GROUP.  A crowd or throng; a number collected without any regular form or arrangement.  At Harvard College, students are not allowed to assemble in groups, as is seen by the following extract from the laws.  Three persons together are considered as a group.

Collecting in groups round the doors of the College buildings, or in the yard, shall be considered a violation of decorum.—­Laws Univ. at Cam., Mass., 1848, Suppl., p. 4.

GROUPING.  Collecting together.

It will surely be incomprehensible to most students how so large a number as six could be suffered with impunity to horde themselves together within the limits of the college yard.  In those days the very learned laws about grouping were not in existence.  A collection of two was not then considered a sure prognostic of rebellion, and spied out vigilantly by tutoric eyes.  A group of three was not reckoned a gross outrage of the college peace, and punished severely by the subtraction of some dozens from the numerical rank of the unfortunate youth engaged in so high a misdemeanor.  A congregation of four was not esteemed an open, avowed contempt of the laws of decency and propriety, prophesying utter combustion, desolation, and destruction to all buildings and trees in the neighborhood; and lastly, a multitude of five, though watched with a little jealousy, was not called an intolerable, unparalleled violation of everything approaching the name of order, absolute, downright shamelessness, worthy capital mark-punishment, alias the loss of 87-3/4 digits!—­Harvardiana, Vol.  III. p. 314.

The above passage and the following are both evidently of a satirical nature.

  And often grouping on the chains, he hums his own sweet verse,
  Till Tutor ——­, coming up, commands him to disperse!
    Poem before Y.H., 1849, p. 14.

GRUB.  A hard student.  Used at Williams College, and synonymous with DIG at other colleges.  A correspondent says, writing from Williams:  “Our real delvers, midnight students, are familiarly called Grubs.  This is a very expressive name.”

A man must not be ashamed to be called a grub in college, if he would shine in the world.—­Sketches of Williams College, p. 76.

Some there are who, though never known to read or study, are ever ready to debate,—­not “grubs” or “reading men,” only “wordy men.”—­Williams Quarterly, Vol.  II. p. 246.

GRUB.  To study hard; to be what is denominated a grub, or hard student.  “The primary sense,” says Dr. Webster, “is probably to rub, to rake, scrape, or scratch, as wild animals dig by scratching.”

I can grub out a lesson in Latin or mathematics as well as the best of them.—­Amherst Indicator, Vol.  I. p. 223.

GUARDING.  “The custom of guarding Freshmen,” says a correspondent from Dartmouth College, “is comparatively a late one.  Persons masked would go into another’s room at night, and oblige him to do anything they commanded him, as to get under his bed, sit with his feet in a pail of water,” &c.