On the wall hangs a Horse-shoe I found in the street;
  ’T is the shoe that to-day sets in motion my feet;
  Though its charms are all vanished this many a year,
  And not even my Goody regards it with fear.
    The Horse-Shoe, a Poem, by J.B.  Felton, 1849, p. 4.

A very clever elegy on the death of Goody Morse, who
 “For forty years or more
  ... contrived the while
  No little dust to raise”
in the rooms of the students of Harvard College, is to be found in
Harvardiana, Vol.  I. p. 233.  It was written by Mr. (afterwards
Rev.) Benjamin Davis Winslow.  In the poem which he read before his
class in the University Chapel at Cambridge, July 14, 1835, he
referred to her in these lines: 

 “‘New brooms sweep clean’:  ’t was thine, dear Goody Morse,
  To prove the musty proverb hath no force,
  Since fifty years to vanished centuries crept,
  While thy old broom our cloisters duly swept. 
  All changed but thee! beneath thine aged eye
  Whole generations came and flitted by,
  Yet saw thee still in office;—­e’en reform
  Spared thee the pelting of its angry storm. 
  Rest to thy bones in yonder church-yard laid,
  Where thy last bed the village sexton made!”—­p. 19.

GORM.  From gormandize.  At Hamilton College, to eat voraciously.

GOT.  In Princeton College, when a student or any one else has been cheated or taken in, it is customary to say, he was got.

GOVERNMENT.  In American colleges, the general government is usually vested in a corporation or a board of trustees, whose powers, rights, and duties are established by the respective charters of the colleges over which they are placed.  The immediate government of the undergraduates is in the hands of the president, professors, and tutors, who are styled the Government, or the College Government, and more frequently the Faculty, or the College Faculty.—­Laws of Univ. at Cam., Mass., 1848, pp. 7, 8. Laws of Yale Coll., 1837, p. 5.

For many years he was the most conspicuous figure among those who constituted what was formerly called “the Government.”—­Memorial of John S. Popkin, D.D., p. vii.

  [Greek:  Kudiste], mighty President!!!
  [Greek:  Kalomen nun] the Government.—­Rebelliad, p. 27.

  Did I not jaw the Government,
  For cheating more than ten per cent?—­Ibid., p. 32.

  They shall receive due punishment
  From Harvard College Government.—­Ibid., p. 44.

The annexed production, printed from a MS. in the author’s handwriting, and in the possession of the editor of this work, is now, it is believed, for the first time presented to the public.  The time is 1787; the scene, Harvard College.  The poem was “written by John Q. Adams, son of the President, when an undergraduate.”