THE
PETERITE. VOL. IV .
MARCH, 1882 .
No. 27.
EDITORIAL. N venturing to indite an Editorial on things in general connected with the School we feel that our range is so wide that we are vying in modesty with the Monkish Schoolman who entitled his book, " De omnibus rebus et quibusdam aliis ." And first of all we must express our pleasure at the general activity displayed in the athletic line of late, an activity which speaks as well for the tone of the members of the School as the long list of honours gained of late speaks for its management ; indeed, improvement mentally and physically most clearly go hand in hand . Boating and Football seem to be taking a wider range, and if victory does not always attend us in the latter, yet (if the Hibernianism may be pardoned) defeat is often a greater success than victory : it may speak better for the School to have begun Football this term and repaired the boathouse than it would do to have won nearly all our matches and carry off the Pubic Schools' Challenge prize at Henley. It is making the first effort that is the difficulty . Another sign of the increased activity is in the re-appearance of our Hydraheaded Debating Society, which, once on its legs again, has no doubt a splendid career before it. Some of this activity has been displaying itself in our columns, where various schemes have been proposed, not, we trust, with our increased numbers, altogether chimerical, with perhaps such modifications as may be suggested in the discussion which we hope will follow in our columns, and to which we invite the contributions of everybody, down to the youngest member of the first form, who takes an interest in the question. The question of the contributions of the Day-boys is a difficulty, and not to be dismissed in a short polemic as one of
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