Che Uigorntan. THE WORCESTER CATHEDRAL KING'S SCHOOL CHRONICLE, ' r« [it i' CiCctKTH pui'Oavu, ra C tiiuirn 4i)r&, ra. c1 tvhTU Ttapct Otinv y
No. 112.
VOL. IX.
Contents. Editorial School Notes Junior Football Fives Gymnasium Notes Cricket Prospect Chess Notes ... ... Concert O.T.C. Notes Lecture Society Debating and Literary Society Francis Potter Past and Present A Strong Man's Sacrifice The Broken Fingered Musician to His Violin The Two Brothers The Complaint of Vigornia The Lament of the Bicycle Shed The Oxford Letter The Cambridge Letter O.V. News O.V. Reunion Old Vigornians' Club ... School Calendar School Officers Salvete Valete The Library Library Account Games Accounts Correspondence Contemporaries ... ••• " ...
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The feature of this term has undoubtedly been its featurelessness. We came back determined to put aside what might remain of the " Christmassy feeling " and face the athletic events with which the term is honeycombed: to sweat out all traces of our Yule-tide dissipations by a gruelling course of training and then win undying fame for ourselves and our Houses. But even the chance of carrying, out this stern resolve has been denied.
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The first blow was dealt at those who aspired to fame on the " rugger " field. Our grounds across the river were making a brave attempt to become dry when the Severn, with a disregard for their feelings which bordered on brutality, insisted on covering them to a depth of at least three feet. While the rains which flourished about that time made equally unplayable our newly-acquired field on the London Road, where some hardy souls had been devoutly paying homage to the game despite the somewhat primitive arrangements there. The budding athlete then prepared to substitute for the laurels of " rugger " the bay-leaf fillet of the long-distance runner—or, in more prosaic language, to wind up his training for the " Ketch." Yet here again was disappointment. For within a week of the great event the School had become so decimated by a 'flu epidemic that any " Ketch " run would have been a mere farce, with a slender band of survivors toiling along to amuse a vast mob of convalescents, and receiving moral support from others yet