At Oxford the system of formal espionage by proctors over students in almost all their actions is still rigidly enforced. Dire are the consequences for the unluckly "undergrad." who is caught by these ever-watchful spies dressed in aught but traditional gown and mortar-board. Proctors, it is said, however, are easily avoided by the wary. It is less easy to avoid the "bull-dogs," as the body-servants of the proctors are called. But, says the London Graphic, "It has been darkly hinted that 'bull-dogs' are corruptible by gold, and even silver." But more curious than either proctors or "bull-dogs" are the university spies or night police, who vigilantly watch and report to the proctors all escapades they discover. Fines are inflicted for not wearing the cap and gown, for smoking, playing billiards after nine o'clock, and finally, says the Graphic, "the driving of tandem is the eighth deadly sin." So our friends at Oberlin can console themselves with the knowledge that their college is not the exclusive home of blue laws; Oxford presses them close in the race-backwards.