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the Board. Every student whose name is on the College booksnext October, whatever his class, will be required to pay a capitationfee of £5. Extern and associate students may pay a £4 reduced levy.

Structural changes within the G.M.B. necessitate, the eviction of�he Theo. and the Bi. These will be housed elsewhere and will be knownas Faculty Societies. This fact, together with the faculty financialarrangements, seems to be~the most debatable issue in the report.

Our Correspondent writes:-

Six months after it was drawn up,the report of the Standing Co~nmitteeof Clubs and Societies in College hasfinally been accepted by the Board. Onemay well w,onder over the delay in itsacceptance, and especially consideringthat it carries a recommendation thatthe matter is urgent and should be dealtwith as soon as possible, but one restsa little puzzled over some points.

Accepting that conditions as they existat the moment need drastic revision, onewould hope for the continttance of ourcherished and hallowed institutions andthe resuscitation of those which do notfall in this category by virtue of theircomparative youth. In the exclusionof the Biological Society and the Theo-logical Society from the precincts .of theG.M.B., the former being the Society.acting for by far the largest singlegroup of students in Gollege, and thelatter which can trace its roots well pastthe century mark, one is immediatelyconfronted by the " short-sightedness "of the report.

Further investigation reveals that thegroup of nrganiaations to be known nowas the Faculty Societies will receive alump grant of £500, to be shared outamong them, while the Hist. and Phil.will receive over £1,500 between them.While the importance of these lattersocieties is recognised as supreme, onefeels the allotment of funds couldperhaps have been more fair.

The Elizabethan Society is to have itsrooms enlarged, at the expense of theSociological Society, and all the roomsre-decorated and re-furnished. Butwhere are the Social Science studentsgoing to go9. The " Bi" has already

¯ been offered rooms in No. 12. Further-more, can one defend the relegation oftwo long-standing organisations to theposition of Faculty Societies, and thusdeprive them of not only their status butalso the possibility of more funds ? Be-sides the per capita levy (£5 for full-time students and £4 for those who onlyattend evening a,nd occasional lectures),the Hist. and the Phil. wi}l be asked toraise £125 each from their members tosupplement their grants.

D.U.C.A.C. envisage increased mem-bership in their clubs, and to fulfil thisdem.a,nd may ask £or more money thanthe grant of £3,000 given. There is aneed to improve existing accommodationand provide additional playing fields, forthe increasing demand for sporting

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The Coffee Bar, open to male andfemale students, is to be .opened in No.27 on the ground floor, and should bemore than self-supporting. The con-struction and decoration is estimated at£1,200.

What they sayFrom the See. of the Bi.

Jim Dunlop, Secretary of the Bi., saysthat his Society has already receivednotice to quit the G.M.B. Offered alter-native rooms in No. 12, Mr. Dunloprefuses to accept them as they are damp,and prefers, Micawber-like, to wait forsomething better to turn up.

Suffering relegation to the status ofa Faculty Society, the Secretary fearsthat the loss in revenue will seriouslyimpair facilities offered to Bi. members.Sorely troubled by having to move, andworried by hypothetical financial em-barrassment, he hopes for enthusiasticmembers and hard-working Committeemembers to overcome the difficultieswhich he envisages.

From an Ex-Auditor of the Hist.The G.M.B. can at last be transformed

into an attractive centre of studentactivity, while C.H.S. and U.P.S. havea chance to maintain their individualityby having a small subscription fee.Again, a coffee room has been a crying~ecessity for years. But certain questionsremain unanswered: How, even with theexpenditure of £4,000 (and that totallyon redecoration and heating) and theannexation of the U.B.A. and C.T.S., willit be possible to cater ~or 1,500 men inthe G.M.B.? Will a coffee-room of theextraordinarily small size proposed be ofany value at all? Above all, the £7.50to go to improving No. 6 seems a totalwaste. How long do the authoritiesthink that they can maintain segregatedsocial facilities? How long, too, canthe development of’the whole G.M.B. asa social centre be put off? If large-scale alterations were to be made, a fargreater sum should have been allocatedand the job properly done.

From the Auditor of the Theo.Mr. D. McLindon, Auditor of the Theo.,

said that as far as he was concernedthe Theo. will remain a Major Society,and looked upon its relegation to that ofa Faculty Society with extreme dis-pleasure. So far he has not received anynotice to ouit the rooms in the G.M.B.and will only look for rooms when hereceives official notificatio.n. He feelssure of ostrich-like resistance among hismembers to the changes over the statusof his Society.

From the Secretary of ChoralMiss Lorna Rust, Secretary of Choral,

says that the grant from the new Com-mittee will be extremely inadequate forthe upkeep of this, the most long-founded of all chm’al societies in Ireland.She added that the Choral Society hadno wish to dominate College stude.nts’interests.

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Sir I vone Kirkpatrick, in his addresson " Europe; Retrospect and Prospect,"combined keen insight and a thoroughfactual background with a very attract-ive and vivid delivery. He was theprincipal speaker at the Laurentian~ociety on Monday.

Sir Ivone explained how in the lastfifty years Europe had lost its place asthe centre of world affair’s and worldinterest. The 19th century had been atime of peace and unprecedentedeconomic expansion, but the end of theFirst World War saw the emergence ofsmall states and of the U.S.A. andRussia. The result is that the Europeanpowers now constitute only a small pro-portion of the membership of UNO, andthat Europe stands to-day between thetwo great world powers, America andRussia. Speaking of conditions after theSecond World War, Sir Ivone attributedthe salvation of Western Europe fromCommunism to Marshall Aid, the systemof European defence as seen in theBrussels Treaty and NATO, and to theenlightened and liberal rehabilitation ofGermany.

Looking to the future, he showed thatEurope still had very great wealth, butthat some kind of unity was necessaryif it were to be exploited. This unitywould not be easy to accomplish, and

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Briscoe, T.D., who was the guest ofthe President and Council of theUniversity PhilosoPhical Society inthe Metrop01e Ballroom on Mondaylast. On February 28th he will receive14 Presidents and Auditnrs of Univ,er-sity Societies at the Mansion House.These representatives will be inTrinity on the occasion of the Phil.inter-~ebate. The Lord Mayor willleave Dublin early in March to make

a good-will tour of the U.S.A.

depended largely on favourable publicopinion. But the common peril of Com-munism and the enormous and ever-increasing cost of equipping modernarmies would eventually make com-bination for this purpose the alternati’veto the renunciation of self-defence.

The Minister for External Affairs, Mr.Cosgrave, proposing the vote of thanksto Sir Ivone, spoke of contemporaryefforts to unite Europe, especially of theOEEC Common Market. He said thatthe idea that Europe could form a blocbetween Russia and America overlookedthe close links between America andEurope; Europe could not remainisolated. Mr, Cosgrave concluded witha warm tribute to Sir Ivone’s work inthe rehabilitation of Germany.

Liz Horn, Chairman of the Society,deprecated the lack of action in Hungary,and the fact that so many wished toleave Europe and settle in youngercountries.

Proposing the motion that " D.U.Laurentian Society is wm/thy of effort,"H.E. the French Ambassador spoke ofthe necessity of a Christian basis andof free agreement to European unity.Seconding the motion, Senator JamesCrosbie warned against the danger ofa multiplicity of parliamentary bodies todeal with separate problems common tothe European rmtions, and said thatEuropeans ¯could do invaluable servicein helping under-developed countries.

Summing up, Dr. Donal O’Sullivanappealed to modern youth to take aninterest in these problems.

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Vol. IV TRINITY NEWS No. 9

THURSDAY, 14TH FEBRUARY, 1957

FINANCEA Levy

THE machinery, which is destinedto revolutionise undergraduate

life in Trinity, has been set inmotion. This newspaper has sup-ported the proposed changes,recommended by the StandingCommittee, from the beginning.We welcome these innovations.It is impossible to please everyoneand it is not surprising to find thatthere is some dissatisfaction, notwith the scheme in general, forthat is pleasing to the majority,but with some particular aspect ofit, which in the main can beclassified as financial.

Firmness in regard to distribu-tion was essential, but emphasisshould be laid on the fact that,after the initial expenditure in-curred by structural changes, a re-assessment could be made incertain cases. Long-term planningmust needs be done with care. Theallocation of funds has beenmeticulously scrutinised by boththe Board and two sub-committees.Let us give the scheme a fair trial.

A DividendOnce again the Co-op. has had

to be subsidised h’om Buffet funds.Still, at a meeting of the share-holders, it was decided to vote adividend of 5%. We might showour approval by increasing ourcustom. Only in this way candividends become larger and pricesdecrease. An unfortunate item inthe treasurer’s report was one of£100. This sum was the com-mittee’s outlay to replace cutlery"borrowed" by students. Thereshould be little need to deplore thisnews, and still less to point outthat the money could be put tobetter use.

A NeedThe article we publish on

Hungary brings to mind S.C.M.’splea for help in their endeavour tosupport the starving peoples of

Europe. Famine is very real,although it is difficult for us toimagine. Spartan lunches havebecome a feature of the Group’sactivities in an attempt to alleviatesuffering.

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Paula Simmonds- Scholar Plus.Kent has three main products:

England wicketkeepers, hops a~d PaulaSimmonds. The latter Ln only twenty-two years qualifies for the position.Despite the handicap of an unscholarly,sex appealing figure, Miss Simmonds,while a Junior Sophister, joined theranks of the elite of Trinity intellectuals.

At the scholars’ dinner, eyes wereraised at her entry, some of them think-ing, no doubt, that the girl was wastingher feminine talents amidst such a groupof disinterested academics. A scholar-

:ship, and thenthe Vice - Chan-cellor’s prize forprose were a wel-come acknowledg-ment of Paula’sundoubted depthof knowledge andsense of appreci-

ture.ati°n Herf°r talentslitera-revealed them-selves at anearly age at .......Broxnley Gram- :mar School whereshe w o ~ theNational LeagueBook Essay Corn- tpetition.

On leavingschool she tookup a position aseditor .on awomen’s maga-zine, but feeling

too much thestrain in her selfexpression s h eabandoaed t h esecurity of her posit~on and came toTrinity in search of intellectual freedomand development to study Mod. Lang., astep which those who have seen andadmired her have not regretted.

As an u~dergraduate, Paul~a began lifewith romantic ideas, but soon she wasdisillusioned; she found her biggest dis-appointment .... in the "herding,’ the too

easy acceptance of a type and not an in-dividtml on the part of Trinity men, thelack of de Mussets among them. InTrinity Hall, Paula has made fewfriends, for the unnaturalness andpseudo-sophistication of some of her co-habitants militates ,against her love oftruth and reality, the essence of truedevelopment of J,ndividuality.

The daughter of an artist, MissSimmonds has inherited some talent for

painting and agreat apprecia-t i o n for art.Sports take littleor none of hert i m e, althoughboxing had at onestage, ,through oneof its innova-tors, aroused herinterest. Readingis her life. Awareof her back-ground, it is littlesurprising t h a tshe shows astrong affinity forthe pantheism of

...... Englisb :roma,n-tics. Poe, too,stands high inh e r estimation,but her fav ouriteinterest is Frenchliterature.

Her heredity,coupled withmysticism in herreading, hasb r o u g h t out

strong emotional tendencies, perhaps themost interesting manifestation .of thischaracteristic being her assertion thatshe has seen more ghosts than usual inTrinity Hall -- but then, the buildingstamds on the ruins of an old castle.

We are gratified to hear that Paulaintemds to make writing her career.We wish her every success.

In the G.M.B. with Back-Bencher

A MORAL PACT ADVOCATEDOn Friday last, Mr. C. A. David

delivered an interesting and timelyaddress entitled "Moral Pact." Theoccasie~ was the opening meeting of theD.U.A.I.A. The speakers were Mr. W.T. Cosgrave, Mr. Se~n MacBride and Mr.Ernest Blythe.

Mr. David began by attributing thetroubles of the present political situationto the pressure of the two great armedimperialist blocs: the U.S.S.R. and theU.S.A.-U.K. axis. He advocated theformation of a united group of countriesthat would work for peace. This neutralforce would stabilise the existing situa-tion, and prevent a~ti-nationatist im-perialism of the type that is oppressingHungary, Cyprus and Algeria. Mr.David gave a list of countries whichwould, in his opinion, be suitable~members of the Moral Pact. These in-cluded such peace-loving countries asYugoslavia and India.

Mr. W. T. Cosgrave thanked Mr. Davidfor his able paper. He them went on tosay that events of recent years .areleading mankind to the jungle, and notto the Golden Age promised by naiveliberals of fifty years ago. He pointedout that the proposed Moral Pact had anumber of weak points. The mostobvious of these were the dangers offorming yet another aggressive bloc,a.nd the ineffectivenes of moral force,as shown in Hungary. Mr. Cosgrave,who impressed all with his clea~ ~incerityand Christian outlook, then read out aquotation describing the ideal ForeignMinister. This was in particularreference to Talleyrand and the Con-gress of Victoria, which secured thirtyyears of peace for Europe, a feat whichneither the League of Nations norU.N.O. were capable of enforcing.

Mr. MacBride, presumably with theforthcoming election in mind, made alarge number of references to Democracy(good) and Colonialism (bad). He alsopointed out the serious dangers ofmodern scientific progress, using thestriking simile of "children withdangerous toys."

Mr. Blythe professed that he felt muchmore optimistic than the previousspeakers. He remembered attendingsessions of the League of Nations,where he was impressed by the moralauthority of the non-colonial neutralcountries of Scandinavia, such as Swedenand Norway. (It is interesting to notethat in 1932 the League of Nations com-pelled Norway to withdraw from herarmed invasion of Greenland.) He alsocriticised the Irish for their attitudetowards the Six Counties.

Professor Crawford, who presided,wound up with a short speech which wasconsidered by many to be the most lucidof the evening. He supported a morereasonable and realistic attitude to othernations, free from prejudice .or in-genous sentiment. He finished up thismost enlightening meeting by pointingout that man must understand his choicebefore making it.

UNINSPIRED GAELSEveryone knows that the only weapon

of the unintelligez~t critic is venom.This, however, is not to say that all en-venomed criticism is the result of thereporter’s incompetence. There aretimes when a reporter feels it his dutyto say harsh words, when, in fact, anykindness w.ould be totally undeserved.Last week’s debate at the Hist..on themotion that " Ireland to-day should notlook to the Gaels for inspiration " wasso tedious (and puerile) as to deservesuch antagonistic criticism.

The standard of debate varied betweenoccasional intelligence and total incom-pet6nce. Mr. Michael Knight’s openingspeech for the motion had clarity andvolume if nothing else. Mr. DickBolster, the first opposer, spokeat length on what he did not intend todo, without ever attempting to definethe Gaelic individualism which he main-tained was Ireland’s inspiration. Mr.Haley-Dunne spoke too fast to be alto-gether coherent, but seemed greatlyamused by his remarks on the I.R.A.the Commonwealth of Nations and Irishstagnation. Dignity was restored byMr. Temple-Lang’s in]Dressive delivery.He condemned the other speakers forliving in the past before ploughing intoit himself. Count Tolstoy provided thetransition between tolerable mediocrityand inane tedium. His paper on"Monarchy" (or "My Version ofEuropean History") was fortunately in-terrupted half-way. Nothing after thiscould be as tedious; surprisingly, verylittle was more interesti.r~g. The speechesbecame shorter and sillier, and at 19.30p.m. the division was taken, in whichthe motion was defeated by 17 votes to13. Sir Shane Leslie, the chairman forthe evening, concluded by telling stories,reverencing Parnell and proposing thatthe members of the Hist. govern thisc o u n t r y. (After which, naturallyenough, he was wildly cheered.)

That it was left to a visiting Americanto make the only worthwhile speech ofthe evening is in itself a fitting com-nlent on Gaelic inspiration.

COLLEGEOBSENVED][

Variations on a Nursery Th~me

Extract from an undergraduate’3letter to her younger sister:-

Really, Aggie, College is in many waysjust like school. You’d think we’d be~erious .and adult here, in such intel-lectual surroundings, but it will surpriseyou to learn that being childish is quitethe fashion with undergraduates. Manyshow no inclination to progress from3rd form stupidity, for one sophister inHall plays cricket with herself in thecorridor, and at midnight, too. Wewould all like to present her with aprivate flat where she can play i.n peace,uninterrupted by thoughtless snorers;but as this would not be practicable weshall instead have to find a volunteer togo and bowl the maiden over.

Lunch hour in Front Square is exactlyas in the school playground; the game isthe same and the competition even fiercer~Boys still judge us by our sweaters, andwe continue to fall for their hair styles.We have our tom-boy too, and she canbe seen regularly vaunting her ~nusclesand challenging the vanished Mr. Bartonto single combat. We also have ourjuvenile hero-worshippers, until suchtime as Mr. Jay stops imitating OrsonWelles. We snigger .and giggle at oneanother; only here the men are allowedto look ridiculous--with beards, pipes,walking sticks and other props.

However, our most infantile move-ments are in lectures. Noughts andcrosses ~s a popu]~ar practice, so is read-ing, but most prefer writing to eachother--such notes as "I find Bonar Lawfascinating," "Is Dr. Davie married?"and "I think the poetry i.n T.C.D. isimmoral," which can lead to quite in-teresting correspondence. Desk andwall scratching is another lecturepastime, producing masterpieces like " C.N~mmons sat here--hallowed ground";while, for studious activities before thelecture, kicking down the fire-place ’inNo. 39 has been the most original. But,however childish we may be, to betreated as such is infuriating and Dr.Skeffington’s punishment of late-comersto his lectures by making them reciteFrench poems is an irritating reminderof school days. H.owever, we turnedeve~ this into entertainment by cacklinglike hens the other day while Mr. Cole-gate recited his piece.

If only scholars would exercise theirright of playing marbles on the Chapelsteps, I’m sure Prof. White would beatDr. MacDowell at this sport. Trinitylacks only this entertainment.

As you can see, Aggie, College is onebig playground, where many nevermanage to grow up."

At this point the letter degeneratedinto gossip, in which we have ,nointerest. "Sir Tapling Flutter."

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that a high percentage of you men whomill rotmd College picking up anddropping girls, with the delightfully in-souciant " Girls are like buses, naiss one,catch another" phrase on your lips, arepossessed of some exceedingly uncouthideas as to the correct procedure inrelation to the Tri,nity Hall girls.

Well, here’s a chance to improve onyour savoir-faire. Just to test yourknowledge and to prepare you for thenext attempt, here is a short question-

n aire:

(1) When you bring a glrl back froma party an hour late, should you: (a)Come in with her and explain that thecar broke down? (b) Push her inthrough a downstair window 9. (c) Takeher right away agaLu ?

(2) When a girl says she has to beback by 11.30 p.m., does she actuallymean: (a) 11.30 p.m.? (b) That sheis bored already? (c) Any ti~me up to5 a.m.?

(3) Upon arrival at Trinity Hall,should you: (a) Go inside, send messageannouncing your arrival, then wait?(b) Sit in the car and honk? (c) Justsit in the car?

(4) When you come to dinner in Hall,should you: (a) March confidently intothe dining-room with a light-heartedwave mud shouted greeting for anyZortunate female you may choose torecognise? (b) Slink unobtrusively inand sit dumbly at the bottom table ?

And now for the answers:(1) (b) Is right. (c) Is possible,

but not strongly recom~mended.Approach (a) is wearing a little thinnow.

(2) She actually means 11.30. Giveyourself half a mark for (b) as thiscould be right.

(3) (c) Is impracticable. (b) Isrude. (a) Is right (and also much moreagreeable from your own point of view,however long you may be kept waiting,you will find no lack of girls to talk to).

(4) You may as well do (a). Youcouldn’t possibly attract more attentionthan you will anyway, so what the hell.

Well, has this solved any of yourproblems? One hopes so.

"A Junior Fresh Inmate."

Galway CongressThree members of D.U. Commerce and

Economics Society are representingTrinity at this week’s Irish Students’Economics Co’ngress at Galway. g.R.Hautz and J. A. Poynton will debate,while G. Knaggs will read a paper. TheCongress will last from Thursday toSaturday.

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I set off to drive to Vienna with anEnglish friend immediately after Christ-mas. Having been turned down by theBritish Red Cross, we decided to go in-dependently and see if we could be ofany use in one o’f the refugee camps.Arriving at Vienna, we had the goodfortune to be directed to a small villagetwo miles from the Austro-Hungarianborder which, situated in the midst ofa large area of swamp land, is the soleremaining place still to receive refugeesnightly in any numbers. Even here,however, the numbers have fallen frombetween 1,000 to 2,000 nightly duringDecember to 180-200 nightly in January.

This village, in the day a poor andprimitive farming centre, was at nighttransformed into a busy reception centre.The Hall, School, Fire Station, Dispen-sary and Gasthof were all taken over byRed Cross personnel and transferred intodormitories, clothes and shoe stores,kitchen and hospital. The clear nightsrang with the crunch of snow boots, therattle of buckets and the engines oftractor and Landrover. The night shiftcommenced at 7 p.m. and lasted until7 a.m. but the hours before midnightwere spent chiefly in the preparation of;food and beds, and conversation withthe few refugees who had alreadyarrived and were anxious to pick upwords of Get’man and English. Aftermidnight the real influx started and con-tinued until dawn. The area was flatand bare for miles with only Hungarianiron look-out towers breaking thehorizon. Few bushes grew in this areaand on either side of the border lay un-tilled fields, until October thickly laidwith mines¯

Forbidden ZoneThe refugees seldom had less than 18

miles to walk through water and mud,sometimes they had as much as 50 miles¯During the day they lay up in fields andsometimes watched Russian soldiers onthe move. On the border itself therewere no Russians, only Hungariansoldiers. Then at dusk they startedtheir long tramp through the forbidden20 mile zone inside the frontier. Theyarrived with stockings and shoes fre-quently in ribbons and legs caked withsolid mud. One woman who must havefallen in the swamp had only her facevisible. To do this journey they had tobe very fit and so the majority wereyoung--the biggest group consisting ofyoung men between 18 and 30 years.

Many were skilled workers, engineersand the like. Most had the address ofsome relative or friend in the West orin the U.S.A., though some had no one.There were all types from FreedomFighters, peasants, soldiers and studentsto gypsies and Teddy Boys. The womenwere either young girls or mothers withtheir children, the latter plump andhealthy and brimming with good spirits.Some brought children who were nottheir own and these were later sent toa special camp if their parents did notappear¯ There were a number of guides~vho continually led bands of refugeesout and there were fathers who, bringingout some of their families, returnedafter a rest to fetch the rest and their

MISS ELIZABETH HORN (Mod. B.A.)gives her personal impressions on thesituation at the Austro- Hungarian

Border.

wives. The return of these latter wasan occasion for great rejoicing amongthe Red Cross staff.

InternationalThe staff in the village was chiefly

Austrian and German with a Britishwoman in charge of the children and twoof us also British. On the border itselfthe German Knights of Malta, AustrianSamaritans and volunteers from Eire,E n g 1 a n d, America and Norwaypatrolled, assisted by local farmers andAustrian soldiers and police. Two

students risked their lives nightly enter-ing Hungary to collect refugees and wereeventually captured and detained by theHungarian authorities.

The frontier guards, young Hungariansoldiers, had a hard problem to solve andthough turning back many, quite anumber of whom eventually got throughto Austria at a later date, they shot onlyone person during the whole period sincethe beginning of November. They were,on the whole, friendly and nice to meetduring the day but at night unreliableand best kept at a distance! They shotwildly from the waist in all directionsafter sending up flares to light the areaand while not intending to kill, one feltthey easily could, accidentally.

Hungarian money is completely value-less now and so they were nearly allpenniless. They had the clothes theystood up in and if they were lucky astring bag. In their faces the nextmorning one read a realisation of justwhat they had done, a realisation thatthey had left everything, and frequentlyeveryone.

Journeys of great endurance and greatheroism were common. Those whobrought children had the worst time, forthey had to be kept silent and carriedmost of the way.

Why do they come ? It is significantthat the Austrians, themselves occupieduntil recently by the Russians, never askthem. To me the answers were variousbut in general summed up by: "TheRussians are in Budapest, we have hadthem before and we cannot stand itagain." The complete meaning under-stood, I feel, only by those who havesuffered similarly.

GratefulThey were a friendly, light-hearted

and very cheerful bunch, grateful in theextreme for the little we could do forthem, very hopeful for their future andvery glad to have arrived into freedom.What a long stay in a camp withoutwork might do to them worried me verymuch, for nearly all had one desire andone only, to be given a chance to startanew and build up a life afresh, and forthis they were prepared to work andwork hard.

Memories :--Gay, tired but smilingfaces, gypsy music and a great joy.Courage and great independence pre-dominated and I pray they become notsad and disillusioned.

O* U *sGilda Horsley -- "Her voice was

ever soft, gentle, and low, an excellentthing in woman."

John Jay--"... A poor player thatstruts and frets his hour upon the stageand then is heard no more."

Bob Barton--" Were’t nota shame, that whilst you liveat jar, the fearful French,whom you late vanquished,should make a start . . . andvanquish you."

The Junior Freshwomen--"’Tis time your buddingMiss is very charming, butshy and awkward at firstcoming out. The nurserystill lisps out izr all theyutter, besides, they always

¯ smell of bread and butter."Ben. Murray--" I am a man more

sinned against than sinning."Prof. H. O. White--" Make ~ot ~my ear

a stranger to thy thoughts."Trinity Hall " Stone walls do not a

prison make, ~.or iron bars a cage.Minds innocent and quiet, take that foran hermitage."

Kate Lucy--" Eureka! I have foundthe way to make a better thing ofmetre, than e’er was made by livingcreature up to this blessed day."

The Boat Club--" They eat, they drink,and in comtmunion sweet, quaff im-mortality and joy."

A. Bonar-Law --" Oh thatI were a man!"

Choral Society--" Sing ~omore ditties, sing no more ofdumps so dull and heavy . . .And be you blithe and bonny,converting all your sounds ofwoe."

Miss North--"Doesn’t any-body want to meet a sweet,old-fashioned girl ?"

Editor, "T.C.D." --" Haveyou ever been lonely?"

Michael Ryall--" You can’t be true totWO."

P.S.--If you haven’t had a Valentinealready--remember--" Faint heart neverwon the fair lady." "Hope springseternal in the human breast--and there’salways the afternoon post!"

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CRIMINALCLERGY

Meeting last Monday for the first timesince its late President’s death, the"Theo" appropriately discussed authority,but authority not within the Society butwithin the Church. It was a pity thatMr. A. Little’s paper, "Search forAuthority," was not better delivered, forthen his approach to a subject provoca-tive by its very nature might have in-spired a livelier debate. As it was, athorough historical analysis of theChurch ,of England’s recognition of andopposition to authority, particularly inthe nineteenth century, became ratherboring. It finished, however, on a verycentroversial note, thus: "Anglo-Catholicism, because it is a movement,must move towards a search forauthority, but still with respect towardsdiocesan authority whenever possible."

Proposing a vote of thanks to thatsentence, Mr. Gabriel, in a rhetoricallyvery eloquent ~naiden speech, maintainedthat individualism in Anglo-Catholicismwas .outrageous; it was private judg-ment run wild." Unless legislativeauthority in the Church of England withpower to devrade recalcitrant clergywere established, or unless, alternatively,clerics who indulged in " a superfluity ofnaughtiness " were to have the couragelike Newman to transfer their allegianceentirely to Rome, then disestablishmentmust come.

The authority of the Bible was Mr. D.J. Kerr’s theme in another short, yetdoubtless sincere, paper as support tothe vote of thanks. Though many of theensuing speakers from the floor at theHouse tried to alter focus to the Churchof Ireland, most of the discussioncentred around the Church of England,which was proper because that was thescope of the paper and because, as Dr.Hartford, the chairman, remarked whenst~mmin.ff up, that was, after all, the onlyplace in the Anglican Communionwhere there was no very obviousauthority. Though he corrected thegeneral opinion that the Church ofEngland was in a mess, still the Housecame to one unanimous conclusion dur-ing a dull evening, that certainly civiland ecclesiastical law in England mustsomehow be reconciled.

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MAURITIAN CUPA Mere Mud Lark

Queen’s, 4; Trinity, 1.

TRINITY lost the Mauritian Cup to Queen’s when they were beaten

4-1 last week in Belfast. The latter had also beaten U.C.D. 2-1

the previous day.

The game against Queen’s was played on a very soft pitch which

cut up badly in a short time, thus making good hockey virtuallyimpossible. However, Queen’s adapted themselves to the state of thepitch and made the ball "do the work."

Lavan ~opened the scoring for Trinitywith a well placed push past the goal-keeper .after a movememt which startedoutside the" 25." Shortly after this goalthe Queen’s right wing put a pass acrossthe goaLmouth where McKnight was inposition to score. Queen’s scored asecond goal just on half-time from arather similar movement. Both thesegoals, when analysed, were the result ofthe Trinity defence coming across tocover the cross pass from the wing, thuswhen this pass beats them it leaves theopposing forwards unmarked.

~n the second half Trinity pressedhard several times, but a combination ofthe Queen’s solid defence and the mudprevented the hard-playing Fitzsimonand Lavan from scoring. Brook playedwell and was one of the few Trinityplayers who adapted themselves to theconditions, while Glanville keptMcMillen, the Ulster wing, in strictcheck. Queen’s scored twice more, oncefrom a high ball which hit Stewart’shand and continued on into the goal, theother from a hard shot of Wilson’s.

Trinity, 1; U.C.D., 0

Trinity beat U.C.D. in a fashion whichwas greater than the score suggests.The pitch, the third to be used in thecompetition, quickly degemerated into aq~agmire. Campbell scored the sole goalabout 10 minutes after the start foKow-ing a scrabble in the circle. The gamethen degenerated in proportion to thestate of the pitch.

The Trinity defence staved off severalU.C.D. attacks, usually before the circlewas reached, though once Moulton hitthe upright with a shot while Stewartwas Out of position. Pratt was devast-ing at centre-half, his tmdercut was adecided advantage in clearing on sucha heavy pitch¯ FitzSimon and Keely, theleft wing partnership, exploited the drierwings to the full. The forwards missedseveral chances of scoring when theU.C.D. defence cleared straight to them.

Chess ClubThe Ermis Shield team have made a

reasonable start to the chess season,having won one match, drawn one andlost one.

Results :--v. Eoghan Ruadh, 23rd January. Lost

4-2. W. Alexander won his game. I.Derham and D. K. Johmston drew theirgames.

v. Colmcille, 31st January. Won 4-2.L Derham, J. J. J.ohnston and S.Barcroft won their games. Dr. B. Spain:and W. Alexander drew their games.

v. Kevin Barry. 6th February. Drew3-3. W. Alexander and R. Irwin wontheir games. I. Derham and D. K.Johnston drew their games.

The reserve team have lost both theirmatches :--

v. Dun Laoire, 25th January. Lost 4-2.R. Harte and R. Irwin won their games.

v. Kevin Barry " A," 2nd February.Lost ,5-1. B. Smith and A. Lutton drewtheir games.

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Once agai~ the Trinity defenee had theirweakness for the cross pass shown up;fortunately the U.C.D. forwards werenot as fast off the mark as the Queen’sforwards had been.

Queen’s proved admirable hosts, but inall it" could be said that the MauritianCup was a mere mud-lark.

GOSSIP with

No Boxing TitlesLooking at the results .of the Inter-

varsity Junior Championships held inGalway last Saturday, ~ne would thinkthat Trinity did not participate, for notone name of the seven-man teamappears on the list of finalists. All theTrinity boxers were eliminated in the

semi - finals. R.

a certain wi~nerbut for someobscure reasonhe w a s dis-qualified duringhis fight. Thet w o O’Flynnbrothers werealso victims ofunfair decisions,

and T. O’Briem was another Trinity manwho ~,ought well and lost by, a narrowmargin.

Although the refereeing and judgingwere bad to the point of becomingridiculous, it offers little excuse for thefact that none of the Trinity boxers wona title. We hope that next week theSeniors will make up for last Saturday’sdisappointing displays by retaining timIntervarsity Championship which will beheld in U.C.D. next Wednesday.

Boat ClubThe warming-up period of training

being over, the Trinity crews are xmwsettling down to the laborious task ofgetting really fit. With the first oftheir races little over a fortnight hence,all three VIII’s are concentrating onbuilding up the stamina by lung, hardoutings each evening. Owing to after-noon lectures and practicals, the SeniorVIII can never boat before 4.45 in theevening during the week. This meansthat .at least half the outing takes placein twilight or darkness a,nd in con-

Soccer

TRINITY LOSE CUPPOOR DEFENCE : LACK OF STAMINA

Trinity, 3; Surgeons, 5.

THE 1st XI suffered yet another defeat, in the hands of Surgeonslast week, and were eliminated from the Universities and Colleges

Cup, of which they are holders.The Trinity team, including Sainsbury

and Macauley, was the strongest to befielded so far, but all eleven playerswere far from fit. Although they couldmatch Surgeons in skill and tactics, whengoing for the ball ~ ¯they were beatenevery time --Surgeons werethat ~xtra bitfaster.

Long gaps be-tween the Trinitydefence and theattack gaveSurgeons great ~

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sequence coaching is severely handi-capped. Mr. P. R. Wall-Mo~is, at thecaptain’s request, has taken .on theresponsible task of coaching the SeniorVIII for three weeks¯ It is hoped thatMr. W. A. D. Windham will return toput the finishing touches to the crew aweek and a half before they depart fortheir English races¯

The Junior and Maiden VIII are pro-gressing well under the tutelage ofMessrs. G. B. R. Fisher and J. V.O’Brien. It is unfvrturmte that incon-venient timing of lectures makes it im-possible for the Jtmior VIII to get out"in tote" each afternoon, but anymember who does not have an outingon the river ¯takes a twenty minutes’ runto keep fit.

Congratulations to Dermot Beatty onhis selection as full-back on the Leinsterjunior team that beat Ulster last Friday.This is a well-merited award forDermot. He has bee~ playing in the2nd for the last two years, and it is onlythe presence of Dick Fullerton that pre-vents him from ¯ gaining a regularposition on the 1st XV.

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Queen’s Win ShieldAs we had forecast two weeks ago,

Trinity and Queen’s ~net in the final ofthe water-polo competition for theBeveridge Shield last Saturday.

Trinity beat U.C.D. 3-2 and Queen’srouted U.C.C. by 10 goals to nothing inthe semi-final.

In the final, Queen’s gave anothergreat display and won the shield bybeating Trinity 5-0. The score is a littleflattering to them, but they are un-doubtedly the strongest team in univer-sity water-polo¯ Trinity shauld dobetter when they meet them again inJuly for the Intervarsity Championship.

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which were responsible for three of theSurgeons’ goals and some missed chancesby the forwards in the first half werethe deciding factors in Trinity’s defeat.

In the first minute Ryan, faced withan empty goal, shot over the bar andagain before Surgeons took the leadDavid sliced a shot just wide of the post.Prole’s goal was a gem; from EMer’scentre he dived three yards forward tohead the ball into the corner of the net.Surgeons led 3-1 at half-time and notlong after the interval they increasedtheir lead by two more goals. David andProle scored for Trinity to make it 5-8.All three Trinity goals were the resultsof beautiful, well-planned movements.Surgeons had in centre-half M.Macauley, the best player on the field.He was too big an obstacle for theTrinity ’forwards.

Ladies’ HockeyTrinity, 3; U.C.D., 0

On Wednesday, Trinity played afriendly match against U.C.D. and wonby 3-0. The game was arranged todecide whether the Trinity or U.C.D.goalkeeper should substitute for JeanForbes (Q.U.B.) ~on the Irish Univer-sities’ team. Elizabeth Irvine (Trinity)was finally selected. The outstandingfeature of the game was the good playof Jill Kirwan, who shot two goals;Cicely Hilliard scored the third.

Trinity, 6; Queen’s "A’; 1

On Saturday, Trinity had anotherfriendly, this time against Queen’s"A." Trinity won easily, by six goalsto one. Aileen Richmond scored fourgoals, while June Palmer and EileenRoche thwarted most of the Queen’steam’s attacks. Unfortu.nately, thisgame was played at an extremely slowpace, but it gave some of the morepromising 2nd Xl players a chance togain 1st XI experience.

We hear that Ruth Harris, RhodaRitchie and Elizabeth Irvine all playedwell for the Irish Universities, who de-feated the Scottish Universities 5-4 onSaturday. "Gib."

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