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PETERITE. Vot,. Xli .
JUNE, 1892 .
No . 98.
SCHOOL LETTER. O write a School letter is now, as often . only to traverse a beaten track, and summarise what is treated in detail elsewhere . Our Football team has maintained its reputation to the end of the season, and seemed hardly to feel the gaps made by the end of last term . The Debating Society has been very short-lived, owing to want of discussion among the greater part of the members, who appear to have little desire of winning immortality in this way . Next with the year rowing returns :—The School boat has once more shown the Old Boys what practise together and Mr . Miller's coaching can achieve ; we hope they will win more honours next term . The season, as regards the House and Day Boys, has been peculiar . The prospects of the latter were considered unusually bright at the beginning of the term—indeed the more sanguine entertained hopes of winning something . Their hopes, however, soon faded, and what with some leaving, some falling ill, and others turning slack, they almost despaired of the republic in a few weeks time ; they at last made a final effort, and succeeded in filling up the boats . Mr . Lord then came to the rescue, and the three boats were not beaten by much more than three lengths each, a satisfactory result as compared with the last few years . The Sixth Form boat was without exception the regatta boat, and so did not race the School. The Modern won a very tight race from the School . The two Binghams made the Pairs a foregone conclusion, and the Sculls were a case of Eclipse (S . O . Bingham) first and the rest nowhere . We have again been obliged to row in the old boats, those which the Old Boys
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