A Collection of College Words and Customs ...J. Bartlett, 1851 - 319 páginas |
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abbreviation Alma Mater appointed attend Bachelor of Arts Bowdoin College buttery called candidates chapel College yard Collegian's Guide Commencement Day commons Corporation custom customary Dartmouth Dartmouth College degree dinner disputations dress duties England English universities errand examination exercises exhibition Faculty flunk formerly Freshman given gown graduate Gradus ad Cantab Gradus ad Cantabrigiam Greek Hall Hamilton College Harv Harvard College Harvardiana honor House Iadma Ibid institution Junior Latin laws lege literary Masters morning occasion offence officers oration Overseers passed Peirce's Hist performed person Poem prayers present President Princeton College Professor punishment Quincy's Hist Rebelliad received recitation scholars Senior Class sizar society Sophomore Sophs term testamur tion Tutors Undergraduates Univ University of Cambridge University of Oxford usually valedictory Webster Williams College Wooden Spoon word Yale Banger Yale Coll Yale College Yale Lit
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Página 219 - An Act for the further security of His Majesty's Person and Government and the succession of the Crown in the Heirs of the late Princess Sophia being Protestants and for extinguishing the hopes of the late pretended Prince of Wales and his open and secret Abettors...
Página 268 - House, from its members wearing their hoods lined with white silk. All the rest constitute the NonRegent or Lower House, otherwise called the BlackHood House, its members wearing black silk hoods.
Página 276 - Let the instructions f of my mouth Deep in your hearts descend. My tongue, by inspiration taught, Shall parables unfold ; Dark oracles, but understood, And owned for truths of old ; Which we from sacred registers Of ancient times have known, And our forefathers' pious care To us has handed down.
Página 244 - There may be such in poor cottages in so neighboring a county as Cheshire. I should not grudge any expense for purchase or carriage, and should be glad even of a couple such for my cloister here. When you are copying inscriptions in a churchyard in any village, think of me, and step into the first cottage you see, but don't take further trouble than that.
Página 4 - Latin in verse and prose, suo ut aiunt marte ["to stand, as they say, on his own feet"], and decline perfectly the paradigms of nouns and verbs in the Greek tongue, let him then, and not before, be capable of admission into the College.
Página 9 - Geometry and Astronomy: and is ready to defend his Theses or positions: withall skilled in the Originalls as...
Página 255 - An ACT for the more full and complete Establishment of YALE COLLEGE in NEW HAVEN, and for enlarging the Powers and Privileges thereof. WHEREAS upon the Petition of several...
Página 139 - Sophister, a Master from a Senior Sophister, and any Governor of the College from a Master. "8. Every Freshman before he goes for the person who takes him away (unless it be one in the Government of the College), shall return and inform the person from whom he is taken. "9. No Freshman, when sent on an errand, shall make any unnecessary delay, neglect to make due return, or go away till dismissed by the person who sent him.
Página 161 - This word is now seldom used; the words High and Go are, however, often used separately, with the same meaning as the compound. The phrase to get high, ie to become intoxicated, is allied with the above expression. Or men "get high" by drinking abstract toddies ? Childe Harvard, p. 71. HIGH STEWARD. In the English universities, an officer who has special power to hear and determine capital causes, according to the laws of the land and the privileges of the university, whenever a scholar is the party...
Página 54 - The general court had settled a government or superintendency over the college, viz. all the magistrates and elders over the ||six|| nearest churches and the president, or the greatest part of these. Most of them were now present...