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THE FLEUR-DE- LYS A MAGAZINE OFTRINITY COLLEGE IN THE UNIVERSITY OF MELBOURNE.
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OCTOBER, 1927.
Business Manager•_,--~ Bixrston. Janet Clarke HalYRe p sentative: Miss J. Leslie.
"Hearts and voices lift in harmony, Shout the triumphs of the Fleur-de-Lys! Fill up your glass with joyous boast; Fill up your glass to pass the toast, Drink with three times three, success to dear old Trinity." EDITORIAL. A change of name is not a matter lightly to be undertaken, not even by a woman; and it was not before much discussion and argument had taken place that the Club took the final step of substituting the name Fleur-de-Lys Club for Social Club, a name which had stood for half a century. The College was opened in 1872, and four years later a billiard table was. installed, and the Council, in the kindness of their hearts, saw fit to place the table "In part under the management of a Committee selected by the students from among their own number." This was the beginning of the Club. The students, elated at this grant of power, sought about for a name
for their Club, and eventually, how we know not, happened on the tetra Social Club. For. a short period it was called the Sports and Social Club, no doubt to commemorate the donation of a tennis court; but it soon relapsed to the original name. Since then till this term, has been the history of the name of the Club— but not of the Club itself. Slowly the CIub's field has been enlarged. And though the Rules of the Club, posted in the Common Room, laconically announce that its objects are "To provide for outdoor and indoor amusements, and periodical literature for the members," yet even the veriest fresher, after his first Club meeting, cannot fail to have got a glimpse of its real scope when he has heard the variety of busi-