causes. It was clear that the meeting favoured Democracy, being citizens of a democratic regime, and the voting was well in favour of this form of government. At the conclusion the vice-president stated it as his view that in these days Dictatorship appeared to be more successful—an opinion which was soon to be borne out by Britain's decision to pursue the war on almost totalitarian principles. Mr. E. C. Smith kept the audience grippedand highly amused at the fourth meeting, with a lecture on "Impres sions of England and Cambridge." Like most sightseers, Mr. Smith learnt more of England and Cambridge than the home-born Englishman learns in his life! With a wealth of anecdote and side-comment, Mr. Smith made the hour pass all too quickly—we could have done with another hour! The debate,"That in the long run the Navy is more useful than the Army," in spite of its obvious potentialities, was not as successful as might have been expected, although the proposer, M. Graham, and the opposer, D. Percival, did their best. There was a small attendance, and those present were mostly recovering from -gastric flu; perhaps this accounts for the lethargy. The Navy won, though even the opponents had to admit that the Swiss Navy was not of much use to Switzerland! The final meeting consisted of a series of Literary Readings, arranged by the vice-president, who was himself absent through sickness. Readings were selected from various authors, to illustrate different aspects of experience, and prior to each the president, acting for the vice-president, said a few words about the life of the author or contents of the book. Unfortunately this type of evening did not attract the crowds, which was strange, as boys are usually only too ready to be"read to;" actually those present voted the readings a great success. Extracts were read from; "The Odyssey,""Quo Vadis,""Silas Marner,""Execution of Montrose," Leacock"Selections,""Tale of Two Cities," "Pickwick Papers," "Lighter Side of School Life," and "Modern Anthology of Verse," and were readby J. Clayton, A. Mandell, D. Blake, L. Putterill, R. Mark, A. Doidge, the Headmaster, D. Beckett and R. Lund respectively. 14
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