“The discipline at Xavier was not so much violent as all-pervasive. Corporal punishment, however, remained a part of that...
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Father Christopher Nulty S.J. (Rector): “He was remembered as an earnest, if dour, man. He had few qualms about...
“There were, of course, other scandals and other problems. There was the case of the boy expelled from school...
Its heavy door never quite masked the sound of summary justice being administered within. Merely opening it whipped up...
“When the boys remember the Prefects, they remember their flogging ways and the guerilla war that gets created...
These quotes come from ‘Xavier Portraits’ by Greg Dening and Doug Kennedy, published in 1993. Much of that book...
Xavier College, Kew, Victoria, Australia. I attended this school from 1989-1992 (having attended one of its two junior schools,...
I don’t think it hurt at all. But I was 13 – I was one of the oldest boys...
I guess it’s true that Brother McD didn’t hit that hard – but it was still easily hard enough...
COMMENTS: I left this school in 1988 at age 13 – so towards the end of the time they...
‘Once outside for play and lunch breaks, boys saw more of those who had special responsibilities in the...
The 1980s saw the beginning of a completely new approach to discipline. Peter Hawkins and Malcolm Joseph drew up...