THE
PEMRITL. Vol,. X .
MAY,
1 887 .
No . 67.
SCHOOL LETTER. INCE our last letter another term has seen its close, and another sport its season past . Boating, which is now a thing of the past, was the all-absorbing and the all-engrossing pastime within and without the house . Taking the races as a whole, we may congratulate ourselves that they have gone off in a decidedly satisfactory way, and certainly no one can deny that we have been highly favoured in point of weather, a most important requisite for the enjoyment of sports of every description . Looking at the Senior Fours races, Mr . Gilbert's House boat, though defeated by the School House, yet undoubtedly deserves a word of commendation for the capital race which it—though by far the weaker boat—managed to make of it . The victors then had to face the Day Boys' boat, and in their turn had to own defeat, although, in our opinion, and as we heard it expressed by others, they were the better boat, and would probably have won the race had the course been a hundred yards longer . In the remaining Senior Fours races between the Sixth, Civil, and School, the Civil carried off the cups after two victories over the School and the Sixth . In passing, we should like to suggest that the School boat another year go in for a little more practice, as judging from their most creditable performance for the first time together in the race, they might easily have turned the scales and come out conquerors instead of conquered, had they been out together before they met their opponents . With regard to the Senior Pairs, all who had looked forward to witnessing an exciting and even race between J . G . Wilson (stroke), R . Crosthwaite (bow) v . J . E. Gofton (stroke), H . W . Allan (bow), were sadly disappointed in their hopes, as Wilson's boat from the first took the lead, and steadily increasing it, assisted by a mistake on the part of Gofton's cox, won, after a wretchedly hollow race, by about ten lengths . The School
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