 Not all these demands seemed important or realistic to following generations, who also wondered how significant it was whether "to listen to high thoughts and to be at peace in school for ten minutes every day", in chapel, should be optional or not.The BBC reported in 1967 that Chenevix-Trench had "considerably softened" the rigorous rules on chapel attendance.Nevertheless, "Private Eye" duly ran an article in 1969 arguing that Chenevix-Trench had clearly lost his way, since neither school uniform, nor boxing, nor compulsory Chapel, had been entirely abolished.