Clr Vol. XXVI.
MARCH, 1932.
No. 27o.
Editorial. As the readers of the "Peterite" well know, the Easter 'Term
is always full of events, though not unduly crowded, because everybody from highest to lowest has a chance of engaging in the multifarious activities which it provides. Besides the usual House matches the term has included drastic examinations and lasted over Easter Day itself. This particular term would have been very much to the taste of the mediaeval philosophers, who, thinking their classification all-embracing, divided mankind into three orders—those who pray, those who fight, and those who work. Certainly all three orders would 'have soon found their station and been kept fully occupied at St. P'eter's. We should not, therefore, groan at supposed mental or physical hardships imposed upon us by the rigours of an Easter Term, for during these last very comprehensive ten weeks the School has been a well-ordered community such as philosophers have dreamed ,of. Possibly the same moral was drawn from school life by the mediaeval schoolmen who taught at St. Peter's centuries ago. However, we have some more tangible satisfaction than justilying our existence, since the gods have been : gracious and sent us ",a. season of calm weather." It has been possible to carry out, for once, House matches as arranged, whilst only one hockey fixture has had to be cancelled owing to had weather, which is surely a record for Easter Term. 'Flu has claimed more victims than usual this year, and there has been an outbreak of mumps ; but our luck held, and, even though all sorts and conditions in the school were affected, ,nothing of importance had to be missed out. Of the doings of the School itself, there are three notable things to record. As a result of the open history scholarship examinations last December, J. A. Brittain has been elected a Hulme Exhibitioner at Brasenose ; N. W. D. Yardley has made a record by representing Yorkshire at squash ; and the Hockey XI are the
