RIOTOUS STUDENTS.

Horowhenua Chronicle, 22 November 1928, Page 8

RIOTOUS STUDENTS.

DISCIPLINE RESENTED AT OXFORD. (By Telegraph-Press Assn.-Copyright.) (Received This Day, 10.5 a.m.) LONDON, Nov. 21. 'Amazing scenes took place at Oxford, following riotous episodes in, which masked undergraduates, supposedly as a protest against the strictness of proctorial rules, 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 'Varsity history was perpetrated at the expense of half the undergraduates of the University, who received proctors’ forms ordering them to attend the proctors’ quarters at 9.45. When the hour approached eight hundred anxious undergraduates foregathered outside Clarendon building, where proctorial justice is usually meted out. Suspicions 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 tb restore order. The-term proctor, is a shortened form* of Procurator, one who is employed to act on behalf of another. In uuicersities the proctors are officers charged with the duty of enforcing order and obedience to the ’Varsity law They have power to inflict punishment, and are responsible for the maintenance of discipline amongst the txndergraduatos.