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Victoria College Students' Carnival. Friday and Saturday, 29th & 30th June, 1906

Prologue

Prologue.

Honour and thanks to the days gone west!
Pledge we! to whom they bequeathed their best;—
Biave days of stress when the world was young:
Let their praises be sung
With an eloquent tongue,
To lutes highly strung!

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Pledge we the men and the kings of men
Who builded world-cities on cliff and fen;
And whoso the gauntlet of Freedom flung
Let their praises be sung
With an eloquent tongue,
To lutes highly strung!

But pardon.—our purpose is but to-night
To touch on an undergrad's perilous plight—
The victim of chancellors' tyrannous ways
From the dolomite days.
Through the iron-adze phase,
To the tabloid craze.