FOUNDER'S DAY CEREMONIES.
LONDON, December 7
It was Founder's Day at Etou yesterday, the 474 th anniversary of the founding of the college by Henry VL Commemoration services were held in the College Chapel. Special processional Psalms were chanted and prayers offered to the memory of the founder and all other benefactors, including Henry Cardinal Beaufort, William of Waynflete, Roger Lupton, Sir Henry Savile, Sir Henry Wootton, Sir Francis Rouse, Richard Allestree, Henry Godolphin, Edward Waddington, Jonathan Davies, Thomas Duke of Newcastle, John Wilder, and others. In the morning the anthem "Wfaen the ear heard Him" (Handel) was rendered and in the evening "Thou wilt keep him in perfect peace" (Wesley.) The statue of the founder in the Quadrangle was decked with a wreath of laurels and the boys were given a whole holiday. Owing to the war and the indisposition of the Provost and vice-Provost" the ban. quet usually given in the College Hall was abandoned.
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Northern Advocate, 10 February 1916, Page 1
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