But there was no need.

Lee, who was light on his feet, avoided the rush and ran for a side door, through which he escaped into the house, leaving Gaston to rave and mutter, and at last retreat into the street and hurry away.
Not until the man had disappeared did the Westerner leave the grounds.
Then he leaped the fence, and hurried back to the campus.

Here a large number of students were rollicking in the somewhat wild and reckless student fashion, to their own great delight and the amusement of hundreds of spectators..