V.F.O. Francis, Headmaster: “In second term, Mark Stump told Francis that the staff had lost confidence in him as...
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Carey Grammar School. Mr Harold Steele, Headmaster: “School ended at 3.45 pm except for those boys undergoing detention, the...
Michael Aikman, Headmaster: “When an article in The Age treated Haileybury’s traditional educational programme under the provocative (but misleading)...
Inclined to eccentricity, he was known to declare in terrible tones that ‘I’ll tear you limb from limb and...
“In 1967 with I.M. MacGregor’s death Haileybury lost a prime mover in the Keysborough project, and an influential English...
“The ordered march to Brighton was replaced by a trip to North Brighton Drill Hall when R. Nicholl and...
“There were English precedents for Rendall’s reputation as a disciplinarian. Dr. Bradby, aided by ‘The Old Man’ and housemasters...
After Cumbrae Stewart’s unjust caning, Rendall patted his head and said how well he had taken his punishment –...
Others maintained that Rendall could pin a boy’s head between his big knees while he repeatedly caned the posterior....
An occasional Old Boy has described Rendall as sadistic, but that is unfair in the context of school norms...
Haileybury College (named after the school of the same name in Britain). This history is ‘Haileybury College: The First...
“In class a form of educational Darwinism emerged in junior and middle secondary areas. Bright boys survived and did...