Word: bullingdons
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...through the streets of Oxford town, late one night last week, loud-voiced roisterers lurched and reeled in gold-buttoned blue dinner jackets. It was the Bullingdon Club, in high fettle after an annual dinner, its first in a new hall on the outskirts of town. Before the members reached their beds they had run up a score of 500 broken windows (by hasty count of righteous newsgatherers). Oxford proctors frowned ominously, and went into conference...
Discriminating Oxonians were less vexed than bored by the outburst. Bullingdon, a drink-hearty organization composed mostly of sporting huntsmen, has a roster too exclusive to be amusing. Peers, even Edward of Wales, have matched their blood with its blue uniform. That the blooded Bullingdons, incapable in the past of anything more sprightly than throaty singing and waving neckless bottles, should have attempted a public spectacle with hockey sticks, copper kettles and chunks of coal, was inexcusably dull...
Coming so soon after the recent unpleasantness in Harvard Square, it is comforting to read that Oxford has lately been the scene of a somewhat similar loss of dignity. Though there is no indication that the activities of the Bullingdon Club received the attentions of the Oxford police--we presume there are such--nevertheless, from all accounts, the environs of Christ Church college, the scene of spirited action, bore the mark of the invader deeply imprinted. It is reported that it will take a dozen workmen a week to repair the damage wrought by members of the Bullingdon Club...
...jovial group that amused itself with "hockey sticks, copper kettles, pieces of coal and other things" seems to have furnished no cause for sanguinary conflict. The only specified damage was to property, particularly windows. It is safe to imagine, however, that the members of the Bullingdon Club are satisfied with their night's work. It is still uncertain what methods were used to "peacify" the Oxford students, but from accounts there are no broken bones and there is no effort to press the matter...
...Lewis Richard Farnell, a bent, commonplace-looking don of Oxford, retired after his three years of service as Vice Chancellor of the University. He it was who banned Grand Guignol plays, closed the fashionable Bullingdon Club and Blue Riband, placed certain cafes out of bounds and objected to Miss A. Maude Royden (lecturer), Marie C. Stopes (birth control), George Lansbury (Socialist). He once called in the police to analyze supposedly powder-poisoned chocolates sent him by annoyed undergraduates. The police found tooth powder. He was succeeded by Dr. Joseph Wells...