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the court. This case sparked controversy. The use of corporal punishment at the college was represented among French speakers as an imposition of
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of Saint Helier (also a member of the governing body) immediately lodged an amendment to the law on compulsory education then under debate, to outlaw corporal punishment in schools subsidised by the States. On 8 January 1894 the States debated the amendment. The
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would not be inflicted, there could be no justification in law for the caning, especially given that the student was not a child but of military age. He reprimanded the defendant, bound the headmaster over to act with less severity in future and released him. The headmaster's cane was confiscated by
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On 4 November 1895 Farnell went out for a coastal walk in the west of Jersey, it being half-term holiday at the
College. The alarm was raised when he had not returned home by midnight, and at 7 a.m. the next morning search parties were sent out, including boys from the College. Farnell's disfigured
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The magistrate's decision was attacked by the
Solicitor-General. The governing body (of which the Solicitor-General was a member) supported the headmaster, who was able to produce a petition signed by his students, supporting the continued use of corporal punishment. All this was in contrast to the
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he had felt obliged to put forward the amendment in the light of the recent incident at
Victoria College, and that corporal punishment was a barbaric relic. The amendment was rejected by 14 votes to 12.
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below Plémont by late morning. The body was discovered by two
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based on methods traditionally used at St Paul's. He remained there until taking up the headmastership of
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Greek Lyric Poetry: A Complete
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