I like that almost 300 years later they asked if they should remove that oath, and despite no longer knowing who he was or what he did decided it wise not to for another over hundred years lol

Great reading: https://blogs.bodleian.ox.ac.uk/archivesandmanuscripts/2023/12/13/the-persistence-of-tradition-the-curious-case-of-henry-symeonis/

We have civil war, corruption, and murder, all wrapped up in a 550 year long mysterious grudge!

Henry Symeonis smacked Osbertus de Langetoft’s balls a little too roughly one day, as a prank, whilst they crossed the Hythe Bridge from opposite directions, leaving him unable to perform any physical activity for a number of months. As Master de Langetoft was a popular student, and a sterling coxwain on the rowboat, this was seen as such a heinous crime on the part of Master Symeonis, that graduates eagerly agreed to craft a tradition of swearing an oath to never be reconciled with Henry Symeonis.

Actually, it’s worse than that, but I like my version better. Nobody is murdered.

Fifth Monkey Principle IRL

Statute Tit

teehee. (Why no period after what I assume is the abbreviated word ‘title’?)

town-gown

TIL about this phrase.

Til. But wrong commmunity. What’s next, screenshots of news headlines as memes?