Its heavy door never quite masked the sound of summary justice being administered within. Merely opening it whipped up waves of suspense in boys’ minds as they prepared to proffer an excuse or present the note from their class-master which gave the reason for their execution. It was not a room for sitting or quiet counsel.”
“The dormitories were also places of high discipline. Until the 1920’s they provided some small privacy: each bed was curtained off. But even that small privacy was lost with a change to long, open lines of beds and lockers which the division Prefects could see at a glance. Breaches of silence which in the study could earn ‘penals’ or detention, here would earn a strapping.”