An unusual organization is the Star Club, which has been carried on for several years, with programme meetings once a month and bi-weekly groups for observation.  No wonder that astrology and the beginnings of astronomy came from the Orient, or that Wise Men from the East found a Star as the sign to lead their journeying.  Night after night the constellations rise undimmed in the clear sky and fairly urge the beholder to close acquaintance.  A knowledge of them fills the sky with friendly forms and gives the student a new and lasting “hobby” that may be pursued anywhere, and kept through life.  The Star Club has popularized its celestial interests by presenting to the College a pageant in three scenes, a “Dream of the Sun and Planets,” in which the Earth Dweller is transported to the regions of the sky and holds long and intimate conversations with the various heavenly bodies.  As the final scene, the planets slant in their relative positions, and the Signs of the Zodiac with shields take their places on each side of Father Sun.

The Natural history Club has interests ranging all the way from the theory of evolution to the names and songs of the common birds of Madras.

The Art Club not only does out-door sketching, but has entered upon a wide field in the study of Indian art and architecture.  India is reviving a partly forgotten interest in her ancient arts and crafts and has much to offer the student, from the wonderful lines of the Taj Mahal to the Ahmadabad stone windows with their lace-like traceries; from the portraits of Moghal Emperors to the fine detail of South India temple carvings.  Study in the Art Club means a new appreciation of the beauty found among one’s own people.

The Dramatic and Musical Societies unite now and then in public entertainments, such as “Comus” which was given in honor of the women graduates of the whole Presidency at the time of the University Convocation.  The Society repertoire of plays given during the last five years includes a considerable variety—­dramatists so far apart as Shakespeare and Tagore; the old English moralities of “Everyman” and “Eager Heart”; the old Indian epic-dramas of “Sakuntala” and “Savitri”; together with Sheridan’s “Rivals” and scenes from “Emma” and “Ivanhoe.”  The Musical Club specializes on Christmas carols, with which the College is wakened at four o’clock “on Christmas day in the morning.”

The History Club sounds like an organization of research workers; on the contrary, its interests are bound up with the march of current events in India and the world.  At the time when India was stirred by the visit of the Duke of Connaught and the launching of the Reform Government, this Club took to itself the rights of suffrage, elected its members to the first Madras Legislative Council, and after the elections were duly confirmed sat in solemn assembly to settle the affairs of the Province.  They have also carried out equally dramatic representations of the English House of Lords and even the League of Nations.