crowded the Assembly Hall.

The Arts team, Miss M. ColHsson, B.A. (leader). Miss V . Killeen, and Miss D. Edwards affirmed that—

“The White Australia policy is justifiable, and will continueto be so after the war.”The Science team. Miss E. Hamilton, B.A., B.Sc. (leader). Miss E.

Seaegart, and Miss E. Ross, put up a brave, a charming, and a reso­lute fight against their more weighty opponents from Arts. Miss Hamilton won her way into the hearts of the audience by her simple yet earnest style and iier characteristic applause; Miss Segaert, with an excellent enunciation and pluck that is rightly associated with her radiance, proved that the Science girls, while living among the “ wogs,” still have a big human sympathy for the rest of the human race “ whose geographical position destines them to some shade or other.” Miss Ross was rough on the capitalist, so rough that Madam President dropped stitdhes more than once, but the applause never nonplussed the speaker.

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The Arts team won because they had the stronger team. Miss Collisson, who opened the debate, gave her opponents no mercy. She swept their arguments and answers from before her Hke an ener­getic housemaid might hurriedly brush a table. Her opponents’ “ facts” did not conform to her standards of right, and Miss CoUisson said so with emphasis. The adjudicators awarded her the maximum of marks. Miss Killeen proved her case from Kipling. But we didn'twant to read him. We remembered her illustrations o f ------and ------- ;oh yes, of all those things, and Miss Killeen won our applause. She made us serious. Miss Edwards finished for Arts, and with an easy manner and plenty of confidence kept along the serious line adopted by the members of her team, and, as it proved, the right track. The adjudicators, Mrs. Read and Mrs. Meredith Atkinson, awarded the victory to the Arts team, the marks being Arts 91, Science 82.

It was a good debate, an enjoyable and an interesting evening.

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ST. PAUL’S.T!he Spirit of Work has cast its fvinereal pall over the manifold activities of

C5oll^e life. Were it not for the busy hum of nine active brains, a stray visitor wandering along the silent corridor might imagine that he had dropped into a Trappist monastery by mistake. This abnormal coiudition is due solely to the imminence of exams, for our hard working Meds., so that just at present only the minority “ in arts redining'’ can afford to look on and loaf. Yet, in the words of Virgil, “ metuejxdaque fata videmus,” and their turn will soon be coming.

We welcome N. Ross Smith into the fold this term, and hope that his example will not fail to find some inimators.

The first Inter-Collegiate billiards, Paul's versus Andrew’s, resulted in a win for Paul’s. Our team was Messrs- Nickson, Whittle, Tillett, and Mitchell.

Messrs. Sheppard, Harvey, Whittle, and Davidson represented Paul’s in friendly tennis matches with the other Colleges. We were beaten by Andrew’s, but there seems to be some uncertainty about the final scores of the match against John’s.

On Friday, July 13th, we encountered St. An^drew’s in the first roomd of the Inter-Collegiate Debates, and—the sad tale must be told—we were knocked out, the final scores standing at: St. Andrew’s, 65; St. Paul's, 63. W'e take this opporttMiity of congratulating St. Andrew’s on their victory. After all, with the conjunction of Friday and 13, how could we hope to win? Our team consisted of Messrs. Chauvel, Armstrong, and Radford.

We have had quite good news O'f those of last year's freshers who enlisted. W. I. Maclean and A. W- Tindal have both passed through the St. John’s W'ood O .T .C ., and have received their commissions, the former heading the list of candidates.

T. R . Street and E. W. Street hold the ranks of sengeauit and corporal re­spectively in the Australian Field Artillery.

In spite o f the difficulties of printing when there are so few subscribers in College, we have every hope of bringing out a war issue of “ The Pauline” before the end of the term.

Our CO igratulations are due to Professor J. B. Peden, who was recently made a member of the Legislative Council; and to Mr. R. Windeyer, who has attamed to King’s Counsel.

The news that Arthur Cooper had been killed in France early last month came as a great shock to all an College. Cooper came into College in 1914, anld only graduated at the end of last year, taking the special War Finals in August and enlisting immediately afterwaids.

We feel that another most promising career has been cut short, and cur deepest sympathy goes out to his mother and sisters.

J. H. A. C.

ST. JOHN’S.The event of greatest moment to the students this year was the official un­

veiling of the new stained-gtass window in the College Chapel by the Apostolic Delegate. War conditions limited the ceremony as far as display was concerned, only the Fellows and students with their friends being present. It was a happy day for our very generous benefactress, Mrs. F- B. Freehil^, to be able to see her

visions materialise in such a pleasing and artistic manner. This was the last public act performed by his Excellency prior to his departure for Rome, so that in many ways this was quite an historic occasion.

In the scholastic sphere we are pleased to be able to congratulate Messrs. W . J. Dalton, W . C. Upton, and W. E. Ryan on passing their Fourth Degree Med. Exam. The rest of vis are at present in a very doleful mood, as exam, time is approaching for First, Second, and Third Year Meds., and visions of wasted hours and “ cut” lectures rise up in the night to haunt many a weary stude.

In spite of the very recent heavy fighting in France, John’s men appear to be extremely lucky as regards casualties. We have had some interesting ciorre- spondence from some of the young Docs, on the way to the Front, and they appear to be sustaining their responsibilities very well. Captain J. A. Fitzherbert is stiU deep in the mathematical mysteries of modern warfare, and we presume reads Homer and Virgil on the brink of shell holes and other classic places.

We hope in, the near future 1)o be extending the College: at least we hope to get the foimdations down, and then our many friends will have an opportunity of viewing our reconstructive Wiork and of passing judgment thereon. Meantime the cows still continue to browse on our green pastures, and lend the poetic touch to our otherwise smiling landscape. D. C. BL

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ST. ANDREW’S.This term several of the inter-Gollegiate challenge matches were held w?th

considerable success. The footbaU match against St. John’s proved a most ex­citing game, and some exceUent football was witnessed. The final score was 19—9 in our favour. In the Tennis matches against St. Paul’s and St. John’s we were also successful. Concurrently with the S .U .A .C . armual athletic meeting an inter-Collegiate contest was held, and thanks mainly to the excellent performances of our freshers we won by a good margin. The billiard match against Paul'a was played at The Union, and they defeated us after a close contest, two of our players being respectively four and one behind their opponents at the finish.

The debate against St. Paid’s, which attracted the greatest attention of all these College events, proved exceedingly cdose, but we are glad to say that we turned the tables on the victors of last year.

Although from the above account the casual reader might imagine that our life has been one of ease just at present, the College is a veritable hive of in­dustry, all due to the fact that the Augtist exams, are close at hand.

0. R. F.

WESLEY COLLEGE.The new affiliated College, in course of construction near the Oval, is now

receiving its finnal touches from the hainds of the contractor. It is understood that the building will be ready for occupation during the last Term of the present academic year. Students who are thinldng of going into residence, during this or next year, are advised to communicate with the Master (Rev. M. Scott Fletcher), Whose postal address is c /o Book Depot, 381 George-street, Sydney.

WOMEN’S COLLEGE.College this term has only 36 students, one having departed to Java, but

otherwise things are much the same. For the first dme in its life history, College put up a hockey eleven and challenged the rest of the University women, but lost 4—3. The students are slowly but surely playing ofi for the Dickenson Cup, which is annually awarded to the champion tennis player.

A picture by Officer of a pool on the Darling has been presented to the Gtrflege in memory of Mrs. Muriel Mackenzie. S. McC.

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CURTAILMENT OF SPORT.

There has been much activity in University sport during the past term. The members of the Junior years particularly have been taking part with much enthjusiasm.

We have heard it said in several places that such enthusiasm does not look well in war-time, but nothing could be further from the truth. Lately there has come before the public a scheme for the curtailment of sport. At present the agitation concerns itself mainly with certain racing programmes that even the keenest devotees of horseracing would hesitate to describe as a sport, and with professional boxing. As these race meetings are at best a rather doubtful business transaction, and as the few men who fight at the Stadium are of small importance com­pared with hundreds of other devotees of boxing who never appear be­fore such a gathering, the movement cannot do any great harm.

But it is an utterly futile agitation. Some patriots, of the noisy variety, seem to have been offended at the thought of two men perform­ing before two thousand. W e would remind them that a Stadium crowd is much the same as a crowd in the street, at the pictures, or in church, if we except the feminine element. In other words, some of them are young, some old, some are soldiers, and returned soldiers, and a certain proportion are wasters. Some people believe that the worst qualities of the wasters are brought to the fore at such exhibitions— and there may be some truth in it—and \vould put a stop to boxing alto­gether. Let them honestly state this as their oipnion, and then we can honestly agree with them. But to bring it forward as a war-time measure is rank hypocrisy. Men who should enlist refrain from en­listing for various reasons, a few from cowardice, more from selfishness, most because they have “brains like sponges, and no imagination at all,” but not one ever refrained from enlisting because he wanted to see the fight next Saturday night. It seems hardly necessary to close the Stadium to let the public know there is a war on. If any man has not had brought home to him the seriousness of the war by the means that have been adopted, then it is hardly likely that the closing of the Sta­dium would have much effect on him.

There is just the danger of this extreme view' spreading to sport of the standard of that in which we take part. If healthy sport has no other influence on a man’s feeling, it should awaken in him a horror of what must eventually prove to be the destroyer of what it sought to attain.

E.A.W.

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S.U.W.S.A. ANNUAL SPORTS.On the morning of Wednesday, July 85, it looked as if Jupiter

Pluvius was to be the patron of the annual meeting of the S.U.W.S.A., but in the afternoon the sun and many stoods turned out to watch the proceedings. The general appearance of the Oval was brightened by the turbans of various colours—the howling reds, shrieking greens, and screaming yellows were really rather fine.

The male portion of the spectators had their eyes opened as re­gards the ability of the competitors. Whispers of “ why she beat ’im” were heard. Who is the mysterious “ ’im,” we wonder!

By the applause, the High Jump seemed to afford the most pleasure to the onlookers, and in this event Clara Sams came an easy first. She and Fannie Witts, who won the championship of the sports, made the win an easy one for Medicine.

A strange fact noticed was that after each event the spectators looked more tired than the competitors.

THE SPECTATORS WERE MORE TIRED THAN THE COMPETITORS

Strange and varied were the modes of progression in the sack race. Especially funny were the competitors who calmly poked their feet through the holes in the sacks and ran with the sack flapping in the rear; but a liberal starter gave them another chance.

The 100 yds. Championship was first on the programme, and many people missed the heats, but the final was witnessed by all. There was no special feature in this race, but a good run gave the win to Marie Erhard.

THERE WAS -VO SPECIAL FEATURE IN THE CHAMPIONSHIP.

The finish of the three-legged race was always exciting, and afforded much glee to the spectators, who, however, reserved some voice for the Tug-o’-War. This event provided much excitement, and

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ALL THE ARTISTE SAW.

one spectator was heard to re­mark, “ Gee, aren’t they hefty,” as the Arts team came on the field. Their heftiness made them successful in their first pull against Science, but it was hard luck that they were then pitched against Medicine, who proved victorious. Did the absence ot one particularly hefty Arts lass cause the loss, we wonder. Our artiste regrets that she cannot portray full the Tug-’o ’-War. This is all she saw of it.

In the early part of the after­noon the Mascot of the Meds “ had a little accident,” but Chis. was not called upon to bring forth the stretchers that he had promised to hold in readiness.

The remainder of our story and our adventure are best told by the artiste.

The following are the results:

Championship of Sports; Fan­nie Witts. 220 yds.: Fannie Witts. 100 yds.: Marie Erhard. 75 yds.; Marie Erhard.

Inter-Faculty Relay: Medi­cine. Hurdles: Fannie Witts 1, Marie Erhard 2. Sack Race; Ellice Nosworthy 1, Margery Anderson 2. High Jump: Clara Sams. Inter- Year Relay: 3rd Year. Hitting Hockey Ball; Esther Tuckey. Throwing Cricket Ball: Clara Sams. Orange Race; Valerie McMullen. Three-legged Race: Dorothy Green and Maud Jensen. 220 yds. Walk: Violet Stuart.

Inter - Faculty Tug- o’ - W ar: Medicine. OUR ADVENTURE.

Great interest was taken in the military cricket match between Eng­land and Australia. We were pleased beyond words to see our old Editor, “ Pitsy” Barbour, as captain of the Australian Army team, and hope to see him and many other lesser lights perform again after their return.

Just as we go to press news has been received of the death on active service of Captain W . R. Aspinall. Pending a more suitable notice in next issue, it is fitting that we should mention him in this column. He was well known as secretary of the Undergraduates, Asso­ciation, captain of P'ootball Club, and better known as “ Bobby.” Some observant person has pointed out that a universal nickname indicates a certain amount of contempt, or a very great deal of respect. To hear “ Bobby” on men’s lips, then and now, leaves no doubt of the respect.

We offer our sincerest sympathy to his family in their loss; we offer ourselves some consolation in the fact that there will never be wanting ‘‘forwards” to go into the ruck, as he has so often before, ana now, at his last game of all, led them.

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The annual Men v. Women Hockey match will take place in the last week of Term. There will be an admission charge to the Oval, and the proceeds will go towards a War Fund.

SPORTS’ UNION.Since the beginning of the year the Sports’ Union has contrived to cany out

its policy of providing recreation for its members without any oi^'ectional publicity which might detract from the more serious activities of University life. In this the committee has been well supported by the memibers, who have spon­taneously and whole-hearteKUy entered into any fixtures arranged for them.

There are still many, however, who would do well to join the Sports’ Union and take a -wider view of, and a more active participation in, these sports, whicih must inevitably broaden their outlook and widen their circle of friends.

Although ^ e General Committee has decided that no Blues or Half-Blues are to be awarded during the war, yet it would be pleased to see members wearing the ordinary Sports’ Union blazer, which is of meat design and more suitable than many school blazers now being worn. Orders for them may be obtained from the secretary. C. R. P.

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CRICKET.. The annual general meeting of the above club will be held in the middle ci

August.It is to be hoped that those Freshers who are keen on the game -will actively

associate themselves with the doings of the club ahd remain keen throughout the season.

In the past it has been pitiful to watch the great falling off in the attend­ance at practice after the first few matches have been played. Such a slump is for the most part -undoubtedly caused by failing to score at the start or t>emg omitted from a team, whether justly or otherwise. But let us all play the game for the game’s sake, and above all show sportsmanship all the time. Then under such circumstances we can surely hope for an enjoyable and successful season.

We have all noticed with pleasure that “ Pitsy” Barbour, Captain in A.LF., also caiptained the team from the AustraUan Forces on service abroad in the inter­national match played at Lord’s last month.

R. Bardsley, Hon. Sec.

FOOTBALL.Although, of course, football at the ’Varsity is not now the ■‘‘ all in aE ’ that

it once was, it is a vast improvement on that of last yean. Perhaps this is due to new blood, but more likely it is the dying kick of the ’Varsity’s puWicj spirit. It was found that there were still some who had the University’s good name at heart and rallied to accept challenges. They canlnot be expected to sustain the whole burden, and unless there is more consistent support from those who have the time to spare, there is likely to be a serious falling off in the number and quality of teams available. Still, considering the diffictilties under which ’Varsity foot­ball labours, the committee is to be commended on the management of the season’s sport.

The outstanding feature of the season had been the visit to Duntroon Military College. As a sociaj event it was a great success, amd it was not the fault of

the deaf parson who “ hoped we’d lick ’em,” that we did not win the matches. It was a pity that iced lemonade sandwiched between hot coffees ai>pealed to the tastes of any of our team on the trip down. With these, a sleepless night, and ;a mind full of jokes—appiy Gus, Derb, DooLatn & Co.—it is no wonder that M minutes each way proved too much for us- The Saturday match was lost by 28—9. Our opponents played better than we did, ■and had the advantage of con­dition. Their "ruck'’ work was first rate, but their dribbling poor.

Woodward, McGurren, and McLeod were all unable to play an the Monday owing to many " tom*” troubles, so their places were filled hy< Cummins and two Duntroon men. This time the teams were more evenly matched, and there was much excellent football c»n both sides. The University, however, were not equal to the sustained effort of the Duntroon cadets, and lost by 6—0.

It was at Duntroon that Derb first came to the fore as an orator—quite right, Derb, it’s not always the best team that wins.

In Saturday matches we have always put in two teams, and sometimes three.Glebe-Balmatn, Eastern Suburbs, and Cambridge have been our chief opponents.

We have played them all at least twice, but have only won our matches against Cambridge. In the other matches we have been often in the lead at halt-time, and the final defeat has been due to lack of sustained effort. This may be credited to poor condition or lack of keenness. Certainly our opponents have always played with great resolution.

The team has varied from time to time, but Rossell has usually been there to captain it. London scored in every match till his pace was noticed and he was put on the wing. Gall has been most consistent, and Gwynne should never have played in the forwards. He is a dashing three-quarter. The rest have had their days on and off.

The seconds have stuck to their work ver>- well, and McCarthy seems to hold them well together. Still, it is hard to manage football teams when the members have so many other unavoidable calls.

H. D. Cooksoo, Hon- Sec.

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SOCCER FOOTBALL.Early in May it was decided by several of our enthusiasts that the formataon

of a Soccer Club w-ithin the University was a necessary adjuntt to the sporting life of those members of the community who “ Follow the K>und ball.”

A committee of three was elected pro tem, Roger Heard (Eng.) being captain, "Curly” ’ Verbruggheo (Med. I.) vice-captain; also a secretary. Sjtaiction was ob­tained from the S.U .S.U - to run the club -as a University club prior to affilia­tion to the above body.

As to the activities of the club we have entered the All-age Competition of the N .S .W . J.F .A- amd are now in the middle of the second round of the competi­tion. In the first round we won four and lost two matches, with three deferred owing to mismanagement on the part of the committee of the N .S .W . J .F .A . In the second round we have won two and lost two matches, and are placed fourth in a competition of nine teams. Judging from appearances of the standard of play now being exhibited by our members, we should reach 3rd place by the end of the season, and this, I think, is a very fair showing for a newly-formed club.

Outside the competition we have played the Combined High Schools, and. under very adverse weather conditions, won by 2 goals to 1. Lately it has been found necessary to confirm the committee temporarily appointed at the beginning of the season.

In regard to the future, next year there will be an influx of a great niunber o f “ Soocerites” from the various secondary schools. Should affiliation be grawted to us, these men will at once join the ’Varsity Club, thereby adding one more branch of sport to the S .U .S.U . Unless we have a ’Valrsity Club, these players will, quite naturally, drift into other clubs in ord)er to have their winter sport.

R. H.

ATHLETIC CLUB.As is usual, the club’s activities for the year culminated in the annual meet­

ing, which was held on Wednesday, 23rd May. Though the standard reached in most cases was not very high, the meeting was a distinct succe|ss; competition was always keen, and there were somie exciting finishes. The thanks of the club are due to the officials, who willingly gave up aln afternoon, and it is due (largely to their keen interest and assistance that the events went off without a hitch.

The attendance was well above the last two years, upwards of 100 spectators being present. Seriously, though, it is a matter for regret that so few students find it worth while to attend what in pre-war days was one of the main functions of the 'Varsity year. While the social side of cur University life has been practically cut out, still the prospect of an interesting atternoon’s sport should have been sufficient inducement for more to be present.

Some of the onlookers (especially the ladies), of whom there were a fair number sprinkled in the various parts of the ground, showed an undisguised pre­dilection for some of the College boys (Chuck, Jock, &c., &ct). On the whole, the fields were very good, though in the main comprised of College m«n. In the championships there were only a half-dozen outside competitors.

The best performance of the day was that of K- B. Fraser, with two firsts a second, and a third in fotir starts. Hds hurdling keenly interested “ Sav," well known to all from the “ G .P .S .,” w:ho in two minutes’ coaching reduced' Fraser’s time from 17 4-5 secs, in the heat to 17secs. in the final;. Leadley upiheld his re­putation by winning the sprint double, while Firth is to be congratulated on his success in the mile.

Another good performance was that of Honner, who won the most keenly contested event of the day—the Broad Jump—in great style, with a beautiful leap of 21ft. Tin. The inter-Faculty tug-of-wtar evoked mwch enthusiasm. Senior Mtd. by Seventh-hour tr^ning putting up a good fight against Med. IIIl., who eventually won with a team averaging 15st. or thereabouts. The teams’ race resulted in aw easy win for Senior Med. from Med. III.

The club has no more events till next year, when we hope that a larger num­ber will take an interest in the games, and .'thu help to keep going a club which has included men like Massie, Barker, Southee, Sutton, and S t Vincent Wettch.

Results are appended:—100 Yards Championship.—H. Leadley 1, D. Cookson 2, K. B. Fraser 3. Time,

10 4-5 secs.100 Yards Handicap— M. R. Flynn 1, Allison 2, Body 3.880 Yards Championship.—J. Flattery 1, F. Gwynne 2. N. E. McLaren 3.

Time 2min. llisecs.High Jump Championship.—J. Harbison, oft. 5Jin., 1; W . A . McLaren, 2; E.

R. Rofe and E. M. Sheppard 3.120 Yards Championship Hupdles.—K. B. Fraser 1, E. -M. Sheppard 2, K.

Harbison 3.Inter-Faculty Tug-of-\Var.—Med. 'III. 1, Senior Med. 2.220 Yards Championship.—J. B . Leadley 1, R. Pittar 2, D. Cookson 3.Putting the Shot.—Eady 1. J. E. Pittar 2, D. B. Louden 3,Three-quarter Mile Handicap— F. Trenesey 1, W . McLaren 2, Furst 3.Broad Jump Championship.—R. Honner 1, K. B. Fraser 2, K. M. Ginett 3.Inter-Faculty Teams' Race.—Senior ^led. (Garrett, R>-an, Matters, Flynn) 1,

Junior Med. 2, Arts 3.One Mile Championship.—L. Futt 1, C. R . Furner 2, F. Satherthwaite 3.440 Yards Championship.—K. B. Fraser 1, R. Pittar 2, C. B. Harvey 3-

C. B. Harvey, Hon. Sec.

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BASEBALL.Since last issue the Competition has been in full swing. A lot was expected

from both ’ the first and second nines, and undoubtedly they could have lived up to their expectatiois hadi not siskness and accidents playied havoc with Firsts.

McGuinness, Barrack, and Austin have been on the sick list, and tiheir places have from time to time been filled from Seconds.

For the first roimd the Firsts probably did not go on to the field two days running with the same team. In a highly scientific game like baseball such a happening, with its resulting loss of team work, is (disastrous. And so we find last year’s premiers »rv the fourth position on the Competition table, and fighting hard to keep in the first division.

The Seconds have made great advances from last season, mainly through good batting work; they have lost only four games. Their team work is good, and although the speed on the bases is not quite up to standard, they would have made a much better showing had they not been drawn upon from time to time to fill up vacancies in the Firsts.

On last season’s work the Sports’ Union gave five new half-tiues to the club.

the recipients being Austin, Bourne, Perkins, Yates, amd Wiffle. The comjnittee offer their congratulations to these men.

It should also be mentioned that the club’s new mascot, a faithful follower of University sport, who is doing good work (did somebody say for the club) with the score brok. Gentlemen, take your hats off to Johnnie Biggs!

C. J. Austin, Hon. Ser.

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BOAT CLUB.At present rawing is more or less quiescent, it being to the ordinary individual

rather too wintry to venture out ’midst Faunns and Neptune’s aquatic indisposi­tions, to say nothing of the exams, in August. However, next tenn, we hope to see more interest taken in this valuable spoirt.

At present the shed is being repaired and boats re-varnished preparatory to next term’s requirements. A system of keys for members has been adopted on payment of 1/. This is a necessary procedure for our own and the shed's protec­tion, and is compulsory to members.

The gymnasium, which is also being repaired, is deserving of more arttentioni by members. Gymnlasts make good rowing mien. Come down and put in a little fraction of time for the betteiment of the body, and so become more fit to fulfil our men.'tal and national obligations-

A. R. Scriviner, Hon. Sec-

LAWN TENNIS CLUB.The annua! tournament was held in Lent Term, and resulted as follows:—Singles Championship.—A. L. North.Doubles Championship.—A. L. North and L. C. Donovan.■'B” Singles Championship.—J. Bogle.“ B” Doubles Championship.— J- McClean and J. Paling.Singles Handicap.—K. Wilson.Doubles Handicap.—K. Wilson and A. T. Edwards.Mixed Doubles, Handicap.—S. G. Whitfeld and Miss Ross.The final of the Singles Championship was fought out between North and

Donovan- The first set was evenly contested, and went to North, 8—6. In the second set North, maintaining a ^en d id length, and using better judgment on the windy day, ran out 6—1, thus winning in straight sets. In the Doubles Cham­pionship North and Donovan, proved to be the steadier pair, and won from Mac­donald and Stark, S—6, 2—6, ft—1.

In the " B” Singles Championship, Bogle showed consistent steadiness through­out, and defeated McClean in the final after a long struggle. In the “ B” Doubles Championship, McClean and Paling proved too accurate for Milgrove and Craig.

The handicap events were well supported, and the handicapping, with perhaps one or two unavoidable exceptions, was productive of keen contests throughout.

Fifteen pairs entered for the Mixed Doubles Handicap, and we are indebted to the women undergrads, for their support in the tournament. The event was won by S . G. Whitfeld and Miss Ross. Miss Ross played splendidly throughout the tournament, and Whitfeld showed he was an experienced exponent of the mixed game.

AU teams performed creditably in the Badge matches. The moet successful were the “ A" (Henderson, capt.. North, Macdonald, and Stark), and “ B” (McLean, capt., PaHng, Traill, and Wilson).

The courts sre now open for practice on Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday, and Saturday afternoons, and the attendance at these has been very good.

W. D. K. Oraig, Hon. See.

HOCKEY CLUB.“ Man does not live by bread atone," said some old bird very wisely. Cer­

tainly a hockey club can’t be run merely on weekly practices. Exercise for exer­cise’s sake won’t keep men together. They need games, aompetitive. or, non­competitive, with outside teams to stimulate their interest. The Hockey Club started the season with 23 members, and prospects by no means black. Since the last issue of “ Hermes” several games have been played, but all except one have been against Hawkesbury College, and Saturday after Satiu-day we have had blanks as far as matches were concerned. The result has been that men have gradually dropped out, and interest has become dead.

Yet one bright feature is to be discoverad in the fact that the season has brought to light several promising players. Brooks, Darke, and C- M. Edwards

among the forwards, A . T . Edwards at half, Paling and Macintosh of the backs, and Rourke in goal, would form the nucleus of a very fine team. If the happy days of peace should come soon ( ! ) . the club -would be able to put a team in the field that would delight even a prodligious performer like " Cog” Donovan, D.SX!).

The Editor has asked that notes be written' in a breezy style. When the pre­sent scribe attempts facile brightness, he feels like an elephant trying to dance the polka. Nevertheless, he is able to end on one cheery note. It was said above that interest had become diead—n«ver! For are we not all looking forward with tense eagerness and fluttering hearts to “ The Match of the Season”—the game against the S.U. Women’s Hockey Club during the last week of Term, when the men will wear skirts and the women will wear—skirts also? And the price o f admission will be sixpence, and the proceeds will go to some fund or other, and ajl the University will be present?

N. L. Cowper, Hon. Sec.

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SWmMZNO.During the conning season it is proposed to renew the activities of the above

club, which has been in abeyance for some time..A meeting wiU be convened in the near future for this purpose and to discuss

the advisa;bility of seeking affiliation wth the Sports’ Union.In order that the number of prospective members may be accurately gauged,

it is essential that all who are interested in swimming shoiild! attend the inaugural meeting, notice of which will be exhibited on the notice boards.

Life-saving classes will be arranged, and other events held at times convenient to members. As there is no other summer club wiith which it would interfere, there is no reason why students should not join, whether previously interested or not. W. R. York, Convener.

WOMEN’S SPORTS ASSOCIATION.This year the membership r^l of the S .U .W .S.A- is the largest since its

inauguration in 1910. The Association is comprtsed of hockey, tennis, and boat­ing clubs, the two former being most popular. The Hockey Club practiccs on Monday afternoons and Saturday mornings, and there has invariably been a record attendance at these practices. The inter-Paculty matches have been, as usual, the attraction of the hockey season, to judge by the enthusiastic display on the side lines on the occasion of each match.

The Tennis Club has over thirty members, who are able to practice at any time on the Association courts in front of the Main Building. Both our A and B teams are doing very weU in the Ladies’ Badge Matches.

The Boat Club exists in barely more than name owing no doubt to the fact that the University is so far removed from the waterside. However, a few en­thusiasts take the long tram journey to Parramatta River now and again to indulge in a short row. The only chance for this sport will be the dredging of the University lake.

At the beginning of 1914, the committee of the S .U .W .S .A . commenced nego­tiations with the ^nate for the purpose of obtaining the grant of the piece of land between the University Oval and Manning House. Before much had been done the war broke out and the matter was dropped. It was, however, taken up again last year, with the result that the land was obtained, but the Senate would give no guarantee that the S .U .W .S .A . would contintie to hojld it for any length of time; on the contrary', they reser\'ed to themselves the right to withdraw it at any time. Therefore the Association is anxious to improve the land at once, and we urge all those interested in sport to help us in securing the land, for which there is a real need felt by all women students.

Lina Sherman, Hon. Sec.

“ HERMES" ADVERTISEMENTS

The advertising sectioin of the Magiazine is intended to be of special interest both to the students who subscribe and their relatives and friends into whose homes it is taken. The advertisements are restricted to articles useful to or needed by all, and it will greatly assist the work of development if a consistent support is accorded those advertisers who are thus assisting the publication.

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University Clubs and Societies.mnVERSTTT LAW SOCIETY.

Like every University organisation, the Law Society is feeling the efifects of the war on its membership and activities. It is continiiing, howe\’er, in a quiet way to fulfil its object of promoting social and intellectual intercourse among its members.

The hearty coriigratulations of all members have gone out to Judge Curlewls and l^ofessor the Hon. J. B. Peden, M.L.C., on each of whom a signal and well- deserved honour has fallen.

Judge Curlewis was a very human lecturer with a singular charm of person­ality and delightful play of wit, a^d his departure is felt.

A Professor in' ParUament is a novelty for the University. Curiously enough, simultaneously with the appointment of Professor Peden comes a proposal f6r a Property and Conveyamcing Bill, and in due course the gentlemen of the Legis­lative Council will become acquainted with the Statute of Uses. As our Professor knows oonstitutional practice from A to Z, he will be io no danger of infringiing the Standing Orders.

The thanks of metnbers are due to the Rev. Thomas Tait and to Mr. F. A. A. Russell for their valuable addresses.

Moots are inow being held regularly. The value of these was aptly shown the other day by the appearance o f the first of a series of articles in a legal I>eriodica], written by one of our more distinguished students who took part in a Moot on the same subject last year.

The Law students entertained Privates G. M. Stafford, B-A., and S. C. Tweedale, B .A ., at limcheon at Paris House prior to their departure on active service. The health of the guests was proposed by Mr. W. J. Bradley, B.A., and various other toasts were honoured.

On account of ill-health, the Hon. Undergraduate Secretary, Mr. G. V . Davy,B.A., has been panted leave for three months, and during this p>eriod Mr. S. Redshaw, B-A., will act as Undergraduate Secretary.

W. 3. Sheppard, Joint Hon. Sec

SCIENCE SOdBTT.The thirteenth annual meeting of the Society was held on 22nd iMay, there

being an attendiance of fifty-six members and friends. Officers for thp. ensuing year were elected, of whom Dr. G. Harker was made president. The retiring president. Dr. Halcro Wardlaw, delivered an address on' "T he Animal Machine.”

The Society was e.xceedingly fortunate in securing Mr. R. J. TiUyard. M..'^. (Camb.), B.Sc. (Syd.), who at the June meeting gave a very interesting lantern lecture on the " Life History of the Dragt^n Fly.”

On the evening of July 17th, Mr. E. C. Andrews, B.A., of the Mines Depart­ment, lectured on the ‘‘ ^enery of Eastern Australia.” A very fine di.=tplay of lantern views was shown, most of which were prepared from photographs by Mr. Andrews himself.

The Society intends to hoSd a discussion on the question, “ Is Living Matter the same in all respectJs as Non■Li 'i^^g?” This wil? take place at the next genera] meeting, on September 18th, and it is hoped that a large number of Undergraduates will attend and take part.

No excursions ha •e been held so far this year, but attention of members is drawn to the fact that arrangements have been made for a visit to the River\-iew College Observatory. This will take place on November 17th.

The council also desires to notify all members of the University that general meetings will be hejd in future at 7.45 p-m. in the Geology Theatre o f the University. G. H. Clarke, Hon. Sec.

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AGRICULTUBAL SOCIET7.Sinlce last issue two meetings have been held. The first was occupied by the

reading of students’ essays on ‘‘Agricultural Experiemoes of the Long Vacation.” Prizes awarded by the Society were vron by Messrs. Anderson and Shelton; Pro­fessor Watts’ prizes were won by Messrs. Hindmarsh, Perkins and Taylor.

The second meeting -wtes devoted to a pai>er by Mr. H. Wenholz, B.So., Agri.: ‘improving the Maize Yield of iNi.S-W.” Mr. Wenholz, one of the first graduates in Agriculture, is now Inspector o f Agriculture and Maize Breeder in the State Department, and has already done a great deal in that capalcity in, actually increas­ing the yield of imaize.

The following members of the Society are on active service:—Captain E . A . Southee, B.Sc. Agr.; Lieut. R . J. Downing, B.Sc. Agr., M .C .; Lieut H. Stephems,B.Sc. Agr.; J. O. Heinrich, B.Sc. A<gT.; R. J. iNoble, B.Sc. Agr.; R . M- C. Gunm,B.Sc. Agr.; J. O. Hambin, B.Sc. Agr.; H. C . Mort, 4th year; S. G. Grugeon, 4th year; G. Davis, 2nd year; G . C. Yates, 2nd year; W. M. Came; G. C. IScairr.

Lieut. W. L. Waterhouse, M.C., is now convalescent, and viated the ’Varsity a couple of weeks back.

J. P. Shelton, Hon. Sec.

SOCIETY FOR COIOBATING VENEREAL DISEASES.Since the last iasue of “ Hermes” the membership of the above Society has

increased to over six hundred, and the Society has secured a firm footing. The first annual meeting was held on June 20, when a constitution was adopted and officers elected for the ensuing year. At this mieeting two very interesting ad­dresses were delivered, one 'by Mr. Peter Board, M .A., G.M.G., Director of Education, on “ Is There an. Educational Solution?” and one by Professor D. A . Welsh, Vice<;hairmian of the Council of the Society. The address by Mr. Board will be printed as part of a future pamphlet to be issued by the Society.

The second issue of the Society’s proceedings, eintitled “Addresses to Meni,” by Sir Thomas Anderson Stuart, Professor Wilson, and Professor Welsh, is now on sale at 6d. per copy, and may be obtained from the Hon. Secretaries. While the membership subscription is half-a-orowini per ajnnum, all the literature published by the Society will be sent gratis to subscribers of 5/ or more per annum.

The Council is organising a course of lectureis to be delivered shortly in the Trades HaU. During Lent Term a series of four lectures on some aspect o f venereal diseases were given to crowded audiences. The next course will deal with prostitution.

MEREDITH ATKINSON, Hon. Secretary.RALPH A. NOBLE, Hon. Asst. Secretary.

XJNIVERSITY SCOUTS.The two piarades recently held have made us realise that the S .U .S. do

actually exist. The men are bubbling over with enthusiasm, and matters military are the sole t<^ic of current conversation. Law stoods forsake the principles of Justice, tfie disciples of Hippocrates discard their “ Brain,” and all delve into tactical problems. Even the women surreptitiously display a keen interest in the manoeuvres from the roof garden of Manning House (‘qhaxming Howellian reverie!), but, lalas, the dream has vanished and hard, coJd, steely facts creep across the happy vision as a cloud that blots out the noonday sun.

There was action afoot to hold the ammual camp in December, then January ran fiavourite, and it is now moated that we are destined to “ mjss the feather bed” during next Easter.

There is an alarming dearth of officers in the Scouts. Attention is directed to the sundry notices toereon, and all are reminded that this is a goJden opipor- ttmity of escaping the degrading duties to which our old friend “ Pioneer Thomp­son” bore so much malice.

“ Odi Profanum vulgus et arceo.” . . . much more so their duties.

It is with regret that we learn that Captain MacKinnon Is resigning his post as O.C. of the Regiment, and may we take this opportunity of exprossing our appreciation of his keen interest amid siympathy with regard to all matters con­nected with the Scouts.

Reverting to the subject of officers’ examinations: it seems that a moustache is not essenitial. Vide Messrs. Black, O’Halloran, Mackinnon, and Colonel Howell. The argument contra is conducted steadfastly by Lieut. Keystone, who seems to be the only suacessful aspirant in this direction. He is a great believer in the antediluvian proverb, “ AU th ii^ come to those who wait.” Comparisans, how­ever, are odious, and on a topric such as this may awake unpleasant reminisceinices.

A A. M.

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UNIVERSITY RIFLE CLUB.The captain’s address at the annual general meeting of the University Rifle

Club showed that the list of active members now stood at 142. Of these more than 20 have never been active in any sense of the word, their stock of eaiergy available for military purposes having become exhausted in filling up and signing the attestation form and in taking the oath of allegiance.

The Club was organised with the object of giving some military training to any of the members who might find an opportunity of going on Active Service, and up to the present 68 have gone to the Front. Four have gone to England to work on munitions, and six have been seconded for m ilitpy work of various kinds in Australia. Of the remainder, 26 qualified as “ efficient” under Military Regulations by firing the mxisketry course during the year ending June 30th, 1917. Nine have made the supreme saorifice, Messrs. K. Bell, F. W . M. Busby, R. Irons, E. G. Leask, J. T . McMahon, D. M. Murray, M. R . Smith, G. Sulman, and J. C. Wright. They were either killed in action lor died of wounds.

ARTS SOCIETT.A movement has been set on foot among the students of the Faculty of Arts

to form 'an Arts Society, and a provisional committee consisting of reipresentatives, both men and women of all years, has been entrusted with the preliminary ar­rangements. A constitution is being drawn up, and will be submitted to a general meeting of the Faculty.

It is hoped that such a society will provide the much-needed expression of the conx>rate life of the Faculty of Arts.

F. A. Kench, Hon. Sec. pro tem.

ENGINEERING SOCIETY. GLEE CLUB.No report received. No report received.

CHRISTIAN X7NION. MEDICAL SOCIETY.No report received. No report received.

WAR ECONOMY.

This economy’s a funny business. A War Savings Group having been formed in a certain year, with a befitting sense of my duty to the nation, I (decided to save, and cast about for ways and means. On Wednesday I solemnly abjured my fragrant pipe, and, lest temptation should find it easy to assail me, cast it to the winds over a neighbour’s fence. On Thursday I regarded my weaker and more selfish fellows with quiet scorn. On Friday I thought I was due for some slight relaxation, and inve.sted a penny in a cigarette at the Union. On Saturday I went to a football match in which my old school was engaged, and smoked four cigarettes from my friend's’ supplies. I, however, quickly resoJved that this was incompatible with self-respect, and on Sunday started on the Old Man’s reserve stock of Monopole Magnums. These are now exhausted, and the Old Man em­phatically refuses to buy any more. At the football on the Saturday I met a wounded friend just returned from the other side, and since Grammar had won the game and Jack Smiles had come back from the war, and the hands of the dock stood at ten to six, it was obviously necessary to adjourn to the nearest hostelr\*. . . That way went the week’s savings. There’s only one thing to do—apply to the Old Man for a larger allowance, and purchase a new pipe. It’s a rum game, economy- X. Y. Z.

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Correspondence.I.ANDSCAPE GARDENING.

The University Park, the verdant setting of the University, awns a new over­lord—a Landscape Gardener.

Soon the towers will rear themselves from a veritable domain of Natxire begirt with trees and relieved with touches of colour.

Then will come the gay little maids of Arts, unloose some of their exuberance, and the Med., weary of “ ologies, of otomies, of everything,” refresh himself in this Garden of Eden charmed up by Dame Nature and—the Landscape Gardener-

But the path of progress is strewn with desecration of some venerable iiistilu- fcions. Gone are the Med. stoods that dined beneath the Tree of Knowledge, des- cajiting on the ubiquity of Andy, and the evanescence of love. Gone are the truth- seekers who quietly mused beneath the shade, their “ growing virtues and their crimes confined” by the tired feeling!

Gone are the park-canoodlerg who in every combination of two murmur sweet nothings in adverbs, adjectives, and interjections!

Why did the keeper of the Garden rise in wrath? They did not eat of the forbidden fruit—but they were tramping on his grass, wearing it as thin as his logic and as coloiu-less as their actions.

Nor does he guard the gate with a flaming two-edged sword; his methods are much more scientific—he takes away all the seats and lines them upon the path.

The stoods cannot descant on such eternal verities in this atmosphere; such profound discussion requires seclusion and peace. The Cult of the Disillusioned melts in the light of the sun. And however experienced one may be at canoodling, one hard seat, one asphalt path gives very little scope.

A new generation have come into their own. In dinner-hour chattering shop- assistants occupy the seats that line the paths, and as they cross their knees very becomingly-----

Anyhow, why does Barney go this way to dinner? There is method and science even in Landscape Gardening.

But for adD this the gaiden is a great institution; its principle is to follow nature; its function is that of an oasis from toil and bustle of the city. It pro­vides recreation and artistic refreshment, it inspires “ gaiety and harmony of mind” —a haven of rest in a whirlwind of action. That there were more in our busy city!

EspeTsinto.

IDEALS.Deair “ Hermes,’’—I am by nature a thoroughly satisfied being; in all my

three years in the Faculty of Arts—so-cailed possibly by reason of its utter refusal to take any note of the makling o f harmonies, and the painting of pictures and the shaping of marble and the building of temples—in all that time i had never a moment’ s doubt that I was on the right track. It is just possible that the luxury of hearing Brennan lecture on other poets—a ilu.xury by the way in which I seddom enough indulged—might have stirred some vague wonderings in me; but if so they were kiUed very thoroughly by the approach of those exams, which were, if all went well, to brand me with the two magical letters, which would proclaim to all the world that here in the flesh was one amply qualified to speak on all the arts—an. aesthete among the aesthetes, a maestro among musicians, a Phidias among the chiseUers of qiarble; killed indeed they weire, for there is that in the ponderous gravity of a Latin dictionary and the mercurial indefiniteness of a French grammar, which'kills, or deadens, such a v e ^ exotic plant as wonder.

So it happened that when I returned from shaking hands with the Chancellor, and felt the confidence-creating warmth of the white hood on my shoulders, there was not a thought in my soul—or my mind, if you prefer it, for ^ e soul is rather out of place at a University func*tion, and cannot hope to pace it with the Chan­cellor’s robes and the great mace—there was, as I say, not a thought in my mind but that the Arts School was the greatest and grandest thing in the worid.

So indeed I might have gone on thinking, had I not read in last issue of “ Hermes” an article (excuse the banality of the word) headed “ University or Universality” ; for read it I did; and when I had read it, I felt that something had gone wrong: something had snapped within my brain and I saw the University as it was; nor was the seeing pleasant to one w'ho had loved, and who still loves her.

But yet I felt that the writer o f that fine plea was wrong: wrong in his diagnosis of the great University disease; still more wrong in his suggestion of the remedy for it all. He tells us that we are worshippers of facts and scorners of ideals: and 1 say he is wrong. We are worshippers not of facts but of words; to words we have builded our shrines—words of every kind—bombastic, ecstatic, conventional, cynical— but still nothing but words—windy hosts of words. Talk to me of facts, and I ait silenf. As a result of three years’ study in Arts, what have I added to my store of facts? Nothing. Rack my tortured brain as I will I can find never a ’Varsity-taught fact wherewith I may comfort me.

And he teUs us that we are scorners of ideails: and agaiiin he is wrong— unless perchance I am; for I cdaim that we do not scorn ideals—rather we are quite hopelessly incapable of them; we hunt for them with the persistence o f any Sisyphus; drag them dn neck and cnc^ in proof of anything. Closing our eyes and ears, we teU one another smugly that this is a war of ideals. We have gone ideal mad. And our ideals are semi-developed things, born of the nether pit— if indeep they may boast such distinguished ancestry. In every moral crisis we faM back on a pale pink tinge of sentimentality which masquerades as ethics. Our wisdom consists of cheap semi-epigrams which seem to us the quintessence of genius: and our minds—to leave our souls out of it—are debauched with ideals built up on a framework of words.

So once again, 0-Gods, give us our heritage; what we should learn at the University is a capacity for passing the time without doing anything at all, or aaying anythir^ at all—almost without thinking anything at all; and we do not learn it, any more than we learn hard facts or shimmering ideals; wherefore, I pray you, O beloved divinities, bestow on us a liberal measure of that power of baing idle and that love of idleness and all its devotees, which in these bustlitig days is so sadly rare. S-

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SCOUTS, ’SHUN!Recruits who enter the Scouts for the fijrst time have some glimmering of

respect for the Corps. It fleeteth soon. It would not need a genius to describe with absolute accuracy the detail o f every parade held or to be held by the Soouts in any or every year. Semper eadiem, like Dewar’s Black and White. One de­scription fits the lot.

The parade is simunoned for 9 a.m. Punctually at 9.15 the Fall-in as sounded. At 9.30 the O.C. ■strolls on to the ground. The Adjutant or the R.S.iM. in­dignantly calls the whole to attention. The O .C . remarks conversationaflly that he sees a man's head in D Co.; and then in a tone of conistemation protests, ■' Steady! ” Meanwhile the men have begun to drop off to sleep, aiid when all are composed in slumber the O.C. exclaims, “ That’s good !” He goes on to say that ■“ Company Commanders will carry on with Squad drill. Section drill, or Platoon drill.” The men wake up, and curse—deepfy, volubly, with force and coloured variety of expression. Poor man, if the least of these curses ever roosts home upon his head! The recruit gains a new respect for the Corps and the men who compose it. Then for two solid hours and a-half the urtfortunate non-coms, and men carry on the dull round of work which they all did in their puling infancy ten years before, and have been doing ever since, w'hich they could all do with mechanical precision were there any the slightest object to be attained, and which has fcH- them not the least purj)osiveness or interest. At 12.10 the parade is dismissed, and the results of the morning’s proceedings are well smmned up by the Average Private as he leaves the parade ground: “ What a bally ■waste of time! ”

“ N a 16 Platoon."

ANSWERS TO CORRESPONDENTS.

J. W. S.—"Peace and War” held over.M. H .—Not quite what is wanted. You’d better interview the Editor.H. M. B .— Swiss Scene” held over as war topics have preference.“ Boswell.”—We are very anxious to know what game the blushing one played

with his sister, you don’t make it at alj clear. Your attemipt is good, but needs revision, which it should receive at your own hands. The fairest criticism is in your verse;

“ I would not call you faithless, O my sweet.Was I a fool or were we both to bbme?

I have wronged you—tell me now I am forgiven?Then let the silence gather in again.”

M. R .—It’s all over now, and we are quite sure you had a lovely time. Yoiu" cxMnplaint, however, h^s been brought to the notice of the committee.

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