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(Contents. Editorial Rev. Maurice Day Paestum Voyage on the Rewa Glastonbury Sir John Maundeville School Concert . Rowing Athletic Sports Entertainment Fives .. King's Scholar Examination Debating Society School News School Officers Correspondence .. Library Chess Old Vigornians' Dinner ..
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(gbitodal the last issue of The Vigornian events have happened which are of great importance to the School. In the early part of the year the question of Amalgamation was kept before the public, and the Charity Commissioners finally resolved to send Mr. Lefroy, Assistant Commissioner, to investigate the scheme. On Feb. 6th he held
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an enquiry at the Guildhall and heard the arguments on both sides. We were ably represented by Canon Melville and the Head Master, and on the whole amalgamation seemed then to have more foes than friends, a fact which has been more strikingly seen since, as no one has uttered a word in its favour. Nothing more has been heard from the Commissioners, and we rest content with the knowledge that our governors will not allow any harm to befall the School entrusted to them.
The internal life of the School has gone peacefully on, undisturbed by outward commotions. We have lost Mr. C. D. Locock, whose place has been filled by Mr. H. C. T. Franklin, whose kindly energy in and out of school has already won golden opinions from everybody. The Rev. E. V. Hall has also left us, accompanied, as will be seen elsewhere, by a slight recognition of the many years' labour he expended over the singing class. Of his successor we can only say that if the class take as much pains to learn as Dr. Wareing does to teach they will find that the result will amply reward their exertions.
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Another loss, and that too a very heavy one, has been inflicted on the School by the death of the Rev. Maurice Day. As a notice of him appears elsewhere, we will only say that it is not long since he contributed an article to these columns on the late Rev. Chaloner Ogle, and that one of his last acts before his death was to write to the local press vindicating the School against an unfounded slander then being circulated. We are glad to know that a fund has been started to raise a memorial which shall tell after generations of the Christian courtesy and ripe learning of him who has passed away. As we have recorded in the School News, at each of the two last ordinations held in Worcester Cathedral the Gospeller has been an Old Vigornian. As the examination for Holy Orders is by no means easy, the School has every cause to congratulate itself on seeing two of its " old boys " so successful.
of the little boys' pitch was a step the right way, but it wanted following up. Now the juniors seem to be left to their own devices, and the results do not encourage perseverance in that system. We would suggest that the leading members of the eleven awake to the responsibilities as well as the honours of their position. Of the Rowing little need be said, though that little will be more of a pcean than a dirge. Elsewhere the story of the season is told at greater length. But if much was owing to the spontaneous enthusiasm of the boys, no less was due to the untiring energy of Mr. Franklin, to whom every member of the Club will acknowledge his indebtedness. What struck us as a very hopeful sign was the thoroughly serious way in which some of the older oars threw themselves into the coaching. The Regatta was so managed that there was very little of that waiting between the events, so tiresome and tedious in most regattas. It was certainly a worthy close of a worthy season.
The Cricket Captain has been confronted with the now yearly experience of five gaps in A great deal was undertaken during the last the eleven, which is probably due to the short month of the term, in fact it seemed as if it time that boys stay at a school nowadays. A patriarch, who has been here 10 years, in a little would be too crowded with events ; however while will be a wonderful rarity. Anyhow, it is everything passed off satisfactorily, the doubles having a bad effect upon our cricket ; new boys in the Fives Tournament being the only thing of promising ability are thrust into the eleven that went to the wall : for some unknown reason during their first season, when it would really be or other they now seem to be knocked on the better for them if they were kept for one summer head altogether. The entertainment was exto second-rate matches. Then the captain's tremely successful, and the house was a wonder hands are so full that he has no time to spend to those engaged in preparing and managing the over the little boys, who always deserve deep thing. attention, as in years to come the School will depend upon them for its cricket team. And 'olive pcb. jftaumc Dag. we wish to put in a word for these youngsters. By Rev. \V. H. COTES, Old Vigornian, and late Scholar of Worcester College, Oxford. Possibly the initiated will not listen to lay opinion, though laymen are emboldened to utter ;AURICE, second son of the Rev. their sentiments by the proverb which allows Henry Thomas Day, LL.D., was lookers on to see as much of the game as those born Feb. 26th, 1827, at Wickham engaged therein. At all events the juniors feel Market, in Suffolk. that they are neglected, and deep are the He was educated at King's College School rumblings of discontent. Certainly the making under Dr. Major, and was elected an Open
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borne School as Assistant Master, and was ordained deacon in 1852.
Prebendary Powles, whose lectures he From Sherborne he moved as Composition attended, writes : " He had a quick appreciation Master to Victoria College, Jersey, then recently of the niceties of scholarship, and his Greek and established, where he had among his pupils Latin verse translations were particularly good." several to whom he imparted his classical taste (Through the courtesy of the Rev. Russell Day and laid the foundation of their subsequent a version from Rogers' " Italy," dated 1848, distinctions at Oxford. Among these were the will appear in The Vigornian.) " Horae present Dean of Jersey and the late Harman Tennysonianas " contains several others. " At the C. Ogle, who became his colleague for a short time we elected him scholar of Exeter I did not time at Worcester and his life-long friend. think his work above the average of our scholars, An old pupil of Victoria College tells me that but his industry and ability soon shewed them- " Mr. Day was a popular master, and those who selves in his advance in critical scholarship, for wished to get on loved him. His marvellous which he had a genuine love." A class was taste as a scholar came out wonderfully in his then reading the Chcephoroi of ^Eschylus, and tuition. Composition was taught by him as it he often suggested very neat and plausible is not taught now, I fancy, in many schools. emendations. Every boy's verses were separately examined, As an instance of his industry I may mention every line was corrected, and Mr. Day would what he once told his sixth form at Worcester, turn the boy's version into respectable verse as that before the examination for the Hertford he went along, so that you had your own revised Scholarship he committed his Muretus to version as well as the fair copy." (This was the memory for the bettering of his Latin Prose. method which Mr. Day pursued afterwards at Worcester.) " There was no College Chapel at Mr. Powles' opinion of his critical ability and taste is fully sustained by his election to the Victoria College, but he often took duty in Jersey Hertford in 1847, ar >d to the Ireland, for which and was much admired as a preacher. I have a he read with Mr. Powles, in 1849. He was also distinct recollection now of a sermon I heard him preach on the words ' It is I, be not afraid.' " the favourite pupil of John Conington. Before the result for the Ireland was announced Maurice Day had become a scholar of University College, and appears as of this College in the Oxford Calendar.
In 1855 Mr. Day took his M.A. degree, and was ordained priest in St. Luke's Church in the following year. Accomplished in Latin and Greek he was almost equally accomplished in French and German, and a sermon in French came to him very easily when requested to preach for a friend in the island.
To be " Hertford and Ireland " is a very great distinction, which stands against the names of less than twenty men since 1835, when the Hertford was founded, and it stamped him as the best scholar of his year, and of several years after his, in the University. Pure scholarship, was his strength, but by itself was insufficient for the highest honours in the School of Literae Humaniores ; accordingly in Easter term, 1850, he was placed in the Second Class, and proceeded to the degree of B.A. on May 18th.
On January I7th, 1860, Mr. Day was elected Head Master of the King's School, Worcester, a foundation of Henry VIII., of which the Dean and Chapter were the Governors. The school had in its time been famous under Dr. Bright,who was master from 1591 to 1631; but in 1860 it consisted of a mere handful of boys beyond the forty Foundationers and the Choristers.
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its ancient reputation its Head must bring to it scholarship, organization, and energy ; and Mr. Day was the man for the place. He undertook at the outset, in addition to Classics and English, the teaching of both French and German. His school grew in popular esteem ; the numbers increased in three years to eighty, and in ten years to nearly one hundred and twenty, because parents felt assured that their sons, whether intended for professional or commercial life, would be liberally and conscientiously educated. But during these ten years there was much to discourage so cultured a scholar as Mr. Day, for only one or two of his pupils went up with the " Meeke " to Magdalen Hall, and some half-adozen to other Colleges in the Universities. Still he had firmly established the future of the school, which Mr. (afterwards Professor) Bryce examined in 1865, and graded as a First Grade School. In 1871 the fruit of his work in preparing for Oxford was shown by the success of three Vigornians, who in rapid sequence gained one Scholarship and two Exhibitions of Scholarship value. How many might not have been won if we boys had been able to respond to our master's conscientious and scholarly teaching ! But two of the younger boys in the sixth form proved themselves worthy of Mr. Day—Edward T. Griffiths and Harry R. Tottenham, who remained in the school for several years, Griffiths nearly six, until 1872, and Tottenham three, until 1874. Both left for other schools before they entered at Oxford or Cambridge, in 1875, and thus Worcester lost the credit of being their alma mater; but we who knew Mr. Day can see his work in them. Griffiths became Exhibitioner of Balliol, and "Hertford and Ireland" in 1877. Tottenham, going up to Cambridge, became Scholar of Trinity College, was [bracketed] Senior Classic and 1st Chancellor's Medallist in 1879, and subsequently Fellow of St. John's. Of the latter it was said that at one time, while he
was at Worcester, he learnt by heart every day no less than 500 lines of Greek Play. Perhaps no other school of one hundred and twenty boys has ever owned three such distinguished scholars at the same time—Mr. Day as master, Griffiths and Tottenham as first and second boys in the sixth form. The " Meeke" was twice taken in the next four years. In June, 1874, the staff of the school was greatly strengthened by the appointment of the Rev. H. C. Ogle, one of Oxford's best scholars, as Second Master. This appointment he held until February, 1876, when he was called by his College to take up the head mastership of Magdalen College School. Such were the excellent results of the fifteen years from 1860 to 1874. Mr. Day went to a foundation and built on it a school. He was architect and workman in one, a wise and laborious master-builder. Yet more excellent and enduring results, which we cannot appraise, flowed from his moral influence on many a young mind. He was not what is called a strict disciplinarian—if he had a fault, it was in thinking too kindly of his boys—but none of us who rightly gauged his character mistook his kindness for weakness. Mental ignorance or dulness he rarely blamed, but moral dulness pained him into severity. The tone of the school, as I remember it, was high ; for much as Mr. Day rejoiced at scholarship successes, his chief aim was to make us a school of Christian gentlemen. His sympathy with our difficulties, and his constant thoughtful ness for our improvement, was very marked. I am reminded of an instance of this by an old Vigornian. " One morning, a few minutes before school, the Head caught me up in College Green and said ' Do you know I often wish that I was able to make the work more interesting for you boys! If you think of anything that I can do to render it so, please tell me.'" It was characteristic of him to under-
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The Cathedral is to receive a tablet and the estimate his own powers and doubt if he ought not to do more and more for the school. No School a prize to his memory; but so long as wonder that he was so generally respected and any of his boys survive Maurice Day wifr have living memorials, who were taught by him to fear loved ! In 1865 he was appointed by the Dean and God and do their duty. Chapter to the Rectory of St. Swithin's, and in 1872 succeeded his Second Master, Mr. Thomas & Sewioit of Part of SUnjers's "Bale" Baxter, as Cathedral Librarian. A valuable P A E S T U M. catalogue of the library remains as a proof of sXTERUS ut fama est, Sybarita an his energy in every duty entrusted to him. { Doricus ortu Seven years later he accepted the Vicarage of Incertum, tantis semper longinqua Wichenford. On the Speech Day, July 24th, teguntur 1879, past and present members of the school Nubibus, hue olim veniens signavit aratro assembled to see him for the last time as Head Master, and to give him testimonials of a \vatch Mcenia ; continue superis sese extulit oris and purse among other tokens of their affection Urbs augusta ingens, nomen numenque verendum and gratitude. " I love," he said, "this grand room, I love every stone in its walls, where I Nacta Posidonis, magnum qui dirigit aequor. Ilicet audiri per compita grandis Homeri have worked for twenty years." Lingua frequens Tyriis portus consurgere malis. His life at Wichenford was a change of duties Inde alius pulsans, nullis optantibus, ultro and scene, but it was active as ever with parish, Invitas multo complevit milite portas. pupils, examinations, and literature. To examine Omnia mutantur, nee perstat lingua, nee ipsum the Cathedral School and report of its continued Nomen ut ante fuit. Tyrius mercator ut olim efficiency afforded him sincere delight. From Thura rati et coas aurumque imponit eburque the work of translating S. Gregory Nazianzen Sed jam conclamat, mutato hortamine, " Paesfor publication, and of contributing to the tum." Dictionary of Christian Antiquities, he would Jamque hortos aliquis biferique rosaria Paesti turn to the amusement of writing a libretto Virgilius, jam Naso canit; sed msesta parentum for an opera or an article for The Vigornian, or Natorumque inter resonant penetralia fletus. to the relaxation of pencil sketches and water Luce etiam festa, veterum de more quotannis colours long since laid by in busier days. In lacrymas coe'unt; rerum meminisse priorum Eleven happy years were spent at Wichenford, Atque iterum linguam juvat exercere vetustam and here he entered into rest. A simple marble Scandit Arabs tandem muros, somnoque jacentes cross in Wichenford churchyard bears this Opprimit. Extemplo somni fugientis ad instar inscription, and the text chosen by himself:— Ex oculis abiit species pulcherrima rerum. IN LOVING MEMORY Nee nisi feta manet sedes deserta periclo. OF Qua latro cui parcat, eum fatalior hostis M A U R I C E DAY, M . A . , Occupat invisus, quo tempore lasta voluptas Cor reserat, fulgentque aestivi ccerula cceli, WHO FELL ASLEEP MARCH 28TH, 1890, AGED 63, Mollibus et tenuis clarescit flatibus aether. FOR ELEVEN YEARS VICAR OF THIS PARISH. Tune ardens instat pestis tune flatibus illis Additur, in somnum suadens, subtile venenum, •BLESSED ARE THE DEAD WHICH DIE IN THE LORD." Quique ilium somnum mortem bibit inscius idem. MAURICE DAY, Sept., 1848.
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thoughful interest in his passengers. We soon reached the dreaded Bay of Biscay, and the said a stranger in the days of old, IllifP " Rewa," which bears the soubriquet of " The ft Some say a Dorian, some a Sybarite, But distant things are ever lost in Rolling Rewa," gave us a foretaste of what we might expect from her later on, an expectation clouds. Tis said a stranger came, and with his plough which was realised to the full in the Gulf of Traced out the site ; and Posidonia rose Lyons. Gibraltar was sighted when we were Serenely great, Neptune the tutelar God. five days out from London, and we had a very A Homer's language murmuring in her streets, clear view of the grand old rock, which has been And in her haven many a mast from Tyre. described by some as looking like a lion Then came another, an unbidden guest; couchant from the side of the Mediterranean ; He knocked and entered with a train in arms, aptly has it so been described, being the gateAnd all was changed, her very name and language. way to England's great eastern empire. The Tynan Merchant, shipping at his door Under the genial influence of our kindly Ivory and gold, and silk and frankincense, skipper, our mutual reserve began to wear off, Sailed as before, but sailing cried for Psestum. and we began to combine for games and amuseAnd now a Virgil, now an Ovid sung, Psestum's twice blowing roses, while within ments wherewith to while away the tedium of a Parents and children mourned, and every year long voyage: on the initiative of the captain, ('Twas on the day of some old festival) " a Committee of Entertainments " was formed ; Met to give way to tears, and once again the efforts of the committee were so well backed Talk in the ancient tongue of things gone by. up by the rest of the passengers that the At length an Arab climbed the battlements, monotony of a long sea voyage was so lessened Slaying the sleepers in the dead of night, that many declared they had never found a And from all eyes the glorious vision fled, voyage more pleasant or less monotonous. A Leaving a place lonely and dangerous newspaper was also started, and as there was Where, whom the robber spares, a deadlier foe rather an unwonted supply of talent, and of Strikes at unseen—and at a time when joy skill with pen and pencil, on board, the venture Opens the heart and summer skies are blue, proved an unqualified success : it received the And the clear air is soft and delicate, name of the " Rewa Recorder." Upon reaching For then the demon works—then with that air The thoughtless wretch drinks in a subtle poison, the Gulf of Lyons we experienced what the Lulling to sleep, and when he sleeps he dies. " Rewa " could do in the way of rolling, and we had the most uncomfortable day we had hitherto experienced : there were some amusing incidents Depp on the in connection ; a number of passengers were the Albert Docks at noon on seated in the music room, waiting with what a gloomy day in November, in the appetite they could for breakfast, when a sudden B.I. s.s. " Rewa," we steamed quietly lurch made them play an involuntary game of down the river and out into the English Channel " post," accompanied to the music of the vox with a mild S.W. wind blowing, and the channel humana. None of us were sorry to get under comparatively cool for the time of year : we had the lee of the southern coast of Sardinia, when a large number of passengers on board, all all was quiet again. bound for the gorgeous East ; and amongst Naples was reached when we were nine days them were several brides-elect, and other young out from London. Vesuvius, with its lovely cap ladies going out to parents or brothers. Our of snow, was of course the first object of attraccaptain was Captain Mann, well-known for his tion. A party was made up for Pompeii, and a Translation.
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very successful visit it proved to be ; the position success ; many were the " draps," and the of the old city must have been a very grand one, " drappies," and " anither wee drappie" that with Mount Vesuvius overhanging it to the were drunk as toast after toast went round. On north, and the sweep of the Bay of Naples to the fourth day after leaving Naples Port Said the west; the wonderful freshness of some of the was reached : clouds of smoke-dust had marked frescoes, especially of one representing Romulus its whereabouts long before. Here we coaled, and Remus and the wolf, struck our attention ; and most of us went ashore to avoid the coaling, the houses, with their small rooms, reminded me always a disagreeable process, but still more so very much of some of the Indian nobles' houses : in the great eastern emporium for coal, which is the afternoon was spent in Naples, and proved about all that this port is. Our capacity for to be very wet, the rain that was falling in the sight-seeing was soon exhausted ; the place is so streets of the city fell as snow on the summit of small, and the rascaldom so great. A little Vesuvius, and very beautiful was the spectacle Arab school into which I looked reminded me thus presented to us on our return to the ship of " Dotheboys Hall" : there was old Squeers, towards sunset ; there was a pure white mantle in the person of an Arab sheikh, seated with of snow round its crest from which smoke and long canes all round him capable of reaching to occasional flashes of lurid flame were issuing, every corner of the school, and there was a small the contrast thus presented a very striking urchin before him with tears streaming down his spectacle. Another very beautiful sight also cheeks, as he spelt out letter by letter the Arabic presented itself from the shore, as we slowly alphabet. Some of the ladies amused themsteamed away from the bay : the lamps of the selves by riding the famous Egyptian donkeys city were being lit, and the long lines of lights on the sands. The donkey boys give all sorts along the shore and up the streets, which are ( of names to their donkeys : the special favourite built in terraces up the hill sides, looked like long on this occasion was " A Pair of Lovely Black beads of fairy lamps illuminating the slopes of Eyes." Our canine passengers, of whom we a mountain ; it might have been the fairy abode had a kennelful, especially enjoyed their run on of Oberon and Titania. Stromboli, blazing shore. We were some time passing through the away from its sulphurous crater, was passed Canal, though we had the electric light : a very during the evening. The Straits of Messina pretty effect seen from the bows of the ship was were entered at dawn on the day after leaving the flight of birds across the light as they were Naples, and those of the passengers who were disturbed from their slumbers on the water by energetic enough to rise early were rewarded by the unwonted glare. We had a fairly cool run the sight of the famous Scylla and Charybdis down the dreaded Red Sea, dreaded not only and by some most brilliant colouring on the for its heat, but for the dangerous navigation its heights of both the Sicilian and Calabrian coasts : numerous volcanic islands and rocks cause. there was one curious range with five peaks on Amusements went on uninterruptedly in the the Calabrian coast, known as Penta-Daktilor, shape of tournaments at ball and deck quoits, a name pointing to the time when this part of dancing on the quarter-deck, music and singing ; Italy was part of Magna Graacia. Mount Etna every day and every night had its programme. only once condescended to lift its peak above the Aden was reached eleven days out from Naples. enveloping clouds. Only a short stay was made, just long enough I should have mentioned before this that on to give the passengers an opportunity to the evening of leaving Naples the gallant Scots examine some of the curious wares offered for on board entertained the rest of the passengers sale, such as ostrich feathers and grass mats, and at a S. Andrew's dinner, which was a great to witness the curious diving antics of the small
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Somali boys, with their cries of " Have a dive ! Have a dive !" : they are very clever in catching the coins thrown into the water as they dive after them. A most successful fancy ball was held on the quarter-deck in the evening after leaving Aden ; by means of awnings, bunting, and electric globes covered with pink muslin, the quarter-deck was converted for the nonce into a very pretty ball-room : the deck was polished and made dancing a pleasure instead of a toil, as it is so often on board ship ; the ball closed with " Sir Roger de Coverley." The run across the Indian Ocean from Aden to Colombo proved a pleasant one, and was enlivened in the usual way by amusements of all sorts : the entertainment par excellence of this portion of the voyage was the amateur theatricals, the piece being The Little Sentinel, a most appropriate piece for board ship, representing in miniature very much what goes on on board ship on long voyages to the East. The Island of Minicoy, near Colombo, was viewed as we passed it next day with much curiosity by the ladies, as it is an island where it is commonly reported that ladies " rule the roast." A most gorgeous sunset off Ceylon excited our admiration : the " spicy breezes" were conspicuous by their absence. Several of our passengers were to leave us here, and so at dinner the evening before Colombo was reached their health was proposed and drunk with all the honours : our worthy caterer had not forgotten them, on the menu had appeared " the planter's favourite," and a long procession of plum puddings all aflame was greeted with loud cheers. As the night was very hot some of the ladies slept on deck, but Jupiter Pluvius very discourteously poured down buckets of water over the ship towards the small hours of the morning, and that put a speedy stop to their courting " balmy sleep " " sub Jove" but not " frigido." Colombo was reached on the nineteenth day after leaving Naples, and the passengers were early astir, for were there not meetings and greetings to be made and observed, and had not some brides-elect and grass widows
to meet their respective fiances and Benedicts : a cynical bachelor was caught in the act of contrasting the meetings between the actual and the prospective Edwins and Angelinas. Colombo was left by all with some regret, as apart from the romance which still attaches to the name of Ceylon, the place is really beautiful, and a drive round and about well rewards anyone taking the trouble to see what is to be seen. Madras was reached on the third day after leaving Colombo : the curious serf-boats called Masalah boats, all sewn together, and without a nail in their composition, and the small fishing planks called Catamarans attracted our attention as we entered the so-called Harbour, which is only a harbour in fine weather, as we found out to our cost, as, owing to a cyclone threatening, we had to leave it in the afternoon hurriedly by signal from the shore, and a most uncomfortable night did we have of it, cruising all night long off the coast, now at full speed, now slow, with the tail of a cyclone blowing about us : all night we pitched and tossed and rolled: the next morning we entered the harbour again to the general satisfaction of all : poetical inspiration had not been damped by the experiences of the night, and one of our lady passengers presented the pages of the Rewa Recorder with a capital parody, entitled—
" THE FLITTING OF THE REWA." Not a smile was seen, not a laugh was heard, As the ship from the harbour was hurried, Not a passenger uttered a cheering word, All looked somewhat anxious and flurried. We quitted the harbour at twilight dim, All eyes towards the ocean turning ; There the foam was glistening white and grim ; Each thought of the hour of returning. We drank in silence the proffered tea, Nor uttered a word of sorrow, As we steadfastly gazed on the face of the sea, And longingly thought of the morrow. We thought as we passed by the Harbour Bar And confronted the angry billow,
THE VIGORNIAN. How the good old Rewa would roll and jar, While our heads all reclined on the pillow. All hopes of slumber deserted our breast, As each in our berth we laid us ; The good Rewa allowed us no thought of rest, For all our abuse she repaid us. All night we tossed till when day was near, Each one told a pitiful story ; We raised not a sigh, and we dropped not a tear, As we left Madras to its glory. We left Madras finally on the afternoon of Christmas Day, the first Christmas Day many of us had ever spent at sea, but not the least happy of many happy ones, as everything was done by the captain and officers of the ship to make the day a success. A Christmas number of the " Rewa Recorder " appeared in the morning, and a very successful dinner was held in the saloon in the evening ; the ship had been very prettily decorated for the occasion. Calcutta was reached on the third day after leaving Madras, and thus a very successful voyage was brought to an end, a voyage, as one of the passengers remarked on the occasion of the presentation of plate to the captain, " which revived the best traditions of the old voyages made round the Cape."
jAWN has broken over the Isle of Avalon, and what does it disclose ? A wild waste of waters stretching to the Northwest towards the place where Weston now is, and mingling with the tide of the boundless Atlantic. Here and there the expanse of the " unvintaged deep " is broken by an island, the chief of all being Ynys-vitrin, the Glass Island as the Silurians called it, or in Latin, Avalonia. Upon it towered the lonely figure of the silent Tor, one day to witness a grievous tragedy. But though the material sun has lit up Avalon and the glassy waste, we are as yet in the twilight of English history, for the tale of Avalon is as a long colonnade decorated with the carved shapes of
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its great sons, and the graven scenes of its mighty events. A man may look down some way, seeing everything clearly, but be his eye ever so piercing, long before it reaches the faroff end, it is bewildered and his sight is dim : so is it with Avalon, and the earliest man we connect therewith is St. Joseph of Arimathsa. The story of his dwelling here will long find a welcome in the heart and a shelter in the memory after the intellect has driven it away. For nowadays we believe none of these things, happy in our calm superiority, perhaps really happier if after all we escape finding its inferiority and a mark of something wanting. Such stories as the one of Alfred and the cakes we can spare without a murmur ; the moral of fallen greatness may be pointed from other things, and the page of history is at least cleansed from the vulgar tongue of one shrew. But the myth, or whatever it is, tells how St. Joseph in his wanderings to spread Christianity among the heathen found himself here. Arviragus, the chief of the Silurian horde, milder than his wont, not only forgot to confound the words stranger and foe, but even gave him a grant of land. Here the Saint died and was buried, so that the spot contains the bones of him who gave up his own rock-hewn tomb in Judaea to Another. Besides the Holy Thorn, which only buds at Christmas time, he left behind him another legacy, the Vetusta Ecclesia. Around the church so built there gathered in a short time an amazing sanctity. Exposed to visits from the Irish shore it caught much of that fervent spirit of working Christianity, which then found in Ireland a home. Linked with this spot are the names of a great multitude of holy men, Patrick, Bridget, David of Menevia, and many others, so that you shall find here a saint as often as a god in Athens. The history runs smoothly enough till it becomes involved in that network of perplexities the Arthurian cycle, of which story the foundations were laid long years before the pile reached completion, its master builders being William of Malmesbury and Geoffrey of Monmouth. In the latter work the way to the
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legend proper lies through pages of the ravings of Merlin, the most amazing bombast that ever hid itself under the name of prophecy. Gaunt imagery and metaphor run mad take the place of meaning, so that you emerge from the perusal with a dazed feeling, being clear about one fact only, that the prophet's mantle should have taken the shape of a strait waistcoat. To discuss the connection between Glastonbury and the Arthurian story would be a task beyond the bounds of this article. Let it be enough to say that in the simple beginning of the legend Arthur comes to Glastonbury to recover his bride from some royal robber who had fled hither for refuge with her. Peace was restored by the good offices of some friendly hermit, who doubtless found time hang heavily on his hands, for some roving pirates had driven him from the Steep Holmes, where for many years he had lived, subsisting on the monotonous diet of fish and the eggs of wild fowl, as if in a continuous Friday. Of course in the great legend Arthur is carried to Avalon for burial, thus mingling his dust with the multitude of saints hither gathered. One circumstance might seem to fight against the identity of Arthur's Avalon with Glastonbury. Everybody knows the Laureate's lines— " For I am going to the island valley of Avilion, Where neither rain nor hail nor any snow," etc.
Now nobody at all acquainted with Glastonbury could speak of it in those flattering terms, so that we are left to believe either that the two were different places or that the words are a poet's dream. Most people will choose the latter alternative. But the days of Ynys-vitrin are coming to an end ; already the greater part of the island is British no longer. Saxons have swarmed in, driving the natives to their last rallying point in the West. The Mendips serve as a barrier for a long time, but already the invaders are pouring into the North of Somerset. Cenweal is the name of the particular freebooter hovering over the crest of that range, he has made his swoop, and the Western peninsula has passed into Saxon hands. Let us take one
British land-mark before we pass on. The touchstone of criticism yet leaves us the belief that somewhere about 600 a charter was granted to Glastonbury by some obscure Celtic chief, his name we need not trouble about, for though a modern scholar has supplied it, still it puzzled William of Malmesbury, whereat no one will wonder; it sounds something like Gargoyle. Another thing is worthy of attention. Elsewhere when people talk about an ancient British church they are building upon sheer speculation, here and here alone we are treading upon hard ground when we make the assertion, and this gives Glastonbury its peculiar fame. Its only possible rival is St. Albans, but we are not speaking of that abbey of remarkable outline so much like an outstretched snail. The invaders who conquered Somerset were not in the least the same men that laid waste East Anglia, for the leaven of Christianity had worked a great change, so that they readily spared that ancient church. Quite smoothly and peaceably the Saxon stepped into the inheritance of holiness built up under the Briton. Unmolested the little wooden church lasted on, to the East of it rising a stone fabric, by the piety of Ina, king of Wessex. Ina died, but his work lived on after him. With Alfred the Abbey had no very close relations, though some legends wax bold enough to claim for it the honour of receiving his bones. The next stage in the church's history is its increase under Dunstan, who rebuilt it on a larger scale. Dunstan once mentioned is worthy of something more than a summary dismissal since he is the greatest man that ever came from Glastonbury. He is a man who has been hardly used by posterity, and we shall not be far wrong in saying that no man would gain more by having cleared away from him the cobwebs of tradition's weaving and the thick dust of ages. What does his name at once suggest to most people ? Why, either the grotesque story of his encounter with the evil one, or much more likely that absurd slander about the false floor which let through some of his enemies. Such a tale is not the
THE VIGORNIAN. least in keeping with the picture of his character, which we gather from the general tenor of his life. To have risen from lowly estate to be the mainstay of four kings denotes the presence and use of those qualities that go to make up greatness. Further his sweeping reforms shew his zeal for the Church and his claim to goodness. In the eyes of the monks reform was apt to get confused with the extirpation of the seculars, nor is Dunstan perhaps wholly free from this reproach. However his fame shed fresh lustre over his birth-place, so that the Abbey came to be looked upon as fit ground to receive the bones of Saxon kings. Here were buried Edgar and Edmund Ironsides, at whose tomb gifts were offered by a king who was called Canute, before the purist craze. This melancholy distinction was kept by Glastonbury till it was supplanted and its splendour dwarfed by the rising Abbey of Westminster, after the Norman Conquest. By that great event it could not fail to be affected since any great stir in the national pulse must be felt in the smaller arteries. And this is what the coming of the Normans meant for Glastonbury. Swept away alike were the old wooden church, survival of a previous Christianity, and the Saxon pile reared beside it. Both gave way to a nobler design from Herlvvin, whether the same man that we find as head of Bee, the famous Norman house, that gave Lanfrane and Anselm to England, I cannot find o u t ; the church of Dunstan was replaced by a massive cruciform building while on the site of the Vctusta Ecclesia arose the beautiful Western Lady Chapel, the part of the Abbey of which most ruins now survive. Just as the shrine had passed quietly into Saxon hands, unshorn of its fame, so now the succession of the Normans made no change. In fact for a short time it was the seat of the Bishops of Somersetshire, especially under the high-handed Saveric, an unabashed pluralist, before there were any acts of Parliament to step in the way of his enjoyment. About this period too the Abbey underwent its last restoration, which left it yet more beautiful than it found it.
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By this time it had gathered a choice collection of relics, so needful to enhance the repute of any shrine. As given in Dugdale they naturally fall under two heads. The first includes bodies of the Saints, of whom a long list is given more or less credible. Now and then one comes across the announcement of " half the body" of such a one, for it seems to have agreed with the rough ideas of right then prevalent, if a rival monastery put in a claim, to split the difference or rather the cause thereof, utterly regardless of what the deceased saint might have been supposed to think about it. The second group is of a much more startling character ; with the utmost gravity the chronicler gives a long account of many of the most noteworthy relics mentioned in the Scriptures, such as Aaron's rod, the two tables, Sampson's primitive weapon, some of the stones wherewith ' the devil tempted our Lord, etc. What became of all these when the collection was broken up is a question with which he does not dare to deal ; but even he thinks that his na'i've credulity will make him a laughing stock, wherefore he puts forward the shallow excuse that it is only hearsay, a clumsy artifice behind which many have tried to hide. The tale of the Abbey is drawing near its end ; both the venerable shrine and the system, with which it is bound up, are hastening to their doom. Monasticism has been a great power raised up to perform a three-fold task; as a bulwark for the poor against the robber barons, as the only ladder by which the lowly might climb to greatness, as the safe in which was jealously guarded all the learning of the times, the system had fulfilled its work right worthily. But now the plundering aristocracy had been swept away by the scourge of internecine war, other paths such as Parliament were opening for the Commoners, and the revival of learning, helped by the invention of printing, was taking the treasure from the cloister and giving it the world. The day of the monasteries was over, and the need for them gone, as their work was done. But yet they lingered on, a shell without a
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kernel, in worse than idleness. Overwhelming evidence shews that they were dens of impurity and corruption, and the country stood them no longer. Yet, good as the work of dissolution was, its immediate motives were very far from pure, and the method of carrying it out was brutally Philistine under Cromwell, the moving spirit, and his subordinates. The most exasperating part of it all was the heartless destruction of the noble abbeys. This has carried some people away to such an extent that they exalt the monks as martyrs and find nothing too bad to be said of Cromwell. At Glastonbury Richard Whiting, a courageous old man, was Abbot, who refused to swear to the king's supremacy. Foreseeing the destruction of his house, he had the Abbey plate hidden away, with single-hearted motives we may be quite sure, notwithstanding all the insinuations of Froude. Condemned ostensibly on a charge of peculation, he was taken to the Tor Hill, and there put to death with hideous cruelty. Into the revolting details of his execution there is no need to go, and after him to all intents and purposes the history of Glastonbury is at an end. The Abbey was dismantled, and there stand now some of the ruins, pointing a powerful moral of the instability of all things human. Besides part of a massive arch in the transept, the most striking relic is the remains of the Western Lady Chapel, more commonly described as St. Joseph's Chapel. Whether Glastonbury ever will be again a great ecclesiastical centre it is impossible to say, but no place is fitter. If any great noble desired to emulate the church at Clumber, here would be a capital site. Possibly if brotherhoods ever are established in the English Church, when prejudice has subsided, Glastonbury may see the dawn of a new era of greatness. H. M. C.
Sir John JHaunbebUk. MONG the many sciences brought to perfection in this age, a high place must be allotted to the science of
Scepticism : some of its chief achievements have lain in the attacks which it has made on renowned men and writers of former ages. Its victims of this class fall into two divisions, those whose existence is left unquestioned, but who are not permitted to retain unchallenged the glory of having written the works formerly ascribed to them ; and those about whom some critics have roundly stated their opinion in the words of Mrs. Prig, that they "don't believe there was ever sich a person." The first list is headed by Moses and Shakespeare, in the second we find Homer and, among many lesser worthies, the subject of this article, Sir John Mandevile or Maundeville, knight and traveller. It is not our intention, however, to examine the critical pros and cons, but to join the credulous, and believing that the worthy knight actually existed, went on his travels and visited at least the majority of the places which he describes, to give a few notes on his book and its contents. The prologue contains an exhortation on the sanctity of the Holy Land and an admonition to all Christian men declaring that it is their plain duty to rescue that country from infidels. Then follows an account of the author, wherein he states that he was born at St. Albans, and set forth to the East at Michaelmas, 1322, traversing many countries to be hereafter described. The book itself may be said to consist of two sections. An account of Palestine forms one, while the other contains the author's travels in the lands farther east. Beginning with instructions as to how to go to Palestine, he touches on the countries which a traveller must pass through, and gravely relates how the Danube " passes into Almaine (Germany) through the hills of Lombardy, and then runs through Hungary, Greece, and Thrace, and enters the sea." After Thrace comes Constantinople, where was to be seen the true Cross, the invention of which by Helena still remains commemorated in our calendar as a black letter holy day on the third of May. This Helena we are told was the " daughter of King Coel, born at Colchester,
THE VIGORXIAN. who was King of England," and presumably the monarch who was a "jolly old soul" and thoroughly enjoyed the comforts of this life. Here it may be as well to observe that Maundeville had his full share of mediaeval superstition, which, mingled with an ignorance of the Scriptures, not wonderful when copies were scarce, often led him into extraordinary errors. Yet his superstition did not prevent him from believing in the old heathen gods, as can be seen from his recording how the daughter of one Ypocras was changed by Diana into a dragon, and how many knights in endeavouring to remove the spell had come to a bad end. In the same chapter, after saying that Rhodes was formerly called Collos, perhaps with a reminiscence of the Colossus, he asserts that " St. Paul in his epistle writes to the people of this isle, ad Colossenses." After which we are not surprised to learn that Jaffa took its name from its founder Japhet, son of Noah, and was the place where " Andromeda, a great giant, was bound and put in prison before Noah's flood, a rib of whose side, forty feet long, is still shewn." The skeleton of the dragon which attacked Andromeda was, according to Pliny, to be seen at Rome ; probably some hazy recollection of this caused our author to confuse maiden and monster and produce this version of the legend. Journeying southwards, the knight came to Egypt and the Nile, which we read rises in the Terrestrial Paradise and, after flowing through various countries underground, comes out of a high hill and runs up into Ethiopia. To understand this it is necessary to remember that mediaeval geographers held that the earth was an oblong mass, with Jerusalem for its centre, having its base washed by the stream of Ocean, and that all rivers rose in the Terrestrial Paradise, which was placed on very high ground ; to include the Nile, running as it did from south to north, in this system, the theory given above had to be invented. Leaving Egypt Maundeville returned to Judasa by way of the Sinaitic peninsula. He gives a graphic description of Sinai and the
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convent on it, where perhaps he gazed on the MS. destined to become so famous in the hands of Tischendorf five centuries later. Emerging from the desert, one of the first towns entered was Beersheba, founded, he writes, by Bathsheba, from whom it took its name. One error is speedily capped by another, for coming to Sichar, he unblushingly records that it was the site of one of the golden calves set up by King Rehoboam to be worshipped. Well was it for him that there was then no Macaulay to indite a review of his book ; had such been the case " every schoolboy " would assuredly have received wondrous glorification at the traveller's expense. The twelfth chapter is devoted to an account of the Saracens and their Koran, with a comparison of Mohammedanism with Christianity, not always in favour of the latter. Thus a speech is put into the mouth of the Sultan, which is probably nothing else than a sermon from the author, against the sins then prevalent amongst Christians, which appear to have been just as bad in those " good old times" of chivalry as they are in these degenerate days. At this point the first part of the book, dealing with the Holy Land and its vicinity, comes to an end, the remainder being given up to the description of various Oriental nations and places. Of Ararat we read that it is seven miles high, and that " Noah's ship" was still resting thereon. Also that some men had seen the place in it where Noah said " Benedicite," thereby compelling the devil to make a hurried exit. Whether it was the mystic force of the word or the patriarch's peculiar Latinity that accomplished this is not recorded. Travelling to India, the knight saw many things to tell of; how wonderful trees growing there produce three kinds of pepper; how the gift of perpetual youth could be obtained by drinking of a certain well, on which he bestows an encomium painfully suggestive of a modern patent medicine pamphlet ; and how the hand of St. Thomas kindly decided lawsuits, saving people the trouble of going to the courts. The presence of the saint
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however did not prevent fanatical devdtees, even been farther than the outskirts of his kingdom, then, from flinging themselves under the wheels where was a valley full of devils who strangled of Juggernaut's car. The relation of this horrible wayfarers and made things generally unpleasant. custom is followed by an enlightened discourse Nevertheless after hearing mass and being on the shape of the earth. It is here maintained " shriven and housled," the knight and his that the earth is round, a statement which is retinue entered the valley, where " I was more proved by elaborate mathematical calculations. devout than ever I was before or after, for dread Its circumference is given as 31,500 miles, which, of the fiends I saw." All his devotion however considering the character of the astronomical did not save five of his men, who were never Instruments then in use, was a very creditable seen again. The rest of the company being conjecture. When we remember, too, that the more lucky escaped to reach Europe once more. Ptolemaic theory, that the earth was a more or On arriving their leader went to Rome, and less oblong mass was then universally accepted, showed his book to the Pope, who gave his we cannot but admire the courage displayed by sanction to its publication. It was accordingly Maundeville in thus expressing his convictions. translated from the original French into Latin This very doctrine was one of those which and English, and soon became very popular as sufficed three hundred years after to bring the number of MSS. still extant testify. Its Galileo before tne Inquisition, there to be com- author was in many respects in advance of his pelled to recant. After this digression the author age and, had he not been so saturated with immediately reverts to his usual style and superstition, might have risen to greatness. As "yarns" follow thick and fast. In Java he saw it is his work is even now considered good snails " so great that many persons may lodge in enough to be carefully edited, a fact rather their shells," an observation to be accepted with against some who would have us look upon him many grains of salt. It were well if no more as a garrulous recorder of old wives' fables and credit could be given to his statement that the nothing more. C. T. D. hideous fashion now known as Suttee, or the sacrifice of a widow at her husband's funeral, was School Concert. then in vogue ; modern history makes it only too probable. Many indeed of the customs described ,HE Christmas Concert was given on are so identical with those of the present day Friday, 2Oth December, 1889, when that the narrative as far as they are concerned is the following programme was perunimpeachable. formed :—The Story of the Shepherd Space forbids anything more than a brief (Barnby), School Singing Class; Pianoforte survey of the last part of the book, which com- solo, Andante and Rondo (Mendelssohn), prises an account of the Khan of Cathay Hargraves ; Vintage Song (Mendelssohn}, (China), whom the knight served for fifteen Messrs. Price, Fleet, Stoyle, and Martin ; Song, months, and all his splendour and magnificence ; The Garonne (Adams), Mr. E. F. Fleet; Part also of that mysterious monarch Prester John. Song, The New Year (Mendelssoliri), School Prester or Presbyter Johannes was a kind of Singing Class ; Song, True till Death (Gatty), mediaeval will o' the wisp, about whom nobody Mr. A. P. Higgins ; Violin Solo, Romance in F. seems to know more than that he was a Christian (Beethoven~), Mr. W. H. Dyson ; Song, The Jovial king living somewhere in the East. Maunde- Peasant (Mattel), Mr. J. J. W. Stoyle; School ville's account is learnedly vague, evidently Song, Where Severn winds (Caldicotf), School shewing that his information on the subject was Singing Class; Carol, Wiien Christ was born second-hand, in fact he does not profess to have (Brmvn\ School Singing Class ; Song, Margarita
THE VIGORNIAN. (Lohr\ Mr. E. F. Fleet; Song, All's Well (Braham), School Singing Class; Pianoforte Solo, Adagio and Rondo (Holloway), Mr. H. Holloway; Chorus, The Travellers (Rossini), School Singing Class; Violin solo, Andante and Rondo (Daucld), Mr. W. H. Dyson ; PartSongs, Absence and When Evening's Twilight (Hattoii), Messrs. Price, Fleet, Jordan, and Stoyle ; Song, Largo al Factotum (Rossini}, Mr. Jl J. W. Stoyle; School Song, Floreat Schola (Hall), School Singing Class. The programme was excellently rendered and very well received by the audience, who testified their approval by encoring some of the pieces. During the evening the Head Master, ascending the platform, said that as it was the last of the concerts which the Rev. Vine Hall would conduct, he desired to thank him in the name of his colleagues, himself, and the audience, for his valued services in getting up the concerts, which he ventured to think had been greatly appreciated. He wished him all earthly prosperity, and that God's blessing might rest on him in his new sphere of work. T. A. Branthwaite, on behalf of the boys, masters, and some old boys, then presented to the Rev. E. V. Hall two handsome brass candlesticks and a brass inkstand as a token of gratitude for the great interest he had taken in the school entertainments. He said everyone felt greatly indebted to Mr. Hall for the successful way in which he had managed the concerts, and wished him all happiness in his new home. The Rev. E. Vine Hall, who was received with loud cheers, in reply, acknowledged the presentation in suitable terms, and expressed his satisfaction at the way in which the concerts had been received. Touching on another question, he remarked that he felt certain that the Head Master had the sympathy of all present in the crisis which the School was passing through. He felt sure that the clouds would soon disappear, and that the School would emerge successfully. He looked forward to the time when the professional men, clergy,
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and country gentlemen of Worcestershire would realise that their boys could receive an excellent training there without sending them to great schools elsewhere. He had known the School very intimately for the past ten or twelve years, and said emphatically that the tone amongst the boys, especially amongst the senior boys, was of the highest possible order. He would be proud to know the boys of the School, for they left it conscientious Christian gentlemen who would everywhere do honour to their School. The concert terminated with cheers for the Dean and Chapter, Head Master, Rev. E. Vine Hall, and Assistant Masters.
JHATEVER may have been said of the cricket and football performances of the School, i.e., that they have not been keenly taken up, can by no means be extended also to the rowing during the Lent term. The energy that has been put forth in this direction goes far to show that the muchabused Worcester climate is not always fatal to the best exertions. At the beginning of the term operations were delayed by high floods and terrific hurricanes, but after nearly a month a start was made with the coaching. At first the enthusiasm was confined to a few old oarsmen ; but, thanks to the vigorous exertions of the Captain of the Boats (H. H. Quilter), ably backed by Dutton, Hill, and Thomas, the rowing furore was extended well through the school, and in a few days the Rowing Club numbered nearly all the three first forms, including the best and strongest in the School, within its ranks. The attendance at the boats was always good, and the attention and painstaking most praiseworthy throughout. A little discouragement was felt at first as to the material at hand, and the ominous words " screw, " " bucket," and their dismal companions were heard full often ; even in the most promising the finish of the stroke was poor, and work at the beginning conspicuous by its
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absence. However by constant practice, most of the defects were largely remedied and very satisfactory crews got together. The Regatta, which had all along been keenly looked forward to, was fixed for the 9th April, a week before the end of term, and just before the sports. There was a little difficulty as to the arrangement of events, the moot points being sculling and the order of races so as to avoid tiring as far as possible those who had to row several times. It was decided at last to abandon a sculling event, as this branch of aquatics had been rather neglected, while a new feature was added in the shape of a second contest with Old Vigornians collected and stroked by C. Faram. The first heats of the pairs were rowed off on the 8th, in a perfect cyclone, and such were the difficulties owing to wind, stream, and an uncertain stretcher in one of our boats, that the operations took as long as the whole regatta t'ie next day. The long expected afternoon was almost the finest in the term ; the water was r.o longer lumpy, and the wind had gone down. The bright sunshine and the prospect of an animated scene brought a considerable number of spectators to the banks. A start was made at 3 punctually, and no hitches of importance occurred. There was great enthusiasm, which was heightened by the very close finishes of all the races. We do not intend to give a full description of the splendid triumphs achieved by the respective crews, suffice it to say that two victories over the Old Boys more than justified the vigorous energy of the Rowing Club. Too much praise can hardly be given to the School, and 5th i. fours, who managed to remember that form is something, even in the excitement of a race. The 5th ii. were an improving crew, but they had only come into existence a short time, and had had much less practice together. A 4th four had had to be abandoned unfortunately. The steering was good, especially in the fours races, where the School cox (Purton) was very highly commended. The pair races were exceedingly close, but were
rather eclipsed by the superior falat of the fours. On the whole the general verdict seems to be that the whole performance was superior to last year, and perhaps we may hope that we may yet be known for our rowing achievements, certainly a contest with a school of our own size would be a tremendous incentive. A few foolish enthusiasts were heard even to talk of Henley, but this is too large a dip into the future. The course chosen was between the Canal Lock at Diglis and the Cathedral Ferry. Mr. Franklin acted as starter, and Mr. Jordan as judge. FOUR-OAR RACES. First Heat.—Vlth v. Vth ii. F///Z-W. H. Hill bow, G. E. Rowland 2, T. A. Branthwaite 3, H. H. Quitter stroke, J. B. Purton cox I Vth ii—]. West bow, W. W. Finch 2, F. H. P. Higgins 3, H. Thomas stroke, N. Davies cox 0 Won by I length. Final Heat—Vlth v. Vth i. Vth i—J. T. Chamberlain bow, H. Hargraves 2, F. Thomas 3, H. Button stroke, N. Davies cox I Vlth—W. H. Hill bow, G. E. Rowland 2, T. A. Branthwaite 3, H. H. Quilter stroke, J. B. Purton cox 0 Won by \ length. School v. Old Vigornians. Sc/iool—\V. H. Hill bow, F. Thomas 2, H. Button 3, H. Quilter stroke, J. B. Purton cox I O.V.— A. E. Bavies bow, R. Baylis 2, G. Bennett 3, F. Keen stroke, S. T. Button cox 0 Won by i j length. Vth i v. Old Vigornians. Vth i—J. T. Chamberlain bow, H. Hargraves 2, F. Thomas 3, H. Button stroke, N. Bavies cox I 0. V. —J. B. Pember bow, G. Telfer 2, F. E. Rowland 3, C. Faram stroke 0 Won easily. PAIR-OAR RACES. Semi Final. Hill and Quilter ii I Hargraves and Baily i o Won by 2 lengths. I Rowland and Thomas ii Branthwaite and Finch i o Won by \ length. Final. Rowland and Thomas ii., I Hill and Quilter ii 0 Won by short length.
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THE VIGORNIAN. the old plan of closing the Easter term with them. Several events were decided on Saturday, the 12th of April, in beautiful weather. The Sports were held, as usual, on the County Cricket Ground, Boughton. The first part of the afternoon was occupied in running off the heats oi the 120 yards, the 100 yards, open, and under 15. The long jump (junior), I3ft. 4in., was a slight improvement upon last year, so was Finch's I5ft. Sin. in the open event. Throwing the cricket ball was medium ; we have seen better throws than 68 yards. This was followed by the junior mile, which resulted in a very easy win by about 150 yards for Laurie; 5min. 38secs. was very good time. The senior mile on the other hand produced a very exciting finish ; Button won in remarkable style, but very good time, 5min. I2secs. These two last events were undoubtedly the most interesting in the whole of the sports. On the next Monday Quilter won the hurdle race in our own field rather easily. Wednesday, like most sports days, brought us a damp, uninviting atmosphere and a sky of dismal, leaden hue. However, as there was no actual downfall, the events were not interrupted. The first contest on the programme was the choristers' race. After this the finals of those races, whose heats had been decided on Saturday, were run off. The sack race, which afforded the usual amusement, was won by Button iii., who distanced all his taller competitors. The quarter-mile open was won by Hadley, time 60 i-5th sees. The high jump (junior) resulted in a victory for Faram with 3ft. 11 in. The open high jump was an interesting contest between Hargraves and Clarke ii. ; the former at the fourth attempt cleared 4ft. 4in., in which Clarke failed to follow him. Littlebury was placed first in the old boys' match. The consolation race presented the usual motley array of boys of all sizes and ages in every kind of garb. Hadley is to be congratulated on winning the medal. The officials were as follows:—Judges, Rev. W. E. Bolland and Mr. H. Clarke; starter, Mr. H. C. T. Franklin ; stewards, Rev. W. E. Bolland, Mr. H. Clarke, Mr. H. C. T. Franklin, Mr. E. D. Jordan, and Mr. J. H. Hooper; timekeeper, Mr. E. D.
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Jordan ; committee, T. A. Branthwaite, H. H. Quilter, H. W. Bolland, H. Button, and P. Webb; treasurer, Rev. W. E. Bolland; honsees., W. H. Hill and H. Button. The following is from the Worcestershire Echo of April 17, 1890:— The second and concluding day's sport in connection with the Cathedral Grammar School took place on Wednesday afternoon, on the County Cricket Ground, at Boughton. Notwithstanding that the previous night had been wet, and that the meteorological aspect still remained threatening, a numerous company of relatives and friends of the boys was present. On Saturday the following events were contested :— 120 Yards' Handicap (open).—First heat, F. Hadley I, J. West 2, H. Button 3. loo Yards, under 15.—First heat, D. Laurie I, E. Goldring 2. Second heat, F. Faram I, J. Purton 2. too Yards (Open).—First heat, F. Hadley. Second heat, H. Quilter i, J. West 2. Third head, W. Finch. Throwing Cricket Ball.—Prize, a bat.—J. Chamberlain, 68 yards, I ; F. Hadley, 65 yards, 2. Long Jump, under 15.—Prize, a bat.—Faram, I3ft. 4in. Long Jump (Open).—Prize, a gong.—W. Finch, I5ft. Sin. One Mile, under 15.'—1st prize a bag, 2nd prize a clock.—D. Laurie i, Goldring 2. Time, 5min. 38sec. Mile Open.—1st prize presented by the Rev. W. E. Bolland, 2nd a clock, 3rd a knife.—Button I, Hadley 2, Quilter 3. The following events were contested on Wednesday :— 100 Yards Open (Final).—1st prize cup, 2nd knife.—Hadley i, West 2, Quilter 3. Time Iljsecs. 100 Yards, under 15 (Final).—1st prize album, 2nd knife.— Laurie I, Faram 2. Time, I2fsecs. High Jump (Open).—Prize presented by Mr. Cooper.— Hargraves I, G. Clarke 2. Height, 4ft. 4in. Quarter Mile, under 15.—ist prize presented by Mrs. Bolland, 2nd cruet.—Laurie I, Faram 2, Goldring 3. 120 Yards Handicap (Open) (Final).—1st prize cabinet, 2nd racquet, 3rd studs.—West I, Hadley 2, Hargraves 3. Time, I3±secs. High Jump, under 15.—Prize, writing case.—Faram I, Fuller 2. Height, 3ft. i lin. Quarter Mile (Open)—ist prize presented by R. W. Binns, Esq., 2nd cup.—Hadley I, Quilter 2, Hargraves 3. Sack Race.—Prize, album.—A. Button I. H. Hargraves 2. Old Boys' 120 Yards Handicap.—1st prize inkstand, 2nd cigar case.—Littlebury I, R. Webb 2. Time, 14 sees. Half Mile Handicap (Open).—Ist prize presented by the Masters, 2nd aneroid, 3rd pencil case.—West I, Hargraves 2, Button 3. Time, 2min. 2isecs. 100 Yards Handicap (under 13).—Prize watch.—Spark I, Powell 2. Hurdle Race (8 flights).—Prize a racquet.—Quilter I, Chamberlain 2. Choristers' Race.—1st prize telescope, 2nd a knife. —Leeson I, Barford 2. Consolation Race, 220 Yards Handicap. —1st prize cup, and sleeve links, 3rd knife.—Powell I, Cook 2, Osborne 3.
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The Champion Gold Medal, to the boy who had gained the most points in the above competitions was awarded to Hadley. The Fives Tournament Cup.—Won by F. Hadley; The Rev. W. E. Bolland (the Head Master) and Mr. H. Clarke officiated as judges, Mr. H. C. T. Franklin was the starter, and Mr. E. D. Jordan officiated as timekeeper. In the evening the prizes were distributed by Mrs. Melville in the College Hall, before a crowded audience. In addition to the prizes mentioned above, those gained at the school regatta, held on April gth, were also presented. Medals were presented to the Fifth Form four (J. Chamberlain, H. Hargraves, F. Thomas, and H. Button), who succeeded in defeating the Sixth Form four, and cups were presented to H. Thomas and G. Rowland, who won the pair-oar competition. At the close of the ceremony the Head Master, amidst great enthusiasm, thanked Mrs. Melville for presenting the prizes, and also those who had contributed towards providing the prizes. He remarked that had they but been present at the sports that afternoon, they would have observed how much their kindness was appreciated by the boys. Mrs. Melville expressed to the Head Master the pleasure she had experienced in distributing the prizes. A miscellaneous programme was performed by the boys, old boys, and friends of the school. The school singing class, under the conductorship of Dr. Wareing, sang most creditably the choruses " Aldiborontiphoscophornio " (Dr. Callcott), " Horae Subsecivse (F. Farmer), and " The Cambrian Plume " (Brinley Richards), and Messrs. E. Price, F. Weaver, Jordan, and J. J. W. Stoyle, old boys, rendered the part songs "Summer Eve" (Hutton), and "Ye Catte " (Seymour Smith), for which they were accorded very hearty applause. Mr. J. J. W. Stoyle received an enthusiastic encore for an excellent rendering of Kiicken's composition, " I look up to your lattice heights," and in response substituted the pretty old favourite, "The jovial peasant." The Rev. J. H. Waugh participated in a similar reception, and in his song "Out on the deep" (Spohr) he very advantageously displayed his extensive abilities as a vocalist. Sidney Smith's " Fairy Queen," arranged as a pianoforte duet, was excellently played by M. Franklin and H. J. Hargraves, and it is superfluous to state how faultlessly so able a pianist as Dr. Wareing executed the pianoforte solos placed to his name in the programme, '' Arabesque in C " and " Novelette in F," both by Schumann. The Head Master gave a reading, " The pied piper of Hamelin," and recitations were also given by Mr. H. Littlebury (" My first and last appearance," by Turner), by Mr. H. Webb (" Jim Bludso "), and by H. Quilter (" Before Sedan," by Austin Dobson), all of which met with the hearty appreciation of the listeners. There is no doubt that the fun of the evening centred in a recitation of the scene from the Pickwick Papers, the trial of " Bardell v. Pickwick," in which the following took part :— Judge, Conacher: Sergeant Buzfuz, Dimont ; Mr. Skimpin, Faram ; Sergeant Snubbin, Bolland i. ; Mr. Phunky, Finch i; Mrs. Cluppins, Quilter ii. ; Nathaniel Winkle, Hill ; Sam Weller, Quilter i. ; Foreman of Jury, Osborne ; Dodson and Fogg, Purser i., Purton ; Ushers, West, Hargraves, Higgins ; Tony Weller, Baily i. The stage for the time being was transformed into a court, the accessories of a court of law being present. The judge and members of the bar were present in wig and gown, the usher was there, and last but not least a herald
was there with his penny trumpet with which he heralded the arrival and the departure of the judge of Queen's Bench. Sergeant Buzfuz's declamatory speech on behalf of the plaintiff was certainly the " wonder " of the trial, and the sergeant resumed his seat amidst the applause of the general public. Owing to the curtailment of the scene the counsel for the defence were not called upon to address the jury, who, notwithstanding, returned their verdict. The witness Sam Weller was exceedingly amusing, and, of course, in the words of the judge, threw "considerable light upon the case," although he told "less than the other witnesses." Mrs. Bardell's bosom friend, Mrs. Cluppins, also provided great amusement, as did the dignified gravity of the judge, who, however, was unable to stifle his snoring during the procedure of the trial. The National Anthem terminated a most amusing and pleasant evening's entertainment.
Jibes. |HE Fives Tournament, interrupted last year by the demolition of the old court, was projected this year on a larger scale. It was decided to add doubles, which, however, were never played off, but the singles were fairly interesting. The entries were pretty full, sixteen competing. Victory did not depend on a single game, but the winner of two out of three was judged the better man. Some of the results, we believe, were rather unexpected. Would it be unkind to remark that no member of the sixth was among the best four ? Appended is the score, after the first round was finished :— Second Round. Chamberlain beat Quilter i. Hargraves beat Osborne. Baily i. beat Hill. Hadley beat Quilter ii. Semi Final. Hargraves beat Chamberlain. Hadley beat Baily i. Final. Hp.dley beat Hargraves.
ing's Scholarship (Examination:. JE regret having omitted in our last issue to give the results of' the above which was held last November. The following were elected :— A. Bennett F. Dutton C. Steward F. Fuller
Worcester Cathedral School. Worcester Cathedral School. Worcester Cathedral School. Cumberland House School.
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?HIS Society has of late undergone two important changes. It has been made Parliamentary, and has been reduced to twenty members instead of containing the whole School as before. The first alteration has brought about better organization. The second was rendered necessary because the greater part of the School only obstructed debates instead of assisting them. These reforms notwithstanding, the society is still susceptible of improvement. Too many of the members are content to allow a few others to do all the talking, while they themselves merely vote without uttering an opinion. This can only be because they are too lazy or too diffident to prepare and deliver a speech. If the first, they ought to be ashamed to let such an excuse prevent them from doing their duty ; if the second they may rest assured that a little practice will soon overcome it. The art of expressing ideas intelligibly is always a useful acquirement, and it is in such societies as this that it can be learnt with a little trouble. All members are therefore urged to find out beforehand something about the subject under discussion, and to come to the meeting fully prepared to take part in the debate. Two meetings have been held since the reconstitution of the Society.
At an ordination held in Worcester Cathedral on Sunday, March 2nd, the Gospel was read by H. E. E. ARTHURE, B.A., Oxon (O.V.), who was ordained deacon, being afterwards licensed to a curacy at Rugby.
On March 17 Quilter I. moved " That Imperial Federation is impracticable." Branthwaite seconded the motion, which was opposed by Conacher and Dimont, and rejected by a large majority.
W.H.WEBB (Hertford College, Oxford) rowed in his College eight.
On May 21 Conacher moved "That there will be sooner or later a political and social revolution in this country." Rowland and Dimont opposed the motion. On the votes being taken they were found to be equally divided. The Speaker then gave his casting vote against the motion, which was accordingly lost.
A. PEARSON (Gonville and Caius College, Cambridge) stroked the first Caius boat in the Lent races, and in the May races rowed second in the second Caius boat.
At the next ordination held on Sunday, June ist, R. P. QUILTER, B.A., Lond. (O.V.) was ordained deacon and read the Gospel. He was afterwards licensed to a curacy at Dudley. The usual school services were held during Lent, 1890, on Tuesday afternoons, in the Lady Chapel. The following is the list of preachers :— Tuesday, Feb. 25 .. .. THE DEAN. ,, „ ,, „
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CANON MELVILLE. REV. DR. QUILTER. REV. F. RICHINGS. CANON CLAUGHTON.
E. A. WHITE (Meeke Scholar, Hertford College, Oxford) has been elected to a mathematical scholarship of ^100 a year. He was also mentioned as " Proxime Accessit" for the Junior Mathematical (University) Scholarship. A. P. HIGGINS (Downing College, Cambridge) was placed second in the second class Law Tripos, June, 1890. G. W. H. BIRD (Emmanuel College, Cambridge) has passed his B.A. Examination with second class honours in Natural Science Tripos, and also at the same time the second examination for M.B. in medicine and surgery.
R. NEWTON MARTIN ran in the quarter mile for the United Hospitals in the last races against Cambridge University.
W. H. COUNSELL (Cavendish College, Cambridge) stroked his College boat in the May races, and is captain of the first Cavendish boat.
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J. Noake, Esq.—Worcestershire Nuggets. Liddell—Frank Wetherell (Metcalfe). The following have been purchased for the Library—Hero Worship, Past and Present (Carlyle) ; Father Damien (Clifford) ; Early H. HARGRAVES has obtained a naval clerkship Britain (Church) ; My Rectors. taking fifth place in the examination. Since going to press we hear that E. A. WHITE, Mathematical Scholar Hertford College, Oxford, has been placed by the Mathematical Moderators in the first class. We have also The Editors do not hold themselves responsible for the opinions of their Correspondents. received private information to the effect that he All letters intended for insertion in these columns must be was the first man of his year. Such a unique authenticated by the name and address of the sender, not necessarily for publication, but as evidence of good faith. distinction has not fallen to the lot of a member Every facility will be afforded for the discussion of matters of interest to the School, but a rigid compliance wth this rule of the school for many years. We offer White will be enforced. our heartiest congratulations. The Editors acknowledge with thanks the following Magazines : — Felstedian, Ulula, CRICKET AND ROWING. Tonbridgian, Brucian, Camcrosshurstian, OldTo THE EDITORS OF THE "VIGORNIAN." hallian, Ipswich School Magazine, Bromsgrovian, Dear Sirs,—At the risk of adding more inky Raven, Ousel, Denstonian, Leodiensian, Portmatter to what has already been somewhat cullis, Portsmouthian. blackened I again take up my pen to bewail the School Rowing Club grievances. What, then, are these Captain of the School... T. A. BRANTHWAITE. grievances ? Briefly these—(i) the non-existence of a Rowing Club during the Midsummer term ; Chairman of the Vlth Form Meetings ... C. T. DlMONT. (2) the undue expenses incurred in the-Cricket Captain of Cricket ... H. W. BOLLAND. Club. . Captain of Boats ... H. H. QUILTER. On the first point we are generally answered Captain of Football ... H. H. QUILTER. that the cricketers have given up the Easter term Secretary of Fives ... H. HADLEY. entirely to the use of the rowers, nay, more have Librarian ...... C. T. DlMONT. themselves deigned to patronize rowing. MarSecretary of Chess Club H. M. CONACHER. vellous condescension and considerateness ! To think that a term during which our field is generally under water or the weather is too cold for cricket should be given up to the exclusive benefit of rowers ! And yet the rowers are not >!HE Librarian begs to thank the grateful! Are the floods during Easter term no following for donations of books : — drawback to rowing ? Is not the cold as great Very Rev. the Dean — Skeat's a discomfort to those rowing or at least to those Etymological Dictionary ; Mrs. Cowden coaching ? Why should the cricketers appropriate Clarke's Concordance to Shakespeare ; the only pleasant months in the year ? three copies of Trench's Synonyms of the Again we are told that rowing during the New Testament. summerluresaway the cricketers—complimentary The Head Master— Looking Backward to the superior attractions of rowing—but I think (Bellamy). that it is not so. There are several fellows in G. W. H. BIRD plays in the Emmanuel College tennis six. H. KNOTT is in the Downing College cricket eleven.
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the upper part of the School who can never be for the benefit of the School ? nay, in time we induced to play cricket, but are only too glad of might have our own barge with an ample supply an opportunity of rowing. These would be quite of boats. In conclusion I would beg the cricketers if sufficient to form material for a school four. Not they object to aught in this letter to let us have once only have I heard strangers express astonishment that we, who have the use of perhaps plain reasons for their objections instead of the best river in England, so seldom put in a talking vaguely about " agreements " which have never been made and " the good of the School," crew at a regatta. I know that it is impossible for the same as if the cricketers were its sole custodians. individual to row and play cricket during the Yours truly, same term with any credit, yet surely the H. H. Q. cricketers would not miss those who hardly ever [Our correspondent exhibits strange ignorance put in an appearance on the field. of facts which we thought were generally known. We are constantly informed that cricket is the (1) The experiment of rowing in the summer " School " game. I do not profess to understand term was recently tried, and for various reasons this term. If it means a game played by some was so unsuccessful that the Head Master could not allow it to be repeated. members of the School I grant the statement; (2) The subscriptions of which he speaks were if it means the popular game I entirely deny it. collected originally for the athletic sports, the In the fifth and sixth forms all, with two or three surplus to be devoted to cricket. Of late years exceptions,are rowers ; perhaps a half, if as much, grants have been made for football and also to the Rowing Club, though the latter at first prided are cricketers. By a foot-note to my last letter I itself on being self-supporting. am informed that the change (upon having the (3) The new roller was bought out of the Fives Easter term instead of Midsummer for rowing) Court and Pavilion Fund. The telegraph is for was welcomed by those who are really rowers. the benefit of the rowers, who naturally attend Methinks I remember the disconsolate if not to watch the cricket matches, as much as the players. angry looks of the rowers on hearing of this (4) The cricket eleven do not have their change, but I call to mind no expressions of expenses paid, except the charge of drags for welcome, though I have had every opportunity, short distances.—EDS. Vig.~\ perhaps more than even you, Sirs, of discovering the general opinion. At the same time I am glad that you think we have not acted dishonourably CRICKET. by breaking any agreement. To THE EDITORS OF THE " VIGORNIAN." In considering the expense it seems at first somewhat disproportionate that while only £$ Dear Sirs,—Kindly allow us to attract the of the common funds is spent in rowing, and £11 attention of the cricket element of the School to in football, over £20 should be spent on cricket. the fact that the practice for junior members of We must, however, remember that cricket is the Cricket Club is shamefully neglected. No necessarily an expensive amusement. Still surely support in the way of encouragement or coaching there has been some extravagance. Was it is offered by the senior or present members of necessary to have a new expensive roller and the eleven. The consequence of this deplorable telegraph board ? Again, when a football match neglect is that when the time comes each succesis played the team defrays all its expenses. Why sive year for the election of new members for -all this money spent on drags, etc., for the the " eleven," those who ought to be ready to cricketers? Could not some of this money be fill the vacant places are found to be in a wofully tetter utilized by buying one if not more boats unfit state to face the teams with which our eleven
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has to cope. A little judicious coaching might in some measure remedy this, and it is to be hoped that next season, if not this, something may be done in the matter. Yours, etc., Two JUNIORS. [It appears to us that the eleven need all the practice themselves that they can find time for. It is a great pity that we have not been able to secure a professional coach.—EDS. Vigl\
THE MUSEUM. To THE EDITORS OF THE " VIGORNIAN." Dear Sirs,—There has long been a rumour in the School that we are going to have a Museum. Is this true? If so, why is it not started at once ? It is no good waiting for the imaginary nigger drums promised by the black boy. I say start at once, there is no time like the present. Yours truly, A DISAPPOINTED BUG-COLLECTOR. [We confess that we do not altogether understand our correspondent. Doubtless the Museum will be a considerable ornament to the School, but several obstacles prevent its formation with that feverish haste advocated by him. The meaning of his observation about the " imaginary nigger drums " entirely escapes us, though doubtless these relics would be a great attraction in the collection. However, their arrival—possibly our correspondent can give us the date, as the black boy has apparently taken him into confidence about this approaching bequest—will clear up all doubts as to their nature. How they will allay the cravings of a disappointed bugcollector we likewise fail to see.—EDS. Vigl\ [We have also received a letter from " Thersites." However, so well do the clothes of his assumed character fit him that we think it would be a great pity not to keep the comedy up as far as possible ; accordingly we have treated him with the consideration due to that individual. He apparently takes a great interest in the VIth form meetings, and would like to see the results published. As he may have been
actuated by sincere motives in his requeit, we will tell him that the Vlth reserve to themselves the power of giving or withholding statements as they please. It seems to be a new departure of a democratic age for thfe Vlth to be responsible to lower forms.— G. K. F.'s letter, with the other cricket news, is held over till next issue.—EDS. Vig.~\
Instead of a Chess Problem we give a short and interesting game recently played at the British Chess Club. As an exercise to our chess players we suggest a careful examination of all the variations arising from different moves of White at the 13th and 15th moves, and we offer a book on Chess Openings as a prize to the best solution of these various endings. (Eemove White's Q K from the board.) WHITE BLACK. (giving Queen's Knight.) 1. P to K 4 I. P to K 4 2. P to K B 4 (a) 2. P to Q 4 3. P x P 3. Q x P 4. Q to K 2 4. Kt to Q B 3 5. P to Q 3 5. Kt to Q 5 6. Q to K B 2 (&) 6. B to Q B 4 7. Q to K 3 7. Kt to K B 3 8. Castles (c) 8. Q x Q E P 9. P x P 9. Q to E 8 (ch) 10. K to Q 2 10. B to Q Kt 5 (ch) 11. P t o B 3 11. Q x P(ch) 12. K to K sq 12. Q x P (ch) (d) 13. B to Q 2 (e) 13. Kt to B 6 (ch) 14. K to K 2 14. Q x P (ch) 15. B to K 3 (/) 15. Kt to Q 6 (mate) (a) This move is very dangerous if Black refuses the gambit. The Q to K is required in this opening to drive back the Black Q at move 5. (6) Q cannot take P (ch) because Black will exchange Queens and then take B P (ch), winning the E.
THE VIGORNIAN. (e) White evidently thought that if the Q checked, his K had plenty of room to get away, while the Black Q had to escape from the E. (d) Better than taking with the B, for if White covers with the B Black's attack comes to an end. (e) Covering with the E leaves mate on the move, but Q to Q 2 gives rise to very interesting variations. (/) If White covers with the Q, White can mate without losing another piece.
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(DIb ligornians' dinner. The first Old Boys' Dinner was held on Monday evening, December 30th, 1889, at the Bell Hotel. Seventeen " Old Vigornians " attended, and the Eev. James Went, Head Master of Leicester School, presided. The guests invited were the Eev. W. E. Bolland and the late Eev. M. Day, present and past Head Masters ; but Mr. Day was unfortunatelyprevented from attending. After the toast of " The Queen " had been honoured, the Chairman gave " The Guests," which was replied to by the Eev. W. E, Bolland in the absence of Mr. Day. " Prosperity to the Cathedral School" was proposed by Mr. Albert Webb, and the Head Master responded. Mr. J. B. Matthews afterwards proposed the health of the Chairman ; and Mr. Samuel Southall gave " The Secretaries," for whom Mr. Jordan replied. The toasts were interspersed with songs, and although the number present was not large, the dinner was a very successful one, and a very pleasant evening was passed. The following Old Boys were present:—Messrs. W. Branthwaite, W. E. Cooper, II. G. Davies, T. Dutton, A. P. Higgins, Walter Holland, E. D. Jordan, H. W. Knott, B. Littlebury, T. Littlebury, J. B. Matthews, S. Southall, Arthur Walsh, Albert Webb, P. Webb, W. H. Webb, Eev. James Went. It is hoped that the dinner may become an annual institution. The Secretaries (School House, Worcester), will be much obliged to any Old Boys who wish to be present at the next dinner, if they will kindly send their names and addresses ; on receipt of which they will inform them, at the earliest opportunity, of the date and place when arranged.
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