THE VIGORNIAN THE WORCESTER CATHEDRAL KING'S SCHOOL CHRONICLE TA MEN AIAAKTA MAN6ANO, TA A'ETPETA
ZHTO, TA A'ETKTA IIAPA 6EON HITHSAMHN.
Vol. XIII. CONTENTS. Editorial School Officers King's Scholarship Examination ... School Notes House Notes " Macbeth " Speech Day School Concert Rowing Notes Cricket Notes O.T.C. Notes Shooting Notes Band Notes Athletic Sports and Standards ... P.T. Competition Scout Notes Swimming Notes ... Field Club Notes Camera Club Notes Stamp Society Notes Play-Reading Society Notes Fifty Years Ago Valete Salvete Next Term O.V. News Births, Deaths, etc. Oxford Letter Contributions ... ... ... Correspondence ... ... ... Contemporaries ...
JULY, 1939.
No. 154. EDITORIAL.
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The end of a Summer Term must inevitably bring reflection upon the ceaseless change that takes place in a School. New faces come and old faces disappear and always it seems to those who remain that the gaps will never be adequately filled. Still the School remains the same. New ideas and new schools of thought arise, but the mark they leave upon the essential spirit of the School can only be very small. Such thoughts as these must be the comfort of those who have had their opportunity to leave their mark for good or evil upon the School and now are passing on.
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It is difficult to assess what the essential spirit of the School does for those who come under her influence. Only the future can bring this out. After-life at University or in business will reveal what her effect has been upon the individual. Certain it is, however, that in later years those who have learnt to prize the atmosphere in which they have received their intellectual upbringing, will return again and again, once more to taste the waters of the fountain from which they drew their earliest knowledge. To all of us, whether we are leaving or not, the end of a Summer Term must bring reflection upon the progress of all our varied interests. In the Winter Term and the Spring Term a more or less rigid routine governs our activities, but in the Summer Term, strenuous training and organised games do not dominate to such an extent the movements of everyone. Consequently individual tastes are largely responsible for the measure of enjoyment each member of the School derives from the Summer Term. Looking back therefore upon this term, we cannot help feeling that all