The prefects’ claim to rule boys’ lives outside school, and their savage punishment of ordinary social behaviour like smoking, began in the 1960s to be questioned. Doug Eager (Captain 1963) increasingly caned boys for disrespect to school officers. A letter in Satura, entitled ‘Pres and Queues’, mocked school officers’ privilege in the tuckshop to go to the head of the line. Charles Ream (1964), an American, told a Prefects’ Meeting ‘he disagreed with the prefect system anyway’.