The first eight chapters of the school history are devoted to Mentone College, and some of the quotes come from there. There’s also discussion of the history of education in the area around Mentone – it’s considered interesting because there are so many schools in that small area (5 large secondary schools today). One quote, referring to Meeres school relates to that (it was the first school in the area.

Mentone College had a close link to Xavier whose history’s I have already quoted from – Thomas McCristal, founder of Mentone College, had been a student at Xavier in its second year of operation, and was one of Xavier’s first laymasters. He deliberately modeled his school on Xavier.