WINCHESTER COLLEGE MEMORIAL. •
[To THE EDITOR or THE " SPECTATOR.") Sza,—As an Old Wykehamist of the generation that went from Winchester to the war, I would like to add my word to that of my late housemate—Mr. Irving. I feel sure from what I know my own feelings would be that, were I at Winchester now, I would regard the proposed memorial as an intrusion, and had I yet to go to Winchester I would no doubt think no more of it than I thought of "Crimea," "Museum," and " Commoner Gate," though they stand for Winchester's share in the Crimean War, her quincentenary, and a shrine to those who fell in South Africa. And I feel that those O.W.'s who left a Winchester without this new war memorial, and whose recol. lection of Winchester is complete as she -now stands, would find the very monument to their dead companions an intrusion upon an inheritance that has been sealed down for all time, and that is none the less to be respected because of this war, Far better, in my opinion, endow a College in one of the Colonies with the money, staff it with Old. Wykehamists, and let us raise up another school in our traditions with our motto, "Manners Makyth Man "; and let the names of the fallen be inscribed on its foundation-stone, and let Old Winchester show her gratitude to her sons by a nominal roll in some spot— for choice let into Meads Wall, where it would not alter the general appearance that we have of her, and which we treasure.
P.S.—My scheme would employ some O.W.'s who at the moment may be in uncertainty about their future.—P. K. C.
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