Fagging carried with it well-defined rights and duties on both sides.
The system of fagging, whereby younger pupils were required to act as personal servants to the most senior boys, was phased out during the 1970s and 1980s.
His aim was to produce a modern public school concentrating on the individual, without the unpleasantness of fagging or arcane names then common in other schools.
In it he commented on the system of fagging in public schools.
Older boys expected respect and obedience from younger boys, although not fagging.
Under school rules, fagging might entail harsh discipline and corporal punishment when those were standard practices.
These practices, known as fagging, were partially phased out of most houses in the 1970s.
However, unofficial fagging did persist beyond this change for some time.
