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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Shangas, post: 2416451, member: 360&quot;]The school was founded by a Scotsman in 1851. It started out as the Melbourne Academy, but its nickname was &quot;The Scot&#039;s College&quot; or &quot;The Scots&#039; College&quot;, and the Scottish flag was part of the school&#039;s emblems and flags from its inception.</p><p><br /></p><p>Eventually by the 1860s/70s, the spelling was finalised as &quot;The Scotch College&quot; (later &#039;The&#039; was dropped), and it&#039;s remained &#039;Scotch College&#039; or even just &#039;Scotch&#039; ever since.</p><p><br /></p><p>The boys who go there are called &#039;Scotchies&#039;.</p><p><br /></p><p>In the 1920s, the school was in the process of moving house, and was being relocated to its new (and current) campus. At the time, the school still did not have a standardised coat of arms, so a competition was held for the students and staff to design one. Many were put forward, but in the end, they went with the one that&#039;s still used today, which was created in 1924.</p><p><br /></p><p>That&#039;s the coat of arms that&#039;s on the cufflinks.</p><p><br /></p><p>The school was, originally, heavily modeled after the private schools of England, like Eton and Harrow, etc. To the extent that they even had the boater hats (or cloth caps, in winter) and the striped blazers and everything else.</p><p><br /></p><p>The boaters aren&#039;t part of the uniform anymore, but the blazers still are. If you were a boarder living in one of the boarding-houses, you could even walk around the dorms at night, wearing a Scotch College dressing gown, with the red and yellow piping, bright red wool fabric, and the school crest embroidered on it. </p><p><br /></p><p>The school hats had metallic badges pinned or sewn onto them, and like the cufflinks - these too were made in sterling silver.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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