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~[~HE F.C.A., which is the Irish equivalent to the Territorial Army inI Great Britain and Northern Ireland, is at the moment carrying out

s recruiting drive in College.A very ~mpressive advertisement

appeared at Front Gate last week, butdisappeared shortly after a counter-Wl0gan "Join the I.R.A." had been pastedon it. However, an even more impressiveadvertisement, complete with easel,appeared the following day. This onehas received much attention fromaumerous passersby.

A "Trinity News" reporter inter-Viewed an undergraduate living in~ollege who is a member of the F.C.A.; appears that there is a special.~giment known as the "Regiment of!. ¯

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~a~dquarters are at Portobello Barracks,hmines. Officers and men attend on

~undays for laaXades and training. As~rds pay, the private receives £6 if:k-completes 24 hours’ duty. When he~ttends the summer camp, which lasts afortnight, he receives £3 10s. 6d. per week.N.C.0.’s receive at least £8 for 24 ho~rs’duty. All officers must hold a respon-Sible position in civilian life.

At least two of the officers in the~egiment are Trinity men and about adozen of the senior N.C.O.’s are Trinitystudents. Anyone interested in joining~he F.C.A. should contact W. Moore, 40T.C.D.

Prehistory, Archaeological achievement is in the~ews. For two years, work has pro-ceeded in Trinity on the dating ofobjects and samples from the pre-historic period. These samples, mainlyof wood and charcoal, have been re-trieved at various depths from Irishbogs. The archaeological side of thework has been directed by Mr. Mitchelland Mr. Watts, while the more specifi-cally scientific problems of dating havebeen tackled by Dr. Poole, Dr. Delaneyand Mr. McAuley. The method employed

radiocarbon dating; a scintillationcounter is used and t~e limit of thisequipment is about 35,000 years.¯ Hitherto money for the project has

i:I sen provided by the Trinity Trust andxe Colleg~e itself, but in 1959 a sum ofi~00 will be forthcoming from theWenner-Gren Foundation in New York;the Royal Irish Academy will contribute£200 and there will also be grants fromthe Royal Dublin Society.

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Dental School ExpansionGRADUA I ES ASSIS 1

THE Trinity Dental School is unique in many ways. It is the smallestin the British Isles, if not in the world -- its present maximum

capacity is six students each year. During the past 50 years there havebeen rarely more than three students a year; sometimes only one, ornone at all!

BERtRaNDFor the second week in succession,

attendance at the Phil. topped thecentury mark when Mr. R. D. H. Bluett(Mod.), B.A., read a paper entitled" The Philosophy of Bertrand Russell."

~n a most interesting and competentdiscourse, Mr. Bluett pointed out thatRussell’s real claim to fame lay not inhis popular works on religion or the H-bomb, but in his contributions to thefoundations of mathematics (with A.N. Whitehead) and to symbolic logic.The essayist disagreed with Russell’sviews on religion and stated that whilesame of them were logical, othersappeared shallow on viewing them froman unbiased standpoint.

Having been introduced by the Presi-dent (Mr. L. Roche) as the BerkeleyProfessor of Metaphysics, the dis-tinguished visitor, Dr. A. A. Luce,S.F.T.C.D., said that he was especiallyhappy to be present as one of the twodebating societies mentioned by Berkeleywas the Dublin Philosophical Society,and that 250 years ago the Society heldits meetings on Thursday evenings. Hefelt that the origins of the Phil. restedin this famous old society.

Dr. Luce mentioned that the essayisthadn’t really touched on BertrandRussell’s philosophy and it occurred to

RUSSELLhim that he had no real one. Aphilosophy is something positive, some-thing to live by and there was nothingof this sort in Russell’s writings. Hethought that we should not be angrywith Russell if he attacked our ownreligion because our missionaries do thesame to other religions.

He distinguished between the i~-stitutional religion which we practice andthe philosophical religion of the theo-logians. The former cannot be judgedaltogether from without and is, there-fore, no target for the philosopher. Thereligion which we practice must be con-sistent, valuable and factual. Wecan:not apply all the categories of truthto a religion being one of the greatachievements of the human spirit inwhich we are " growing in grace andwisdom." We can take our religion asthe best for ourselves and not despiseothers who hold different views. It wasthis exclusiveness w h i c h annoyedRussell so much.

St. Paul’s speech on Mars Hilldescribed an institutional religion whichcan embrace all others. The Paulineview is philosophical but not exclusive.Dr. Luce said he felt that there waso esign and purpose everywhere andthese spring from an Eternal Being.

Partial Success Justifies Hist. ExperimentThe motion for the Hist. inter-debate

l~st Wednesday was: " That this houseenvies Peter Pan." Recent events indebating have been so exclusivelypolitical that this departure may beregarded as an experiment. It was asuccess, though after the high wordsand vast crowds of the Phil. Presidentialdebate it must be adinitted that it wasonly a minor one. The Chairman, Mr.Terence de Vere White, remarked atthe end that such a motion was alwaysdangerous, for the bright wits could bebright and witty on any subject, andthe more serious would only be absurda.ud boring on a patently non-seriousmotion. This difficulty was dealt withas follows:

Mr. smallwood, from U.C.D., openedlengthily, lucidly, and rather boringly.His closin~g of the case for the motionat the end of the debate was far moresuccessful, when he made the point thatthose who envied Peter Pan did so onlyas a daydream, an antidote to everyday~ffairs--aot with the idea of practicalimitation. Mr. Harte was among the fewwho stuck reasonably close to the point.He showed in a pleasant speech howboring would be a " Never-Never Land "devoid of difficulties; one would feel, likeColin Wilson (a name mentioned toooften in the debate) " out of things."Mr. Ryan, from Cork, whose voice alonewould always assure him success werethat ever necessary, said that theidealism of one who yearned for Barrie’s

world was the only hope for " our decay-ing civilisation " (another clich~ of whichwe heard too much). Mr. Smithwick,also from U.C.D., made one excellentthough irrelevant point--that under-graduates over-rate themselves. {Sur-prisingly loud applause.)

Dr. R. B. McDowell, HonoraryMember, lived magnificently up to allexpectation. Starting by saying he hadne wish to belong to Glasgow, he wenton to explain that at his age Peter Panwas not an object of envy, but a causefor agonised remorse. He would prefer,he concluded, to remain somewherel~etween 30 and 55 years of age. He wasfollowed by Mr. Lindsay of Durham,who, perhaps having the power of hold-ing his audience more tha~ any otherspeaker, almost convinced us that Peterwas not idealistic, but merely selfish.Mr. Wheelock of Queen’s then com-plained of the amount of work he hadto do, and read us an odd letter--apparently to show us the horrors ofcymcmm. Mr. Blake of Galway told usabout the Golden Gate, which wasfunny, and then, almost incredibly,talked politics, which was not. TheAuditor closed the debate (after Mr.Carney Of Bangor, whose contributionwas negligible and obscene) with a goodstory of what appeared to be anapproximate rehash of his inaugural¯~ddress, excellently delivered. TheChairman then spoke, defending theSociety from the charge that it was" reactionary," on the grounds that thiswas a compliment, in which he was right.

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Trinity is one of the few DentalSchools which makes its students followthe full anatomy, physiology and bio-chemistry courses, culminating in the1st Medical (equivalent to the British-2ndM.B.) examination, with no special con-cessions for dental students--in fact theyare not even given an opportunity topoint out that they are dental, not.medical students! In addition, they dothe " Medical" Arts course.

As neither Oxford ~)r Cambridgetake in dental students to do theMedical Tripos and as neither of themgive a dental degree, this means thatthe T.C.D. course is the broadest andmost thorough available to any studenttaking up dentistry. The degree is alsounique -- most universities give aBachelorship in Dental Surgery--Trinitygives one in Dental Science. The per-centage of Trinity graduates gainingthe Fellowshop of Dental Surgery of theR.C.S. in England is believed to behigher than that of any other school.

There are only about 60 living T.C.D.dental graduates, and following anappeal made last June by Prof. E.Sheldon Friel, D.Sc., Director of theSchool, they have contributed nearly£3,600 to an extension fund (an averageof over £50 each). The Trinity Trusthave agreed to add £1,400 to make upthe £5,000 required to build a lecture-room, a library and research rooms inspace allocated in the Pathology Depart-ment. (We reported last June that thiswould be done by raising the LectureTheatre and removing the office andprofessors’ room elsewhere.) Most ofthe School’s library (which has one ofthe ~most comprehensive dental periodicalcollections in these islands) has alreadybeen transferred to the Pathology De-partment, where the office has been con-verted already into a lecture-room andwhere tutorial classes and lectures havebeen held since last May.

It is interesting to note that with thecontinued demand for young dentists inBritain and here, the Dental Hospital,where the senior students do theirpractical work, is also about to expandand rebuild its premises; this scheme willcost about £100,000.

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Vol. VI TRINITY NEWS No. 9

THURSDAY, 19TH FEBRUARY, 1959

Fun for Whom ?

AS an outcome of the incident at

Commencements on February

5th, at which a girl was badly

injured by a firework, three

students have been sent down for

the remainder of the term.At first sight, this seems to be

rather strong action. But on closerexamination it appears that the

girl was indeed severely injured

and as a result will require

specialist treatment in hospital for

several weeks, if not for months.Those who have been sent down

were not the originators of thishideous piece of hooliganism.Nevertheless they were notignorant of the properties of suchfireworks, since one of them was ascientist and two were engineers.Furthermore, they were aware ofthe intentions of both the Seniorand Junior Deans. For several daysbefore Commencements noticeswere displayed in prominent placesin College over the names of bothDeans, stating that serious actionwould be taken against anyonefound tampering with fireworks~So that these students knew thatthere would be severe penalties forthem or any one else caught withthese "dangerous toys." All thesame, they brazenly went up andinvestigated a firework which hadalready been thrown, with thepurpose of extracting certain l~artsfor use elsewhere.

These students were indeed for-tunate only to have been sent downfor the remainder of this term, forhad they been caught not by theauthorities of this College, but bythe upholders of law and order out-

i side its gates, they would un-doubtedly have been sent to jail,since it is now illegal to make,possess or use fireworks in thiscountry. This law was introducedbecause another unfortunate girlwas burnt to death in a fire causedby fireworks exploding.

It is hoped that everyone inCollege will realise the gravity ofwhat has been done and whatmight be done with fireworks andthat such toys and playthings willoccupy the minds and hands ofstudents no longer.

New QuartersFaced with the ever-increasing demand

by British employers for studentsattending colleges in this country, theIrish Students’ Association has aaowopened its own office at 29 Westla~dRow, to deal with vacation employanent.Since the new office opened, the Associa-tion has offered almost 500 jobs tostudents, 200 of which have beenaccepted, including a large number ofthe ever-popular "canning" jobs.

For the first time, last Christmas sawthe largest number of students ever touse the I.S.A. travel section. Now withEaster fast approaching, and suchromantic places like Paris and Dussel-dorf for £8 return ex-London, plans arewell afoot to deal with students whowish to avail of these services, or evenacademic staff who are leading a groupof students. Details of these and otherservices may be obtained at the S.R.C.room, No. 4 College, or direct from theI.S.A. office.

ARCHBISHOP ,RSH’SI have no news from this Kingdom the wide interests of scholars keenly

to requite you with, only that the library alive to all aspects of 17th centuryI have been for some time erecting for thought, and there are many books onpublick use here, will I hope be finished law, medicine, travel, history, science,by Midsummer; which will be of great classics and vernacular literature.use here, where is no publick library,(that of the College being open only tothe Provost and Fellows) and where thebooksellers’ shops are furnished withnothi~ag but new trifles. ’Twas this andthis consideration alone, that at firstmov’d me to think of building a libraryin some other place (than in the College)for publick use, where all might havefree access." Archbishop Marsh to Dr.Thomas Smith, 1700 and 1706.

The Archbishop was deeply concernedat the lack of library facilities iaaIreland, and especially of free accessthereto; he therefore made a collectionof books, built a "large fair house " tocontain it, provided an endowment, andin 1707 secured an Act of Parliament to

Tiae largest collection is BishopStillingfleet’s library of about 10,000

By M. POLtARD, Asst. Librarian

items. This was bought by Marsh, tobe, with his own and Bouh6reau’s books,the nucleus of the public library. Itwas held in great esteem in England madonly crossed the sea to the sound of thegnashing of English teeth becauseWilliam III would make no grant for itspurchase. " This golden fleece " (NinianWallis’s description, Britannia Libera,1710) includes a number of early priaatedBibles, Continental and English atlases,some editions of most of the 16th

LIBRARYThe book fund of Marsh’s Library is

£10 a year, so it will be obvious that thelibrary has mainly grown throughdonations since its foundation. Thesehave been quite extensive and there is.now an interesting collection of 18th,19th and 20th century books andperiodicals relating to Ireland.

The manuscript collection includessome of Dudley Loftus’s MSS., mainlyof historical, legal and medical interest;lute tablature and other 17th and 18thcentury music MSS.; earlier MSS., suchas the Vitae Sanctorum Hibernicorum,c. 1400 mad the Sarum Processional thatbelonged to the Church of St. JohnEvangelist in Dublin in the 15th century,and Swift’s annotated c o p y ofClarendon’s " History of the Rebellion."

The arrangement of most of the bookson the shelves has altered very littlesince the library was first opera to thepublic. Within each collection there is

The West Gallery from the Main Entrance. --By courtesy of Irish Independent.

recognise his foundation, and so createdwhat is now the oldest public library inIreland.

The buildiaag surrounds three sides ofa courtyard, and since the side facingthe Cathedral was faced with greystone in the 19th century, the originalQueen Ann aspect can best be seen onthe courtyard side from inside thelibrary. The interior has suffered littlechange since the library was built, andshows well the fashion in libraryfurnit-u.re of two and a half centuriesago, including the cages for readers andthe half-hearted attempt to chain thefolios; indeed it is probable that some ofthe dust is contemporary with the Actof Parliament.

What does the library contain ? Veryapproxianately there are 25,000 booksand pamphlets, and about 300 volumes ofmanuscripts. A large part of thecollection is composed of the libraries ofthree bishops mad of the first librarian,a refugee Huguenot who was able to gethis books out of France. Most of thebooks date from the 17th century orearlier; the library possesses about 1,260of .the books listed in the Short-titlecatalogue of books printed in England,1475-1640, and, of these, 25 are only tobe found in Marsh’s, according to thepresent edition.

Although books on theology, Biblicalcommentary and religious controversypredomiaaate, these four libraries reflect

century English chronicles and a col-lection of books on heraldry andgenealogy.

Elie Bouh6reau’s library is speciallyimportant for the large aaumber it con-tains of early printed books in theFrench language; besides books ofHuguenot interest and Continentaltheology, it includes many volumes ofclassics, some French poetry and workson medicine and law. Amangst themanuscripts is a collection of lettersfrom Bouh6reau’s friends during theyears 1660-1685, while he was still inFrance, which should be of interest tothe historian of the La RochelleHuguenots.

Archbishop Marsh left his own booksto his foundation, "having no relationto whom to leave them that I thinkdeserves such a favour." Among themany subjects he included in his libraryare Oriental languages, science andmathematics, travel and some printedmusic. He left his Oriental MSS. to theBodleian, but among the ~tems thatcame to his library are two volumes ofBishop Bedell’s Irish Old Testament anda copy of the Apocrypha.

The third episcopal library is that ofJohn Stearne, Bishop of Clogber, whosebequest of about 3,000 books came to thelibrary in 1745. This contains morebooks of Irish interest than do the othercollections and includes books on law andscience and some English poetry.

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some attempt at classification in thatone bookcase may contain books on law,another on travel, but as in most oldlibraries, within the broad outline of sub-ject, the arrangement is by size. ~There is a complete author catalogue ~and a rather slight subject index. Three ~sectional catalogues have been printed:’

(1) A short catalogue of English books iprinted before 1641, with a list of in-I~cunabula, 1905. I:

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The Carrells in the East Gallery.

(2) A catalogue of the manuscripts,1913.

(3) A catalogue of books in the Frenchlanguage printed in or before 1715, 1918.

The contents of Marsh’s Library areincluded in the Gesamtkatalog derWiege,ndracke, in the Short-title cata-logue of books printed in England, 1475-1640, and to a very slight extent inWing’s Short-title catalogue, 1641-1700.

It is possible to have photo-copyingdone for readers through the kindnessof Trinity College Library and theNational Library.

Visitors often ask, "Who uses thelibrary?" Swift, Tom Moore and flamesJoyce have read here; in more recentmonths we have had queries on earlynavigation, the qualities of the herb rue,the Armada on the coasts of Ireland;readers have worked on 16th centuryFrench literature, harpsichord manufac-ture in Dublin, 17th century sermonwriters, and scholars in America,E~aglan~l and the Continent have beensupplied with photo-copies of MSS. andsuch printed books as the Treatys ofNicode~aus Gospell, 1507; Vestry. LevieS,1824. and Viadana’s Mass for fourvoices. 1625.

Archbishop Marsh’s Library lies to theeast of St. Patrick’s Cathedral, and isapproached from the Close. It is openfrom 10.30 a.m.-12.30 p.m. on Mondays,Tuesdays, Thursdays and Fridays, butduring’the summer months, if a readeris unable to come to the library duringthese hours, it is possible to nmkearrangements for its use in the evenings.

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i $o many parties . . . Saturday night~found me at the Taj Mahal courteously=reeted by Ursula Staines~ Verney~ickun and Etaine Yardley. Charm-boy~errY Boyd focussed his attention on~e~lie Dugluid. Wendy D’Arcy keptdisapproving eyes on Drew Cameron,

but should have watched Richard~0~dns’ new "car "--stolen during the~ening, but later recovered by two~ent Gardai. An evening with an

l~ight GirlsOne of the most pleasant dances ever

held was that given at the Hibernian by

we are the people that make up thec0ffee-bar clan. We are many andvarious. At first sight the only thingthat seems to link us together is thatwe all drink coffee and talk,

We fall into many grouPs. There aresome of us that talk with forkedtongues and go there to mix our bitingpoison. We like to think that we impressand that we are dangerous. We culti-vate our bitterness to a fine art so that~ecan drop a special cutting phrase

mr0 a conversation to make it turn sour;our art is rather like adding vinegar towine and watching the effect on the belly0f the drinker. But:it is sad; nobodyadmires our cleverness in the same waythat nvbody would appreciate thesubtlety of mixing vinegar in the wine.Sometimes we wonder whether it isworth it, this delicate art of makingpeople unhappy through the use of ourcunning tongue~ but we go on; it mustbe our vocation.

And then there are some of us that goto drink coffee because we like to feelthe close web of humanity around usand feel that we are not alone. Thereis comfort there. There we can releaseour fears and lose ourselves in thewarmth of this friendliness. But it isalways so cold when we leave and haveto face the loneliness of ourselves 7etagain.And then there are some of us that go

to learn about the things that we do notstudy. We talk of many things and wetalk deeply for we have awakened to

knowledge that there are manyof which we know nothing. Thisfor knowledge burns into a fire

sometimes we realise that the firenever be quenched, only forgotten.when we leave, our minds are filled

so many things that we cannotfor the work is too limited and

That is why we fail ourBut it is not entirely wasted,

others can see our great fault andtheir studies so that they maysuccess. Yes, it is true, we are

dreamers, perhaps we see too much.:Then there are some of us that come

establish ourselves as the "life andof the party," but you know aboutWe’re really jolly good chaps; but

we must rush, there’s a party we’regoing to crash.

Then there are some of us that gobecause we think *we have somethingwonderful to tell and we wish to shareour discoveries. We burn with a striv-ing inside us and we are not entirely:ridiculous. We sit down with excite-ment in the pit of our stomachs and ourminds are quickened and the conversa-:tion flows, and we sharpen our mindsand they become very quick and cutthrough-the rubbish, straight to theheart of the matter. Perhans one daywe will achieve something of real value.We may help to build a united Europe,or eliminate the poverty in the world,or unite the Christian Church, butthroughout this we realise that the wayis thorny and fate is fickle and that wehave not the fire of popular feehng be-hind us, and so we gather to drink coffee~th those who have this great potentiallatent inside them and we take newheart and achieve a new Renaissance in-side us. Yes, we are not entirelyridiculous, even in our failure.

Then there are some of us that onlyCOme to drink a cup of coffee, and tofly back to our neglected books. We wishto have a string of letters behind ournames so that we can make money. Wewill most certainly succeed, and even ifwe do not .make money for fear ofgetti~ our feet wet in the river of life,we will at least have a moderately dis-tinguished academic career. We neverfail our exams and what does it matterff all our ideas are secondhand?

And there are some of us that arelooking for a man, and even some of usthat are looking for women.

Maureen Condon, Marion Davis, BettyDunlop, Felicity Findlay, Valerie Green,Jane Gwylm, Jane Johnston and SusannaSmyth. I threw away my list of names~

that should be mentioned because therethey were, two hundred and fifty ofthem, behaving well and dancing toGroup 1 or talking. Still just to showhow every section of College life waspresent, let’s find the list again. WillyDillon jived nobly, Felicity Miller lookedreally lovely, while glamorous LauraDieum drew everyone’s attention. GayTurtle wore a First Empire dress, butobviously forgot the Quadrille in a crazyjive with Mike (Twinkletoes) Leahy.Smoothly David Cranfield danced withJuliet Love. Ian Foster showed his glassbalancing act, but it obviously needsmore rehearsal! Michael Knott wouldne~er have attempted anything so wildfor he kept his eye firmly on ClaireMcClenaghan the whole evening. HostessFelicity looked angelic, while everyoneadmired Maureen Condon’s harem dress.Bridget Hull waltzed round and roundwith Raymond Kennedy. David Marianoshowed Anne Eakin that he really coulddance . . . So there they all were: Mod.Lang., Boat Club, Players, AndrewBonar’Law, all talking to the peoplethey see every day, but finding it allmuch more fun in evening dress. EdwinDraper put in his last appearance at aCollegedance and George Green hismillionth, Still we all had a swell

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Profile : The Agent

Lieut.-Colonel Walsh, M.C.Colonel Walsh came here last term as

the College Efficiency Expert. He is oneof the men behind the office doors. Butdid the College authorities make a goodchoice ? I think they did.

Colonel Walsh is Irish. He waseducated in England at WellingtonCollege. After leaving school he wentto the Royal Military Academy at Wool-wich and was commissioned into theRoyal Artillery in 1936. He thenenjoyed three years of peacetime soldier-ing. Then war.

The hopelessness of Dunkirk musthave seemed a long way from therambling heath of Aldershot.

The war took him to the Middle Eastwhere he won the Military Cross . ." must have given it to me because "itwas the only battle that went accordingto plan .... " The Military Cross isawarded for " gallant and distinguishedservices in action."

Then he went to the Staff College atCamberley and later to the U.S. StaffCollege. From there he was posted toWashington, and learned the art of thediplomat as a kind of MilitaryAmbassador to the U.S.A.

After the war he was in Japan withthe British Army of Occupation whichwas comprised mostly of Australians.He did great service for their welfare bypersuading them to have their eveningmeal earlier, and thus gai~ anextra hourof drinking time. . f

From Japan he started to come home~first to Singapore in 1948 with the FarEast Secretariat, and then to Englandas a Regimental Officer and Staff Office~in War Office. = ....

But there was some more work ~ait*ing for him in the U.S.A. and afte~another Staff course in Norfolk, Virginiahe served in the British Joi~t Servic(~Aission at Washington.

Last July he retired from the armyafter a final posting as a RegimentalOfficer. And so he returned to Irelandand was appointed to his pre~ent post inCollege. And with his quiet, friendlymanner and good-;aatured sense ofhumour, I am sure he will have th~same success in Trinity that he ha,’enjoyed over haft the world.

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by an organised, cohesive team from Queen’s University, Belfast.So well did the Northerns play as a winner in their tall Hungarian inside

forward, and much of the blame forTrinity’s defeat must stem from theirinability to hold him. -He scored allthree of Queen’s goals, two, asmentioned above, being stroked in im-maculately from the penalty spot.Trmity possessed no such player,although T. Lunde did score a fine goalearly in the second half.

The home side mustered a courageoussecond half display, fighting back froma two goal deficit. The defence gotwell on top of the Queen’s attack andwith the wing-halves prompting theirforwards, Trinity went all out toequalise. The lack of shooting powerand leadership in frant of goal, however,’

told heavily against them and in the endthey had only Lunde’s single goal toshow for all their effort. The game waswatched by a large and enthusiasticcrowd who never, like the Trinity team,gave up hope of a miracle.

* * *

The Collinwood Cup was eventuallywon by U.C.D., who defeated U.C.G. byone goal to nil in the final. Queen’swere beaten by a single goal on theprevious day by U.C.G., who made theirfreshness and exuberance tell to goodaccount. The remaining semi-final tiewas won by U.C.D. who beat a very poorU.C.C. side by two goals to nil at TolkaFark.

team that once more the main weaknessin Trinity football was evident--the lackof a coach to bind the team together.So rarely did the Trin.ity players employa tactical game and so often were theycontent merely to bang the ball towardsthe Queen’s goal, only for it to be bangedback again, or to try and go through

* alone. The better team won and justly¯ deserved to do so.

Two of Queen’s goals came frompenalties, and one of Trinit,y’s mighthave come from a penalty had the goal]posts been wider. Queen’s had a match-

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D.U. R~GB.Y FOOTBALL CLUBAll matches to be played on Saturday, February

21st, at 3.15 :--Ist XV v. Instonians. College Park.2nd XV Vo Monkstown.3rd XV v. Terenure College. Lakelands." Freshets" XV v. Lansdowne.3rd "’ A " XV v. Carlisle XV. Kimmage Road.

D.U. SQUASH RACQUETSThursday, February 19th--T.C.D. " C " v.

Stephen’s Green " B." Home. 5.30 p.m.Tuesday, February 24th -- T.C.D. "’ A " v.

Bankers. Away. 5,30 p.m.Wednesday, February 25th--T.C.D. " B " v.

Stephen’s Green " A." Home. 5.30 p.m.

D.U. HARRIERS AND ATHLETIC CLUBSecond Round, Park Cup Handicap, Phoenix

Park.

D.U. CHESS CLUBD.U. :[st Team v. Owenruagh. Home. 7.30.

D.U. BADMINTON CLUBFel3ruary 21st--lst (Mixed) v. Ballymena.

Ho~e.February 25th--Ladies v. C.Y.M.S. Home.

D.U. SWIMMING CLUBFebruary 19th (Thursday) -- Swimming and

Water Polo Match against Pembroke S.C. 8.0p.m., Iveagh Baths.

D.U. HOCKEY CLUBSaturday, February 21st

Mills Cup Semi-Final--Dublin University v. St.Itas. Londonbridge Road, 2.30.

Irish Junior Cup, Leinster Section, Semi-Final--Lorraine v. Dublin University 2nd XI.

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So far, Trinity have had a verysuccessful year and have to date lost nomatches. Their present team is thestrongest they have ever had, and seemswell on the way to winning the EnnisShield. On the actual team itself, formhas not been cansistent. On top board,G. D. Cochrane has not been playing aswell as might be hoped; the same goesfor board four, Ian Derham. The otherboards have been playing and winningconsistently, finding the oppositio~rather poor. Nevertheless, poor formor bad, on all six boards the intentionis to register this coming Friday toOwenruagh in this vital match the factthat they intend to move into a hi~herleague by winning the E,unis Shield.despite the loss of the first substitute, D.Rawlings, sent down till April 20th.

SQUASH RACQUETSIn the matches last week, the "B"

team beat University Club. The "A"and "C" teams lost their matches. OnSaturday, Trinity beat Queen’s 4-1,Bonar Law being unlucky to lose.

P. Heaney must be congratulated onplaying for Ireland. Gillam, Robertsand Yeo played for Leinster againstUlster.

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Hockey--Irish Senior Cup

Trinity Go Down FightingThree Rock Rovers, 4; Dublin University, 2.

THREE things are required to win hockey matches--fitness, skill anda modicum of luck. On Saturday last, Trinity certainly had the first

two, and even more certainly had none of the latter. It may be truth:fully said: "The better side lost." Two goals down at half-time, Trinitystaged a magnificent second-half rally, and deserved more than the twogoals they achieved; in the second period of extra time, however, Roversscored two quick goals, and Trinity’s Irish Cup hopes were dashed foranother year.

Of the forwards, Lavan again shoneat right-wing and made many good rtmsdespite the close attentions of theRovers’ half-back. Byrn, at inside-right,fed Lavan with many fine passes and con-tinued to act as a link between attackand defence, but his lack of a scoringshot is costing goals which can be ill-afforded. McCarthy had a much im-proved game at centre-forward, andFindlater got through a lot of work atinside-left. Rowe, making his ddbut onthe left wing, suffered in the early stagesfrom nerves, but latterly played anextremely hard and useful game, histackling back and harrying of theRovers’ right-half, Pratt, being mostcommendable. Blackmore, whether atright-half or at centre-half, domin-ated play with his masterful stickworkand magnificient distribution. Webb, amore defenmve player than Blackmore,moved to right-half after 10 minutes’play and subsequently gave his oppositenumber very little scope. Grigg at left-half was strong in attack, especiallywith a series of well-judged cross-passes

THE CLUBSCLIMBING

Training of new climbers at Dalkeyhas been under way for some time nowand has reached quite a high standard,with D. Dick, T. Ryan and B. Hollandshowing much promise. Transport isavailable at week-ends to the West ofI:eland and to rock faces in Donegal.A University party in the Lake Districtover Christmas climbed exceptionallywell for the time of year.

Looking to the future, anyone in-terested is invited to a joint Trinity-Queen’s meet in the Mourne Mountainsin Easter Week. A full-scale meet forclub members is arranged to take placeat Glendalough, when the party will beunder R. Wathen (up till now in semi-retirement), G. D. Cochrane and otherinstructors. It is hoped that the womenof Trinity, wishing to lear~ climbing,will come out to the meets, where theywi]l be made extremely welcome.

The core of experienced climbers isexpanding rapidly and can now boast a:membership comparable with many clubsin College (i.e., 45-50 members). Furtherinformation can be had from G. D.Cochrane, 9 T.C.D.

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to the right, but under pressure becamesomewhat erratic. Judge and Steepecame through a difficult afternoon’s workwith credit, and goalkeeper Stewart,four goals notwithstanding, stopped andcleared well.

In a great second-half recovery, Find.later scored the first and McCarthy theequaliser for Trinity, to leave the scorelevel at full-time. Two quickthe second period of extra timeclinched the match in Rovers’

* * *

In the Leinster section of the IrishJunior Cup, the 2nd XI won their quarterfinal match against Corinthians by onegoal to nil, Hughes being the scorer.

LADIES AND ...Table Tennis

Trinity ladies had a comfortable winover their opponents from the North. Agood start was made by Gillian Kennedywho won her singles 21-19, 21-8. Thispace was kept up by Captain SueLeonard who also had an easy victory.Freshwomen Maureen Hughes andAdeline Averard justified their selectionby both winning their matches withouthaving to play the third game. Quee~’s:’allied a little when the doubles began,but Trinity soon recovered to gain acomplete and well-deserved victory.

BadmintonAt a match played at Northumberland

Road last week, D.U. Ladies’ BadmintonClub, playing the first of their matchesin the Dublin Ladies’ League, lost toRathfarnham Ladies’ Club by threeevents to one. The ladies represemtingTrinity were: E. Roberts (Captain). J.Cronin, V. Fox and M. Heavener.

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