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ject had been debated before, but it was a good one in that it neces sitated checking up on facts, bia- torical and otherwise, with a view to discovering whether there were things in the past worthy of emula. tion and also whether we were miss. ing advantages, not yet realised.

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England's Happiest Time? Mr. C. Carruthers, in opening for the affirmative, traced the deriva tion of the word Merrig," shew- ing that its original meaning was "pienennt or "agreeable,' In 21/ other words, in the opinion of foreign people of those days, Eng- land was a pleasant or agrecable | $1473 place to live in. Going through | B51| English history he did not think it was possible to find any time which compared, so far as the happiness T.190 of the people of England were "con- cerned, with Elizabethan times. England in the time of Elizabeth, was contented, trade was flourish. ing and agriculture was prospereus, Queen Beas was beloved by the people and to have been beloved of the people she must have been well disposed to them and the laws must | 887) have been such that their lot was

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at things through Elizabethan spec-

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delusion under

The school waa

Modern Inventions a Nuisance?

Mr. W. A. Simpson seconded Mr. which Carruthers and introduced a vein

The man to-day who pro were pleasant. It was this atti duced a play like Mid-summer's tude which was responsible for the Night Dream would lose money on it, It was not sophisticated people suffered in considering the of humour querying the capacity of acyer the modern inventions for bringing true enough to put it mildly, for the past. present age. Finally, the English are as it had been, England was happiness and who doubted whether man of those days had a pride in never so good as it had been-it progress by itself was necessarily his country and a faith in its future was always going to the dogs, and a sign of happiness. The more we

it survived. yet somehow which was lacking to-day.

The progressed; the further we wished growth of sanitation,, the spread of to go, and that sense of striving education and the benefits of medi-was hardly likely to lead to hap cal scicace applied to all, the piness. growth of leisure and the greater

False Glamour."

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In opening for the negative, Mr. T. J. Price queried the restriction diffusion of the joys of literature, Price and as a nautical man spoke Mr. H. H. Fantham onded Mr. of the period under discussion to the provision of security under the with authority when he compared the days of Elizabeth and said that unexcelled system of the adminis- the sailing ships of fiction with the it was easy to pick a period round tration of English law all there stark reality of life on the ocean which it was possible to cast a fake things were forgotten when people, wave. So too it was with the Ection glamour. Without going very many sentimentalised on the glories of concerning the days of so-called years from the times of Elizebeth the past. If the people of so-called Merrie England." In perspec one might point to the religious Merrie England were contented tive, they might appear attractive. persecution and insecurity of life (using the term in its parrowest but in reality they could not have during the reign of "Bloody Mary."sense), it was because they had been. Persecution in religious matters nothing to look forward to. Like Mr. Fantham compared the in

In support of his arguments, was by no means absoat even in the man, in "Pilgrim's Progress." security of life, lack of sanitation," the reign of Elizabeth herself.

they were contented with their despotiu oppression and absence of Referring to the glamour, dis muck-raking because they did not freedom of movement, not to men- tanec lent to events, Mr. Price lift up their eyes and see what was tion freedom of thought and ex- quoted the case of the prosperous to be obtained by striving.onwards. pression, with conditions at the

Old Boy returning to School on The man to day might not be con- present day. Prize Day and regaling his juvenile tented. Contentment was often a After discussion from the body hearers with hackneyed phrases sign of stagnation. But he often of the hall, the motion was put about his schooldays being the hap got more true happiness out of his to the meeting. Several abstained plest of his life. He was often a failures because he knew he was, from voting (there were 20 present) man who haunted the tukoshop as striving for higher things and had and the motion was defeated by a hoy and evaded his duties; time a chance to attain them that he twelve votes to 11. and distance had glossed over the never did in olden times when if a times he was booted for failing to man was born in a trade he stopped turn up for cricket practice, missin a trade and if he was born in a ing prep. etc.. and he only wenti-class he stopped in that class with mentalised on the memories which no hope of rising shove it.

The subject for the debate next. month was announced in the form of the following resolution "That Club life has a detrimental effect on the men of this Colony.'