“House captains could cane. Hugh Luiggi (a founding member of Francis Brown 1937-40) remembered a boy caned for insulting...
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Sir James Darling, Headmaster: “After receiving gifts from the school and thanking them with his usual wit and power,...
Reverend Doctor Francis Brown, Headmaster: “Students felt he was almost as omnipotent as God, and nearly as distant except...
“A delay like that would have saved Wilson some embarrassment at one swimming sports in the 1870s, when he...
“Although, as he told them, he was happy to trust them and risk being let down, and although his...
“Gradually, though, Wilson had to become less demanding and even to use the tawse to support a weak master....
“He had high standards and tried to insist on the principle, expressed in his 1863 prospectus, that boys were...
The following is from a 1990 history of Geelong Grammar School – Mr John Bracebridge Wilson, Headmaster, 1863 Prospectus:...
Sir Brian Hone, Headmaster: “As was his way, Hone provided an organisational amber light. If a master wished to...
He was forced to announce this reversal and his ‘resignation’ to the whole school at an informal assembly held...
Eagle goes on to describe the silence that settled on the school in the weeks which followed these momentous...
Lyle was not one of these but was one of nine to be caned by the school captain, Ken...