Victorious

It was an age of idealism. It was an age in which an educator could write something like this and not have it tainted with cynicism or eyed with skepticism:

The coming year is full of promise, and God seems to smile upon a work that was begun and is carried on in his name. Some will naturally enquire if our only business is to gain percentages and promote boys in their standards. As well might we say that the erecting of a place of worship and collecting people in it are the chief aim of the Church, yet the building is needful, and the people are essential to the very existence of the Church. We have the boys, and we are attempting to teach them, but we do not forget for a moment that our great object is directly and indirectly to mould their characters and shape their destinies for eternity.

So went the report on the College of Wyverns in the days of the dauntless hero.