RIOTOUS SCENES
AT OXFORD UNIVERSITY. United Press Association.—By Electric Telegraph.—Copyright.) (Received this day at 10 arm.) LONDON, Nov. 21. Amazing scenes took place at Osford University, following riotous episodes in which masked undergraduates, supposedly as a protest against the strictness of the proctorial rule, broke the windows of the Proctor’s offices and cut the telephone areas 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 Proctor’s forms ordering them to attend the Proctor’s quarters at 9.45 a.m. When the hour approached eight hundred anxious undergraduates foregathered outside the Clarendon building, where proctorial justice is usually meted out. Suspicions of the hoax became a certainty, when the Fire Brigade dashed up to deal with the imaginary lire. The police again were obliged to intervene to restore order.
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Hokitika Guardian, 22 November 1928, Page 4
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