“Gulielmus Grimke, et quadraginta sodales qui ‘omnes in uno’ Conic Sections sine Tabulis aspernati sunt, et contra Facultatem, Col.  Yal. rebellaverunt, posteaque expulsi et ‘obumbrati’ sunt et Med.  Fac. honorarii.”

“MARTIN VAN BUREN, Armig., Civitatis Scriba Reipub.  Foed. apud Aul.  Brit.  Legat.  Extraord. sibi constitutus.  Reip.  Nov.  Ebor.  Gub.  ‘Don Whiskerandos’; ‘Little Dutchman’; atque ’Great Rejected.’  Nunc (1832), Rerumpub.  Foed.  Vice-Praeses et ’Kitchen Cabinet’ Moderator, M.D. et Med.  Fac. honorarius.”

“Magnus Serpens Maris, suppositus, aut porpoises aut horse-mackerel, grex; ‘very like a whale’ (Shak.); M.D. et peculiariter M.U.D.  Med.  Fac. honorarius.”

“Timotheus Tibbets et Gulielmus J. Snelling ’par nobile sed hostile fratrum’; ‘victor et victus,’ unus buster et rake, alter lupinarum cockpitsque purgator, et nuper Edit.  Nov.  Ang.  Galax.  Med.  Fac. honorarii."[55]

“Capt.  Basil Hall, Tabitha Trollope, atque Isaacus Fiddler Reverendus; semi-pay centurio, famelica transfuga, et semicoctus grammaticaster, qui scriptitant solum ut prandere possint.  Tres in uno Mend.  Munch.  Prof.  M.D., M.U.D. et Med.  Fac.  Honorarium.”

A college poet thus laments the fall of this respected society:—­

 “Gone, too, for aye, that merry masquerade,
  Which danced so gayly in the evening shade,
  And Learning weeps, and Science hangs her head,
  To mourn—­vain toil!—­their cherished offspring dead. 
  What though she sped her honors wide and far,
  Hailing as son Muscovia’s haughty Czar,
  Who in his palace humbly knelt to greet,
  And laid his costly presents at her feet?[56]
  Relentless fate her sudden fall decreed,
  Dooming each votary’s tender heart to bleed,
  And yet, as if in mercy to atone,
  That fate hushed sighs, and silenced many a groan.”
    Winslow’s Class Poem, 1835.

MERIT ROLL.  At Union College, “the Merit Rolls of the several classes,” says a correspondent, “are sheets of paper put up in the College post-office, at the opening of each term, containing a list of all students present in the different classes during the previous term, with a statement of the conduct, attendance, and scholarship of each member of the class.  The names are numbered according to the standing of the student, all the best scholars being clustered at the head, and the poorer following in a melancholy train.  To be at the head, or ‘to head the roll,’ is an object of ambition, while ‘to foot the roll’ is anything but desirable.”

MIDDLE BACHELOR.  One who is in his second year after taking the degree of Bachelor of Arts.

A Senior Sophister has authority to take a Freshman from a Sophomore, a Middle Bachelor from a Junior Sophister.—­Quincy’s Hist.  Harv.  Univ., Vol.  II. p. 540.

MIGRATE.  In the English universities, to remove from one college to another.