St Bede’s:

Brother Julian, Headmaster: “In each class there was always a bright student who somehow translated Julian’s incomprehensible instructions and was able to keep him at bay by answering the hard questions. But the day would come (frequently) when the bright boy would be away, or would make a mistake, and the Julian would hand the keys of his office to the messenger boy, usually his favourite boarder, and the class would know the fear of expectation. “Go and get Sammy”, he would say, and the boy would return with a four-foot cane which Julian used on the group of quaking Latin students who had been ordered to the front of the room for missing some finer point in the language.