Officers' Training Corps.

The latest form assumed by the military epidemic at Victoria College is the officers' Training Corps. This time the infection has spread to the Professors, who have evidently considered the matter very carefully, and who have come to the conclusion that the average students has the time to devote to the art of mimic warfare. If the officers' Training Corps will have the result of giving students who now have no interests outside their studies some real interest in the University, it will do much good. If the page 53 students who take up the idea are those whose college life I already overcrowded — that is to say, quite half of the students— then the training Corps will do some good, and will at the same time be somewhat detrimental. The Spike, knows, what the average student evidently forgets, that the student who works for his college, already has above twice as much to do as he is capable of doing thoroughly; and the student who does not work for his college already has about twice as much to do as he is capable of doing thoroughly; and the student who does no work for his College is not the type of man who is wanted is an officers Training Corps will come; the Professor have arranged the students employers will allow them time off to attend training; so far the employers have not been interviewed, but what of that? Also a week's holiday is to be obtained each year, for encampment purpose—more holidays from employment. Drills and other training will take place during the summer; cricket practices and tennis will go on as usual; athletes will train for the Eastern Tournament; studies will receive all the attention they do not at present—probably less; and students will sleep in their spare time. The Training corps are eminently successful at the Home and Australian Universities, where students are students for all day long; and so we at Victoria College, who are University students for a few short hours, and Government employee or law clerks for the rest of the day, can easily time to make our officers' Training Corps successful. "And all our yesterday have lighted fools the way to duty death!"