The history is ‘St Kevin’s College: 1918-1993’ by Chris McConville.

“Brother Paul Sebastian Mulkerns, for example, an Irishman and an asthmatic, seemed unsettled in both Australia and Ireland and moved several times between the two places. Mulkerns was an enthusiastic and an occasionally violent disciplinarian (North Melbourne students recollected that he taught often with a wooden rod in his hands).”

“They were to discover an even more aloof figure in Brother Saul, Principal from 1947 to 1949. J.A. Saul arrived at St Kevin’s with a commitment to improving study habits in the school. It was apparently Saul’s rule to make all senior boys sit with a book in hand at lunchtime, preparing for exams as they ate. Eric Stevenson, years later, remembered his first encounter with Saul.