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A Collection of College Words and Customs

Name: A Collection of College Words and Customs
Author: Hall, Benjamin Homer, 1830-1893

作者：Hall, Benjamin Homer, 1830-1893
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字数：818,746　来源：Project Gutenberg

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COLLECTION
OF
COLLEGE WORDS AND CUSTOMS.
BY B.H. HALL.
REVISED AND ENLARGED EDITION.
Entered according to Act of Congress, in the year 1856, by
B.H. HALL,
INTRODUCTION.
A COLLECTION OF COLLEGE WORDS AND CUSTOMS.
2. To reside at the university; to keep terms.--_Webster_.
2. One who keeps terms, or resides at the University.--_Webster_.
2. Spending money.
BOGS. Among English Cantabs, a privy.--_Gradus ad Cantab._
Tune,--"_Auld Lang Syne_."
I.
II.
III.
2. In Scotland, an exhibition.--_Encyc._
3. In _foreign universities_, a public lecture.--_Webster_.
His only note for the year 1765 was this:--
To this the author appends a note, as follows:--
2. One who boards in commons.
The costume of the Undergraduates is thus described:--
2. The same as CRAMMING, which see.
3. The head or president of a college.
It is to this dress that the poet alludes in these lines:--
2. One of the members or departments of a university.
2. To study hard; to persevere in study.
2. A diligent student, i.e. a _dig_.
2. Studying hard, equivalent to _digging, grubbing, &c._
2. To cause one to fail in reciting. Said of an instructor.
COLLEGE CUSTOMS, ANNO 1734-5.
2. An entertainment; a treat; a spree.
2. One who wears a gown.
2. To cheat; to deceive. Not confined to college.
3. At Cambridge and Oxford, the public eating-room.
A college poet has thus immortalized this distinguished band:--
Another has sung its requiem in the following strain:--
A Freshman writes thus on the subject:--
2. An assembly for transacting business.
In an abbreviated form, _impos._
2. A rehearsal of a lesson.--_Eng. Univ._
A college poet thus laments the fall of this respected society:--
Mr. Webster remarks, "I believe not used in America."
2. Used by students to denote the rabble.
2. Same as FATHER, which see.
This last smoke is referred to in the following lines:--
HORACE WALPOLE TO GEORGE MONTAGU, ESQ.
HORACE WALPOLE TO THE REV. MR. COLE.
2. To examine thoroughly and with despatch.
2. To study hard; to DIG, q.v.
The same meaning is thus paraphrastically conveyed:--
What a darned _screw_ our tutor is.--_Ibid._
On the same subject, another correspondent writes as follows:--
The Seventy-eighth Psalm is thus rendered in the first edition:--
SMUT. Vulgar, obscene conversation. Language which obtains
2. In the American colleges, an abbreviation of Sophomore.
2. A foppish young fellow; a whipper-snapper.--_Bartlett_.
2. A tripos paper.
3. One who prepares a tripos paper.--_Webster_.
Hither they repair each day after dinner "_to wine_."
A LIST OF AMERICAN COLLEGES
THE END.
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