Students brought before the Dean of Discipline from 1956 to 1969, the eminent historian RB McDowell, were accused of quite different crimes and misdemeanours.

These included:

Parking a Morris Minor in Botany Bay

Smoking a cigar with a gown on

Staggering through Rotten Row in drunken song, causing a riot involving 300 students

Breaking a resident's door open with an axe, while naked

Smashing a skylight while attempting to scale a drainpipe to crash a party

Bricking up the door of the Reading Room

Harbouring a woman (including one's wife) or an animal in rooms

Putting a car on the roof of the Examination Hall

Sanctions included:

Fines of 7s 6d

Eviction from Rooms

Rustication for the Hilary Term

Taken from The Junior Dean, RB McDowell: Encounters with a Legend, edited by Anne Leonard, published by Lilliput Press