ROWDINESS AT OXFORD.

New Zealand Herald, Volume LXV, Issue 20111, 23 November 1928, Page 13

ROWDINESS AT OXFORD.

HOAX ON UNDERGRADUATES. FALSE SUMMONS BY PROCTORS. Australian and N.Z. Press Association. LONDON. Nov. 21 Amazing scenes of rioting occurred at Oxford •University Masked undergraduates, presumably as a protest against the strictness of the Proctors, broke the windows of the Proctors' offices and cut the telephone wires at night, forcing the police to intervene. Next morning ono of the most successful hoaxes in the history of tho university was perpetrated at. tho expense of half the undergraduates, who received Proctor's forms which were delivered by men wearing tho traditional bowler hats of the Proctors" "bulldogs," ordering them to attend at tho Proctors' quarters at 9.45 a. m ' • When the lioui approached, 800 anxious undergraduates gathered oulsido the Clarendon Building, where tho Proctors usuallv mete out justice. Suspicions of a hoax became a certainty when tho fire brigade dashed up to dcaJ with an imaginary fire. Tli6 police wero again obliged to intervene to restore order. The Proctors university officers who control tho doings of members of tho university usually by tho aid of fines, are Mr. E. L. Woodward, oi All Souls' College, and Mi E M. Wrong, of Magdalen College.