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Show BnCTAI. UITBIOC Oxford Hlndrnla Compel Comrade to Celebrate "llh Jtm" Oxford, Dec fi. Queen's Co!-icge Co!-icge was lately the scene Cf n serious seri-ous outhreakamongtheundergradU-ater. outhreakamongtheundergradU-ater. A party of fifteen or sixteen young men set out in a masquerading masquerad-ing costume, tlio leader being dressed as a bishop with a mitre .nd crosier and all tbe paraphernalia, peculiar to tbe office. Anion; I others there was one nuu, two acol-' ytes, with censers and Incense, I while the balance wore surplices. All bore a sanctimonious and highly mock decorous look and semblance. They marched la precession and carried cups containing large doses of whisky and water, while a uum berof biscuits comprised the dietary portion of tlio escapade, the whole beiDg covered with a white cloth. THE VASQUEItADEKS j went the rounds of the college, battering open doors and forcing their way Into tho bedrooms of the freshmen. When they bad dragged out a sufficient number, of victims and gathered them together In their scant night-dresses, tho masquc-radera masquc-radera proceeded to cclebrato high mas', and forced their victims to go through tbe ceremony to its smallest small-est detail, urging tbem thereto with cutting blows from switches or sticks. Tlio victims were forced to drlolv quantities of whisky and go-e themselves with biscuit. -tuy were compelled by fear of further blows to tat and drink fur leyondtbclr comfortable capacity. Tho party then broko up, but five participants went to tho rovm of a fellow-etudent, who bad as yet not Lecn disturbed, and dragged him cut of bed, stripped his night shirt from bim, tore it into shreds and then carried him Into the court where tbey tied blm to a tree and left him, ttar!c naked, until morning. morn-ing. THE OUTRAGED JIEN acting on the advice of some of tbe ' mil e substantial college men, applied ap-plied to the authorities for redress, I and gave tbe names of the aggressor?. aggres-sor?. The deans, after hearlrg the ' era, decided that the charge ef of blasphemy vrss not proven, but the forviujj of their way into the men's roona vas pronounced to be a brut.tl outrage, an I punishments ' were dealt out accordingly. The ' eunlsliment dealt out was the sending send-ing cf two men down for good; two were leitrlcted and others were' gntd for one or two terms. iThe ' majority In the col lege-, however, declare agAlust the informer, and still more against those who coun-' seled them to lay information before the faculty. |