RIOTOUS STUDENTS

Dominion, Volume 22, Issue 51, 23 November 1928, Page 11

RIOTOUS STUDENTS

AMAZING SCENES AT OXFORD A SUCCESSFUL HOAX (Australian Press Association.) London, November 21. Amazing"’scenes were witnessed at Oxford following riotous episodes in which masked undergraduates, supposedly as a protest against the strictness of nroctorial rule, broke the windows of the proctors’ offices and cut the telephone wires at night, forcing the police to intervene. Next morning one of the most successful hoaxes in the ’Varsity’s history was perpetrated at the expense of half the undergraduates of the University, who received proctors’ forms delivered by men attired in the traditional bowlers-of the proctors’ “bulldog.” ordering them to attend the proctors’ quarters at 9.45. When the hour approached, 800 anxious undergrads foregathered outside the Clarendon Building, where proctorial justice is usually meted out. Suspicious of a hoax became a certainty when the fire brigade dashed up to deal with an imaginary fire. The police were again obliged to intervene to restore order.