History
The college was founded in 1874 and was absorbed by the Imperial Service College in 1906, which in turn merged with Haileybury school in 1942.
As at virtually all boys' schools of its era, corporal punishment (strokes of the cane) was used, but USC was very unusual in that the cane was applied to the student's upper back (as described by Kipling) rather than the buttocks.
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