“Brother Camillus, a personable and well-meaning teacher, experienced considerable difficulty in maintaining discipline within the large junior secondary classes....
The recollections of former pupils suggest that McCristal administered discipline with firmness, though not with caprice. One former boarder...
Having examined the so-called “Six Great Schools”, it is appropriate now to consider the institutions later admitted to their...
He justified the severity of the punishment by recalling the advice given to him by Irving upon the latter’s...
Although, as he assured his pupils, he wished to govern through trust and kindness when he began his work...
The final evening of dancing in 1948 took place on 5 November. The Finlaysons arranged a combined class for...
Discipline at Melbourne Grammar School has long occupied a central place in the institution’s history, though accounts from former...
During the 1960s, the authority exercised by prefects over pupils’ conduct beyond the school grounds, together with the severe...
As early as the 1870s, corporal punishment had its detractors. The Government sought to restrict its use within the...
I encountered boys from many schools during those years; however, among those within my regular acquaintance, only the boys...
Father Christopher Nulty, S.J., who later served as Rector, was remembered as a serious and austere figure. He believed...
The 1980s marked the beginning of a markedly different approach to school discipline. In 1986, Peter Hawkins and Malcolm...