The refusal to perform a reasonable service required by a member of the class above him, subjected the Freshmen to a complaint to be brought before his Tutor, technically called hoisting him to his Tutor.  The threat was commonly sufficient to exact the service.—­Willard’s Memories of Youth and Manhood, Vol.  I. p. 259.

HOLD INS.  At Bowdoin College, “near the commencement of each year,” says a correspondent, “the Sophs are wont, on some particular evening, to attempt to ‘hold in’ the Freshmen when coming out of prayers, generally producing quite a skirmish.”

HOLLIS.  Mr. Thomas Hollis of Lincoln’s Inn, to whom, with many others of the same name, Harvard College is so much indebted, among other presents to its library, gave “sixty-four volumes of valuable books, curiously bound.”  To these reference is made in the following extract from the Gentleman’s Magazine for September, 1781.  “Mr. Hollis employed Mr. Fingo to cut a number of emblematical devices, such as the caduceus of Mercury, the wand of AEsculapius, the owl, the cap of liberty, &c.; and these devices were to adorn the backs and sometimes the sides of books.  When patriotism animated a work, instead of unmeaning ornaments on the binding, he adorned it with caps of liberty.  When wisdom filled the page, the owl’s majestic gravity bespoke its contents.  The caduceus pointed out the works of eloquence, and the wand of AEsculapius was a signal of good medicine.  The different emblems were used on the same book, when possessed of different merits, and to express his disapprobation of the whole or parts of any work, the figure or figures were reversed.  Thus each cover exhibited a critique on the book, and was a proof that they were not kept for show, as he must read before he could judge.  Read this, ye admirers of gilded books, and imitate.”

HONORARIUM, HONORARY.  A term applied, in Europe, to the recompense offered to professors in universities, and to medical or other professional gentlemen for their services.  It is nearly equivalent to fee, with the additional idea of being given honoris causa, as a token of respect.—­Brande.  Webster.

There are regular receivers, quaestors, appointed for the reception of the honorarium, or charge for the attendance of lectures.—­Howitt’s Student Life of Germany, Am. ed., p. 30.

HONORIS CAUSA.  Latin; as an honor.  Any honorary degree given by a college.

Degrees in the faculties of Divinity and Law are conferred, at present, either in course, honoris causa, or on admission ad eundem.—­Calendar Trin.  Coll., 1850, p. 10.