VARSITY HOAX
Oxford Undergrads “Taken In“ WILD RIOTING (Australian and y.Z Press Association) Reed. 9.5 a.m. LONDON. Wed. There were amazing scenes at Oxford, following ritous episodes, iu which masked undergraduates (supposedly as a protest against the strictness of proctorial rule) broke the windows of the proctor’s office and cut his telephone wires at night, forcing the police to intervene. Next morning, one of the most successful hoaxes in Varsity history was perpetrated at the expence of half the undergraduates of the university, who received proctor’s forms delivered by men who were attired in the traditional bowlers of the proctor’s “bulldogs,” ordering them to attend the proctor’s quarters at 9.45. When the hour approached 800 anxious undergrads foregathered outside the 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 and restore order.
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Sun (Auckland), Volume II, Issue 518, 22 November 1928, Page 9
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158VARSITY HOAX Sun (Auckland), Volume II, Issue 518, 22 November 1928, Page 9
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