The Speech Day and .Prize Distribution was held on Wednesday, November 27th, and the prizes were distributed by Major-General E. C. Gepp, D.S.O. E. P. Bulmer has been appointed an Editor of " The Peterite." Congratulations to F. N. Buckler on his appointment as Captain of Squash, and to F. F. Steele on being appointed Captain of Hockey for the coming term. Dr.. Whitmore gave a series of lectures on what is termed " Modern Physics." These lectures were extremely instructive and interesting, and were well attended. As we hope Dr. Whitmore will continue this series, we propose leaving a detailed account to our next number, when we shall give a full account of all the lectures.
CRICKET—ST. PETER'S v. AMPLEFORTH. A correspondent, T. Watkinson, of Rose Cottage, Oswaldkirk, has supplemented the statistics (published in the last number of " The Peterite ") of St. Peter's v. Ampleforth matches by sending information relating to the years for which no record could be traced:1914 St. Peter's 58, Ampleforth 73, Away, Lost. 1915 No match arranged. 1922 Scratched. 1931 Scratched. These additions complete the record of matches played since 1890.
THE DEBATING SOCIETY. President : THE HEADMASTER. Chairman : L. C. LE TOCQ, Esq. Committee : F. F. STEELE, A. A. SHORT, G. LONG, R. L. PRYER. The first meeting of the term was held on Saturday, 5th October, and the motion was that " Athletics was a finer training for mind and body than Hockey." J. P. Corry's first point on rising to propose the motion was that training for athletics required far more selfdiscipline and self-denial than was needed for hockey, and self-denial is a good thing for mind and body. Training for athletics required strict and fixed hours—early to bed and 25
