In my time in Col A bullying didn't seem to be a problem - if it existed then it was well hidden. In theory standard punishments could be used as a form of bullying but all monitors' punishments had to go in the book, punishments tended to be overseen by a different monitor and the book could be checked by Kit. There were two cases that I was aware of - a fight in dining hall during clear-up trades which was rapidly stopped and a case where the victim was admitted to the sicker. I know Kit came down heavily on the offenders.postwarblue wrote:There were also Dining Hall punishments like having to move down the table and sit next to the Down Bottom Mons (the 4 junior monitors as opposed to the Up Top Mons at the other end) and having to eat your meals standing up at the serving table.
As to seniors and juniors, in the 50s a Horsham house basically ran itself under the monitors, the housemaster seldom interfered - even when, as AH Buck remarked after being disturbed by dormitory noise, what had passed was 'the culmination of years of disgusting bullying'. But it hadn't disgusted him enough to do anything about it.
One heard of bullying in other houses with one boy having quite a reputation