So unanimous an adhesion of the school to its leaders
no one had been sanguine enough to reckon on. It increased no doubt at
the moment the difficulties of making provision, but withal it made the
task better worth the effort.
Next morning the school was called together, and the Headmaster addressed
them, feeling, perhaps, somewhat like a general publishing a manifesto to
his troops before a campaign. It was a great experiment, he said, in
which they were sharing; let them do their best to make the result a
happy one for themselves, and for the people among whom they had come.
They were "making history," for this experience was a wholly new one,
which might not impossibly prove helpful some day to others in like
circumstances.
It is pleasant to record that the appeal was not wasted.
At the dinner-hour to-day, the full numbers being now on the spot, the
resources of the commissariat were put to the test. Some anxiety was
relieved when the supply proved sufficient; it would have been small
cause for reproach if the caterers had failed in their estimate on the
first experiment.
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