Leadership at the school was in the hands of the masters, but, as with most schools, older pupils were given responsibility and were appointed praepostors, known as props (an appellation still used at Uppingham School and Rugby School) or monitors. The title 'prefect' (Praefectus) was reserved for the Head Master. The praeposters (props) and monitors were responsible for the behaviour of younger boys outside lessons in the halls and grounds of the school and were permitted to punish minor breaches of discipline. Such punishment would consist of requiring the boy to report to the praepostors' or monitors' room, where the punishment would be handed out. One example was to require the boy to put a number of dots - usually four - in each square of an area of a sheet of graph paper - not as violent as the punishments handed out in the Rugby School of "Tom Brown's Schooldays". The usual punishment during the late 1950s was to issue 'sides. This was to complete writing upon a nominated subject over several 'sides' of lined paper.