To Grog or not

The students questioned whether the rule was necessary anyway. There was nothing to stop them drinking outside and coming back a little inebriated. Better, they suggested, would be a system where students could have drink with permission of the warden (as in O'Rorke in Auckland) provided students under 21 first obtained permission of their parents.

The anonymous students also accused Dr. Harvey of a seeming lack of interest and perhaps a personal bias in dealings with students.

If you weren't known, they said, your chances of getting back to Weir improved. On the other hand, Dr. Harvey did not go out of his way to know his charges and often did not even acknowledge them when he met them.