Tragedy
The school experienced a tragic loss in the early hours of January 1, 2009 when a lower sixth form pupil was accidentally killed at Burgess Hill railway station. Later in the year a trust fund was set up by the boys family and was launched after a donation from Virgin boss Richard Branson. Branson donated flights and a week's holiday on his private Caribbean island for a raffle, the proceeds of which went towards the fund.
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Famous quotes containing the word tragedy:
“The dignified catastrophes of tragedy bear little resemblance to the slow ruin inflicted by life.”
—Mason Cooley (b. 1927)
“The English Writers of Tragedy are possessed with a Notion, that when they represent a virtuous or innocent Person in Distress, they ought not to leave him till they have delivered him out of his Troubles, or made him triumph over his Enemies.”
—Joseph Addison (1672–1719)
“The tragedy of life is not that man loses, but that he almost wins.”
—Heywood Broun (1888–1939)