JUBILEE HISTORY TEXT, 1911. Chapter VIII - 'Scholastic Records'.The following text is an excerpt from the
Jubilee History Text published in 1911.
Scholastic Records Dux List 'A varying practice was adopted in deciding every year who should be Dux of the College. Sometimes the head of the University or Matriculation class was awarded the prize, even though there were others doing more advanced work. As a general rule, however,. the Dux medal was awarded to the head of the highest class in the school—the post Matriculation or Honours class. The names recorded have been taken from the College Honour Board. and are the names of those to whom the official Dux medal was awarded in every year.
College PrefectsPrefects were not appointed at the College until it became a public school in 1908. Always, however, the senior boys took a great deal of the responsibilityfor the supervision of school life. No school has ever had amore healthy ormore manly tone than the College, and this, apart from the great influence of the principal, has been due chiefly to the example set and the control exercised by the senior boys. There has always been at the College some boy who was naturally fitted to take the lead in this respect. Perhaps none exercised such a great influence as the late Dr. A. D. Kearney. As "Gus" Kearney, he was at the College for 11 years. During all that time he was noted for his thoroughly sportsmanlike character and for the enormous influence he wielded both with boys and masters. His word was law with the boys. Fair minded, gentle mannered, and endowed with the highest courage, both moral and physical, he did a great deal to foster in the College that real public school spirit which pervaded it always, even before the change of 1908. "The Dr. Gus. Kearney Memorial Prize was instituted by the Old Collegians Association," in 1908, inmemory of the splendid work he had done for the school and for sport, generally. The Essendon Football Club assisted the Association in this matter.'
Sources: Sources: Geelong College. History, Register, .. And Records by G, McLeod Redmond. Melb; Sands & McDougall, 1911. pp 67--76.