it moved smoothly and successfully through the full and varied programme which is reported in the pages which follow. As usual, the culmination of our activities was the School Play, which, despite the producer's gloomy forebodings (one might almost add again "as usual" !) and a serious last-minute threat from illness, proved in the event one of our most successful productions and was enthusiastically received by large audiences. We would congratulate those concerned on the choice of the play. It is no easy matter to find plays which fulfil all our requirements and are worthy interludes in the Shakespeare sequence. "Cxsar's Friend", by Campbell Dixon and Dermot Morrah, is a play of real quality and significance. It has much in common with Drinkwater's "A Man's House", which we presented in 1945. and, like that play, had the additional advantage of being less wellknown that it deserves to be. A nice judgment in the selection of our School Plays has been the corner stone on which our theatrical success has been built, and, though we realise that annually the task must become increasingly difficult, we hope that the same discernment will not be wanting in the future. The observant may notice that with this number we enter upon our fortieth volume. "The Peterite" is growing old, though, we hope. not tired. In something less than a year it will reach its loth anniversary, for the magazine has been published in an unbroken series since December, 1878, a sequence which even the two major wars did not interrupt. The complete set of bound volumes of "The Peterite" since that date is not the least valuable possession of the School Library. We would not claim that this longevity in a school periodical is a "record" (indeed we imagine that it is not); but at least we can derive satisfaction and inspiration from this continued virility.
WOLSTENHOLME BENEFACTIONS It will be recalled that in 1945 the School was given the option by the late Mr. G. J. Wolstenholme to purchase his house for the sum of £ i,000. This valuable property was thus acquired at a nominal cost through this generous provision of Mr. Wolstenholme's will and was equivalent to a gift of at least £2,500. The acquisition of this property secured the School boundary on the only side from which there appeared to be any danger. The Trustees of Mr. Wolstenholme's estate have now allocated to St. Peter's School a further £7,500. This money is to be used to finance the re-building of The Rise Boarding House in so far as this cost is not covered by the War Damage Commission, and any balance „remaining is to be applied to the general purposes of our Building 'Appeal. In order to commemorate this munificent further benefaction of Mr. Wolstenholme's estate, the name "Wolstenholme" will for the future be given to one of our Senior Foundation Scholarships. 2
