THE
PETE R IT VOL . IX .
MAY . 188 9 .
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No . So.
SCHOOL LETTER. IN- CE the last appearance of the Peterite very little has occurred to make the task of procuring information for a school letter any easier than usual . The football fixtures, which were very numerous and interesting, were, after two matches, hopelessly cancelled, owing to the epidemic of mumps that unfortunately broke out . Boating was therefore prematurely resorted to, but very little useful practice of any sort could be obtained, owing to so many prominent oars being on the sick list ; consequently the school-house at least could not begin regular practice till considerably later in the term, and the gap that ensued between the decease of football and the revival of boating was neither very easily nor very profitably filled up . The number and violence of the floods has this year been considerably less than usual, perhaps owing to the recent improvements in the river at Nahum Lock, which is a matter for some congratulation. The school have had, of course, to "scratch" for the Yorkshire Public Schools ' Challenge Cup this year, which has consequently fallen to Ripon, whom we beat at the beginning of the season, but who inflicted a rather severe defeat on a hardly representative team later on . Arrangements have been made for the competition next year, and several large schools have been induced to join . Apropos of football, the authorities are taking steps to secure, if possible, a better and more convenient field than the one we have at present, and some mention was made of one belonging to the North Riding Asylum, on the Skelton Road, but nothing definite, we believe, has been arranged at present. The Debating Society was again brought into existence this term, and flourished like the proverbial green bay tree while the evenings were dark enough to prevent any superior attraction arising . With the return of finer weather and longer evenings the fascination of athletics
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