the Uigornian. THE WORCESTER CATHEDRAL KING'S SCHOOL CHRONICLE. TA MEN AIAAKTA MAN6ANO, TA A'EYPETA ZHTO, TA A'EYKTA IIAPA SEON HITH2AMHN.
JULY, 1936.
No. 145. VOL. XII.
editorial.
Contents Editorial School Calendar School Officers School Notes Dean Moore Ede Memorial Fund ... O.V. News Obituary Cricket Rowing Notes O.T.C. Notes Shooting Notes P.T. Camp Athletic Sports Swimming Notes Scout Notes St. George's Day Scout Celebration Field Club
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Speech Day The Concert O.V. Dinner Library VI Form Library Murder in the Cathedral A Short History of the Officers' Training Corps A History of the King's School Fives Notes Contributions Oxford Letter
Valete Salvete Correspondence Contemporaries
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" For good or ill, let the wheel turn." It seems appropriate at this time to echo the somewhat fatalistic doctrine of the Pattern of Life which T. S. Eliot suggests more than once in Murder in the Cathedral. The wheel is turning, and our Headmaster is leaving us, to be succeeded by another : this cannot fail to be the dominant thought in the minds of all of us just now. Pessimistic as Eliot's paradoxical words may have sounded to those who saw the play, we feel that it is just this attitude that the Headmaster would like us to adopt with regard to his retirement. It is 'not really a pessimistic one. The wheel must turn, though we will be the last to admit that it is turning " for ill." People often indulge in a lot of rather sentimental talk on these occasions; that they mean it sincerely, we do not doubt : but we wonder whether the use of such expressions as " a record of unswerving devotion " or " years of loyal service " is not very largely a matter of mere words. Such things are said of everyone who retires: and we, who heartily sympathise with our Headmaster's distaste for " presentations and fuss," feel that he would dislike also to be praised in such grandiose terms. Let us rather say, hackneyed though it be: "Si monumentum requiris, circumspice." Here, in the School itself, is better evidence of the value of the seventeen years of Mr. Creighton's headmastership than any amount of words can contain. We feel that he will understand our feelings more truly, if we