THE PETE RITE Vol. XXXIV
FEBRUARY, 1942.
No. 299
EDITORIAL. Once again we look back upon a Christmas Term, the term which is, perhaps, in many respects, the best of all. It stalks majestically along, punctuated with events of note, to end triumphantly with the Carol Service and the Play. For some the past term has been the beginning of school life, for others the end. We hope, and, indeed, are sure, that it has been a happy beginning and a happy ending. The term has been notable for the introduction to us of the new Dean of York, the Very Reverend Eric Milner-White. It was, perhaps, a happy coincidence that at his first official visit he took part in our Carol Service, that Nine-Lesson Service with which he was so intimately concerned at King's College, Cambridge. He was with us again for our performance of " Macbeth," and those of us who made his personal acquaintance during the last weeks of term can have no doubt that the school is fortunate in its new Chairman of Governors. We publish elsewhere an appreciation of the Dean by Chancellor Harrison, and we ourselves must be content here to extend to him a sincere welcome into our midst. Of the events of a crowed term it is unnecessary to speak here. They are recorded on other pages. We may, indeed, single out one or two items. The achievements of the School in the field of Open University Scholarships should not pass unnoticed, and both Long and Dodd deserve very real thanks for the undoubted fillip their example has given to the VIth Form work. The XV is to be congratulated on a successful season crowned by a notable victory over Ampleforth, one of the strongest Public School sides of the year. In some respects the production of " Macbeth," with which the term ended, was perhaps the greatest success of all. Boldly, perhaps, the Dramatic Society ventured on a return to Shakespeare ; boldly because it is an undeniable fact that schoolboy Shakespeare is so often no more than a dutiful aspiration. In the event the production was, by general assent, genuinely Shakespeare without any qualification of " schoolboy." All concerned are to be
