the Headmaster's anteroom: the men who own the schedule are the men to fear
So but this is why Gerhardt Schtitt and his prorectors are way more feared than Ogilvie or Richardson-Levy-O’Byrne-Chawaf or any of the regular academics. [...] It’s that Schtitt and deLint make out the daily schedules for A.M. drills and P.M. matches and resistance-training and conditioning runs.
Context
Power at E.T.A. lives with whoever controls the body's day. The academics can flunk you, but Schtitt and deLint "make out the daily schedules for A.M. drills and P.M. matches and resistance-training and conditioning runs" — and because a schedule can hide a Puker inside ordinary conditioning, holding the schedule means holding the instrument of pain. That's why the coaches, not the teachers, are "way more feared": the syllabus of the body is where discipline actually bites.