PETERITE. Von . XII .
JANUARY, 1S95 .
No . 1r¢.
EDITORIAL. HE last Peterite had no very special feature in it ; for, except the changing of the title " Notes and Items" to "Editorial Gossip," there was no new literary departure . It will be my endeavour, accordingly, in the following pages to produce the longest, and for aught I know the most rubbishly School Letter which has cycr appeared . And this brings me to another point . There have been many complaints among certain subscribers to this magazine which seem to me to be quite uncalled for . These people must grumble at something ; they can ' t g rumble at the cricket or football captains, for the latter would have no difficulty in rewarding them for their pains, so they grumble at the Peterite . They complain of its want of literary talent ; smallness of the magazine ; and compare it with like literary efforts in the past . I shall endeavour to prose that these charges are false, and that the fault rests not with the Editors but with the subscribers . First, as to want of literary talent :—The original purpose of the magazine was not that it should be a brilliant literary composition, but that (I quote from December number, 1878) it should contain news of the School for Old Peterites, and news of Old Peterites for the School . " Original articles by pas/ and present members of the School will be inserted for amusement and instruction ; " not by the Editors, mind you, they have enough to do with School news : and the fact speaks for itself that during the whole of the past year two articles have been contributed by past members of the School, and not one by present members, Masters excepted . Everything else has been done by
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