fagging

The fagging of the schools is repeated in the social classes.

However, unofficial fagging did persist beyond this change for some time.

The fagging is a trait of the same quality.

The chapel, and the institution of "Fagging", grew in importance in this period as well.

I felt at the time, and I feel still, that this (unlike the fagging) was the sort of thing no sensible boy could object to.

That is why I felt so embarrassed, a few pages ago, when I had to confess that I got rather tired of perpetual fagging.

Other reforms he instituted at Fettes included the abolition of personal fagging - part of the tough traditional system at the school where prefects held considerable power.

But then, I wonder if he sees Rowntree as a hero - his coalition and Bullingdon cronies come across more like the vile prefects and their fagging.

Over the next 40 years personal fagging was abolished (ending in 1965), and the intellectual life of the school was revitalised (particularly under the Headmastership of Michael McCrum).

During his Eton College days, Nicholas Ridley's fagging had been Tam Dalyell, later Labour Party (UK) MP for West Lothian.

The practice of personal fagging faded away during the 1970s and 1980s, but to some degree has been maintained in former colonies or has been replaced by systems which require junior boys to do tasks for the benefit of the general school community.

This state of things should have been to me a paradise of peace, accustomed as I was to a life of ceaseless reprimand and thankless fagging; but, in fact, my racked nerves were now in such a state that no calm could soothe, and no pleasure excite them agreeably.