Another story was told of a senior boy who defiantly walked through a door reserved for prefects. Although he was a senior boy, Adamson beat him. Later the boy said Adamson was right. Again there was vast contemporary approval that bad form had been punished.”

“Junior boarders were pleased to find the discipline in the senior house less strict than that to which they had been accustomed – though still strict enough by any other standard. Official discipline was enforced with lines and the cane. ‘The man who tanned the hide of us’ was the housemaster alone.”