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No. 43.
MARCH, 1902.
VOL. IV.
gontenfs. School Notes Football Review and Matches The Beginnings of Worcester Cathedral School: by the Rev. Minor Canon Floyer, F.S.A. The School Concert Third Form Entertainment The New Gymnasium The King's Scholarship Examination, 1901 Chess Hints to Beginners : by E.W.P. (concluded) Old Vigornians'Dinner Old Vigornians' Column The School Debating Society School Officers School Accounts ... ••• ... ... ••• Oxford and Cambridge Letters Correspondence ... ... ••• ... ...
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"gtofes. !N many ways, the winter term of 1901, or, rather, the first of the school year 1901-2 will be remembered as one of especial interest. The annual Speech Day saw the opening of the Gymnasium, the handsome gift of the Old Vigornians to their old school. It
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is true our numbers were not increased, except that the School House held as many as it. well could; the football season was one of interest, for it showed improvement, and we won more matches than we have done for several seasons. The Concert, too, was markedly more successful than hitherto, and, altogether, the term was, to many of us, more pleasant and enjoyable than former winter terms. *
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We may look back with every feeling of satisfaction on the football season. The team was a better one than the school has had for several years, a fact which spectators were not slow to remark. Though even now the record can, by no stretch of imagination, be called brilliant, it must yet be remembered that it is better than it has been for some seasons. At the beginning of the term the forwards were lamentably weak, and our first victory was against a very inferior team. Then came a spell of continued misfortunes. Favourable