One ex-boarder remembers a friend trying to pass a note to a day student requesting the latter to buy him a packet of cigarettes after school. McCristal intercepted the note and the lad received a strapping and certainly no cigarettes. None of the Old Collegians remembered McCristal’s discipline as being unfair in any way. All recall that he was consistent and strict.”

“In school he was strict and his discipline included the use of the strap. Ex-students say that he used it for serious matters only, and that his discipline was fair.”

“It is difficult to find criticisms of McCristal. All reports of him, and those who remember him, say the same things about him – cultured, kind, scholarly and tolerant. Only one ex-student said he used the strap too much.”