These riotous proceedings were the work of the wilder spirits of University and Town alike. But in the earlier part of the Nineteenth Century many a fierce collision between Town and Gown took place on the Hill. The Fifth of November was the annual occasion consecrated by custom to these conflicts. Bands of undergraduates paraded the streets shouting "Gown! Gown!" while bands of the fiercer element amongst the townsfolk did the like, to the cry of "Town! Town!" Fights were thus frequent, in spite of the efforts of the authorities, both Civic and Academic. Gownsmen took to flight at the appearance of the Proctors and their "Bulldogs,"[86] but it was to re-form elsewhere, and few were actually caught. The Police, when they came into existence, in the early 'forties, were more formidable. They invariably took the side of the Town,[87] and it was due to them that the "Fifth" became less and less pugilistic, till it is now only a memory. Fisticuffs were all very well, but batons made the fun not good enough. [Footnote 86: This is the name bestowed on the stalwart officials a couple of whom attend each Proctor and exercise such physical coercion of delinquents as he may bid.] [Footnote 87: One specially remembered conflict, when Rose Crescent was held by the Gown against an overwhelming force, till a police charge drove them in headlong rout to take refuge in Trinity, was made the subject of a parody of Macaulay's Horatius, to be found in Clark's _Guide to Cambridge_.] CHAPTER VI Round Church.--Union Society.--The "Great Bridge," Hithe.--=Magdalene College=, Buckingham College, Pepys, Charles Kingsley, the "College Window," Master's Garden.--Castle Hill, Camboritum, Cromwell's Rampart, Repulse of Charles I, the "Borough," View from Castle.--St. Peter's Church.--"School of Pythagoras."--Westminster College.--Ridley Hall.--=Newnham College.=--=Selwyn College.=--Convent of St. Radegund, Bishop Alcock.--Midsummer Common.--Boat Houses, Bumping Races.--=Jesus College=, "Chimney," Cloisters, Chapter House, Chapel, Cranmer, Coleridge.