The Montgomery advertiser., 1902-07-06

evenings to such social recreations as please him most. He entertains his friends at d breakfasts. luncheons and wines. and often goes in for rowing, crick- ct and football which are the chief sports of the institution. I have talked with both professors and students, and as far as more leisure than in our American col leges and to many of them a university course is more play than work.
 A Walk Through Christ Church.
 can give you better idea of college life by taking you through one Of these institutions, Let us visit Christ Church College. It has 300 students and Is the richest and most aristocratic of the twen- ty-three colleges which make up the uni versity. The others are much the same. only. smaller, although every one covers several acres and would be considered large outside of Oxford. The buildings of Christ Church, with their quadrangles, must have an area ot ten acres. The chief structure fronts on Cornmarket Street not far from the Thames, It's front is longer than a big American city block. and with its great tower at the end 1t looks more like a fort than college. There is d gate at the center with statute of Cardinal Wolsey above it and stone tower rising over 1t. At the gate there is doorkeeper always on guard He closes the gate at night with massive doors and scrutiniZeS carefully all who go into the college during the daytime.
 Big Tom and the Oxford Curfew.
 In the tower over the gate is the great bell of the University. It is known as Big Tom, and it nightly rings the curftV of the University. The bell weighs eight tons. and it's ding -dong can be heard for miles about oxford. The curfew bell is. rung at five minutes past 9. At this time the sound of 101 strokes is heard warning the students that they must be in their rooms in Inc college. and that If they are not they will he fined and punished.
 As soon as the bell stops ringing the two protectors of the university start out with their assistants to look up recreant students. The protectors might be called the chief of the college police. They are university men, and each ,,as four assist ants taken from the town people to help him. so that in all the posse of college police which makes its nightly round numbers ten The assistants are called bulldogs-they might he called blood hounds. for it is their business to track down the fleeing undergraduates. The protectors first make their regular round of the billiard saloons and beer houses and warn the students that they must go in If they find man on the streets without a college cap or gown they ac- cost him with the question::
 Do you belong to he untversity@'
 If the man answers "yes" his name and college is brusquely inquired He is asked
 Ia is out without his gown and cap,
 ordered to go in at once and re-
 thout delay before the vice-chan- lc~ court at 10 the next morning for fine anu punishment. If he creates dis turbance in the streets or gets into trou- ble of any kind he is called before this court and the man who Is out after F has serious time with the authorities.
 Fines and Punishments.
 There is a regular scheme of fines for being out late. Each college has it's own penalties, but in general the charge for absence between and 10 is one pence; between 10 and II, twopence, and between Il and 12. one shilling. The man who Is out after l. may be fined one pound. or S. or even more, according to the offense. He is also liable to be gated-that is, to be kept in the college after clock every whole term The fines for misdemeanOrs run as high as $25. and in serious cases the students are sometimes represented by counsel in college court.
 The university has complete control over the students. and in many respects over