1. Design.

Happily all are agreed that a new building is not only desirable but necessary for the proper functioning of Victoria College as a University. It was not till this year, however, that any concrete move was made towards a decision on what needs our building should be designed to fulfill. It is of the very highest importance that no attempt be made to erect a four-story shell which may be subdivided according to taste after the building has taken external shape, and according to the whims of the student body or Executive at that particular time.

Instead, we must take the broader view and forecast now, so far as is possible, the needs of the Association in the future, and what emphasis should be placed on each of them. We should have in front of us the general scheme decided upon by the General Meeting this year and keep it in mind for revision or addition up to the time the plans are commissioned. We must avoid at all costs the idea of putting up a building and hoping that the needs of the moment will shape the interior. This does not mean that the purpose of every room in the building is to be allocated now. We should lay down tow that we will require, say, three committee rooms for general purposes with an area of two hundred square feet in each, not that ''a little extra space in this part of the building might be useful." We have not the money to build ivory castles containing nothing but air.

More important still is the fundamental principle of modern design that it should be functional. The parts of our building which contain a theatre, a restaurant or a dance hall should look like a theatre, restaurant, or dance hall, and not like a converted warehouse. Also, the interiors should be designed for the needs they are to fulfil. It is useless to build two halls and decide later which is to be a dance floor and which is to be sub-divided into lounges and restaurant.