P A C K S P U N C H

FRIDAY IIth.NOVEMBER. N° I 5 2

T H E N E W S P A P E R O F I M P E R I A L C O L L E G E U N I O N

T H E P R E S I D E N T S

P E D E S T A L S H O U L D I T G O

- O R N O T ?

Many members of the Union have exp--ressed disapproval of the system by which the President of the Union i s elec--ted, that i s by the j o i n t meeting of new ,and r e t i r i n g Councils at the end of the session, and instead would prefer to see him elected from the f l o o r at a Union Gen-- e r a l Meeting. At the forthcoming Union meeting Mr. Richard Lewis i s to propose a motion i n favour of t h i s l a t t e r course and w i l l probably meet with some b i t t e r opposition. In order to give the ord--inary members of the Union food f o r thought before t h i s meeting we publish the two a r t i c l e s below, one by a sup--o r t e r and one by an opposer.

A G A I N S T

The majority of students at college are idealistic,socialist in their be­haviour. This i s a good feature because i t induces a very questioning attitude to the society in which the student lives. However,sometimes students are swept down­river in their boats of democraoyjby the| time they have manned the oars of practic­ality, their l i t t l e craft i s lost on the ». v sea. at. disorganisation. This? is the danger of- the idea of the President of the Union being eleoted by a poll of Union members and not by Council.

The proposers of this motion have the best of motives;the furtherance of Democracy. However,let us consider the praoticalities.What does the President have to do?He represents the Union at outside functions;he is chairman of Coun­c i l and must be able to work amicably with them;he is the major contact between, staff and students and must be acceptable to both bodies;last,but by no means least ha i s intimately oonoerned with the admin­istration of the Union and must therefore be familiar with the processes involved.

F O R

'The ideal output of the Imperial College remains a swam of mechanical, eleotrical and chemical business smarties, guaranteed to have no capacity for social leadership constructive criticisms or original thought' - H.G.Walls.

It as impossible to be * member at this college without feeling some sentimental attachment to i t , so that i t hurts a l i t t l e to realise that there i s an element of truth in Wells' words. If you ask yourself how many great men have come from this place since i t was

Thus obviously, the candidate oust possess certain qualifications. It seems fitti n g that Council,who have a know­ledge of such matters should select the President,who may,by the way,be nominated by any member of the Union. The Council i s elected by the Union.and i f they make a poor choice, as* is, unlikely, they could be instructed by the Union to ask the President for his resignation.

The election of the President by a poll of Union members is a system fraught with dangers. Firstly,there i a the danger of the President being a "popular hero" but totally incapable of doing the job;in this case,as happened at Battersea two years ago,the outcome i s disastrous. The Union folds up and the Governing body step in,thus reducing the power of the students to run their own Union. Sec­ondly, the elected candidate may be un­acceptable to Council i n the sens* that their views may be radically opposed. The administration w i l l suffer since continual argument w i l l slow down the processes of decision and legislation. Finally,in a college of 2,800 i t Is im­possible for any one person to know more than a small percentage of the members of

founded the answer i s i few in comparison with Oxford and Cambridge in the same period.

You may be tempted to enquire the cause of this sad state of affairs and I am inclined to think that the answer to the inquiry lies in the a absence of an eduoation in certain social graces at this college. Who oan bar a great man i f he spurns every ohallenge of dialectical exercise or mental effort and has a mind made up, not wishing to be confused with facts? Who has not learned i n his student days even the rudiments of the democratic game?

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the Union. In the election of the Iresid— ent,where personal qualities are much more important than policy,it is essential that the voters know the candidates. The only way this oan be achieved,short of having whistle-stop tours of the depart­ments, is by having the President elected by Council.

Who would bother voting and who would be eligible to vote?The apathy at college is such that a large number of students would not record their votes and hencs the President could not be said to be truly representative. As to who is going to vote,the definition of which l i f e members of the Union are to vote,is extremely d i f f i c u l t , i f at a l l possible.

My personal test when people say that this change would be a good thing,is to look at the three constituent college Presidents,who are eleoted by a democratic process. Have the constituent college Pre­sidents been better at their jobs than the President of I.C?The answer,to'my mind,is emphatically no.

Therefore,I see no point in changing the prosent syatem,and I trustthat that Union will not be swept off its feet*by a watery wave of sham democracy at the next Union meeting.

Findlay D. MacPherson.

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E M P T Y E C H O E S I N T H E S T R E E T

By §. G. Harianrt.

T H E A T R E

i'tie sound of the drums drew us from the house. V.'e followed f i v e drummers leading a Union Jack and ab--out eight other assorted flags c a r r i e d by darkly dressed anonymous characters. Down Westboume Park Road and into Great Western Road they marcned at a _ slow steady pace while the drums beat q u i e t l y but i n s i s t e n t l y l u r i n g the occupants out of houses alon£ the way. L i t t l e boys appeared i n ever increasing numbers and f e l l i n behind, a s h u f f l i n g i l l - d i s c i p l i n e d parody of t h e i r elders. They turned i n t o Harrow Road shepherded by an outnumbering force of policemen then r i g h t , i n t o a gloomy street flanked by low drab i m i t a t i o n Georgian houses. By a sign warning us "Beware children play here." was a loud­speaker van covered by posters. These, advising us. to "Win with liosley" and "Eat the oycott", explained the ori g i n s of the nameless band. Union Movement was on -the move.

About f o r t y people clustered round waiting f o r the speaer. Beyond them the police waited, constables d i r e c t i n g the t r a f f i c and v/atching while t h e i r o f f i c e r s moved about i s s u i n g i n s t r u c t --ions. The gathering swirled s l i g h t l y and an outer r i n g of trench coated men suddenly appeared spaced about one every three yards. A man also wearing a trench coat appeared on top of the van looking over the crowd and away to the end of the street. I t was Mosley, i n h i s trench coat, looking shorter and plumper than h i s poster picture .

He spoke into a microphone with a voice swift and persuasive Ww should not achieve anything by r i o t i n g . Our experience of race r i o t s has shown t h i 3 . I f we wanted to be r i d of the blacks and send them back to Jamaica "then why not j o i n Union Movement i n our tens of thousands. Then as a powerful p o l i t i c a l party we could achieve our aims and provide money from the National Exchequer to pay f o r comfortable pass--ages f o r negroes returned to Jamaica and f o r the provision of w e l l paid jobs there. The better type would be glad of t h i s opportunity and the others would be shipped out anyway. He re--mlnded h i s audience of Englands great past and now the p i t c h of h i s voice was r i s i n g . I t had l o s t i t s warmth and beoome harsh England had been betrayed

but we could s t i l l regain what we had l o s t . The trench coats cheered and Mosley continued h i s harangue. We were reminded of the hysteria of a H i t l e r or a Mussolini heard on o l d news recordings, but there were no massed regiments to re t o r t with t e r r i b l e rythmic c r i e s of adulation, and Hosley's words disappeared down the miserable street to be l o s t unrecorded among the t r a f f i c rumbling along the main road. "Only j o i n i n and march behind the magnificent band", he implored. "Pay a small subscription" and a l l would be attained. Come to h i s headquarters. March back with him that night. Only do something f o r England 1s sake. Again the f a i t h f u l applauded and the meeting was over.

About s i x of the trench ooats gathered nearby. The drum band was reforming. On i t s r i g h t flank stood too blond youths, t a l l , slender and proud. My companion remarked "What perfect physical specimens of H i t l e r youth." Immediately a short f a t trench coat'.tumed on him , "What do you mean poor physical speci­men? That poor physical specimen could knock you out i n no time." Obscenity dribbled from the corner of h i s mouth and he i n v i t e d us to name a time and a place when the poor specimen would make mincemeat out of us . Cowardly by nature and overawed by t h e i r superior numbers we did not reply andoswearing and laughing q u i e t l y they faded.jinto the gloom further up the street .

The "magnificent band" led the trench coats.and a few women , f r e s h l y recruited perhaps, on the march home . Now proud of t h e i r increased number they disposed of the small boys who were chased onto the pavement. There the poli c e were r e s t r a i n i n g a rather v i o l e n t young c y c l i s t , "but I hate Moslay' , I have a r i g h t to hate"Mosley , haven't I . " he shouted.

"Not here," was the reply and he was led o f f by a sergeant while a constable brought h i s bioycle along behind .

by I.L.Gibson.

At the Old Vic the most con t r o v e r s i a l new production t h i s season has been Visconti's "Romeo and J u l i e t " • The I t a l i a n producer has succeeded where many of h i s predecessors f a i l e d , i n bringin g to the London stage a r e a l Veronese atmosphere.^ The decor and aotors both contribute to t h i s i l l u s i o n ; the sets, the street scene i n p a r t i c u l a r , have a r e a l l y authentic r i n g , while the young men of Verona st r u t around and f i g h t with hot­headed enthusiasm, just as one imagines they d i d i n the f a r o f f days of the "Romantics"

However; while h^s eyes were beguiled, your correspondent f e l t that the rather elaborate production somehow tended to submerge Shakespeare's words and hence the production l o s t a good deal of i t s impact. The play as a whole became unconvincing and one never r e a l l y believed J u l i e t was i n love with Romeo; one only saw her going through the motions. But don't take my word f o r i t - go and see t h i s much discussed production f o r yourself.

Tommy Steele fans have a chance of seeing t h e i r i d o l when Goldsmithfe "She Stoops to Conquer" i s produced at the Old V i c on November 8 th. Mr. Steele plays the part of Tony Lumpkin, while leggy lount, of ''Sailer Beware" fame, wil l . b e . appearing as Irs.Hardoastle..

I n a less »r4i»ssijniinj,-«ne. of the best Musicals to coed on the London scene during the long vac i s "Oliver" . This rather cheared up version of "Oliver Twist" can now be seen at the New Theatre. Of course the freshman cannot go f a r wrong i n taking h i s lady fri o n d s to "My P a i r Lady" at the Theatre Royal Drury lane, or "West Side Story" at her Majesty's Theatre -that i s of course i f h i s predecessor hasn't already done so! I f you know your g i r l f r i e n d r e a l l y * e l l a v i s i t to "Pings Ain't Wot They Used' T'be" at the Garrick Theatre i s sure to produce some laughs (In the r i g h t places of oourse)

E A R L S C O U R T R O A D B L U E S

by A. A.

Man, l i k e I'm mad, mean I'm up the groove without a s t y l u s . After reading Rimshot's sleeve notes i n the l a s t squares' song sheet, I got sent and played a r i f f i n the l o c a l sax supermarket, l i k e I wanted a Rimshot do-it-yourself hard bop out­f i t , (man, the d o l l on that oash-r e g i s t e r , she was pounding the keys l i k e Thelpnius Konk, but couldn't blow nothing but A major. Pow, was she oubic.'), I was r o l l i n g the l i f e -s i z e model of Uranus up Ear l ' s Court Road, when th i s cop rides up i n h i s motorised vibes, l i k e he was play­ing Land of Hope and Glory on the si r e n .

This bum gets out his manuscript book and says "I.an, that way you' 11 be doing your next solo on a s t e e l -bar harp with a cement soundbox." This didn't f i g u r e to me, l i k e nobody's played me any l e g a l discs about not r o l l i n g planets up E a r l s Court Road. So I played t h i s guy two or three bars about not reading the road t r a f f i c aot, and he took off l i k e he'd just heard Parnsworth p r a c t i s i n g his extending trumpot. "Kan", he said, "You're r o l l i n g that planet up a one­

way s t r e e t , that i s , while the Motor Show i s s t i l l playing." So he slung me i n his jug-box, and made f o r the c l i n k l i k e he was f i v e bars behind the r e s t of cue combo.

Next morning, I made a one day stand i n the witness box, and blew my solo at the leader of the long-haired guys on the benoh, making out l i k e I played some blue notes at the cop by mistake, but that magistrate' He was square i n n-dimensions, l i k e he thought Mantovani had the swingingest o u t f i t ever. This hunk, he says "don't play these chords i n here, my man", and s l i n g s the book at me. He thinned out my lettuoe some, the payola was .220, f o r r i d i n g a planet without l i g h t s and insurance, going the wrong way up a one way street, and confusing the J o d r e l l Bank telesoops.

So thats why I don't dig Rimshot's o u t f i t now. I traded i t f o r a 1/I0d Jenitoys jazz set. Why, man, t h e i r cardboard guitar i s supplied complete with Bert Weedon, and I traded him f o r an E.P. of L i l o s Davis. ' S t i l l , I'm C20 i n the double bass - thats what comes of reading Himshot.

R . C . S . U N I O N

B.CS. held i t s f i r s t . Union-. Meeting t h i s term on Thursday, Nov. 3rd. The meeting was p r i m a r i l y a buisness one, but was enlivened by a good attendence, some impromptu speeches from the floor'and occasional oloud-bursts.

The h i g h l i g h t was the e l e c t i o n of the <jueen of Jezebel, and the house, whioh had great d i f f i c u l t y i n ohoosing between the three young l a d i e s , eventually gave the loudest applause to the dazzling redhead, Judy Lewis, a f i r s t year chemist from South Wales. Our r e t i r i n g Quean, Beverly Bradford, handed over the orown and Judy Was duly enthroned.

On the e l e c t i o n of another Trophy O f f i c e r Peter Young gave a d e s c r i p t i o n of the duties of t h i s post which should be i n every Union Handbook. Peter Redfirm suffered himself to be alectea to the post.

Other elections were that of L a r t i n amith (Chea I.G.) as Exploration Board Rep.,and those of the f i r s t year Representatives

F E L I X 3

T H E I C W A

Having obtained equality i n the M to 5 world of I.C., the f a i r sex i s now launohing i t s campaign f o r equality in i t s s o c i a l l i f e . The major anomaly

t men-only-in-the-bar has been success­f u l l y attacked.

After the f i n a l freshers' dinner (mixed ), several s l i g h t l y inebriated aquariums attempted to rush the main entrance to the bar. Tradition pre­v a i l e d . This however was just a b l i n d f o r the daring young ladles who stressed the ultimate aims of equality by entering through the door by the mens' lavatory -*¥e just want to touch i t l ? They s w i f t l y found themselves outside.

S U F F R A G E T T E S

Drinks were served i n the h a l l , and one young f i n i s h i n g school product downed a p i n t without stopping. She then l o s t i n t e r e s t i n the proceedings.. I don't know whioh sex takes i t s l i q u o r the better, but the men of I.C. allowed them to walk' over to the sacred a l t e r of happiness and place t h e i r glasses on i t . Far from being r e s i s t e d i n t h i s symbolic gesture I saw one I.C. man hiding a g i r l under his jacket

But f o r Howard, who knows what would have been the r e s u l t , lerhaps men would have been forbidaen from the bar and have to wait p a t i e n t l y i n the lounge tr y i n g to avoid the lecherous gaze of passing g i r l s . Or

maybe curtains would be put over the cold, black bar windows and worst of a l l aquarium bar maids on a r o t a .

However, with true decorum they were esoorted out but the f i r s t blow has been struck and the question again a r i s e s "Do the men of I.C. r e a l l y want to exclude women from the bar?"

L ' C

In def erenoe to those whose views- do not ooinoide w-— the j 's i n the famous t r i a l recently concluded, I h b persuaded to write t — - a r t i o l e . Let me say, r i g h t a , t I do not consider f l e t t e r words a f thing. Indeed, I w e go further, and state, quite oategorically, t tr— are a had thing. Therefore, t a r t i o l e w not h any f l e t t e r words i n i t . Now, to my m—-point . Why i s i t t — everyone wants to see these words i n print? I think I h — found "the answer. No one knows how to s p e l l t . Therefore , t cover up t h e i r ignoranoe by using dashes. ' Now t — a l l these words can (and no doubt w ) appear i n the d i c t i o n a r i e s , everyone w— a-— k how to s p e l l t - — , and t w be t . I would suggest t a l l , school­teachers be forced to use at. l e a s t one of these woras per sentence, T — »-— • a*— " a — obilifcre* r e a l i s e early on i n 1—•»'

the sanctity of sex. No one w-— h a any nasty i n h i b i t i o n s about anything. We oan then 1 forward to a future f of w— adjusted people, frank conversation about sex, and f l e t t e r words. A/quiok chorus of "For he's a j o l l y g f l e t t e r w-—er" and we oan depart i • the nittht , r e j o i o i n g .

W E L L I N E V E R

It i s reported that the oosetery ft Wain f l e e t , near Skegness i s running t a loss — only two b u r i a l s in the est year. In order t o a l l e v i a t e t h i s i f f i o u l t y the rates have been increased y one halfpenny. Thus by r a i s i n g tha

oost of l i v i n g the council i s subsidising the aost of dying.

S K E L E T O N I N T H E C U P B O A R D

Recently German Youth has started to ask searching questions about the events of the war. There has been awakened i n t e r e s t in the searching out and t r i a l of Bast war oriminals. The swastika daubing of Cologne synagogue sparked off a nation wide protest i n which the youth of Germany played a oommend&bly oonanicuoua Dart. low of course we have'the Eiohraejan t r i a l .

I t was a paradoxical feature of the Bermany of the Fifties that there were no Nazis, or even ex-Nazis to be found. The war w;s over, i t must be forgotten. From this head i n the sand attitude, the German public has swung round and reoently Curzio Malaporte1 s books have been published in Gexmanv in paper backs. She Germans• interest i s very personal, but to people in t h i s country who, compared to the holocaust of central Europe lead an almost sheltered awjjrtenoe during the war, the interest Is i n looking at tha rise, motives and effects of a false sick truth.

Oursio Malaporte was in a unique position to observe this alok truth, ea war correspondent of one of the leading Borne dailies he had •oarte blanche1 to a l l theatres Of the war. His bowk "Uapnt", vacllshed by Redans' a i n 154B,HwkbU)h fee wrote at great personal risk tram tha Gestapo, starts with a eemveTwaties with Prince Bugen, eossin of Qostar T of Sweden, ami. subsequently moves to Finland, Poland, tha Ukraine, Rumania, Germany and finally Italy. Strangely the picture painted la oomio, a bizarre macabre landscape of

grotesque humour. He t e l l s of the snow-madness of the Alpenjaegen i n Finland, tha t e r r i f y i n g resignation of Jews i n the Warsaw Ghetto, the hideous sick refinement and culture of the Nasi r u l i n g e l i t e , the massive defiance of Russian resistance. This set out i n parables of animala, which f o r Malaporte are symbols of the tragedy and irony of a kaputte Europe In i t s death danoe, the horses, f l i e s dogs, the rats of Jussy.

t h i s monumentally grim farce i s an oblique attempt as a n a l y s i s of the sick t r u t h as w e l l as being a documentary of the wake of "that slow monster dragging i t s e l f towards Jerusalem to be reborn". Although i t s u f f e r s greatly as a novel from being episodic and r e p e t i t i v e , i t s strength l i e s i n the a u t h e n t i c i t y of incident, the acid anecdotes and the p o r t r a i t of the e f f e c t of such crass inhominity and bra t a l i ty has on the men caught up with i t . Sensitive men l i k e Malaperts himself, or l i k e the cultured Frank, tha Nazi King of Poland. Ken of strong compassion and f e e l i n g exposed to a b l i n d i n g l i g h t of experience to which t h e i r compassion i s feebly Inadequate.

l e t Malaporte charges'the scene w i t h glimpses of strange hope; how great people o&n be, how people oould f i g h t the eiok truth w i t h shrugs, smiles, sneers, j u s t magnificent human stubbornBesB. I t is.morbidly f a s c i n a t i n g to see the human soul stretched out on the d i s s e c t i n g t a b l e of war-time Europe, at f i r s t sight si c k and repulsive , but a f t e r f i g h t i n g a f e e l i n g of nausea' i t i s a thing of t e r r i b l e beauty.

4 F K L E X

It was with ni::ed feelings that I volunteered to ;,ooapt the e d i t o r i a l c h a i r from ,"±a OcuTtsr at the beginning of term and even now, as I set about edit i n g ray f i r s t issue, a cer t a i n un--easinesr. remains. Being, by nature, a somewhat r e t i r i n g person one of ny f i r s t thou~hts w s "Am I r e a l l y suited f o r the job?" Maybe not! But then what does one gain from u n i v e r s i t y l i f e i f one i s not prepared to accept the c h a l l e n g e — i t would have been f a r easier to have shunned the responsib­i l i t y but i n taking up t h i s post I believe that I am making a valuable contribution to my own education.

Lute a l l new editors I v i s u a l i s e certain changes i n FELIX. I think, and I am sure that most readers w i l l agree with me, that :^uc:i can be done to improve the appearance of the paper. Compared with other college newspapers i n the University, FELIX i s a very shabby a f f a i r . In the method of production which we use at present nKst of our e f f o r t s go i n t o actual p r i n t i n g :>nd f a r too l i t t l e i n t o the edit i n g and w r i t i n g which form the sub--stanoe of the paper. The only ad--vantage that t h i s method commands i s that i t i s cheap so that we oan manage without external revenue (e.g. grant from the Union, fees f o r advertising etc.) I f we are to r a d i c a l l y change the appearance of FELIX then we must adopt a p r i n t i n g process whioh i s , of necessity, much more expensive. Since we barely make a p r o f i t on cur sales as we stand there i s a l l too l i t t l e l a t i t u d e f o r Improvement i f we oontinv.c without f i n e n t i a l h e l l ; Two main sources e x i s t , revenue from oom--mercial advertising, snd d i r e c t grant from the Union, both of which are be--ing explored at the moment.

The other main d i f f i c u l t y which FELIX faces i s the lac k of v a r i e t y of and depth of material which appears i n i t s columns. This i s i n e v i t a b l e owing to the small o i r o l e of people a c t i v e l y involved. But I am sure that t h i s i s not a true r e f l e c t i o n of the t a l e n t at Imperial College. Remember that t o many people outside the College FELIX i s the only organ of communication and as suoh should record p r a c t i o l l y every a c t i v i t y and opinion w i t h i n the Students Union as w e l l as provide features of general i n t e r e s t . So i f you have h a l f an hour to spare, a keen i n t e r e s t , and a sense of r e s p o n s i b i l t y towards your fellow students s e t t l e down now and become a FELIX correspondent.

Robert F. Cheeney.

t e t t v t o to.

the Editox

Dear S i r , We were most pleased to hear that

the Archbishop of Canterbury, Dr. F i s h --er, intends i n the near future t o v i s i t Pope John at the Vatican.

We hope and pray that the v i s i t w i l l lead t o b e t t e r r e l a t i o n s between the Church of England and the Catholic Church, nothing but p;ood can come from the tseeting,

Tours f a i t h f u l l y ,

John Gangham (Pres. Cath. Soc) Brian D. Bond (Chairman

Church Soo.)

Dear S i r , In the l i g h t of larlimantary de­

velopments, i s i t not time that a centre was set up f o r the benefit of people who l i k e to take"sporting chances"? noting that i n preparation for the Carnival, i l l e g a l b e t t i n g took place on the out­come of a to r t o i s e race, I feel sure, that t h i s type of thing could have been better­ed" by the use of a bookmaker,totalisator, or even better,by the s e t t i n g up of a bet­t i n g skopjthis is to s t a r t next year). Bonoe, any funotions (such as t o r t o i s e races) oould be handled by a society which I propose to form.

I know of twenty w i l l i n g people who w i l l j o i n me i n forming a Sporting Chance Society ( f o r want of a better name), and with our pooled knowledge of race­courses, etc., I am sure we oould bring f i n a n c i a l gain to a l l Union functions. Any person w i l l i n g to throw i n h i s l o t , please n o t i f y me through the Union rack,

D. Brown. (2nd, Chem. Eng.)

W A T C H Y O U R

W A L L E T S

The Security O f f i c e r has drawn our attention to the f a c t that since the beg-'-ining of term there have been two cases of theft of wallets from jacket pockets. For your own good he has issued the f o l --lowing warning which we reproduce here:-

WALLETS MUST BE REMOVED FROM JACKETS WHEN THESE ARE TAKEN OFF'FOR ANT PURPOSE.

STUDENTS CAN PROTECT THEIR OWN PROPERTY BT TAKING THIS SIMPLE PRECAUTION.

T H A N K S

The Editor would like to express his gratitude tn the following people who undertook the inflame th task of typing this issuei-

Shelagh Hoekingj Jim Carter, Ian Guy, Ian Gibson, John Jennings,- Hn--lay acFherscn, and Cave Owen.

Dear S i r ,

I enclose the f o l l o w i n g l e t t s r which may be of i n t e r e s t to any of your readers who anti c i p a t e using Icwt.of sugar t h i s coming college year. I t i s i n reply to a l e t t e r of mine to the f i r m concerned, enquiring as to the advantages of buying 1cwt.sacks of t h i s most impor­tant commodity.

Yours F a i t h f u l l y , O.W.Davies,

wear o i r .

We are i n receipt of your l e t t e r of the 25th.Ootober enquiring f o r d e t a i l s of the d i f f e r e n t i a l between 1cwt.sacks of our T.L.Granulated Sugar and the equi­valent quantity of 2 -lb.packets.

For your information,1-owt.sacks of T.L.Granulated Sugar are a v a i l a b l e at a d i f f e r e n t i a l of j / l j d . p e r cwt.under the oost of an eqivalent quantity of 2 - l b . p packets. A si n g l e sack taken from a ret­a i l grocer who i s not i n the habit of s e l l i n g sugar in bulk,would however,be subject to an a d d i t i o n a l d e l i v e r y charge of 2/— per cwt. approximately,whioh would narrow the saving to l/lgd per owt.

In view of the fact that i t w i l l take you one oollege y e a r ( t h i r t y weeks of term time)to exhaust a supply of sug­ar purchased i n t h i s way,we f e e l that the saving w i l l be problematical.

One f u r t h e r point should be borne, ist mind, the grocery trade f r e ­quently treats packet granulated aa a "loss-leader"and sugar i s . a v a i l a b l e a t out prices from many r e t a i l o u t l e t s . I t may w e l l be possible f o r you to purchase 2-lb.packets of granulated sugar f o r as l i t t l e as l / 2 d.or l / 3 d . i n your v i o i n i t y , a n d at t h i s price,they would i n fact,be cheaper fo purchase than the equivalent quantity i n a 1cwt.sack. *bs d i f f i c u l t i e s of transportation,the p o s s i b i l i t y of a stock of sugar s p o i l i n g i £ retained on your premises f o r th_s length of time must a l s o be borne i n mind and we personally cannot-advise t h i s meth­od of purchase i n your instance.

We hope that the above-mentioned f a c t s w i l l enable you to compare the r e l ­a t i v e merits of purchasing sugar e i t h e r i n packet as required or i n bulk.

Yours F a i t h f u l l y , Tate and Lyl e l t d .

B L O O D I S M Y

B U S I N E S S

The Vamp, i s pleased to report that the blood continues to flow slowly but s t e a d i l y . I f the present rate of en--rolmont continues the National Blood Bank should be ri c h e r by over one hun--dred pints on Monday 12th. December.

The Vamp, i s puzzled however by the peculiar d i s t r i b u t i o n of donors between the departments. While the c i v i l a:id mechanioal engineers have blooc to bath i n , the e l e c t r i c a l engineers are a l l but dry. B l o o d-lettin g p h y s i c i s t s outnum--ber l e t h a r g i c chemists by f i v e to one and apparently botanists have never «een blood at a l l . Anyway to a l l of" you the Vaisp. expresses his good wishes anG says:-

GIVA PIN-A BLOODA Q.UARTA

A P O L O G I E S

We must tender our apologies to Mr. Bob Lucas whose book review i n the l a s t e d i t i o n of FELIX e n t i t l e d "The World of A r t " was i n advertantly sign--ed with the wrong namei

5

C O M M E N T

3Y JOKK GCA. Ovei' the la3t year i t has become no­

t i c e a b l e that the number of anonymous a r t i c l e s and l e t t e r s published i n PELIX has increased. Furthermore, the pro--portion .of personal attacks i n such oon-- t r i b u t i o n s has been comparable with the proportion of personal attacks i n the weekend speeches of Labour Party leaders. Unless we wish a l l discussion of Union L a f f a i r s to resolve i t s e l f i n t o personal invective, then i t might be useful to im--pose a ban on the publication of a l l un--signed—or wrongly signed—contributions. I t i s small comfort f o r those attacked to know that the writers have not the courage of t h e i r convictions and are unprepared to substantiate t h e i r allegations. The very fact that the •"•tides ar« nubliahed.

— e s p e c i a l l y when sisned with seemingly authentic names—can give the impression that there i s some substance i n the a r t -- i c l e s .

Several people have commented oh the improvement to the Union Lounge now that the carpets have been l a i d . ' However the f a c t that old lags are seeing an improve--ment doesn't cut much ic e with aesthet­i c a l l y minded freshers or Saturday night hoppers from outside. Although the d i f f ­i c u l t i e s of making a large room look

C O U N T E R

By B.T.L.

In the column Comment one union member presents h i s views and c r i t i c i s m s on the various controversies which per--enniall y a s s a i l us. Obviously h i s column presents one view only. This column i s inteait.ed to reply to these o r i t i o i s j i s , and t o o f f e r opposing arg--uments, although the views of t h i s w r i t e r are not necessarily opposed to those of our commentator.

Sane people have been vociferously oomplaining that the l a s t editor of FELIX printed anonymous l e t t e r s cont--aining personal attacks. This i s not true. In none of the l e t t e r s p r i n t e d was any i n d i v i d u a l mentioned or r e f e r r e d to, and a l l the authors were known to the editor. Unfortunately there are i n the College c e r t a i n groups ho w i l l never accept that the other side has a case. I f a l e t t e r bearing the name of a protagonist of one side appears the other side dismisses i t as propoganda.

Thus i n order t o present a case whioh w i l l be debated on i t a merits i t i s . sometimes neoessary t o adopt a pseudonym The F e l i x Board s t i p u l a t e s that the editor must know the true name of the author, but, providing the case presen r

-ted i s a good one, there seems no nec-- e s s i t y f o r appending the true name of the author. Perhaps some people oan not understand that there are Union members who don't write f o r FELIX j u s t to beoome w e l l known.

cosy are considerable, the same excuse can hardly explain the cold and bare IOOK of the smaller lounges i n the Union 3uild--ing. Apart from anything else, our Union Building must be amongst the poorest whe i.t comes to paintings. We have, i t i s true, two l o y a l photographs i n the Union Lounge and odd daubs elsewhere, bu1 nowhere i s there anything hanging which one would care to look at twice. I t i3 d i f f i c u l t to see the reason f o r t h i s , be--cause pictures, unlike other items of expenditure, can even increase, i n value with age and the purchase of pictures of a r t i s t i c merit cannot therefore be said to constitute a threat to the Union

assets.

I t seems a p i t y that i t has been decided to hold only one Union meeting t h i s term. This breaks a t r a d i t i o n of many years standing that two meetings are held i n the autumn term, one f o r the presentation of'Accounts and one f o r any other important business. The next meet--ing on November 15th. w i l l be the f i r s t at which the quorum of 400 becomes l e g a l and unfortunately, due to t h i s break i n t r a d i t i o n , some soci e t i e s had already ar--rariged meetings f o r t h i s date before t h i s change was announced. In addition the crowded agenda makes that either there w i l l be a very short discussion on important topics, or the meeting w i l l go on a f t e r 2.30p.m. and be i n danger of be--coming inquorate. Next term I 3Ugge3t the Union meetings be announced w e l l i n advance and i f the agenda appears l i k e l y to be crowded, an extra meeting could be arranged.

C O M M E N T

Fotheringham.

On the question of Union lounges I f i n d myself i n agreenw-it with Mr. Cox. The i n t r a i u c t l o n of carpets to the low--er lounge has r a i s e d the standard to that of a f i r s t olass s t a t i o n w a i t i n g room. Who knows but what we may not aohieve the standard of a second class h o t e l foyer i n two or three years time. Of course a few good pictures would help t o make the lounges a t t r a c t i v e and would prove a sound invesianent; i f Mr. Cox would loan us. say £100,000 I am sure Council would buy the odd Van Gogh, and i n years to come would s e l l at a vast p r o f i t . *

May I o f f e r my condolences t o our commentator as he bemoans the passing of the age-old t r a d i t i o n of two Union meetings i n the Michelmas term. How--ever, i t i s not really " possible to j u s t i f y a Union meeting s o l e l y f o r pas--ing the accounts as there i s u s u a l l y very l i i t l e discussion on t h i s subject. I t i s unfortunate that t h i s Union meet--ing clashes w i t h some society functions but i t i s not possible t o decide the dates of Union meetings before the beg--inning of term as these are arranged i n oonjuntion with the General Studies Board. As many so c i e t i e s arrange t h e i r meeting during the previous term t h i s clash seems i n e v i t a b l e . We are a l l somewhat apprehensive as to whether the meeting w i l l achieve the neoessary 400 quorum. However providing our P u b l i c i t y O f f i c e r j u s t i f i e s h i s pos-- i t i o n there should be l i t t l e d i f f i c u l t y i n r a i s i n g 400 hefds from a 2,800 pop--u l a t i o n .

F O R C O N T I N U E D

You cannot change the t r a d i t i o n s of an i n s t i t u t i o n by an over-night re v o l u t i o n , but you oan do a l l i n your power to improve i t l i t t l e by l i t t l e . That i s why I regard with favour the t r e b l i n g i n the number of the s o c i a l clubs i n the l a s t few years) although each one has been established i n the teeth of the opposition of the stupidest form of conservatism.....Softly, s o f t l y , catches monkey,....One day t h i s college w i l l be important because we w i l l have learned how to have a s o c i a l conscience.

I think i t i s important that the Union should do a l l i n ipi power to educate i t s e l f . This i s why I f e e l that members of the Union should l e a r n to choose t h e i r own President and oease to allow the choice to be made f o r them. Some people say that the members of the Union are too i r r e s p n s i b l e to e l e c t t h e i r own President. This i s not true of the vast majority of college unions and I do not believe i t to be true of t h i s Union.lf i t were true then surely i t f i s the making of decisions that causes people to be responsible and the vicious c i r c l e of i r r e s p o n s i b i l i t y must be broken sooner or l a t e r . Some people sayi look at the King's fracas or the Battersea fracas, by way of evidence against a popularly elected President.

B u i there have been some f a i r l y good Imperial fracases i n the past two years and we do not elect our President. I think the t r u t h of the matter i s that probably the same man would be elected e i t h e r by the Union or by the Counoil.

Now some people w i l l pick on the l a s t statement tp prove that there i s no. reason to make the change, and they w i l l have completely missed the point. The e f f e c t the ohange w i l l have w i l l be to causa a f a r larger number of people to think.and argue about the q u a l i t i e s needed i n a good President. To the extent that to improve the output of Imperial College i t s members should learn toargue and discuss, an e l e c t i o n f o r President would be a good thing.

Bob Finch.

C O M I N G S O O N

COMING EVENTS

CATHOLIC SOCIETY

Maa. Hsy.. i k i h . — a t a l k on " A f r i c a Today" by Anthony A l l o t of the School of Oriental and Afrioan Studies at5.15-p.m. i n the Botany Lecture Theatre.

Mon. Nov.gtst. A theatre partly to the Globe Theatre t o see "A Han f a r A l l Seasonns"

T H E B A L L

For the f i r s t time ever the I.C. Commemoration Ball was held at Quaglino'a. The choice promised to be a popular one, for a l l the tickets were sold well in advance of the event. Looking back the change of venue proved to be a moat successful one,

The evening opened at 9.00pm,, when the early arrivals were announced by the Toastmaster,,and welcomed by the President.

The number of couples dancing throughout the evening paid tribute to the excellent music: of the Tommy Kinsman's Orchestra, and the quality of the ballroom.

This year a light dinner was served in four sittings, ThTheuauperbe-manu provided a choice of dishes for each course, after which, coffee was served in the foyer.

A photographer was in attendance to record the notable events of the evening, including the Links Club meeting, which took place i n the Long Bar at 11.00pm.

H E L I X

SIR WILLIAM FUCK AND VTPCOUNT FALMOUTH.

Th* decor and general f a c i l i t i e s were of an extremely high standard. Perhaps the only fault i n an otherwise memorable evening was the occasional xo-efficSency of the service.

Unfortunately the evening closed at 3 . 0 0 a m , when a reluctant, but contented company dispersed.

In a l l the event proved to be so highly successful that similar arrangements are being considered for next year. The success of the Ball must be credited to last year's sommittee for their organisation of this memorable occasion.

A.Miller.

I C E R E M O N Y I N

T H E A L B E R T H A L L

The main point of interest at this year's Commem. Day, was the address by the special visitor Professor Sir CyriliHinohlewood, President of the Royal Society > President of the UassicallAss. and something of a linguist . His. speech wits concerned with what he oalled'the two cultures 1 of arts (or the humanities) and s c i ­ence.

I think this was one of the best addresses loiasn remember , and its relevance cannot be quest-

I ioned. That there is a split in the oountry's intellectuals is obviour and r,e should do nothing to widen

I this spit , even i f , as i s by no means certain , we can do nothing to close i t .

Sir Cyril certainly made one or two very perceptive observations whioh provided food for thought •

C O M M E M O R A T I O N D A Y

TUB CHOIR. STUDENT ORATOR - JOHN LOOMS. SIR CYRIL HINSnXLWOQD.

N E W E N G I N E E R I N G B U I L D I N G

Since 1884 successive generations of engineering students have bean entering the red brick, building designed by Waterhouse on Exhibition road, and which became the City and Guilds College. On the evening Of Friday 4th November a reception held at Imperial College -the same boll whioh'was used to c a l l students to lectures in 1884 was rung again to mark the transition from the old building to the new - now fully commissinred as the f i r s t part of the larger building for Mechanical Engineering.

Under the guidance of men like Unwin and his successors, the growth of engineering education has been p phenomenal during the last 75 years. There were some ,,200 engineering students when the City and Guilds College was federated to form part of the Imperial College in 1907. By 1952 there were

nearly 8001 today there more than 1 , 2 5 0 and the planned number is 1 , 7 5 0 . The major increase during the past eight years i s the result of the Government1s decision to expand the Imperial College; and the number of engineering students both undergraduate and postgraduate, oould only be increased by the provision or more space and up-to-date f a c i l i t i e s .

The new building, of which the f i r s t instalment has now gone into service, will be completed some three to four_years henoe. It w i l l take the place of the bid buildings on Exhibition Road,which will be progressively demolished to make room for i t . It will be 440 feet long, and on nine floor levels, and will provide teaching and research faci l i t i e s for more than 330 students of Mechanical Engineering and for some 300 of the engineering students from the other Departments of the College.

&k well as major groups working on A-pplied-Theraodynamics ( all'subjects concerned with oombustion and with heat and mass transfer) and Applied Mechanics ( metal fatigue, plasticity, stress analysis and the like ), the Department also inoludes sections studying nuclear power and production engineering.

The new building will form the eastern boundary of a new East Quadrangle, bounded on the south and west by other new-trai-ldlMgg now-nnder construction for C i v i l and for Electrical Engineering. Designed by Messrs. Normen and Dawbarn, the building i s of composite construction with structural steel and reinforced concrete frames. External treatment i s similar to that adopted for the new building-for the Physics Department ( opened last month by Sir John Cockcroft) - white mosaic columns and spandrel walls faced with green Swedish t i l e s .

F E L I X

% S P O R T I T I T T ' A

H O C K E Y

The hockey f i r s t XI got of to a good s t a r t with a convincing 8-2 win against St. Barts. At half time the score was 2-0 i n favour of I.e., hut i n the second ha l f we r e a l l y got on top sooring s i x goals i n the l a s t twenty minutes.

The case of pol i o i n the college meant that matches f o r the following two weeks had to be cancelled. After this r e s t the teams were eager to s t a r t playing again, but l a s t Wednesday's and Saturday's matches had to be oanoelled owing to the weather. One of the matches cancelled because of t h i s was the f i r s t round of the U.L. Cup against Kings, and i t i s hoped to play t h i s match o f f i n the near future.

On Saturday, 5 t h . of November the f i r s t , second and th i r d elevens had matches against Guy's Hospital, The f i r s t eleven match was a hard f a s t game considering the muddy conditions, and the h o s p i t a l side won 5-2. The second eleven played w e l l and managed to hold Guy's to a two-two draw. The t h i r d eleven provided our only win of the day, and played exceptionally w e l l to record a 5-2 win.

F i n a l l y I should l i k e to remind every­one to TICK. OFF e a r l y i n the week.

B A D M I N T O N

I t s badminton i n the Concert H a l l at l a s t ! The long awaited'launching of our new a q u i s i t i o n , a portable badminton court took place on the a f t ­ernoon of Wednesday 2pd. Nove. iber. The court ( a l l «U74 17 s 3d. worth of i t ) was an undoubted sucess. A l l we need now i s permission to use i t r e g u l a r l y on die evening -per week. I t i s t o be hoped that officialdom does not allow the court to become a very expensive white elephant- gathering dust i n the gym.

The teams creaked somewhat a f t e r he p o l i o interlude, and the seoond team isd a close but eventually--aulaaaaflil Jpen to the season against a rajbher" de­pleted Chelsea team. In the f i r s t match in whioh a l l l a d i e s have representeS. the lollege at bsdmington .the •. g i r l s - l o s t " narrowly 5-4 t o a strong King's team. This was an exollent s t a r t f o r a new venture.

D.F.

JOHN COLLINS

M O R P H Y D A Y

Owing to the case of p o l i o i n the college the Korphy ana Lowry boat races.had to be postponed. The i l l n e s s led to the mteruption of t r a i n i n g , but a l l crews are now f i t a f t e r a f o r t n i g h t s hard work. The races w i l l nowbe held on Wednesday 16th. of November and i t i s hoped that as many" people as possible w i l l be on the tow path to cheer on the orews.

I C W S C

Ann King was recently elected •president ofthe Imperial College Womens' Sporting Clubs,

On reading through t h i s page the editor finds that there i s a space here,

C R O S S C O U N T R Y

In spite of having to miss the second University t r i a l , because of the P o l i o outbreak, many of the college were chosen t o represent the University i n the 1st., 2nd., and 3rd, teams against Cambridge on Sat. 29 t h . October. I.C. fresher Ted Wilklns ran i n the t h i r d team match, though not selected , and won quite handsomely to prove h i s f i t ­ness. Others d i d not f a i r so w e l l .

On the f o l l o w i n g Wednesday we had three away matches,.The f i r s t team paid a v i s i t t o Borough EoadiT.C. and f o r t h i s s n a i l oollege of 300 we had t o turn out our strongest'team since l a s t years University Championships. Having been beaten by them Once already t h i s seas­on we came very near t o being beaten again, and only a splendfd f i n i s h by a not very f i t Tony Larkum pipped, a Boro­ugh Road man i n t o l a s t place t o give us a one point v'ctory. Borough road had the f i r s t two men home but I.C. packed w e l l J.Cleator (3), T.Wilkins (5) J . C o l l i n 3 ( 6 ) , D.Hammonds (7) and J.Be-raond (8) to give us the hard earned v i ­ctory 26-27. A second team were at Parliament H i l l F i e l d s running against Royal vets and R.A.F. Chessington. G.Wenk p u l l e d o f f an exellent i n d i v i d u a l v i c t o r y f o r I.C., on one of h i s few ap­pearances f o r the cross country club. D.Colin (6), and O.Fearn also put i n good perfonnances to give I.C.second place to the P..A.F.

Result. 1. R.A.F. 29. 2. I.C. 44. 3. R.V.C. 56.

At The time of w r i t i n g we have no r e s u l t s of the t h i r d match - a Univers­i t y League I I match.

Saturday 5th. November was the date of the annual v i s i t of the London C o l l ­eges to the Midlands. This tin e our ho hosts were the University of North Sta­f f s . Liverpool University provided t!ts r e s t of the Kidland opposition t o teams from I.C. , U.C. , nr." (J.M.C. I.C. with 4 men i n the f i r s t . 7including the i n d i v i d u a l winner J . C o l l i n s were very unlucky not. t o win. D.Itavjnonds oaiao t o g r i e f on the ( f i r s t barbed wire fence and was" badly scratohed and l o s t h i s shorts. Fresher John Young twisted h i s ankle Only a l i t t l e I nter but very p l -u c k i l y a a r r i e d on to close the scoring f i v e . Liverpool won the day however from I.C. by f i v e points, the r e s u l t being :-

"t. jLaverpooj, J"*

2. 1.0. 41. 3. il.K.C. 76. 4. U.C.L. 84. 5. KEELE oollege U.N.S, 135.

Individual placings weros-1. J . C o l l i n s 24 25 5. T.Wilkins 24 40 6. P.Warren 25 05 7.

J.Bernard 25 05 22. J.Young

ANN KING. J.B'CTJED. (oapt.)

A N D

F E L I X

M A T C H E S V E R S U S

M A N N H E I M U N I V E R S I T Y

A T H L E T I C S

Gold weather and rain-iinfortunately marred the f i r s t neetin" of the season

R U G G E R

A N D

S O C C E R

On Jaturciiy 2,th October the 1st, 2nd, and t h i r d elevens travelled to Southampton f o r f r i e n d l y matches against the U n i v e r s i t y . The 1st XI played w e l l , and showed a d i s t i n c t , improvement on t h e i r performance i n the f i r s t match. The re s u l t of the :xitoh was 2-1 to Southampton, but a draw would have been a f a i r e r r e f l e c t ­i on of the p l a y . I t was pleasing to

see fresher Dave Loftus, at r i g h t -

baolc a i d Lave Hunt, at l e f t - h a l f ,

p l a y i n g so s t r o n g l y and w e l l .

The 2nd XI a l s o l o s t , by 3 - 0 / to

a strong Southampton s i d e . Southampton

wore held to a 1-0 lead i n the f i r s t

h a l f , but a f t e r half-time, t h e i r greater

stamina t o l d and they ran out worthy

winners

Of the three' teams p l a y i n g at

Southampton the 3rd XI put up the

best performance,, and w i t h Rod

Vi'ilshaw s c o r i n g twice, I . C . won 5-3.

On Wednesday 2nd November, a l l

I . C . teams p l a y i n g were engaged i n

league matches. The 1st. X I , not

taking advantage of a strong wind i n

the f i r s t h a l f , l o s t 1-3 to Kings I ,

This was a great disappointment a f t e r

our f i n e d i s p l a y of the previous

Saturday. The 2nd XI, p l a y i n g away,

l o s t 0-3 to King ' s I I , while the 3rd XI, playing at H a r l i n~ton, went down by the same 3core to Q.M.C. I I . The

f i f t h XI, however, won c o n v i n c i n g l y

by 5-0 against Northern P o l y .

November 3th saw the 1st XI r e s t ­

i n g f o r t h e i r match against Mannheim

U n i v e r s i t y to be played on the .follow­

ing day, and the 2nd XI took the

opportunity of showing 1st XI how to w i n . ' P l a y i n g i n an away league match at

Condon School of Economics, they

"soundly thrashed the o p p o s i t i on and

won by 6-2. The 3rd XX, not to be

outdone, a l s o won, by 3-0 against

Northern Poly, t h e i r second c l e a r win

i n succession. The f o u r t h XI, playing against Old Templonians at H a r l i n g t o n ,

i n a f r i e n d l y were w e l l beaten by 5-0, and the seventh team a l s o l o s t by

5-2 against 3orough Poly.

Published by FELIX BOARD, Imperial College Union. S.W.7

at Hurlmgham Park or. Sat. Nov. 5th. against L.S.E. and Kannheim University. In spite of t h i s , the match re s u l t e d i n a very close f i n i s h between I.C. and, Mannheim, with the German team winning by three points.

Kost of the I.C. sucesses came i n the three f i e l d events - with some gooc performances fron Connolly who w e l l supported by Allcock. These two ca>fie

f i r s t and second i n shot and discus and second a i d s i x t h i n the j a v e l i n . In the two re l a y s , I.C. fi n i s h e d second i n each case to Mannheim . In the long relay, 4&0 - 220 - 220- 880, C l i f t o n running the 1+kD handed over i n 2nd. place to Harrison who ran a f i n e 220 under appa­l l i n g conditions to consolidate thi3 before handing over to meade .Cleator running the f i n a l stage, did w e l l to mainta.in hi3 p o s i t i o n and hold o f f a strong challenge from Heck of L.S.E, In the other relay , hk-0 -33° - 220 -110 , Spier began w e l l f o r I.C., narrowly f a i l i n g to hold o f f a l a t e challenge from Leger of Mannheim . Blake Meade and Soribry drew w e l l away from L.S.E. but were unable to close the gap with Mannheim.

The next meeting of the season w i l l ; be the University Winter Relays at Mot-spur Park, f a r which we w i l l need as strong a team aa possible.

T A B L E T E N N I S

The f i r s t week of league matches was

quite a successful one , with each winning

i t s r e s p e c t i v e match. In the f i r s t round

of the cup the f i r s t team scored a 7-2 v i c t o r y against Goldsmiths I and w i l l

go on to play the winner of Chelsea and

Charing X. The second team were unlucky

to draw L . S . E . I . as opponents add were

beaten by a superior side 9-0.

I.G.Cameron (Capt.)

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On Sunday s i x t h November the I.C. Soccer and Rugby Clubs played the Mannheim Uni v e r s i t y clubs at Harlington.

The Soccer Club, including the college's University players, liad a f i n e 5-2 win.

' The game started off at a f a s t pace, and the German side scored two early goals. Mannheim kept t h i s deserved lead u n t i l the i n t e r v a l , but i n the second half I.C. gradually got on top. The tannheim goal was under almost constant pre ;sui-e, and i t was not sur p r i s i n g to see the German goalkeeper beaten f i v e time3. Two of these goals were scored with long shots by I.C. defenders.

The Rufper Club, also including U.L. players, had a cl o s e r game, but t h e i r greater strength t o l d i n the end. The f i n a l score was 16 pts. - 3 pts. i n favour of I.C.

A f t e r the matches Mannheim were ent-ertained'at dinner. The teams then r e t i r e d to the bar, where a general sing-song and the drin k i n g of much beer oompleted an enjoyable evening.

I C M A N C A P T A I N S W A L E S

• B a s i l Janes brought great honour to himself and the college by being selected to captain Wales againsti'pngland i n an Amateur International Match.

The match played on Brighton and Hove'Albions ground on Saturday 5th. November ended i n d i s a s t e r f o r B a s i l , as i n the 36th. minute he was c a r r i e d o f f with a broken leg. The game ended i n a 6-4 win for England, but Wales fought g a l l a n t l y with ten men.

I f e e l everyone i n oollege would l i k e to wish B a s i l a speedy recovery, and that we w i l l see him i n action again l a t e r i n the season.

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