COLLEGE LIFE.

Temuka Leader, Issue 2157, 31 January 1891, Page 3

COLLEGE LIFE.

Queen's College, Oxford, has lately been suffering from a serious outbreak of undergraduate rowdyism. On Sunday, November 23, a party of 15 or 16 undergraduates set out in masquerading costume. The leader was dressed as a bishop, with mitre and crosier; there was a nuu, and two acolytes with censers and incense and others in surplices or gowns. In the procession were carried a cup containing whisky and water with biscuits covered with a white cloth. The masqueraders went the round of the college, battering open oaks and doors and forcing their way into the bedrooms of several freshman. High mass, as it was called, waß then celebrated, and the victims were forced to

partake of the elements (the whisky and biscuit) the sacramental form of administration being used. The party then broke up. Five, however, remained and proceeded to a scholar's rooms. They dragged him out of his bed, stripped him of his night shirt, which they t&re into shreds, carried him into the court, and left him there stark naked. The outraged men appealed to the authorities, and gave up the names of the ."aggressors. The dons decided the charge of blasphemy not proven, and gave the culprits the benefit of the doubt. On the other two counts, the forcible entrance into men's rooms and the brutal outrage en a scholar, two were rusticated, and the others were gated for one or two terms. It was made plain that sympathy was with the expelled men as they were conveyed to the railway station, and the minority, who assisted in bringing about the punishment, had to live in nightly fear of violence, and keep armed watch with pistols, sword sticks, and bluegeons.