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DECEMBER,
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No . 113.
SCHOOL LETTER. iE term is steadily- q dvaiming, and many of us are already looking forward to the time when detention school will no longer be visited on him who has either been loth to leave his bed
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or has had bad luck in being put on in translation which he has not done The Football team has not been as successful as in recent years, chiefly owing to the fact that we are lighter than we have ever been before, and have been severely handicapped In the inability of Shepherd to play in any but School matches, whilst Ilavyo di has not been able to play this season, and Romans of late has been disabled . We played two pleasant games with Giggleswick and Durham, both of which we lost, though we might have drawn the latter with a dry ball had we taken more of our chances . We were al s o a dropped goal to the bad in a match with Ripon at York, in course of which the Referee found it necessary to award us some dozen free kicks against our opponents for offside play . In our position as the chorus or moralizing spectators, the game seemed too rough to be agreeable . To pass to pleasanter subjects, the School Play is advancing with rapid strides under the able management of Mr . Yeld, and though the subject is perhaps as difficult as any that can be found in Shakespeare ' s plays, we do not doubt but that a ` Midsummer Night's Dream will be as great a success as last year's ` Merchant of Venice .'