It’s notable that part of the controversy about the case related to the fact that he was also struck with a Blackthorn walking stick after the cane was broken and this was considered an inappropriate instrument – but the cane had been appropriate, meaning that by 1835, it’s use at Rugby was accepted and non-controversial rather than any sign of it being new. However, in another case that also caused controversy a couple of years earlier (‘The March Case’ which was loosely fictionalized in the recent Tom Brown’s School Days starring Stephen Fry as Doctor Arnold, and which many people complained was not from the book), the birch was used.
Origin and Reason for using the Cane4
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Catholic School in New England23
My underpants were dry, thank God. Most of the last half-hour of class was lost in a blur. Mother...
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Plimsols Pumps Slippers & Slippering 24
The gym mistress in my school was a lesbian. The gym mistress at my old friend’s school who whacked...
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Mrs Wilkins112
The older you are, the more embarrassed you’ll feel about being treated like a naughty little boy. If you...
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Six Strokes Of The Cane9
26. … Belief in the use of corporal punishment of that nature would not be protected by article 9....
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Just Desserts9
I sink into that tub when it’s like that and drift off to sleep. Then, when I sort of...
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Suspect Teacher who Meted out C.P in the 1950s10
For some reason he was always much gentler smacking girls bottoms than he was their upper bare legs although...
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The Cane and the Double Standard19
It seems to me that students are students. Each has a specific socio-psychological profile which determines whether they are...
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How many strokes 9
A boy I knew at Grammar School did once tell me how he was given two sixes in the...