WILD NIGHT AT OXFORD

Greymouth Evening Star, 13 July 1934, Page 10

WILD NIGHT AT OXFORD

EIGHTS .WEEK CELEBRATED

OXFORD, May 28

Qlaziers and electricians came into their own at Oxford to-day. One firm sold right out of electric light globes to replace last night’s breakages at Oriel College, which celebrated its retention of the Headship of the haver in the most brilliant Summer Eights since the war. Last year they carried the boat from the river into the college quadrangle,-, where it served as fuel for the ceremonial bonfire. This year the crew hit on the plan of festooning the quadrangle and the Provost’s lodgings with crockery. Every available pinnacle and statue was so decorated during the small hours of the morning. There was a hilarious supper in the Hall, where £lOO worth of wine, in addition to the college stock, was consumed. The celebrators then swarmed into the quadrangle, carrying crockery aild glassware, with which they destroyed windows and electric lights. Furniture from the rooms of unpopular members of the college provided fuel for the bonfire, which twelve hours later was still burning. Fireworks lit up the sky.

A number of the more hilarious members decided they wanted to read in the, Junior Common Room. Accordingly they smashed the panels of the doors to get in. At. St. Edmond Hall, whose two crews made fourteen bumps, a very sedate celebration took place, but at Corpus Christi, which had six bumps, an undergraduate scaled the memorial to Bishop Fox, the founder of the college, and crowned it with crockery. A bonfire was also staged in the Quad. ‘ The proctors on their nightly rounds had several encounters with bands of revellers, and one undergraduate showered glassware and crockery on one of them from the windows of his rooms in the Highstreet, but without injuring any of the representatives of authority.