These quotes come from ‘Xavier Portraits’ by Greg Dening and Doug Kennedy, published in 1993. Much of that book is a copy of ‘Xavier: A Centenary Portrait’ published in 1978.
“Rumours of what was put into straps to make them heavy were rife. Some were tan, some were black. Some were carried everywhere, some were locked away let they be taken as trophies.”
Mr. Cornelius Hartnett, S.J (First Division Prefect).: “When one of the boys left the bicycle sports at the Friendly Society Gardens and got drunk, he recorded the appropriate punishment: an apology from the boy on his knees in the Study Hall and dismissal from the Sodality. He next had to stripe two boys for ‘excessive animal sports in the dormitory.'”