THE
PETERITE. VOL . X .
SEPTEMBER, 189o .
No . 88.
EDITORIAL. NOTHER editorial year is now past, and once more three wretched individuals are forced to make an attempt to satisfy the rapacious instincts of Peterite eyes and ears . One of these individuals indeed already has had a year's experience of a task at once the most difficult and at the same time most thankless of all those which patriotism loudly calls on us to perform . We therefore feel justified upon reviewing our year's labours in making complaints whose truth experience only tends to prove. It is a sad fact that apart from Editors, the number of those who have helped to keep our paper in existence by written contributions does not reach a sum of two figures, and of these but five are Old Peterites. Can it be wondered then that, when so little interest is manifested in the paper, it becomes simply and merely a sports record, and that literature as a factor for reproducing original ideas is entirely neglected ? Let us hope that this appeal may reach the eyes of some who, whether through modesty, we know not, do not seem to care to realize the assistance any small contribution would give us ; may it reach the eyes of some who seem to have forgotten (especially now that the monetary status of the sports committees rest on so firm a foundation) that the School paper is not one of the least deserving of our institutions, and that a pecuniary no less than a literary contribution would be welcomed with joy exceeding great. While searching through an old book of epigrams, etc ., dated 1807, we could not help extracting the few following, which we take the liberty of placing before our readers :—
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