EVERY FORTNIGHT

No. 40 31 OCTOBER 1952 IMPERIAL COLLEGE DR COMPTON S CHALLENGE

AN EXCELLENT SPEECH BY THE SPECIAL VISITOR

The Commemoration Celebrations Started with the procession from Prince Consort Road to the University Examination Halls, and this year once again the weather restrained itself to keen our paint and powder dry. After a regrettable delay in seating the large number of staff, the Hector opened the proceedings by inviting t^e Special Visitor, Dr. Karl Compton, and Mrs. Compton, to join the platform . Though it may be doubted whether I.C. have yet mastered the solemnity of their newly created Commemoration, Dr. Compton's-clear and rich voice made his challenging- speech properly the climax of the ceremony. An account of his address is given below. This was preceeded by the presentation of the newly elected Associates, Diplom- ates, Masters, Doctors, and Honorary Fellows. Dr. Compton and Sir Frederick Handley Page were among those who were presented with their scrolls of Honorary Fellowship of the College. The ceremony was attended by many important guests, including the American Ambassador and the Principal of London University.

COMMEMORATION DAY The Student Orator, Brian Walker, The Hector, Mrs.Compton, Dr.Compton, Viscount Falmouth, and the American Ambassador reads the Proclamation of Celebration

, The Special Visitor at this year's Commem- COMMEMORATION oration Day w6.s Dr. Karl T. Compton, Chairman of the Corporation of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. lis address was on "The Growth of Most of the FELIX staff who could afford a ticket Higher Technological Education in the Tv.'entieth enjoyed the Ball too thoroughly to record any clear Century and th Benefits of International links impressions for their less fortunate fellows. Though in this Field". we were announced in sonorous tones and received by pres- idents, the true ~.C. grain broke through the Park Lane After thanking the Governors for the award veneer, even to the extent of a Boomaleia at the end. of his Honorary Fellowship, Dr. Compton went en We have a vague recollection of a 21st birthday to say that, he war, proud of the association starting at Midnight, of eminent U.L. Hockey and Rugger between the two great institutions of M.I.T. and gentlemen doing the Latin dmces with gusto, of soft Imperial College. Many personal friendships lights, and,softer and brighter, eyes. Ca.rousing went had grown up and there had been a rapid inter- on in the Union in the early hours, while cold water and change of new ideas. Dr. Compton enumsr-ated coffee were in demand. the people from this country, some from this Altogether a good Commemoration 3all, even if we do college, who were now working at the Institute, have to go rather quietly for the rest of the year. and pointed out, that much of the inspiration and guidance for the establishment of M.I.T. in 1360, management of technical enterprises and for co- came from Kensington. ordination of various areas of applied science, In discussing the growth of technological all this in addition to the more generally recog- education in the 20th ewfcvry Dr. Compton had nised task of training specialised designers and time to consider only one aspect, that revealed operators. This poses a, difficult problem ir by a remark of Sir Richard Southwell that the organisation of the programmes of the engin- Industrial Structure must determine the structure eering schools,which is. continually with us as of engineering education. Since thj beginning new requirements and opportunities arise. of the SOth Century there had been tremendous advances in automobile, aeronautical, chemical and Dr. Compton c'oncluded, "but one lesson I electronic engineering which had been accompanied think stands out from the logic of our experience; by corresponding changes in the teaching of our aim should be at the present and the future, engineering and applied science. It must be not at the past; for in the field of science realised that it is not, sufficient for education the future comes quickly upon us". to fallow indtisiry, it must alsc anticipate the After the address Dr. Compton presented to future requirements by wisely interpreting the the chairman and Rector of T.C. the official trends and foreseeing the needs. This means greetings of the M.I.T. in the form of a leather - education for research and development, for bound manuscript. FELIX

PROFILE CROSSLE Y In the year of grace one thousan off his beard). Throughout nine hundred and twenty six at two his career at T.C..Derek has oclock in the dark and stormy morn- attained many prominent positions. ing of December 29th, there appeared In 1951 he was Vice-president of on the face of the earth one large Guilds, he has served on T.C Council moustache hotly pursued by Derek for three years and been the I.C. Riley Crossley, alias 'Tash', alias representative on U.L.U. for two Moostash1, alias 'The Tank', alias years. Last year he was secretary of 'Farook', or alias just plain Derek. U.L.A;U. and at present is captain

In those days he was often referred of U.L.R.F.C., vf0n. Secretary of the to by his loving relatives as " a Links Club and Guilds representative sweet little thing" - but, alas, on the Old Centralians Committee. the ravages of time have played He is a very keen sailor and their part and now enough/ swimmer and to his intimate friends At the early age of four Derek he is characterized mainly by the began to learn French before he knew following :- his cheerful and willing the alphabet (no mean task for even nature, his moustache, his ability to the most advanced child 1 ) sink a pint, and, lastly, by Kate XT. In 1934 he went to Bishop Stortford College where The point that needs clarifying is Kate IT. She can he stayed until he was eighteen, during which time he be seen most days outside the Union, sometimes - became head of the school and captain of the school's ed in an old tarpaulin but at othertimes she is quite rugby, hockey and swimming teams. exposed. She is in fact his eighth wonder of the After a short course at Glasgow University he was world, namely Derek's much treasured 1926 Morris commissioned in the navy, operating on minesweepers, Cowley. He acquired her in 1950, since which time until he was demobbed in the early part of 1948. Then they have travelled to many wide and varied parts of for one and a half years he pursued a diverse series Europe, including Switzerland in 1951 and Scotland of jobs. Ke obtained H.S.C. in six months at a cram last summer. Whilst north of the Border, Derek was school, then after helping to build Charringtons' engaged in tunnelling on the Glen Quoick hydro- brewery in Mile End Road he became an engineering electric scheme. Asked what he thought of mining, he apprenticed in Bristol. It was during the course of the replied "it's merely a side branch of mechanical latter that he added a beard to his then already engineering". However, it is interesting to note famous moustache. that at one particularly drunken party his moustache In October 1949 he entered through the illustrious was actually cut for the first time in its life ( I portals of I.C. to read mechanical engineering at the am not at liberty to disclose the burial place of City and Guilds, (it was at this time that he shaved the offender.').

Photograph by P.K.N.Ward

UNION COUNCIL MEETS A POLITICAL (TEA) PARTY

The new Union Council met last week for the Professor Levy again displayed his amazing powers first time this year, and finished its business in of eloquence in an extremely objective talk on the sub- an hour and a quarter. ject of Current Affairs at the Annual Freshers Tea of The meeting first elected C.E. Morris to be the Literary, Debating and Political Societies given on the Chairman of the I.C. Entertainments Committee - Monday, 20th October, at 5.15 p.m. The sceptical in the place of S.A. Scott, who is now in the armb- laughs, which arose whenever "Russia" or the "Red Dean" and the remaining time was largely spent in swift were mentioned, were skilfully employed by the Profec^or dealings with routine affairs. Reports of the to illustrate the use of emotionally charged language Executive and the Overseas Students' Committees, and prepared backgrounds to introduce bias into factual and of preparations for the Commemoration Ball statements. He went on to show that the record of the v.ere received, but there were none from the Vaca- United Nations Forces in Korea was by no means as clear tion Works, Refectory, Bookstall, and the other as the Press would have us believe. Although the many committees that had not then met. provocative nature of Professor Levy's address There was a discussion on the importance of evoked no violent reactions this year there is no standard blazers of colours being sold only to doubt that the majority of his audience departed members of the Union, and the meeting ended by somewhat less complacent than they arrived. deciding to add one further particular publication Earlier in the evening the Society's activities to the magazines in the Union Lounge. were outlined by Mr. Hell Blackmore, who chaired the meeting and spoke on behalf of the Literary and Debat- ing Societies. Mr. Steve Ruhemann, the Cha.irman of TOUCHSTONE the Politics.l Societies, appealed for a. wider College The first Touchstone weekend this year soon worked up interest in Politics and introduced speakers represent- its subject "The Press" into a full-blooded excursion ing Conservative, Liberal and Socialist opinion. It through world politics, and then down to a resignation to is to be hoped that Freshers will respond to the appeal the miserable ignorance of all the British race except for support since, as was evidenced by the duplication those represented at Silwood. of the committees, the sajae small overworked band has The students opening the discussion proposed that the organized both the Societies in the recent past, and Press fed public opinion with the material it 'expected - a transfusion of new blood is not only necessary but or deserved. The Special Speaker, Mr. James, Editor of long overdue. The Times Educational Supplement, first blunted their narrow indictment , and then conducted the discussion with great dexterity as the company in general put forward their hcrrorfications of the Popular Press. ANOTHER ANTARCTIC EXPLORER

The poor coverage given to this year's Commemoration The 'Illustrated' of October 11th gave * address was discussed as a case in the argument that even big splash, including front page picture, to the the best Editors seem to need an atom bomb to burst before story of yet another accident to an ex-I.C. ex- they realize the trends of Science. plorer. The unfortunate man in this case was Mr. James challenged I.C. to produce a satirical pamph- Alee Trendall (R.C.S. 1946 to 1949), geologist to let on the presentation of Popular Science in newspapers. an expedition to South Georgia in the Antarctic. It was felt that ethical standards in journalism might At the end of December 1951 he fell 200 feet be the first improvement - with a care lest the readers got down a crevasse in the ice-cap and although he wind of it - and that this by the infusion of more Univer- was rescued, his leg injuries cused him to be sity-trained staff would be the best attack. The ownership sent back to this country for hospital treatment. of papers was not considered as bad as it appeared, and the The operation was successful and we were very Press Council and other such controls thought impractical. pleased to see him during a brief visit he made to the Union at the end of the Summer Term. FASHION CORNER

This new hair-do has KEMPSON'S been specially designed for us by the college SHOE REPAIR SERVICF barber,Fernando. He entit- les his new creation "The Bold Look" or "I've seen 44, Queen's Gate Mews, a ghost". To heighten the effect of this hair-do, a Queen's Gate, little mascara and eye shadow should be applied Kensington, S.W.7 behind the ears. FELIX Viewpoint:

THE DEATH OF STUDENT SOCIETIES

The Lunchtim.e Lectures a.re a vast success; the THE NEWSPAPER OF IMPERIAL COLLEGE critics are confounded, the cautious converted and the faithful triumphant. The programme and the lecturers are superlative and the lectures eraamed to capacity - and observe, it takes 4C0 men to cram the large physics ACT IMG laSAffitMO EDITOR: .H.WEAHNE Theatre. V.'e are on to a good thing,end what we have we hold- But the balance of nature has been disturbed. A The response to our advertisements in the last constraint has been applied to the pattern of our habits FiLIX for help brought us in all but a few of the end by a sort of social le Chr.tel.ier' s Principle our staff re need. There are still lv.lt r. dozen vacan- habits must change to remove the constraint. Two extra- cies, mainly on the writing side, and we have yet to mural lectures or concerts per week are pretty close to choose an Editor and a sports Editor, enough for anyone and Tuesdays and Thursdays are long From some people we have been talking with,we days anyway: half past five is too late e0r toa, and gather that joining SJHLXX has gained the reputation of demanding a great deal of tine.Though this has been a talk without tea is intolerable. So home to supper true when,as at the beginning of tem,the Board has and a deep arm chair! allowed itself to fall to o small band of experts, Sir, the blood that enlivens the lunchtime lectures each doing three jobs at once,it need not be so.In the is drained from the veins of the Student Societies and past year tho mechanics of the paper have settled down v/e diagnose a decline that may end in death unless a and the work h-s been divided between tho Production transfusion be quickly forthcoming. Board and the Editorial staff. The Athletic Clubs are unlikely to suffer. Their Apart from these,FELIX needs correspondents to report members are loyal and their field is different. But on specific clubs and activities.These con join the the Social Societies - the Literary, Debating, Philo- Editorial Board-if sucoessful-or maintain an indepen- sophical, and Political - and the Learned Societies - dent special correspondence,as they wish.In the last Physical, Chemical, a.nd Engineering - stude:xt bodies fortnight re have missed several important functions such as these nay look to their wounds. The Bridge because none of the six of us was able to attend then. and Chess Clubs are not so much societies as institu- V/e need correspondents to covor the Lit. & Deb. tions for the afflicted; they alone, and the Music Soc meetings, for the University Debates, and for sev- Society, of course, can watch with complacence the trend eral of the "arlington Clubs to cover the forthcoming of events. Would the Social Societies be missed if Cup games. the Lunchtime Lectures do so much better than they, V.'e also depend upon our readers to maintain a most of the things they exist to promote? They would lively correspondence on our letters page. From time not. But Sir, an a.ctive hour of debate or discussion to tine we publish an individuals' "View point". We or dramatisation is worth a passive week on a. bench in expect replies to some. A correspondent today has a lecture Theatre. The decline of a student society- taken up a Viewpoint on the effect of the General is a very grave ill, touching the root of the Union. Studies' timetable on the Union, This is now open to But, we have sa.id, what we have we should hold, and discussion. the lunchtime Lectures have already grown far too FELIX letter page is open to any college subject precious to lose. Very well, what remedy do we sug- except sex; but even that if there is nothing else, and gest? Not to move the Societies' activities to Konday if it is done with novel subtlety. and Friday. It will be tried, of course, but we It may be said that we of FELIX have taken unfair prophesy failure. The week-end beckons on Friday advantage of our circulation to recruit our staff: evening and broods notoriously over Monday. (The Phoenix, for instance, the Union termly magazine, is attendances at Lit. and Deb. Soo. Meetings on Kondays equally desperate. But it has also been said that during the Session 1949-50 averaged a little less than FELIX is a large force In holding the college together, half those held on Tuesdays or Thursdays) while Wednes- and whether this is fully true or not, we are the best days are sacred to field and river. publicity agency - by report and direct advertisement - We suggest the* the lunchtime lectures be moved to in the place. 1'ow our future is more certain; we can I'ionday and Friday and that Tuesday and Thursday be left do our duty by reporting on the state of the Union week to the Societies. They will have competition enough by week. There is a Union General sleeting todays as it is, without stea.ling their pitch and abducting attend it and argue about the things that are your life their members. for three years. Afterwards, if your subject is not raised, or your courage not tuned, continue the free- Give the new scheme time to settle down before for-all in FELIX, Whether your particular interests proposing desperate remedies for as yet dimly disoern- at College are on the edge of extinction or distinc- abls ills, you say ? Sir, in three months' time there, tion, write us an article, and pour out your heart will be interests vested in the status quo that the about it. Vice-Chancellor himself in all his robes would hardly budge. It may well be we are already too latel

MARTIN SCPJ3LERUS CHRISTMAS A CORRECTION

In our survey "The Term In General" in the FELIX congratulates:- last FELIX, it was mentioned, in error that the R.C.S. will he running the Christmas Carnival this P.A.Lemin (Third Year Org. Chera.) on his marriage to year. It will in fact he the turn of the GUILDS Kiss Brenda IHVddleton in August last. and the date is Friday, 19th December.

Letters to the Editor

Dear Sir, Sir, IMPERIAL ECHOES The low standard of Mines' Night In recent I wonder if this new session, and the fresh productions h&s caused considerable concern not- blocd it brings, will awaken the College spirit only to members of Hie Dram&tic Society, but also which we so conspicuously lacked last year? to other discriminating members of the Union. I don't think so - at least not without radical V/e feel that the subversive sctivitier. of changes somewhere, and I think I know where. the miners should be confined to plays lending Imperial College is one College in name themselves to such treatment. only; an R.C.S. man never knows whether to buy In drawing the attention of the miners to a Guildsman a drink or de-Dag him. the fact that our forthcoming production "The So let's reduce the three colleges to Jealous Wife" by George Colman, is stich a play, academic bodies dishing out the A.R.C.S. , we hope for their cooperation in our more serious A.R.S.M. and A.C.G.I. Let's do away with Morphy ventures. Day (ask any R.C.S. man about this), 3 sets of Discriminating miners may find the play in ties and scarves, the annual Sports (and re- "Lesser English Comedies of the 18th Century" organize on an interdepartmental basis), and the published by Oxford University Press. Remember-

three separate Unions. In their place we could "However ready be thy wit, x have one real College and everyone would know A little forethought sharpens it". where they belonged; the I.C. teams could be trained as single units all the time, and who B.V. LMter. knows, we may rouse a spark of enthusiasm in that President,I.C.5.S mass of brown baggers at present carried by about

ten per cent, of the members, XThe quotation is from "Lesser English Poems of Bluey. the 20th Century" not published by Oxford University Press. 4 FELIX

GUILDS FRESHERS' BUFFET THE DRAMATIC SOCIETY

On the evening of Friday October, 17th, The Dramatic Society have now chosen their the old hands of Guilds, together with the heads play for -Christmas. This is to he "The Jealous or representatives of each of the departments, Wife", an Eighteenth Century Comedy hy George entertained the Guilds' new boys. Speeches were , Colman. It will he performed from the 15th to made by the distinguished guest I.Ir . J .Hosen,a Deputy the 18th of December. Director of Research at the R.N. Science Service, The University Dramatic Society's One-Act an Old Centralian himself, the Dean of Guilds, Play is being held earlier this year. and Derek Howe, ex-president of I.C. The reply Instead of at Easter, the dates are the four nights to the toast ox the guests was made by Mr. Goodlet from the 19th to the 22nd of November, and three in which he much regretted his education at of four productions will he put on each night by Cambridge. The free beer was divided up glass the various college societies. I.C. are present- by glass, the freshers drinking from refectory ing Shaw's piece "The Inca of Jerusalem", probably glasses and the old hands from pots. Such is on the Saturday, the last night of the Festival. democracy. After the proceedings in the Upper It is hoped that each evening's plays will be Dining Hall were drawn to a close by the chorus, discussed, for the benefit of audience and cast, directed by Mr. Allsopp, giving a rousing render- by a critic. The theatre being used is that at ing of the wcllknown air on a Boomalaka, the the Institute of Education (near Senate House). party gravitated to the Bar where many songs were Tickets will he available through the I.C. Repre- sung. The fresher percentage by this time had sentative on L.U.D.S. dropped to some 5f\, but those that remained were indeed very fresh. The party dispersed at 10.30 p.m. in various conditions to their various abodes with the knowledge that the Guilds year had now truly e ommenced.

It is unfortunate that the series of articles, MAXIMILIAN a AND THE ATOM BOMB of which this is the first, should have so small an Please don't mind, dear freshers, if The college a.pper.l in I.C., addressed as it is to those who are doesn't seem too glad to have you in its midst. The interested in books. No less than 200 of you were plain fact is that we're all utterly envious of you. members of the Union Library la.st year, a tribute That is why Felix, and such like show a rather condescend- to the popularity of reading a.s a form of entertain- ing attitude towards you, and a large tendency to take ment. Many of you axe members of larger libraries, The Kike out of you. and so have never bothered about the one on your But Why should 'we be envious of you? Because we doorstep. If you come to have a look at it you'll cannot be freshers again. We cannot have free copies realise your mistake, since our library ccnta.ins the of College and University Handbooks, we cannot have free highest percentage of readable books in London. teas and beer in our honour, we don't have club This is to be expected. Host of them are chosen secretaries visiting us and being ever so polite and from the suggestions book - which is always avail- helpful to us, we don't have free 'hops' laid on for us. able - or are the selections of the Library Commit- But above all, nobody takes a blind bit of notice of us tee, a group of students who know books, like books any more (unless we are mistaken for freshers whilst and are public spirited enough to man the library gazing at the notice boards outside the be.r and trying and see that it is working. If the books you want to persuade ourselves that it only says "I.C. Railway arent there its your own fault for not indicating Society" once on the poster.) your choice. So, freshers, take all our jolly, friendly banter The Union finances the libr-ry to the extent in good part - don't imagine that we despise you quite of an annual 370 for new books, 35 for periodicals, as much a.s we do. £5 for rebinding and 320 for equipment, mainly By the way, don't take any notice of Felix editor- clerical. Other organisations supply us with books ials telling you what to do about clubs, work co-opera- notably the Touchstone drant which gives mainly tion and so on. After all if you join too many clubs standard non-fiction works, usually authoritative (more than 4 I should say), you can always slack on tomes of limited appeal but valuable in revealing those you don't care for. If you brown-bag, you will previously unknown facets of knowledge to students find plenty of others in your set who do too, so the whe are, if they take their work seriously, unnatur- fact that the rest of the college ostracises you ally divorced from all forma of scholarship except shouldn't worry you too much. And anyway if you are their own. The Encyclopaedia Brittanica rests on a brown bagger you probably haven't read this at B,Il, the shelves a catswing from Thurbar and Potter, Ibsen so I am wasting my breath, and it all sounds very Irish and Hemingway. Overcrowding of books - not readers - and ambiguous so I must stop before I begin to make you will shortly become a real problem in a room which is think that perhaps I am not sincere in all I say. too snail, though ideally secluded. In case it is the seclusion which has been keep- BURP ing you away, let me record that the least confusing p.s. Maximilian didn't really have anything to do way in is via the door at the E. end of the North with the atom-bomb. side of Imp. Inst. Road, up the stairs and turning right in the Guilds Library at the top. There are THE FRESHERS GUIDE good chairs there too. If you cant find a. book to satisfy you youre hopeless, unfit for anything but a THE ALBERT ETCETERAS science degree. To embody the whole of any branch of culture in a single monument is a remarkable achievement. INTER VARSITY CLUB Let us then adopt a humble additude towards the Albert Memorial, whose noble Gothic-cum-Eirman- The activities of the Intervarsity Club, cum-Roman-cum-Greek appeara.nee is a vivid pot- a group founded over six years ago by three pourri of the History of Architecture, priceless Cambridge undergraduates, has been attracting a at £120,000. As Wordsworth said ... good deal of attention throughout student circles, "He smiles not on Scienc's humble home particularly in London. But melancholically scans the Dome". As suggested by their name the I.V.C. is The Dome is one of the wonders of the earth, concerned with the organising of activities for housing as it does a famous echo, a musical gas students, past and present, who find themselves lamp and p. cycle track for spoon-rattling staff, in London and who would like an opportunity of all of which diversions are provided for no meeting one another and enjoying themselves at extra charge in the gallery. With such virtuo- a minimum of expense. Membership to-day stands sity, what could the place be but a concert hall? at over 600 students and former students repre- The R.A.H. cost £200,000: perhaps this is senting colleges throughout the United Kingdom. why the nation rushed to osfend it on 5th November Informal dances are held every Friday '49 when our bonfire burned the road by mistake, throughout the year, and in 1951 the Autumn Ball and 16 were reported missing, court at last. at Londonderry House was inaugurated. However This display (see PHOENIX REVIEW '49-50) was I.V.C. is not only a dance club. Other acti- over-shadowed last year when one of our mountain- vities are arranged in small groups itnown as eers went too far. The lamp recovered later sub-clubs. The organisers of these clubs from the summit of the Memorial was a sign of arrange visits to theatres, concerts and the our spirit, rather surprising to those who ballet, give instruction in Scottish Country criticise the bar. Dancing, conduct rambles in the Home Counties Among the Etceteras we should not forget and lead the more hardy spirits to scale the the V.&A. Museum. There, a few yards from us, mountains of North Wales. Arrangements can be lie many of the world's treasures. Altar- made for tennis in the summer and squash in the pieces, coffin-tops, teapots find a home there. winter months. , gold statuettes, pictures by Constable, The club office is at etchings by Blake, watercolours by the neglect- 53, Pimlico Road, London, 8..W..1 ed English masters, all proclaim our need of to which all applications for membership should beauty, a need which our lectures may sometimes be sent. Plans are now being made to obtain lead us to ignore. Go and have a look. larger premises which would function as a social as well as an administrative centre. Watt. A. Wordsworth. FELIX 5

IMPRESSIONS OF THE I ST HOP

Too crowded: must they issue so many tickets, and in any case, how do men from neigh- S E bouring colleges get them, as seems to have happened? .... records unsuitable: we've howled SOCIAL. about this before and been sat on a few FRIDAY, OCTOBER 31ST. FELIX No. 40 on sale. were too loud, many far too soft, especially during the "Paul Jones" we didn't like the 1.15 p.m. I.C.U. General meeting, Gymnasium. way records were interrupted for trivial platform 6.00 p.m. U.L.U. Assembly Hall - Radio debate with Guest speakers Jimmy Edwards and Kenneth Horne. announcements the boys at the back are to 6.30 p.m. R.S.M. Freshers Dinner, Upper Dining Hall. be congratulated on the efficiency with which they blocked all the exits and half the floor... SATURDAY, NOVEMBER IST. pity the lights stayed bright during the last 7.30 p.m. U.L.U. Saturday night hop, 7.30 - 11.00 waltz. p.m. Roy Somers band, Bar & Buffett 2/-. 8.00 p.m. I.C.U. Entertainments Committee Hop, 1/-, Our hop is still the best bob's worth in the world, and when the Entertainments Committee Gym. Tickets from Union office annexe lunch-hour renairs its ravaged ranks we'll be there, pran- preceding Thursday and Friday. cing around as usual, and improvements won't be SUNDAY, NOVEMBER 2ND. unnoticed. 7.30 p.m. I.C. Film Soc. are showing Pabst's famous drama "Kamenadschaft" and an American documentary "The plow that broke the Plains" in the New Lounge. TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 4TH. 5,30 p.m. Courtald Institute of Art. First of seven lectures on Renaissance Art will be given. A fee is payable for this set of lectures. WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 5TH. (Provisional) Guy Fawkes Hop at Harlington. THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 6TH. 1.15 p.m. I.C.Mus. Soc. Lunch-hour recital "TTusic and Poetry - an Elizabethan Anthology", Helen Spalding (T.C.) and others. Council Room, C&G. FRIDAY, 7TH NOVEMBER. 8.00 p.m. U.L.U. Presidents Ball. Admission by ticket obtainable from U.L.U., 30, Woburn Sauare,W.C.I. TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 14TH. 5.30 p.m. Stamp Memorial lecture will be given at the Senate House by Prof U.H.Williams (Harvard) on "Economic Stability in the Modern World". WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 12TH. MORPHY DAY. Races will commence about 2.30 p.m. (Provisional) Morphy Day Hop,Oymnasium,I.C.IT. UONN T>o /VS£N FROfA THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 13TH. 5.00 p.m. U.C.Eugenics lecture theatre. A lecture in current legal problems will be given by Mr. J.Hurst- NEt CiV!BOOR tN

ICWA GET TOUGH ORPHY DAY

The I.C.W.A. Netball opened last On Wednesday 12th November the annual boat-races Friday with a match against a mixed assortment of between our three constituent colleges for the Morphy males. The pitch had partially recovered from and Lowry Cups will be rowed. The Morphy course is the overnight rain and the going was good, if one mile 5 furlongs, from Hammersmith Bridge to the anything rather on the hard side. University (Boat Race) stone at Putney Bridge, for the The game started eventually after several of eights. The Lowry is a race of one mile for the second the men had been put in their places by the ladies. eights, and the courses can be seen on the nap. Digit Power was observed to be defending the wrong goal whilst Bill Robinson, the men's shooter was informed that he was shooting into his own goal. ylff^' * O t B S K * ' I.C.W.A. pressed hard from the start, the one remaining Twin being prominent - so much so that several of the men thought that perhaps both twins were playing (this was the morning BEFORE Commemoration Ball). Derrick Crossley, the men's captain did some very useful work, his' best trick being that of hiding the ball behind his moustache and managing to keep an innocent expression on his face. Play continued with very few stoppages Because ibis day has also been chosen for the (there was no umpire) until at half time the men Hospitals' Regatta, the Morphy and Lowry races will be were leading 8-5 rowed-early in the afternoon, starting at 2.30 p.m. Upon the resumption of play I.C.W.A. forgot At the time of writing only a few of the six crews their manners and "got tough" behaving in a most have settled down into training and it is too early unladylike manner. Several of the men's team to forecast results from their performances On papfr were dealt with most severly and all were badly it looks as though there will be a good fight between bruised. The males because of their small the two heavy Morphy crews, the Mines and the Guilds, stature were unable to retaliate and had to suffer the holders. Each of these conta.ins several Henley in silence. Although all the superior sex were colours, but the R.C.S. can be inspired to great things members of the Rugger Club they are agreed that by the very immensity of their task. In the Lowry, this was one of the roughest games they had nlayed. the greater resouces of the Guilds of experienced Oars, Play continued fast and furious with both sides should, nevertheless be regarded only with respect to scoring more goals. Mike Holman went over in the the fact that the outsiders have won before now: wit- corner for a beautiful try only to be told that ness the R.C.S. in 1949 and the Mines last yes.r. he wasn't playing Rugby. After the match he was The Boat club Dinner will be held on Friday 14th heard to remark that because of the number of but the usual Morphy Night Hop will be held on the fists flying he thought it must be Rugby. Wednesday .

The match finished - as usual - with the men's team victorious but unfortunately your reporter was in such a battered state that he forgot the fajore. The men ended the proceedings with three I c c c c growls in answer to I.C.W.A.'a very feline-sounding cheers. The cross country club started the season in an atmosphere of gloom on hearing that several old members, among them the president, ha.d either failed or could not run owing to pressure of work. On Freshers day, SOCCER however, the past performances of the new members ma.de the prospects for the forthcoming season seem much more 3t. Mark, and St. John. Won 4-1 hopeful. Since then the freshers have proved them- Sandhurst Military Academy lost 3-7 selves worthy of their reputations and the club is once Kings College (University League) Lost 4-6 again optimistic about their chances in the U.L. Cham- Wadhan. College Oxford Won 4-2 pionships. The first match, against Pearl Assurance Company Sports Club in Hyde Park over a 3$ mile course, Dave Glenshaw newly elected captain played was won 34-44, I.C. having the first three runners home, his first game of the season on Saturday against D.J. PAIN, W.A. ROBERTSON and T. BAILEY. The winners Wadhara, his inclusion in the forward line improved time being 17 min. 45 sees. The Poly Mob Match was run the attack considerably. on Saturday 18th October. There was quite a good turn The. defence was still unsteady, although out from I.C. T. Bat ley finished fourth, D.J. Pain the half-hacks 'worked the hall much better than in fifth and W.A. Robertson eighth or ninth. They were the former games. Tackling was poor, as well as second, third and fourth in the University team. the head work of the hack division. Goals scored on Saturday last were by Clenahaw. Briscoe, Wheeler and Hodge. Hargreaves replied for Wadham and the Kadham skipper scored very disputed spot-kick. RUGG E II

Exeter College Oxford won 15-0. Osterley draw 3-3 Westminster Hospital lost 0-5. K.C.H. lost 8-11 Wasps Vandals lost 0-18

Owing to last season's excellent record, a EXPRESS PRINTING stronger fixture list has now been achieved. 'SE RV IC E This includes a number of Wednesday games against the Hospitals. Although both the match against for Westminster Hospital and against Kings College INESS'NA SOCIAL STATIONERY Hospital were lost, the scores show that the club was not badly beaten. It is too early in the season to get any clear idea of how the club will cS'd C cpL,d HI fare later on. At the present stage as many EXHIBITION ROAD. LONDON, 8.W.7 freshers as possible are being given a chance to OPPOSITE SOUTH KENSINGTON STATION prove themselves, with a view to picking the TEL. KEN 894-7 strongest side for the cup games. The first round of the University Cup is on Wednesday November 12th when we are drawn against U.C.

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