3^ EVERY FORTNIGHT NO.44. 23 JANUARY 1953. I M PER OLLEGE RAGES IN THE UNION. At aDOUt the same time the lamps which illuminate the imposing steps leading from Prince Consort Road WHAT IS 29 ? to the statue of the late Prince Consort were subjected to an even more repellant attack. They Towards the end of last term the Union was were coated with pieces of perforated paper, each one horrified to find that the well known stuffed animals •which in tho lelicately coloured, so that a dignified and charging se days.adorned the walls of the lower /ictorian terrace became a pantomine piece, garish .dining hall, had been behatted. Particularly and vulgar. Again, one of these papers (and Heaven disgusting w as a lovely deer head (the Latin name 'mows who was low enough to procure such material) has now been removed and is lost to us) which carried was marked with a figure 29. a black bowl er. Also, several fine sets of antlers had been t Speculation is rife. Whispers of Mau Mau and en away, and tioycle handlebars put in the Klu Klux Klan .^re common, but Authority believes their places Underneath was painted in white a small figure bhat the Red Menace is more likely to be o..t the bottom of things. Members of R.C.S. Union have different ideas. REST OF THE NEWS. CARNIVAL SUCCESS. The natural History 3oc. held their usual party This year's Guilds1 Carnival "fiesta" was ..t the end of last tern. The highlight was an much less like Bok-Bok, or an Eton ivall-game, 'oratorio presented by the Rex Dadd Philharmonic than previous affairs. The decoration scheme was Orchestra and the II.II. Choral Society. Father ambitious, and mightily successful in the Gym, Christmas, thinly disguised as Dr. Murray, distributed where the essential purpose of making familiar prizes ranging from wet kipper to a potato and a lump places look freshly different was achieved best. of sugar. The downstairs decoration ideas also deserve men- . tion, particularly the detail of turning the Otherwise, we have little news to offer. It is Refectory doors into bookcases, out tne overall rather late for us to herald the arrival of Professor effect was incomplete for lack of more materials P .i. .3 .iilackett, who »a» appointed at tne end of last and curtains; and lack of assistance. In fact, term to head the xhysics Department in place of Sir as is too usual, the whole affair appeared to be G.P.Thomson, who is now Master of Corpus Christl. under construction by a total of twenty people, Cambridge. and the volunteer party to clear it up numbered Mr. J.C. Matchieson has been appointed to the less than half that. However, perhaps the organ- Chair of Lining, and Professor A.J.3. Pippard has taken izers of Carnivals have begun tC learn the. lesson over from Professor Willis Jackson for another three that they can rely only on their immediate friends. year term as Dean of Guilds. The judging of the costumes dragged on too A rather hastily collected I. C. debating "team long, and everybody had different ideas from the was defeated on the second day of term in the first harassed judges. round of the 'J. L. Debating Tournament. Drawn at After the lesson of hired cabarets of the home to Westminster College, I. C. proposed "that past two years, Guilds produced a better amateur conscience is an unmitigated nuisance" and although show, largely their own, that was received with ithe team appeared fully convinced by their own attention and applause. If their subjects, of arguments, the result was a win for Westminster by student contribution, were excursions near the old 64 to 55 debating points. and hoary, at least they were done with wit and presented with a light air. The Spanish dancers On Friday Jan. 16th the I.C. Conservative Group who topped the bill had already limbered up early held a debate with the Royal Holloway College •in the evening, but were still much the Anglo- Conservative Society on the motion that "The Women of Saxons - that most of them were - until they got today are more masculine than those of yesterday, and warmed up again. They were worth every minute the Men are more feminine." A lively discussion was that their soloist, Miss Rosalind Philips, was on held on the comparison between the two sexes in such the floor. things as choosing hats and coats, and the clothes worn by them in history: men having perms today: The President of Guilds neatly evaded the such women as Eoedeoia:the lack of women in Parliament demands for a Calypso, throughout the evening. inspite of the efforts of Mrs Pankhurst: and womens1 rugger and soccer teams in Lancashire. LATE NEWS — Refectory Committee The motion was defeated 4 For and 6 Against with 1 abstention. TUESDAY NIGHT; Refectory Committee decided no action The debate was followed by an expedition to the yet on possibility of residents ha ving supper £hour Strand Theatre to see "The River Line" which was a earlier then others in Union.Previously RCS * Gui- great success. lds Union meetings felt split undesirable,but sym- On Saturday,the terpsichorean year began with pathised with residents.Mines thought week-end an Informal Dance run by R.C.S. Union. The organ- meals early for residents would help.ICWA favoured isers are to be congratulated upon giving a VBry split,but said it would help if residents could enjoyable evening and upon decorating the Gym in buy their own separate meat rationsdrrro^siMe by a novel (and inexpensive) fashion. MoF regulations.Amount of food available to refect- ory does not,in any case,depend on ration books,but only on number of meals served J,A number of resid- ents including 'some at the Comm.Meeting,opposed BE A DEVIL separation.Thusr most of I.C.was against the meas- ure,* it was dropped. OTHER BUSINSSS;Whisky * rum down from 2/3 to 1/9. COME TO THE Price list to appear in Far.New pastry ovens shot Juld operate next week.1 Brighter food1should appear next Friday.A separate coff*e urn,away from main queue*, in Mew Lounge .5/- deposit to be charged on crockery borrowed by clubs etc. ATTENTION is called to buffet service in lower dining hall on Saturday dance nights,available to CARNIVAL all, Serviee may stop if insufficiently supported. FRIDAY IJ™ FEE 195} We spoloerlse for hurried typing in the late news. FELIX He admits with defensible cheer that his PROFILE abrupt change from school to I.C« left him with social commitments at home (Ilford) including production of a concert party, that together with Finals in the second year left him effectively a Brown-Bagger at I.C. for so long. He eventually passed from a mild interest in the Rifle Club via a second in the seconds in JOHN S. HARDING Finals to research and the Dramatic Society. He has maintained his interest in singing and sailing, and must be rare in hawing read all but one of the books on Show in his considerable bookshelf. His predecessor as President of R.C.S., Brian Purslow, is the essential link between his career in the R.C.S. Union and in College enter- Although President of the H.C.3. ; nd tainments. "Certificate X" and the R.C.S. Secretary last year, John Harding is also well- Smoking Concert at which it was presented last known as a leading member of the Dramatic Society year were their productions. John was also con- amongst whom he is more readily known as "Willy" cerned with David Greenfield and Bernard Latter in after his celebrated performance. But the their attempts to build up an I.C. Revue. Society's recent choice of play, "The Jealous Wife", was hardly the opportunity for its cast to John has now to work on his thesis, and has enjoy the fun and games expected in an eighteenth given up dramatics. This is his third post- Century Comedy, and John, as the dissolute and graduate year, and he hopes that his research leisured fop Lord Trinket, was not given full on gome extremely organic sulphur compounds, employment in his parting appearance for the with their unpleasant chemical and social Society. problems, will aoon be completed. It is an odd Willy is a difficult person to analyse truth that for all his Union interests, John beyond the first observation that an artistic manages to parcel his time so well that he may bent (in a .creative not precious sense) is a most surely be contacted in the laboratory. greater element in his character than is plain This is quite a reputation to maintain. force. He keeps in mind many fluent ideas and accurate comments on events, but he is reluctant The Play Notices in "Phoenix" are the best to thrust them forward too quickly in public. summary of Willy's success. Following his first One is therefore surprised at his success in the appearance in "The Ascent of F.6", came the part R.C.S. Union, as well as in our entertainment that gave him his nickname in "Off the Record", world. On occasions these two interests suit and which he considers his favourite individual each other's demands well, but on others we find character. In "Thunder Rock" came his greatest that his speeches at receptions are more serious part, which he chooses as his favourite dramatic than suit their function. These perhaps lack opportunity, and then the American businessman rehearsal, though rehearsal alone did not produce in "Summer Day's Dream" at Cheltenham.