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Henry Harrison Proctor of Boston...
...battle field, and tropical trading post in the world will be hard put to it to draw a moral from the most recent news flash emanating from the Towers of Oxford. Within the week eight hundred products of the traditional college system gathered together at the office of the proctor in answer to a bogus printed notice. Coming at 9.15 in the morning this practical joke must have broken up many a hospitable breakfast party, but the Oxonians even in disillusion maintain the leisurely tradition and cheered and rollicked about for over an hour before dispersing. The attendance...
...regards clothing and behavior, however, we have regulations, whereas you are governed merely by personal taste. The enforcement of the regulation concerning the wearing of caps and gowns is in the hands of the proctor, who always takes two men with him popularly called "bulldogs" to catch any culprits. It is something of a game of hide-and-seek for the bulldogs cannot fine a student unless they catch him off college grounds...
...night a student on being chased by a proctor and two bulldogs ran to the steps of the nearest college where he was safe. Now it is also a rule that every student must be in his own college by 12 o'clock. Since it was 11 o'clock at the time, the proctor sat down to wait, while the student sat down on the steps, confronting...
...When the hour struck, the proctor arose and summoned the student off the steps and demanded that he go to his own college. The student bowed respectfully and turning around entered the door of his own college...