See B.C.L.

LL.D.  An abbreviation for Legum Doctor, Doctor of Laws.

In American colleges, an honorary degree, conferred pro meritis on those who are distinguished as lawyers, statesmen, &c.

See D.C.L.

L.M.  An abbreviation for the words Licentiate in Medicine.  At the University of Cambridge, Eng., an L.M. must be an M.A. or M.B. of two years’ standing.  No exercise, but examination by the Professor and another Doctor in the Faculty.

LOAF.  At Princeton College, to borrow anything, whether returning it or not; usually in the latter sense.

LODGE.  At the University of Cambridge, England, the technical name given to the house occupied by the master of a college.—­Bristed.

When Undergraduates were invited to the conversaziones at the Lodge, they were expected never to sit down in the Master’s presence.—­Bristed’s Five Years in an Eng.  Univ., Ed. 2d, p. 90.

LONG.  At the University of Cambridge, Eng., the long vacation, or, as it is more familiarly called, “The Long,” commences according to statute in July, at the close of the Easter term, but practically early in June, and ends October 20th, at the beginning of the Michaelmas term.

For a month or six weeks in the “Long,” they rambled off to see the sights of Paris.—­Bristed’s Five Years in an Eng.  Univ., Ed. 2d, p. 37.

In the vacations, particularly the Long, there is every facility for reading.—­Ibid., p. 78.

So attractive is the Vacation-College-life that the great trouble of the Dons is to keep the men from staying up during the Long. —­Ibid., p. 79.

Some were going on reading parties, some taking a holiday before settling down to their work in the “Long.”—­Ibid., p. 104.

See VACATION.

LONG-EAR.  At Jefferson College, Pennsylvania, a student of a sober or religious character is denominated a long-ear.  The opposite is short-ear.

LOTTERY.  The method of obtaining money by lottery has at different times been adopted in several of our American colleges.  In 1747, a new building being wanted at Yale College, the “Liberty of a Lottery” was obtained from the General Assembly, “by which,” says Clap, “Five Hundred Pounds Sterling was raised, clear of all Charge and Deductions.”—­Hist. of Yale Coll., p. 55.

This sum defrayed one third of the expense of building what was then called Connecticut Hall, and is known now by the name of “the South Middle College.”