212 lived up to their trade reputation, and were late in finishing their work. There is now no River Cat, and the Avenue is joined by an embankment to a road running across the top of the " Pyrenees," parallel with the touch line. The introduction last term of the Saturday Society was very welcome, and the majority of the entertainments were excellent. When the committee has learnt to select what Miss Lejeune calls good " box-office," then the School may expect even better entertainment. Despite last term's various changes, the School soon settled down to more work, and, we fear, to less games. If only the increase in work could be maintained beside the old high standard of games, an even greater step forward would be taken. However, we must look forward rather than back, for this is the Spring Term when we also must show forth a renewed life and a new zeal.
Oxforo Letter.
The Editors of " The Peterite." Dear Sirs. The first term of the Academic year is undoubtedly the most uneventful and easy-going of the three, and time glides by almost unnoticed. Schools, for some unfortunates, still lurk at a comfortable distance in the future, and the various sporting events which invariably mark the passing of time are also yet to come. " Cuppers " and " Toggers " occupy the Hilary Term; Eights Week, Schools and Commemoration have their places in the Trinity Term. The Michaelmas Term is merely marked by the arrival of a host of freshmen who invade the Union and all the political clubs. Everyone is familiar with the details of Lord Nuffield's offer to Oxford University, described in the decree of acceptance as one of " unexampled munificence," but it must be regarded, not as an impulsive gesture of goodwill, rather as a culminating effort to bring to maturity a great scheme which was conceived seven years ago, embracing the development of the Radcliffe Infirmary and the WingfieldMorris Orthopaedic Hospital. The University is once again training eight men to row against (with, or after, as you wish) a similar number from Cambridge. We hope they will justify the confidence imposed in them by the remaining four thousand five hundred odd undergraduate members of the University.
