25 students crammed into a small airing cupboard in Westminster College during a week of fundraising events to benefit the World University Service. – Vintage Photograph

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On October 24, 1964, 25 students at Westminster College in Oxford, UK, crammed into a small airing cupboard as part of a week of fundraising events to benefit the World University Service. The fundraisers included a 64-mile London to Oxford marathon, a 100-hour cycling relay, a 12-hour darts marathon, and a non-stop performance of all 1,100 tunes in the Methodist Hymn Book.On October 24, 1964, 25 students at Westminster College in Oxford, UK, crammed into a small airing cupboard as part of a week of fundraising events to benefit the World University Service. The fundraisers included a 64-mile London to Oxford marathon, a 100-hour cycling relay, a 12-hour darts marathon, and a non-stop performance of all 1,100 tunes in the Methodist Hymn Book.

Dimensions: 20.2 x 20.2 cm

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3 worth ti college 24 OCT 1964 It was a much tighter squeeze than it looks. Some of the 25 bodies crammed into a small airing cupboard at West- minster College-one of the stunts in the college’s week of fund-raising events. 2 The most unusual of the three London to Oxford mara- thons began just before 10.30 p.m. on Thursday night and 1 finished shortly before 8 a.m. yesterday A team of rugby made the journey stalwarts. from Marble Arch back to col- lege passing a rugby ball be- tween themselves. The second of these 64-mile jaunts finished this morning, when 18 students, including eleven women, arrived back in Oxford having pushed a pram, with two “babies” taking turns to ride, all the way from college of e 1 PRAMS RACED FROM LONDON PRAM pushing, road running and rugby-pass- ing marathons from London, a 100-hour cycling relay, a 12-hour darts marathon, and a non-stop performance of all the 1,100 tunes in the Methodist Hymn Book are among the stunts staged in aid of the World University Service by students of Westminster College, North Hinksey