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Franklin Times, Volume 10, Issue 798, 12 January 1923, Page 5

The House of Lords was treated to an interesting spectacle the other day, when the Prince of Wales, who out ranks, all the lords, smilingly disregarded procedure by waiving the rights by which he is entitled as heir to the throne. When the Prince arrived to take the oatty as member of the new Parliament, he found a queue of some 50 noble lords lined up ahead of him. The clerk of the House immediately hurried to the Prince to conduct him to the head of the line,, but the scion of royalty shook his head and retained his place at the end of the line. There was near-consternation on the faces of some of the lords, and several offered the Prince their places in the line, but he smilingly declined and waited his turn, which was long in coming. The argument going on among undergraduates of Sydney University in regard to the popular form of its name is not likely to be terminated this summer, says one writer. Some consider that it is undignified to have it spoken of as “the Uni/, ” and contend, with. heat,i that Vaisity is much to be preferred. They affect to be astonished that “Uni” ever got recognition, though they admit that its use is now general. , When the university first went into the football field the contraction “Uni” was adopted. “Go it, Uni,” was naturally preferred to “Go it, ’Varsity.” moreover, in those days there was a strong current called “Lah-di-dah,” and anything that could be so, labelled was condemned. The euphony of ’Varsity was considered to trend that way. Undergraduates have only recently developed this assumption of dignity. In their magazine they frequently refer to each other as a ‘stood/ which is short for student.