THE PETERITE Vol. XL
MAY, 1948
No. 318
EDITORIAL It is perhaps inevitable that Editorial comment, written as it is on the eve of going to press, must have the Janus quality of looking both ways—backwards over the term which has passed and forward to the term on which we are just embarking. The past term, because of the early occurrence of Easter, was one of the briefest we have known and barely extended into an eleventh week. But its shortness in no way restricted the activities usually associated with this period of the School Year. Indeed, more was achieved than heretofore, since to the customary term's programme were added the School Concert and the four House entertainments, which, incidentally, though informal and purely "domestic" occasions, proved a welcome revival. The official Concert was a notable success. We have come to assume the excellence of the School singing; but considered as a whole the Concert was markedly better than the initial venture, held last year in July, and fully justified the belief that in course of time a high standard of orchestral and instrumental music can also be attained. The corollary to the early Easter holiday is a long Summer Term, one of the longest on record. Commemoration is, of course, the most ed, the important function in the calendar of the term, and is, inde culmination of the School Year. The programme will be similar to that of the two preceding post-war festivals. The Bishop of Brechin will preach the Commemoration Sermon on Sunday, the 25th July, and the prizes will be distributed by the Provost of King's College, Cambridge. One so eminent in the academic world as Dr. Sheppard will add lustre to the list of distinguished guests whom we have been privileged to welcome at our Speech Days, and we look forward to his visit with great pleasure. The continued expansion of the School has made necessary the creation of an additional boarding house which will be launched in September under the housemastership of Mr. R. F. Harding. 'The Grove' will occupy No. 17 Clifton, to be vacated by the Rise when the modernisation of their original home in the Avenue is completed. There will thus be four boarding houses, and it is proposed that the complement of each shall be approximately 5o boys. Many will applaud the choice of name for the new house. 'The Grove', of course, is a revival, since a house so styled existed until 1935, when its premises became St. Olave's, the present Junior School boarding house. We are able to publish in this issue the text of a letter written in 1697 to the Archbishop of York concerning the endowments of the
