ABSTRACT
In 1910 William Byron Forbush, a Congregational minister from Vermont and founder of the boys' club, the Knights of King Arthur, greeted his young followers with this question:
Fellows! Did you ever wish you were living in the age of chivalry?
To ride out in the sunshine of flashing armor in company with brave adventure-seeking comrades, on noble quests, to dash into the tournament and fight for glory, and then to sit at the great Round Table before the splendid throne of the "Flower of Kings" — those were fine days!
It was a happy thought that about fifteen years ago suggested a partial fulfillment of old King Arthur's prophecy that he would return to the world again, when some sturdy lads, descended from Anglo-Saxon stock, over here in the New England across the sea, founded a new Round Table and called themselves Knights of King Arthur. (Boys' Round Table 5)
