While some of his fellow schoolboys distracted the religious teacher with questions, Hassan and a friend scaled a ladder on to the roof on the pretext of fetching water and raising a flag.
The deeply serious Piscine (played by Gautam Belur at five, Ayush Tandon at 12 and Suraj Sharma at 16 was named after an uncle's favourite swimming pool, the Piscine Molitor in Paris, but changed his name to the Greek letter and numinous number Pi after fellow schoolboys made jokes about pissing.
Horace was nicknamed "Red Robbie" by his fellow schoolboys after his hair colour, in contrast to his older brother John, or "Black Robbie".
Its success led to its publication as a novel, but with the character renamed Adrian, to avoid confusion with fellow fictional schoolboy Nigel Molesworth.
With his younger brother, Gerald, he published Harewood News, a typewritten periodical that, The New York Times reported in 1939, had "a ready sale among their fellow Eton schoolboys and among the workers on the estate of their father" because of "the excellence of its horse-racing information".
After ignoring Lamar last year, voters could award his fellow TDE cohort Schoolboy Q for his lauded major label debut and make up for failing to crack the new artist race.
Europe's leader has known his fellow Ulsterman since his schoolboy days and firmly believes McIlroy will complete a full set of major victories.
My fellow 13-year-old Catholic schoolboys in Yonkers began aping Travolta's blow-dried hairdo and cocky strut.
"As a 1947 alumnus of Brooklyn Technical High School," another correspondent wrote, "I must add a fellow Technite to your list of talented schoolboys: outfielder Tommy Holmes, who played 11 seasons, from 1942 through 1952".
