Still it was not in human nature for a classical man, living among classical men, and knowing that there were a dozen and more close to him reading away “like bricks,” to be long entirely separated from his Greek and Latin books.—­Bristed’s Five Years in an Eng.  Univ., Ed. 2d, p. 218.

“Like bricks,” is the commonest of their expressions, or used to be.  There was an old landlady at Huntingdon who said she always charged Cambridge men twice as much as any one else.  Then, “How do you know them?” asked somebody.  “O sir, they always tell us to get the beer like bricks.”—­Westminster Rev., Am. ed., Vol.  XXXV. p. 231.

LITERAE HUMANIORES.  Latin; freely, the humanities; classical literature.  At Oxford “the Literae Humaniores now include Latin and Greek Translation and Composition, Ancient History and Rhetoric, Political and Moral Philosophy, and Logic.”—­Lit.  World, Vol.  XII. p. 245.

See HUMANITY.

LITERARY CONTESTS.  At Jefferson College, in Pennsylvania, “there is,” says a correspondent, “an unusual interest taken in the two literary societies, and once a year a challenge is passed between them, to meet in an open literary contest upon an appointed evening, usually that preceding the close of the second session.  The contestors are a Debater, an Orator, an Essayist, and a Declaimer, elected from each society by the majority, some time previous to their public appearance.  An umpire and two associate judges, selected either by the societies or by the contestors themselves, preside over the performances, and award the honors to those whom they deem most worthy of them.  The greatest excitement prevails upon this occasion, and an honor thus conferred is preferable to any given in the institution.”

At Washington College, in Pennsylvania, the contest performances are conducted upon the same principle as at Jefferson.

LITTLE-GO.  In the English universities, a cant name for a public examination about the middle of the course, which, being less strict and less important in its consequences than the final one, has received this appellation.—­Lyell.

Whether a regular attendance on the lecture of the college would secure me a qualification against my first public examination; which is here called the Little-go.—­The Etonian, Vol.  II. p. 283.

Also called at Oxford Smalls, or Small-go.

You must be prepared with your list of books, your testamur for Responsions (by Undergraduates called “Little-go” or “Smalls"), and also your certificate of matriculation.—­Collegian’s Guide, p. 241.

See RESPONSION.

LL.B.  An abbreviation for Legum Baccalaureus, Bachelor of Laws.  In American colleges, this degree is conferred on students who fulfil the conditions of the statutes of the law school to which they belong.  The law schools in the different colleges are regulated on this point by different rules, but in many the degree of LL.B. is given to a B.A. who has been a member of a law school for a year and a half.