“Occasionally a “smart aleck” would produce a steel ball-bearing and endeavour to split up the “glassies” and “agates” in...
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“There were mean-spirited boys who would insert wads of blotting paper into their classmates’ inkwells so that the dipped...
The nib, when its prongs had separated too much for writing purposes, could be attached to a paper dart...
The classroom of the 1940’s was often a dreary place for the student. Time passed on tortoise legs as...
Even the Brothers who taught well, and were liked by their students, used the strap or the ruler turned...
Corporal punishment had been used sparingly in the first few years of St Bede’s. The seniors in their tiny...
On one occasion, he and a Mordialloc boy called “Gabby” Gray had a fist fight up and down the...
Boys returned to their desk with fingers on fire with pain and faced whit with the effort of holding...
St Bede’s: Brother Julian, Headmaster: “In each class there was always a bright student who somehow translated Julian’s incomprehensible...
One ex-boarder remembers a friend trying to pass a note to a day student requesting the latter to...