Sketches

"WE MAY HAVE TO ABANDON OUR FIRST CHEMISTRY COURSE - SOMEBODY BROKE THE BEAKER."

19. The Humorous Side. One of the few things that surprised us inthe Commission's Report was the view expressed on pages 125-"We cannot but feel that the Colleges might have done more to bring their needs to the knowlege of the public." Actually, our needs had been urged, especially by the President in Conferring Day addresses, so frequently and forcefully that everybody in Dublin if not throughout the country must know we are overcrowded. All extremes and all incongruities, such as a big university with scanty buildings and equipment, have their comic side. This has been seized admirably on several occasions by Dublin Opinion, from which we reproduce this cartoon.

20. "The Minister for Education presents Dr. Michael Tierney with a shoehorn to enable him to get another four or five hundred students into U.C.D." Dublin Opinion, August 1959.

This and No. 19 are reproduced by kind permission of Dublin Opinion.