“So the prefects in 1966 caned a boy for ‘wearing school uniform improperly in a public place, and thereby lowering the name of the school.'”

“Alan Hartman (1970) tried to organise an anti-Vietnam War protest group at the school in 1968, and ‘was caned for some other minor disciplinary infraction at the same time… the first and only time I was caned in my entire 6 years at Scotch’.

“Railway enthusiasts formed a club in the 1950s, averaging about 50 members a year. Under Dr Mendel, it held weekly meetings, films and excursions. They built a model railway layout in a hut near the rowing pool, and rebuilt it in 1965. In 1966 a boy was caned for damaging it.”