The training of a number of recruits may not be as interesting as the polishing up of champions, but in time recruits become veterans, and a school in which the standard of the ordinary play is very high has a better general chance than one that depends on an occasional _solitary_ star.

So even the little girls were strictly supervised in their practices, and both cricket and tennis showed healthy development.
The Governors and the head mistress were anxious that the games department should prosper, and gave every encouragement.

There were a larger number of tennis courts provided than fall to the share of most schools, and each form had its allotted times for play.

Athletics were indeed compulsory, every girl being required to take her due part, unless she were excused by a medical certificate.
Winona worked with the utmost enthusiasm.

As a Fifth Form girl she had, of course, to be rather humble towards the Sixth, but she felt that Kirsty approved of her.