Weekends were heaven as I could escape back home for two whole days, and its loss was a...
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The prefect’s father also complained, highlighting the inappropriate nature of the punishment, especially for a prefect, and criticized...
‘When school was reached Church, Dr Wilson asked him why he did not kneel said he did...
Reverend Andrew Wilson, Headmaster: “In spite of the apparent prosperity of the school in the late 1880s, the Council...
. Bromby’s response was firm but perhaps open to compromise: ‘Lockups are made sufficiently dark to prevent reading,...
“Challenging traditions : a history of Melbourne Grammar” by Weston Bate and Helen Penrose. Dr John Edward Bromby, Headmaster:...
“‘In 1935 Leighwood House, discipline here was enforced by the masters per medium of an extremely cruel horsewhip…...
In a different, parallel sequence of changes, leadership by example has been a constant but it has moved...
“The prefects’ response to bullying was mild. In 1966 a bully’s punishment was only a one-hour detention, whilst smoking...
“So the prefects in 1966 caned a boy for ‘wearing school uniform improperly in a public place, and thereby...