The following excerpts are from the preliminary chapter (“A General Survey – The Spencer Period”) of Louis Edmund Blaze’s KFE: The Story of Kingswood Kandy (pp. 14-23), which documents the author’s reflections of Kingswood’s first twenty five years. Mr. Ernest Handscombe Spencer was the son of English parents holding a high social position in the rather exclusive…
The following excerpts are from the preliminary chapter (“A General Survey – Peradeniya”) of Louis Edmund Blaze’s KFE: The Story of Kingswood Kandy (pp. 30-38), which documents the author’s reflections of Kingswood’s first twenty five years. On the 13th October came the Rev. William Goudie, Missionary Secretary, and President-elect of the Wesleyan Conference, on an official visit, accompanied…
To be frank, I’m benefiting the real outcome of those experiences only now, as I go further and further into the professional field.Today In the real competitive world, we have become a part of a race where people try to win by any means possible. No matter whether it’s right or wrong everyone wants to win. But…
I can remember during one of the rehearsals of a prize giving ceremony, our Principal instructed all the students not to bend their knees and worship the chief guest, despite the fact that he is a well-reputed personality in the country. It is not meant as an act of arrogance, but merely as an act…
This is a Big Match story: a giant leap by a small made man. We don’t know what part of it is legend, and how far the truth is “truth”, since these kind of gestures quickly become fables and myths: the stuff from which heroes emerge. But, nevertheless, here it goes. The story’s setting is 2004,…
Principals come in all shapes and sizes, and this is no exception for Kingswood, too. From the earliest days of the founding father, Louis Blaze to the current Head of Institute, the aloof Mr. M.P Weerathunga, Kingswood has so far had 16 Principals in its 125 year history. This number excludes Acting Principals like Mr….
The traditional prizes and awards that were awarded from the earliest years such as the Crowther, Luterz, and Randles Shields, the Devadasan and Shanmugam trophies were taken off out of whim. Some prizes were not judged properly. The Prologue was presented without proper understanding. Whistling in the main hall became usual. s a small kid…
The following is reproduced from a very passionately written detailed account of the Herman Loos championship win by the Kingswood Cadets in 2003. Our initial thought was to summarize this long article, but we felt that it would only take away the precision and discipline in detail the writer banks on. The original article, with many…
In the 3rd inning of the 1959 Big Match Clifford Rathnavibhushana scored an inspirational 167 which – as this story is reported in 2022 – has stood the challenge of six decades as the highest Big Match knock by a Kingswood boy. But, more than the runs, it was an inning of character and resilience….
