I saw boys from a lot of schools – but of those in my daily experience, only those of Scotch seemed to have the same strength of feeling, the same types of attitudes I saw at my old school.

I’m also a bit of a snob – I was very proud of going to Xavier because it was one of the six ‘great schools’ of Victoria (the youngest of the six). I’m interested in the history of the other five (Scotch College, Geelong Grammar, Geelong College, Melbourne Grammar, and Wesley College), so I want to read their histories anyway – and as Scotch was the first established, it seems a good place to start. The others all have histories available to me as well, and I will look at those in time. No idea if they will contain information of interest to this group, though.