The Admissio Inceptorum was as follows:  “Admitto te ad secundum gradum in artibus pro more Academiarum in Anglia:  tibique trado hunc librum una cum potestate publice profitendi, ubicunque ad hoc munus publice evocatus fueris.”—­Ibid., Vol.  I. p. 580.

INDIAN SOCIETY.  At the Collegiate Institute of Indiana, a society of smokers was established, in the year 1837, by an Indian named Zachary Colbert, and called the Indian Society.  The members and those who have been invited to join the society, to the number of sixty or eighty, are accustomed to meet in a small room, ten feet by eighteen; all are obliged to smoke, and he who first desists is required to pay for the cigars smoked at that meeting.

INDIGO.  At Dartmouth College, a member of the party called the Blues.  The same as a BLUE, which see.

The Howes, years ago, used to room in Dartmouth Hall, though none room there now, and so they made up some verses.  Here is one:—­

 “Hurrah for Dartmouth Hall! 
  Success to every student
  That rooms in Dartmouth Hall,
  Unless he be an Indigo,
  Then, no success at all.”
    The Dartmouth, Vol.  IV. p. 117.

INITIATION.  Secret societies exist in almost all the colleges in the United States, which require those who are admitted to pass through certain ceremonies called the initiation.  This fact is often made use of to deceive Freshmen, upon their entrance into college, who are sometimes initiated into societies which have no existence, and again into societies where initiation is not necessary for membership.

A correspondent from Dartmouth College writes as follows:  “I believe several of the colleges have various exercises of initiating Freshmen.  Ours is done by the ‘United Fraternity,’ one of our library societies (they are neither of them secret), which gives out word that the initiation is a fearful ceremony.  It is simply every kind of operation that can be contrived to terrify, and annoy, and make fun of Freshmen, who do not find out for some time that it is not the necessary and serious ceremony of making them members of the society.”

In the University of Virginia, students on entering are sometimes initiated into the ways of college life by very novel and unique ceremonies, an account of which has been furnished by a graduate of that institution.  “The first thing, by way of admitting the novitiate to all the mysteries of college life, is to require of him in an official communication, under apparent signature of one of the professors, a written list, tested under oath, of the entire number of his shirts and other necessary articles in his wardrobe.  The list he is requested to commit to memory, and be prepared for an examination on it, before the Faculty, at some specified hour.  This the new-comer usually passes with due satisfaction, and no little trepidation, in the presence of an august assemblage of his student