“As you have failed to make up your number of chapels the last two weeks,” such are the very words of the Dean, “you will, if you please, keep every chapel till the end of the term.”—­Household Words, Vol.  II. p. 161.

To keep a term, in universities, is to reside during a term.—­Webster.

KEYS.  Caius, the name of one of the colleges in the University of Cambridge, Eng., is familiarly pronounced Keys.

KINGSMAN.  At the University of Cambridge, Eng., a member of King’s College.

He came out the winner, with the Kingsman and one of our three close at his heels.—­Bristed’s Five Years in an Eng.  Univ., Ed. 2d, p. 127.

KITCHEN-HATCH.  A half-door between the kitchen and the hall in colleges and old mansions.  At Harvard College, the students in former times received at the kitchen-hatch their food for the evening meal, which they were allowed to eat in the yard or at their rooms.  At the same place the waiters also took the food which they carried to the tables.

The waiters when the bell rings at meal-time shall take the victuals at the kitchen-hatch, and carry the Same to the several tables for which they are designed.—­Laws Harv.  Coll., 1798, p. 41.

See BUTTERY-HATCH.

KNOCK IN.  A phrase used at Oxford, and thus explained in the Collegian’s Guide:  “Knocking in late, or coming into college after eleven or twelve o’clock, is punished frequently with being ‘confined to gates,’ or being forbidden to ‘knock in’ or come in after nine o’clock for a week or more, sometimes all the term.”—­p. 161.

KNOCKS.  From KNUCKLES.  At some of the Southern colleges, a game at marbles called Knucks is a common diversion among the students.

[Greek:  Kudos].  Greek; literally, glory, fame.  Used among students, with the meaning credit, reputation.

I was actuated not merely by a desire after the promotion of my own [Greek:  kudos], but by an honest wish to represent my country well.—­Bristed’s Five Years in an Eng.  Univ., Ed. 2d, pp. 27, 28.

L.

LANDSMANNSCHAFT.  German.  The name of an association of students in
German universities.

LAP-EAR.  At Washington College, Penn., students of a religious character are called lap-ears or donkeys.  The opposite class are known by the common name of bloods.

LATIN SPOKEN AT COLLEGES.  At our older American colleges, students were formerly required to be able to speak and write Latin before admission, and to continue the use of it after they had become members.  In his History of Harvard University, Quincy remarks on this subject:—­