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lacking only the condyle ; with a rounded lower symphysial border, the occipital tentorium was crowned with a pronounced sigmoid notch." About whom was this libellous statement made ?
Describe the stratigraphical dispositions 0f the leathery, baggy pots with erratic pitting in the Paris basin. Compare these with the globulated goblets 0f the Beaker Burial Barrows.
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Trace the analogies between the socketed sickles and Potsdam awls of transcontinental distribution with the Cheddar torcs found as erratics in conical cairns. Why are they s0 conical ?
Deplore briefly the ungentlemanly behaviour 0f Pre-Cantabrigian Near-Man. Explain the reluctance 0f Proto-Solutrean caveholders t0 attend Combe Capelle 0n Sundays.
l0. Can you show any reason why any dolichocephalic Professor 0f Prehistory should trace his origin beyond the Hyaena Den 0f Wookey Hole ?
LITERARY AND DEBATING
SOCIETY
October 20th.-Debate : " That the Present System
0f Trial by jury should be abolished."
Proposing the motion, S. A. Tarpey pointed out that the property qualification for serving 0n the jury was irrelevant and that ordinary credulous Jurors could be t00 easily swayed by the eloquence 0f cunning barristers. He suggested that three able judges should try cases rather than twelve
men in the street." His opponent, C. J. Earl, 11 asserted that the opinion 0f a body 0f men would more likely be correct than that 0f a few. In any
case the judge decided legal points for the Jury, and in his concluding summary divested the barrister's speech 0f all its verbosity. Further, the verdict returned by the Jury could always be challenged, and corruption and prejudice were unlikely. After a lively debate, the motion was defeated.
November 4th.-Dramatic Readings from The Boy
Comes Home by A. A. Milne, Richard of Bor
deaux by Gordon Daviot, and Murder ita the
Cathedral by T. S. Eliot.
Extracts from the works 0f these modern dramatists were excellently rendered by J. V. Hartley, W. A. Quinn and M. Collins, who are t0 be congratulated. The Chairman advocated a repetition 0f this successful experiment in Dramatic Readings from contemporary authors.
November 11th.-Mock Trial. Napoleon Bona
parte was tried 0n the charge 0f " Disturbing
the Peace 0f Europe without justification."
Speaking for the Prosecution, J. V. Grealy conjured up a picture 0f the appalling loss 0f life and destruction 0f property during the Napoleonic Wars. These aggressive wars were undertaken by Napoleon solely for the purpose 0f establishing the hegemony 0f France. J. J. McLoughlin told 0f the miseries 0f all the nations over-run by Napoleon in his lust for power. The speaker cited Napoleon's own words to condemn him. In defence of Bonaparte, M. E. Collins claimed that his was a fight against oppression and everywhere he was hailed as the apostle 0f freedom. He denied that there could be any comparison between Napoleon and Hitler. W. J. Joret, in support, declared that Napoleon was the greatest general that ever lived and that it was fantastic and ridiculous that such a great man should be tried by such a puny court. In his own defence, Napoleon (S. A. Tarpey) reiterated his barristers' claims, asserting that he fought against despotism and bureaucracy. For any shortcomings that there may have been, surely lie had suffered enough by exile. The jury returned a verdict 0f " Not Guilty."
November 28111. Paper 0n " Thomas Gray, the
Man before the Poet," by J. V. Hartley.
The paper told 0f Gray's life at Eton where, though a timid boy, lie was very happy. At Cambridge, his notorious melancholy overtook him, but his former happiness returned t0 him 0n the Grand Tour 0f the Continent with Horace Walpole. An unfortunate quarrel ended this happy period, and Gray returned t0 Cambridge