See WILL.

JAPANNED. A cant term in use at the University of Cambridge, Eng., explained in the following passage.  “Many ... step ... into the Church, without any pretence of other change than in the attire of their outward man,—­the being ‘japanned,’ as assuming the black dress and white cravat is called in University slang.”—­Bristed’s Five Years in an Eng.  Univ., Ed. 2d, p. 344.

JESUIT.  At the University of Cambridge, Eng., a member of Jesus College.

JOBATION.  At the University of Cambridge, Eng., a sharp reprimand from the Dean for some offence, not eminently heinous.

Thus dismissed the august presence, he recounts this jobation to his friends, and enters into a discourse on masters, deans, tutors, and proctors.—­Grad. ad Cantab., p. 124.

JOBE.  To reprove; to reprimand.  “In the University of Cambridge, [Eng.,] the young scholars are wont to call chiding, jobing.”—­Grad. ad Cantab.

I heard a lively young man assert, that, in consequence of an intimation from the tutor relative to his irregularities, his father came from the country to jobe him.—­Gent.  Mag., Dec. 1794.

JOE.  A name given at several American colleges to a privy.  It is said that when Joseph Penney was President of Hamilton College, a request from the students that the privies might be cleansed was met by him with a denial.  In consequence of this refusal, the offices were purified by fire on the night of November 5th.  The derivation of the word, allowing the truth of this story, is apparent.

The following account of Joe-Burning is by a correspondent from Hamilton College:—­“On the night of the 5th of November, every year, the Sophomore Class burn ‘Joe.’  A large pile is made of rails, logs, and light wood, in the form of a triangle.  The space within is filled level to the top, with all manner of combustibles.  A ‘Joe’ is then sought for by the class, carried from its foundations on a rude bier, and placed on this pile.  The interior is filled with wood and straw, surrounding a barrel of tar placed in the middle, over all of which gallons of turpentine are thrown, and then set fire to.  From the top of the lofty hill on which the College buildings are situated, this fire can be seen for twenty miles around.  The Sophomores are all disguised in the most odd and grotesque dresses.  A ring is formed around the burning ‘Joe,’ and a chant is sung.  Horses of the neighbors are obtained and ridden indiscriminately, without saddle or bridle.  The burning continues usually until daylight.”

  Ponamus Convivium
  Josephi in locum
    Et id uremus.
    Convivii Exsequiae, Hamilton Coll., 1850.

JOHNIAN.  A member of St. John’s College in the University of Cambridge, Eng.

The Johnians are always known by the name of pigs; they put up a new organ the other day, which was immediately christened “Baconi Novum Organum.”—­Westminster Rev., Am. ed., Vol.  XXXV., p 236.