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199 Pearse Street Dublin CHRISTMAS NUMBER QUICKS S.R.C. (Late Dog & Waffle) COMMENCEMENTS 13 Chatham St. TRINITY NEWS BALL Excellent Lunches Served Daily, METROPOLE 12-2.30 pm~. Only 2/- A DUBLIN UNIVERSITY WEEKLY BALLROOM Thupsday Scrumptious Special PUBLISHED DURING TERM Teas and Grills i December 3rd Served until 11.30 p.m. Tickets - 7/6 Waffles a Speciality Vol. 1--No. 6 WEDNESDAY, DECEMBER 2, 1953 PRICE 3d. Dancing 9 p.m. to 2 a.m. WORLD SUPREMACY TRADITION BROKEN DOGTOR IN THE XOUSEP The whole picture of Europe had changed more in the last 15 years than A.M.A. REPORT AT LAST! it had done in the previous 50. Sir A Woman Speaks in a Major Society David Kelly, former British Ambassador ISTORY was made at the Philo- As we go to press, the morning papers to Moscow, last Monday night at the aspect of Irish life. He saw regular are splashing the long-awaited report first public meeting ~)f the newly-formed H sophical Society’s inter-ctebate. On Sunday worship, isolated in a week of of the American Medical Association Laurentian Society went on to say that Thursday, 26th November, 1953, a lady sin, not as hypocrisy but rather a desire across their front pages. Publication the main reason for such a change was for respectability at all costs. by the Irish Medical Association was the ,military eclipse of Germany. entered the hall and addressed the House It was at this stage of procedure that decided upon, it is stated, to " counter- The Soviety Union had emerged from for the first time. Welcoming her, the history was made. Miss O’Regan from act the many misconceptions, begotten the war with the whole of East Europe President expressed the hope that it Galway joined the President in his wish o’f unauthorised and inaccurate accounts" as her satellites. She had now China would be possible for ladies to be to see ladies taking their proper place which have been brought to its notice. as an ally. Russian policy was based in the Society. This duty done, she The full report, however, would simply on the inevitability of a world revolution. hal’f, present at public business meetings in pointed rut that the greatest example With such a policy, Sir David considered h it future. of Irish hypocrisy was the pretended appear to bear out the truth of most of that Russia was more imperialistic than one Thereupon Mr. M. Maconnaill from hatred of the British monarchy. The the accounts which we have read, with any Western power. are U.C.G. pro.posed the motion "That Coronation film was banned but every- the important difference that it states Sir David went on to say that he Lheir hypocrisy is one of o u r national one went secretly to see it; the Royal that the main function of the investiga- thought Stalin’s death had not altered characteristics." Hypocrisy, he de- family was condemned officially but tions was not to carry out an appraisal the fvreign policy of the U.S.S.R. He cided, was universal, but the Irish type everyone read about them in the of Irish Medical Schools but to compare ended by saying that unless the tra- of hypocrisy is of such a pleasant sort magazines. the Irish methods with American. The ditional faith of people could be re- springing from a sincere desire not to investigators stress that any comment stored, people were bound to look for "orth give offence, that it is a unique by them on the differences in methods something else. inity characteristic. was not made with the intention of Dr. Donal O’Sullivan was in the chair. head Mr. G. Sheehy, Auditor of the criticising. Indeed, they recognise the Mr. Quirke, proposing the vote of ;rton IAterary and Historical Society, U.C.D., great history and tradition of medical thanks, said that the Laurentian Society went was in his element opposing such a schools in this country and have nothing was filling a much needed gap in College with m~)tion and he retold the magnificent but praise for many aspects of our life, providing as it did social, cultural ball. saga of the Irish struggle for freedom. teaching. The reason for their ultimate and recreational facilities for Roman ’.ored How, he asked, could the charge of false decision to recommend that Trinity’s Catholics in Trinity. .aing, patriotism be levelled against such a school should not yet be recognised by lngs, people. the American associations lies simply in BI. "SCHOOL" BANNED lack Mr. R. Seaman, Registrar, U.P.S., the fact thatL in several important .time spoke of the hyFocrisies that exist in respects, and ~speclally in the pattern We understand that the Committee of the national and religious life of the of clinical teaching, there is a wide the Bi. have declared bhat their room in Irish. Anti-laartition was just an excuse divergence between Ireland and the bhe G.M.B. can only be used for mor~ nter- academic pursuits than at present. The the to dominate the North. In the best Phil. U.S,A. their tradition, he discussed college hypocrisy; It is now up to us and so it is interest- ’boys’ were not consulted at all, and from here everyone agreed that the major ing to find what the Board’s opinion is, reports there sounds like a revolution : 11 brov~ing ents, societies were worthy of support, but ¯ In their laudable comment on the report, COn- only few join them. they say: " It remains to be seen how e rom Queen’s University, Mr. D. far any attempt on the part of the RUGBY ~ntly Hawthorne dealt with the religious Trinity College School to conform to We eongratlflate Rev. Robin Roe and d of American methods and-ideas is possible, Joey Gaston on having been selected ~s in Miss C. O’Rega~t even ’~ it should be agreed that such an for .the Ireland XV to play Combined ~cked attempt is desirable:" A very fair Services, following the international The President’s turn came, and with comment, indeed. ~ trial last Saturday. Business Demands el~)quent h u m o u r, and occasionally coxnmon sense, he arrived at the con- Its° Society Admires clusion that the only solution to CHRISTMAS V~CATION KRIDG[NG THE GAP )tin Ireland’s problem would be to forcibly Londo~ O~m’24th November, Mr. Norman drive all young people from the country McGrath read a very interesting paper elothes for a period of years. When they Second Annual Festiva~ of N.U.S., on the Sydney Harbour Bridge. He first returned the country’s faults would 30th December, 1953, to 5th January, outlined the difficulties of construetin~ ,ts. be appreciated. Those v a r i o u s 1954, S.F. Essex Technical College, a single-arch bridge 1,050 feet in span characteristics which had been attributed Walthamstow, London. Symposium of and 160 feet wide. In ~act, some eminent meet Of distinction to hypocrisy were fundamentally due to Commercial Television: Christopher German engineers had said the whole corn- paradox. Paradox not hyFocrisy, he An Mayhew, M.P. Drama Competition. thing was impossible, as the bridge had claimed, is the rmtural characteristic. National Debating Competition, final to be started from both sides and the cted. rounds. Visual Arts Exhibition. Details two parts were to meet in the middle :here The task of the Secretary, Mr. D. Hodgins, was a difficult one after such N.U.S., 3 Endsleigh St., London, W.C. 1. (owing to the fact that the sea bed was Ball. a spate of oratory, but he was not at a Students’ House Party, at Norton too soft to provide support pillars). W. F. BURGESS loss. After discussing the Begley case, College, Swansea, Wales, 19th Dec.-15th Hov~ever, completed it was, in five years, he concluded by saying that hypocrisy Jan. For British and overseas students. at a cost of £6,500,000, and is now LIMITED could be a virtue if it were used with Programme includes: Visits to theatre, Sydney’s famous landmark. discretion and not tvo openly. Horse Riding, R~mbles in the Country, Messrs. Cox, E~ans, Mecock and After Mr. J. A. McArdle from U.C.D. Social Evenings, Debates and Dis- Maginnis also spoke. Gentlemen’s Tailoring Spedalists had delivered a complex oration with cussivns. Facilities for study. Tuition Mr. Maginnis’s final remark was self-confidence and wit, the President in English. Terms, 6 gns. a week in- " Hooliganism is all very well in lectures, adjourned this highly successful inter- clusive, for periods of two, three or four but not at Engineering S oci e t y 19 DUKE ST., DUBLIN debate. weeks. meetings." Inter-Varsity Club. Concert of Carols ’Phone 70254 and other Christmas Music, conductor TOWN AND GOWN Francis Cameron. Tuke Hall, Bedford College, Regents Park, Thursday, 17th ).; OPKEEFFE’S Gaiety. -- Dublin Grand Opera Society. Wednesday, 2nd December December, at 8 p.m. Admissivn free. Mum, Wed., Fri., "The Bartered 8. 0 p.m.--College Historical Society. Bride." Tues., Thurs., Sat. mat., 8. 0 p.m.--Classical Society. Inter- " Don Giovanni." debate with U.C.D., "That the Mantle of Rome has Olympia.--Sonnie Hale, Claude Hulbert Fallen on America." in " Not A Clue." Thursday, 3rd December Abbey.--8 p.m., " This Other Eden." 8. 0 p.m. -- University Philosophical Meet Society. Gate.--7.45, Siobhan McKenna in "Saint 9. 0 pxa.--Commencements B a 11 in :ntal Joan." Metropole. at the CINEMA Friday, 4th December PEL 1.10 p.m.--In G.M.B., Lunch-time Con- Royal.
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