 In addition, senior students at the school were permitted to cane other boys across the seat of the trousers, and this was routine.The Council at Bradfield, always hugely supportive of Chenevix-Trench, had never considered his use of corporal punishment a problem.But at Eton, the modern era of adolescent challenges to authority, combined with the existing tradition of powerful housemasters expecting to make their own decisions, quickly led to problems.