SCHOOL v. OLD PETERITES SAT., 15TH DEC. It was with very great regret that the O.P. match was cancelled. There seemed little point in delaying the decision on Thursday evening, 13th December, when skating and sliding was still possible on the flooded riverside fields, and fog and frost persisted. From the moment when a decision was made, such a rapid •thaw set in that play definitely would have been possible by the Saturday. Our sympathies are extended particularly to John Harding, who had so successfully mustered an O.P. XV which were prepared to risk their necks against the School. The probable XV would have been :R. B. Pringle; C. K. Hudson, P. R. G. Graham, P. J. Blincoe, R. M. Hodgson; W. Graham, G. R. A. March; R. Hobson, T. 'Hobson, J. E. Stuart, J. R. Penty, E. A. K. Dennison, F. D. Browne, J. T. Harding, C. S. Shepherd. We hope they will not have been deterred from turning out another year.
THE JUNIOR SCHOOL Most of us have heard the phrase "A New Look". The so-called "New Building"—now used almost entirely by the Junior School— presented a very New Look when we returned in September, as the whole building had been re-decorated and painted during the holidays. The Form Rooms were all very spick and span, and Mr. Ping's office was so transformed and re-arranged as to be almost unrecognisable ! Anyway, we all appreciated the work that had been done and the difference it made. The beginning of the Christmas Term saw us with exactly the same number of. boys as at the end of the Summer Term, viz., 195, but during the term we collected another boy who returned to us from abroad. We also welcomed a new Master to the Junior School staff, Mr. M. Lanning, who is taking some of the Mathematics and Science. This term the Junior School had practically its own teaching staff. We were only dove-tailed into the Senior School staff for one or two subjects. P.
The sixty-three new boys were quickly settled into their respective forms, and the term has passed very normally and, indeed, very quickly. During the term several unusual and interesting specimens were brought to Mr. Ping's Nature Study lessons, notably a 31 lb. Pike which had been caught in the River Swale. Other specimens were a Snipe, a Sparrow Hawk, a Carrion Crow, a Stoat and a Grey Squirrel. 56
