Professor H. M. Andrew certainly enhanced his reputation in the eyes of the stern parents who thought he was perhaps too young and inexperienced.”

Lawrence Arthur Adamson, Headmaster (generally regarded as having a claim to be Australia’s greatest headmaster): “Adamson extolled good form, and popular opinion soon swung behind his attitude. The story went the rounds that a first offender declined to avoid a beating by pleading it was his first offence. Adamson highly approved this unnecessary acceptance of the cane and commended his individual victim. ‘Could anyone fail a man like that?’ asked a contemporary scholar.