STUDENTS’ HORSE PLAY

Manawatu Herald, Volume XXXII, Issue 933, 20 December 1910, Page 4

STUDENTS’ HORSE PLAY

Mr. Asquith, British I’.emier, lately delivered a rectorial address at Aberdeen University. The students were uproarious, and referred to him in language of grotesque familiarity. The leader of the nation became annoyed, and told the students he wouldn’t continue his address. They replied that they didn’t want him to. After the unheard address, the students planned to drag Mr Asquith in a landau from the college to his temporary place of residence. The landau became fdled with a crowd of yelling students. The “ town ” bombarded the students with vegetables. The students — Britain’s coming legislators, doctors, engineers, etc. —retaliated by throwing the lamps, cushions, splashboards, and anything movable, at the crowd. The crowd began to wreck the carriage, but the students turned it on its wheels again and proceeded. One wheel came off, and the students eu trenched under the hood. The crowd tore the roof oil', and pelted the entrenched. Mr Asquith, with other gentlemen, arrived on the scene. The Prime Minister was cordially invited to enter the smashed vehicle. He preferred a motor car. The cheeiful young bloods were evidently olfeuded with the carriage, and rushed it at breakneck speed to the harbour, and pitched it in. Then they fought their way back through showers of vegetables and returned to their peaceful studies, very pleased with their interview with the greatest man in Britain.