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The new Arts and Education Block will be between the existing buildings and the row of professors' residences, leaving some 40 feet width for the roadway. The south elevation, that is looking from Grattan-street, shows a clock tower at the right hand corner of the block, as seen in the lower of the following two views. It will be seen in the east elevation, that is looking towards Sydney-road, that it is nearly twice the length of its southern front.

The plans are drawn for the additions to be built with the same kind of freestone as used in the original buildings, and every effort has been made to harmonise the new Arts and Education Block with the original Gothic without any sacrifice of modern requirements. These plans will so alter the general use of our main buildings that it is safe to predict that as soon as the Wilson Hall is• completed it will become a centre of social life at the University, and no longer will the various schools, societies and clubs find it necessary or desirable to migrate to St. Kilda or elsewhere for their big functions.

Turning now to the University War Memorial, it would seem that there are two main things for us to consider : first, are we to have a suitable memorial in our University?

and second, if so, then to give it due prominence. As regards the first, it is obviously a personal matter for every graduate and undergraduate, and it should be counted as a privilege for one and all to give something so that the whole memorial may truly reflect the feelings we all have of gratitude to those of our number who have given their lives in the Great War for

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freedom and to record that we do not fail to recognise the way our men have upheld and uplifted the noble traditions of the Alma Mater.

The proposal to erect a stained glass window at the southern end of Wilson Hall—its beautiful stone tracery can be seen in the accompanying figure—is one that commends itself to

many; and that an organ be installed at the north end of Wilson Hall is also favoured. But, after all, whatever plan is ultimately followed, the main thing for us is to accomplish

"something adequate" and not to stand out of our share of

making recognition.

The final decision must be made by the actual subscribers, and it is hoped that ample funds will be forthcoming to enable both window and organ to eventuate. Such a War 'Memorial would then stand in the centre and heart of the University, and the day will come when the memory of Wilson Hall will not only be a place of examination, but also remembered in connection with the University's social life.

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The editor has kindly intimated that he will acknowledge through these columns all moneys that are sent to the Memorial Fund through him, and it is necessary to mention that from £5000 to £10,000 is required to do anything adequate.

The appeal is to every reader of this article to make the matter a personal one, and not to be content unless he has taken some part by personal subscription, remembering that his fellows have played the game by him in going to the firing line, and that a long roll of men, who answered to the nation's call, have made the supreme sacrifice.

YEAR NOTES Fifth Year

June has seen most of the year back to the dear old grind—

not that there wasn't considerable grinding done during our recent activities in the 'flu epidemic—which, incidentally, must have made us quite the most financial lot that have ever turned up to .8.45 lectures.

Of course, it has had its disadvantages, for practically all of us have either been sick, ill or unwell, as the case may be, until, internally, we're like a lot of walking path. specimens.

There's rather a quaint little story about one of our number in bed with the fashionable infection, and, in the absence of a chart, trying to get information regarding his blood pressure.

Said gent. : "Say, nurse! What's my B.P. like ?" Nurse: "Oh!

Just an ordinary slipper, Butch." Patient shows signs of col- lapse, necessitating salines.

In the matter of finals.—Sid. told us pretty straight th' other, day that the last lap on the road to M.B. was to be fur- ther laid with traps for the unwary—this time in the shape of clinicals. Another cheering item, in this direction, is a speech of Sir H— (the younger), to his resident (C. Ferguson O'Brien), that was overheard by one or two of us: " and they get through, and they shouldn't get through!"

Since this has been reported, "all the birds of the year have been a-sighing and a-sobbing" until it would positively break your heart.

Mirabile dictu! We have also heard a joke. While in the library a few days back one of the select was asked whether he was doing his surgery from Choyce. "No," he replied "from dire necessity!" He has not yet been brought to justice.

Oct., 1919. THE SPECULUM. 61 Talking of atrocities, it is nothing short of brutal the way many distinguished members of our year have been treated in the Forensic exam. To think of Messrs. Wallace, Sutherland, and over a dozen other highbrows being disposed of without even the pleasure of an oral is perfectly unnatural. And when we consider that men like—well, we won't mention names—suc- ceeded in passing, the brazenness of those in authority becomes only too evident. So absurd and elementary a subject could not be made sufficiently difficult on its merits. It was only by carefully constructed questions of a conflicting and quite unin- telligible nature that the examiners were able to achieve their nefarious purposes. Out upon them!

Fourth Year

After twelve months of picking up the pearls that fall from the lips of the great, fourth year students find themselves de- veloping the far-famed professional reserve, but will essay a few words.

Last August we had a severe dose of the vaccine of exam., funk, and this August we had the second dose. Many, alas, will come up for treatment again in November. In some cases • the second dose was administered during the anaphylactic period, while in others the negative phase following the hard training for the physiolatomy flutter was unduly prOlonged. A few favoured ones, however, proved highly insusceptible, and we congratulate them on their success.

Many and weird are the mysteries which have been revealed Co us, and we seethe with suppressed knowledge, which even the examiners cannot drag out of us. After a course of 1)eorge's hair-raising harangues we wonder how we happen to be alive at all. One bright youth in a burst of ecstasy during

"he of the "movie" stunts erroneously remarked, "Charlie was never like this."

During last term we attended a matinee at the Auditorium by special invitation. A very fine programme was presented, the vocal numbers being particularly good, and the efforts of

the whole company of one were duly appreciated. Afterwards light refreshment was provided, and the performance closed With a hymn, and a "her" going home in a Buick, or was that from the abattoirs.

A well-planned jaunt to the city destructor was spoilt by nothing, to which many present devoted their attention. How-

ver pleasant trip was made to the Old Men's Home, and an enjoyable and instructive afternoon was spent. The view

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from the roof compensated for the climb to get there, when supplemented by a roll. Verily were we reminded of our youthful days, when we watched a bear climb up a pole to be rewarded with a bun.

This term we are engaged in making the acquaintance of the milkman, whom we meet on our way to quarter-to-nine lectures.

Second Year

Down the page of the dictionary our finger travels. Nucleus

—Nude—Nuisance—Ah! NUMBER. Def.: A unit ; an ag ; gregate of quantities (strangely enough no mention is made of 'qualities) ; a multitude. Now what does all this signify?

Only one thing—second year. Back again to Webster.

NONENTITY (a noun) : A thing not existing. The captain with bristling "carrotinous" hair and much vehemence tells us that this means, inter alia, a lecturer, a demonstrator or the medical students' Utopia.

Now, what could be put clearer? A multitude without men- tors! Sheep without shepherds! ! Froth without Foster's! ! ! The question is, will the 'Council see things in our light, or will they refuse to arbitrate? We warn them that their blood will be on their own and their children's heads. For we doctors of the future (very distant), in the fulness of our lack of know- ledge, through insufficient tuition, may be relied on to look for an appendix in the axillary fossa, or to massage the prostate by way of the external acoustic meatus.

Which reminds us that we have to record what we are pleased to term "The Radiator Scandal," or "A Fight to Extinction."

The scene is laid in the Physiology Theatre. The prize is the warmth and cheerfulness of the radiator. The participants are two—fearless, with the light of battle in their eyes; young (we think), and determined (we are sure). First one, and then the other gains the victory, but Nemesis appears, pushes up the switch, and bears away the prize now grown cold from lack of current. Their fight has been for nothing, and, like Pyrrhus at'Heraclea, they have gained no advantage. Remember this, fair Gladiators, the Lord giveth, but the man of science taketh a way.

Which brings us to the question of dogs. Mark Twain says somewhere or other that "dogs is funny animals." We concur.

This one in particular went into ecstasies over the cerebellum, was mad with delight at sight of the medulla, and reached the high-water-mark of its aberration by licking the neck of a lady med.

Oct., 1919. THE SPECULUM. 63 We have sympathies with those in third year whom we hear singing daily—

"0, to be in second now that August's here,"

a little song which Pat has set to music.

P.S.—It will be a different tune next year.

£12 12s. Od.

Humbly,

She threw herself before him, With outstretched arms And pleading gaze.

But still

His eyes were hard, Like rock,

Or alabaster, Or even M.

Glutaeus maximus,

"NO! NO!! NO!!!"

He fumed, And spurned her, With his new Tan Brogues.

With eyes aswim

She pleaded once again—

"Walter," she cried, "Oh, Walter,

"Lend me your Spalter."

—Biel.

First Year

Oui special reporter ■ esterday visited the apartments of G-g-a S---t, and we are able to publish the following interest- ing interview :-

Whilst waiting for the famous scientist to arrive, we glanced round the walls of his room. Our attention was at once ar- rested by a•delicate little etching, "Liver Flukes Nursing Their Young," over the initials G.B. We had scarcely had time to glance at it, however, when, with a light little laugh and a