Che Ukjornian. THE WORCESTER CATHEDRAL KIM'S SCHOOL CHRONICLE, " TO. per StSaKra pardavw, TO. o tvptra ra
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Contents. Editorial School Calendar ... School Notes Concert Junior Football First XV Characters P.T. Competition ... The Ketch Run O.T.C. Notes Fives Notes Chess Notes Literary and Debating Society ... Lecture Society The Library School Officers The Accident On Notoriety Life in the Sudan O.V. News In Memoriam Old Vigornians' Club ... ... The Damson Tree George, or The Studious Student Valete Salvete The Oxford Letter The Cambridge Letter Correspondence ... ... ... Games Account ... ... ... Library Account Contemporaries ... ... ...
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MARCH, 1926.
No 115. VOL. IX.
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editorial. We have a most surprising fact to chronicle : our heart (like our pockets) is light. We are feeling merry : we are singing pasans of joy to ourselves. The reader may well enquire the reason for our happiness. He will say : " You are quite eccentric ; no one has ever written an " Editorial " in a happy mood; from time immemorial the " Editorial " has been ushered in with cries of pessimism and despair." We brush these strictures carelessly aside and repeat the strange fact that we are merry. It is an unwonted occurrence that an Editor should be happy, and we may assure everyone that our heart does not always leap up when it beholds an " Editorial " in the offing, but—to use an expression which means nothing—the exception proves the rule. We will let out the secret in one word—Floods. Fair Sabrina came to our rescue and deluged the grassy meads with her turbid stream. For while the pedagogue was disporting himself without his gown and the scholar without his pen—in other words, during the holidays—the River Severn sent an ever-to-be-blessed-by-Editors flood. The London " Times " correspondent in the course of an astonishing article said that the inhabitants of Worcester seemed quite regardless of the flood. What did he expect them to be doing? Fearfully turning on the electric light each minute to see that the Electricity Works were safe? But the thing that seemed to have struck him most was that the cathedral was quite unaffected by the floods. He