In none of the records nor in any of the answer to the questionnaire was there are any indication that at Xavier the use of corporal punishment was extravagant. Burke Hall was an exception. The Jesuits did not cope easily with the disciplining of small boys and some resorted to violence inordinately often. From time to time the superior of the Australian Mission would promulgate and re-promulgate the general rules for the punishment of boys. These rules remained constant from 1898 to 1935: