THE PETERITE Vol. XXXIII
JANUARY, 1941
No. 296
EDITORIAL. It is a sign of the strange normality of school life during the past term that the only thing for us to wonder at is the lack of anything new or strange. This rather negative quality is nevertheless the greatest boon which we could ask in times such as these, and we have truly appreciated being allowed to " keep the noiseless tenor of our way, along the calm sequestered vale " of term in times of such storm and stress. The war, though very real to us all, is also very remote, and has little effect on school life; what little it has, being entirely indirect. And so we must write of a term which can only claim to be strange because it is normal. Poor material! This would have been an untroubled term even for peacetime, for not even the weather has done anything remarkable. In fact, weather, war, and everything else have conspired to make this a poor editorial, for not even an editor can make bricks without straw. And yet this is the task that confronts us every term, more or less, and the strain of it is gradually turning our hair white as the driven snow. Perhaps one day something will happen (Oh frabjous day ! calloo! calloy!) ; something pleasant but unusual; something, in short, to write about. This is, however, a very remote possibility; we despair of it ever happening, and so we fear that our readers will have to bear with us through many editorials which do nothing but explain at great length that we have nothing to say. Our readers' fate is perhaps more horrible to contemplate than our own! The First XV were amply provided with fixtures last term, and many very good games were played. Of the fourteen matches played, six were won and eight lost. R.A.F. teams gave the School some very good games; all the usual School matches were played, and on the whole the season has been a good one. Very few of the First XV seem to be leaving, which bodes well for next year (this term very few of last year's team were left). As was announced in our last issue, it has been thought desirable, in the present emergency, to discontinue the usual
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