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TADS.  At Centre College, Ky., there is “a society,” says a correspondent, “composed of the very best fellows of the College, calling themselves Tads, who are generally associated together, for the object of electing, by the additional votes of their members, any of their friends who are brought forward as candidates for any honor or appointment in the literary societies to which they belong.”

TAKE UP.  To call on a student to rehearse a lesson.

  Professor took him up on Greek;
  He tried to talk, but couldn’t speak.
    MS Poem.

TAKE UP ONE’S CONNECTIONS.  In students’ phrase, to leave college.  Used in American institutions.

TARDES.  At the older American colleges, when charges were made and excuses rendered in Latin, the student who had come late to any religious service was addressed by the proper officer with the word Tardes, a kind of barbarous second person singular of some unknown verb, signifying, probably, “You are or were late.”

  Much absence, tardes and egresses,
  The college-evil on him seizes.
    Trumbull’s Progress of Dullness, Part I.

TARDY.  In colleges, late in attendance on a public exercise.—­Webster.

TAVERN.  At Harvard College, the rooms No. 24 Massachusetts Hall, and No. 8 Hollis Hall, were occupied from the year 1789 to 1793 by Mr. Charles Angier.  His table was always supplied with wine, brandy, crackers, etc., of which his friends were at liberty to partake at any time.  From this circumstance his rooms were called the Tavern for nearly twenty years after his graduation.

In connection with this incident, it may not be uninteresting to state, that the cellars of the two buildings above mentioned were divided each into thirty-two compartments, corresponding with the number of rooms.  In these the students and tutors stored their liquors, sometimes in no inconsiderable quantities.  Frequent entries are met with in the records of the Faculty, in which the students are charged with pilfering wine, brandy, or eatables from the tutors’ bins.

TAXOR.  In the University of Cambridge, Eng., an officer appointed to regulate the assize of bread, the true gauge of weights, etc.—­Cam.  Cal.

TEAM.  In the English universities, the pupils of a private tutor or COACH.—­Bristed.

No man who has not taken a good degree expects or pretends to take good men into his team.—­Bristed’s Five Years in an Eng.  Univ., Ed. 2d, p. 69.

It frequently, indeed usually happens, that a “coach” of reputation declines taking men into his team before they have made time in public.—­Ibid., p. 85.

TEAR.  At Princeton College, a perfect tear is a very extra recitation, superior to a rowl.

TEMPLE.  At Bowdoin College, a privy is thus designated.