And the short space that here we tarry,
  At least “in statu pupillari,”
  Forbids our growing hopes to germ,
  Alas! beyond the appointed term.
    Grad. ad Cantab., p. 109.

INTERLINEAR.  A printed book, with a written translation between the lines.  The same as an illuminated book; for an account of which, see under ILLUMINATE.

  Then devotes himself to study, with a steady, earnest zeal,
  And scorns an Interlinear, or a Pony’s meek appeal.
    Poem before Iadma, 1850, p. 20.

INTERLINER.  Same as INTERLINEAR.

In the “Memorial of John S. Popkin, D.D.,” a Professor at Harvard College, Professor Felton observes:  “He was a mortal enemy to translations, ‘interliners,’ and all such subsidiary helps in learning lessons; he classed them all under the opprobrious name of ‘facilities,’ and never scrupled to seize them as contraband goods.  When he withdrew from College, he had a large and valuable collection of this species of literature.  In one of the notes to his Three Lectures he says:  ’I have on hand a goodly number of these confiscated wares, full of manuscript innotations, which I seized in the way of duty, and would now restore to the owners on demand, without their proving property or paying charges.’”—­p. lxxvii.

Ponies, Interliners, Ticks, Screws, and Deads (these are all college verbalities) were all put under contribution.—­A Tour through College, Boston, 1832, p. 25.

INTONITANS BOLUS.  Greek, [Greek:  bolos], a lump.  Latin, bolus, a bit, a morsel.  English, bolus, a mass of anything made into a large pill.  It may be translated a thundering pill.  At Harvard College, the Intonitans Bolus was a great cane or club which was given nominally to the strongest fellow in the graduating class; “but really,” says a correspondent, “to the greatest bully,” and thus was transmitted, as an entailed estate, to the Samsons of College.  If any one felt that he had been wronged in not receiving this emblem of valor, he was permitted to take it from its possessor if he could.  In later years the club presented a very curious appearance; being almost entirely covered with the names of those who had held it, carved on its surface in letters of all imaginable shapes and descriptions.  At one period, it was in the possession of Richard Jeffrey Cleveland, a member of the class of 1827, and was by him transmitted to Jonathan Saunderson of the class of 1828.  It has disappeared within the last fifteen or twenty years, and its hiding-place, even if it is in existence, is not known.

See BULLY CLUB.