THE
PETERITE. VOL. XXI.
JULY, 1914.
No. 215.
SCHOOL LETTER. HE most difficult task for an Editor is undoubtedly the School Letter, and the most difficult thing in writing a School Letter is making a start, so let us for once pass over apt quotations and get to business. At the present moment we stand in the pillory for having postponed the mid-term issue for a month and no doubt many Old Peterites are talking of what happened " in my days." Fortunately for us the School itself has had plenty to occupy its thoughts and in fact has suffered from the same complaint as ourselves, so from that quarter we have been safe. The reason for the delay has not been slackness in the School, but rather the multiplicity of events. At the beginning of the term our thoughts were all on cricket, a fortnight later the Officers Training Corps sprang into existence, then came the first cricket matches and St. Olave's Sports. Hardly were these over when our first Field Day was due and immediately afterwards we began preparing for St. Peter's Day, which this year combined the Prize-Giving with it. Our cricket season so far has been very average, not specially noticeable either way. An excellent victory over Leeds Grammar School was balanced by disappointing displays against Bootham School and Pocklington School, and Medhurst alone seems to have found his form. In Junior circles much greater interest was aroused by the formation of Leagues, a movement made
