Excerpt from Blundell's WorthiesSometimes in my work when turning over the pages of a faded diary or volume heavy with the dust of years, I have come across a chance word, or phrase, it may be, that reveals as in a ¿ash the feelings and affections which these men of old, for all their seeming aloofness, had in common with the boys of to-day. It was like a voice calling down the ages. 'i, too, was a Blundellian, your hopes and fears were once mine, you are my schoolfellows.' For boys and masters come and go, fashions in work and play alter with the times, but the school itself remains the same, as the river is changeless, though its waters ceaselessly ¿ow.I remember on the night of the first Jubilee, in 1887, watching from the top of the Worcestershire Beacon how, at our signal, answering fires arose. From hill to hill bright points of ¿ame shot up in the darkness, till far away to the south we marked the Mendips, and to the north, still fainter, the Wrekin's crest of light. Those beacon fires seemed to speak of unity and solidarity, and this is just the thought that arises now at the Jubilee of Blundell's. These Worthies, whose lives we value as a priceless heritage, are, surely, the beacon lights that stand out through the darkness of three centuries. May they help us to realise the unity and solidarity of a historic school.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully, any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.