GRAND TRIBUNAL.  The Grand Tribunal is an institution peculiar to Trinity College, Hartford.  A correspondent describes it as follows.  “The Grand Tribunal is a mock court composed of the Senior and Junior Classes, and has for its special object the regulation and discipline of Sophomores.  The first officer of the Tribunal is the ‘Grand High Chancellor,’ who presides at all business meetings.  The Tribunal has its judges, advocates, sheriff, and his aids.  According to the laws of the Tribunal, no Sophomore can be tried who has three votes in his favor.  This regulation makes a trial a difficult matter; there is rarely more than one trial a year, and sometimes two years elapse without there being a session of the court.  When a selection of an offending and unlucky Soph has been made, he is arrested some time during the day of the evening on which his trial takes place.  The court provides him with one advocate, while he has the privilege of choosing another.  These trials are often the scenes of considerable wit and eloquence.  One of the most famous of them was held in 1853.  When the Tribunal is in session, it is customary for the Faculty of the College to act as its police, by preserving order amongst the Sophs, who generally assemble at the door, to disturb, if possible, the proceedings of the Court.”

GRANTA.  The name by which the University of Cambridge, Eng., was formerly known.  At present it is sometimes designated by this title in poetry, and in addresses written in other tongues than the vernacular.

  Warm with fond hope, and Learning’s sacred flame,
  To Granta’s bowers the youthful Poet came.

    Lines in Memory of H.K.  White, by Prof.  William Smyth, in
    Cam.  Guide.

GRATULATORY.  Expressing gratulation; congratulatory.

At Harvard College, while Wadsworth was President, in the early part of the last century, it was customary to close the exercises of Commencement day with a gratulatory oration, pronounced by one of the candidates for a degree.  This has now given place to what is generally called the valedictory oration.

GRAVEL DAY.  The following account of this day is given in a work entitled Sketches of Williams College.  “On the second Monday of the first term in the year, if the weather be at all favorable, it has been customary from time immemorial to hold a college meeting, and petition the President for ‘Gravel day.’  We did so this morning.  The day was granted, and, recitations being dispensed with, the students turned out en masse to re-gravel the college walks.  The gravel which we obtain here is of such a nature that it packs down very closely, and renders the walks as hard and smooth as a pavement.  The Faculty grant this day for the purpose of fostering in the students the habit of physical labor and exercise, so essential to vigorous mental exertion.”—­1847, pp. 78, 79.