Chapter 9 The Adventure of the Three Students It was in the year '95 that a combination of events, into which I need not enter, caused Mr. Sherlock Holmes and myself to spend some weeks in one of our great University towns, and it was during this t ime that the small but instructive adventure which I am about to relate befell us. It will be obvious that any details which would help the reader to exactly identify the col - lege or the criminal would be injudicious and offensive. So painful a scandal may well be allowed to die