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Book Review – Fruits of Virtue: an Early History of St. Joseph’s College, Colombo – By Avishka Mario Senewiratne and Dr. Srilal Fernando – By Lal Medawttegedara Source : dailymirror When we turned into the College Drive, I was of course, most anxious to get a view of the building, but in those days the present great stretch of playground was covered with fine spreading trees which hid the structure, and it was not until we arrived at the lawn in front of the Lake House that St. Joseph’s College came into view. Description of St. Joseph’s College by a teacher who accompanied Fr. Lytton to the school at the turn of the 20th Century. The above description by an unnamed teacher quoted in Senewiratne’s textual labour of love, Fruits of Virtue, is perhaps too close to the authors’ own efforts to reign in a historical narrative of one of Sri Lanka’s ...

Fruits of Virtue: The latest book on St. Joseph’s College Dear all, *New Release!* Following up on Till the Mountains Disappear, Dr. Srilal Fernando (Melbourne) and I have authored a new book Fruits of Virtue: An Early History of St. Joseph’s College. The book contains the events of the early years of the College where both the clergy and laymen took an active part in establishing the College. It contains a detailed description on the founder benefactors, the Story of the initial property and the College land in Darley Road, the benefactors and tales of the Buildings of the College, achievements of studies and sports, and the works of selected Old Boys. This publication is highly illustrated (over 300 photo graphs)and printed by Aitken Spence Printing. The book is a collector’s edition limited to only 400 copies, each of them numbered. Here is your chance to reserve your own piece ...