THE
PETERITE. VOL. XX.
DECEMBER, 1907.
No. 183.
SCHOOL LETTER. HE Fates seem to have tried their best to prevent the publication of this number and their efforts have been rewarded with partial success. By the time that this leaves the printers' hands the School will have broken up and we shall all be scattered up and down the country to our various homes. And there we hope that our readers will try to realise the worries and anxieties that fall to the lot of the Editors : and, warmed by the influence of good Christmas cheer, to forgive them. First, then, we must pull the weather to pieces. For the last six weeks it has rained. Sometimes faster : sometimes slower ; but it has always rained. In fact we should quite miss it if it should stop. This has, of course, greatly interfered with football. As it is the XV. has met with varying success. Against Durham at home and Giggleswick the team rose to the occasion and played most excellently ; but in some other matches it has been disappointing. The Concert on November 291.1n was greatly enjoyed ; as were also Mr. Tendall's Organ Recital and his lecture on Church Music, of which accounts will be found elsewhere. As we go to press we hear that A. A. Phillips has been elected to a Hastings Exhibition : and we offer him our hearty congratulations. Christmas then is upon us, though the weather is hardly frosty and the snow is conspicuous by its absence. Still there is time for the Clerk of the weather to repent of his misdeeds. And now another cup of the generous ! and a merry New Year, and many of them, to you all, my masters 1