twelve o’clock
The students are differently situated from other members of society in one respect . They are not amenable to the police for any ordinary offence , but in such cases are brought before the University authorities , and are liable to be confined in the University prison , attending the lectures belonging to their course , during the period of their detention , for which purpose they are let out and shut up again at stated hours . This corresponds to some extent with the English system of ` gating . ' A very large body of young men , of various ages , find themselves almost entirely their own masters , at an age when the English undergraduate is bound to be at home at twelve o'clock , to attend chapel and hall dinners , besides fulfilling the obligations imposed by a regular course of study . They live in lodgings , free of any supervision whatever , they eat where and when they please , if they do not choose to hear lectures there is no one to oblige them to do so , for they are supposed to possess enough common sense to know that the loss is theirs if they fail at their examinations . It is natural that under these circumstances they should form associations among themselves . In every University there will be a certain number of students from each of the country 's principal provinces .