Editorial

that he once scored two separate centuries in the same cricket match—on the same day! His connection with squash rackets must be given more than passing mention, for he was one of the greatest figures in the history of the game and to the day of his death he was the Squash Rackets Association's Vice-President. He not only captained an unbeaten England team at an age when most players have long since given up active squash, but he won the North of England Championship two years later, and for nearly forty years he took a prominent part in the game's administration. It was due to him that St. Peter's played the first Public Schools' squash rackets match in history—against his old school, Haileybury, at Queens Club in 1926—and to his encouragement that the Old Peterites played and won what I seem to recall as the first Public School Old Boys match, against Lancing, in the early thirties.

In assessing Toyne's career it would, however, be a disservice to his memory to over-stress his love of games and his great ability in playing them. Because he believed wholeheartedly in the creed of Mens Sana in Corpore Sano he fostered a great games-playing tradition at St. Peter's. But he did far more than that. By setting a tone and a standard, by widening the School's horizon and its scope so that, almost imperceptibly, it attained a greater stature and influence than at any time in its previous history, he gave St. Peter's, York, a new standing among the schools of Britain. And in the years that were left to him after his retirement I doubt whether a day passed when the school and its later achievements, of which he was very proud, were not in his mind.

The affection and sympathy of countless Old Peterites will go out to Mrs. Toyne, who came with him to St. Peter's nearly fifty years ago and shared his life so fully, and to his daughters, one of whom married one of the School's most distinguished Old Boys.

As it has recently been the policy of this magazine to encourage the growth of the Old Peterite section, it was interesting to see that the paper allegedly read by the Top People appreciates the value of this service. In the hope that it might inspire an even readier flow of news (and, incidentally, in order to avoid the grim necessity of producing an original Editorial) we reproduce the article from The Times, in case there may be one or two O.Ps. who are not T.Ps. OLD BOYS

However long it is since he left school, however dim his own career there may have been, and however much he may have grumbled about how bad the food was in his day, and how spartan the conditions of life, the average Old Boy (or F.P.) remains tied to his Alma Mater by imperishable bonds of memory and sentiment. A good many flourishing societies exist for the express purpose of keeping such O.Bs. in touch with their schools and with each other; and the annual reports or reviews of these associations are studied by their recipients with fascinated interest. "R. P. de V. Blank (1925) is still farming in Kenya, and often sees A. H. R. Dash (1924), who regularly visits the colony on business." The reader of this intelligence may not have seen, or even thought about, these two erstwhile schoolfellows for nearly forty years. His memory for the