The Spike or Victoria College Review, June 1905
Held at Wellington, Easter, 1905
Held at Wellington, Easter, 1905.
"Nay, I'll come: if I lose a scruple of this sport, let rue be boiled to death with melancholy."
—Twelfth Night.
The Tournament of 1905, to which Victoria College had been looking forward with so much anxiety for many months, is over. With it the first cycle is complete; the venture inaugurated in Christchurch in 1902 has passed from its experimental stage and been "launched"—to borrow an American mixture—"down the ringing corridors of time." Success, in fact, has followed the flag—and it was the recollection of good weather and the good management provided by the other centres which gave such a nervously pathetic and agitated appearance to the Victoria College students who gathered at the Manawatu Station on Good Friday night to welcome the Auckland representatives and drive them to their homes through the pelting rain. The southern students, who had arrived by the "Mararoa" in the sunshine of the morning, were, we doubt not, thinking things about the climate of the City of Wellington. Saturday dawned cold, gloomy and windy, but without rain and clearing steadily. It only remained for the Mayor, with sturdy optimism, to declare that Wellington would rise to the occasion and the thing was done. The Fates were defeated and Jupiter smiled.